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We've got a vestigal rave scene. Very few places get to do the full-blown 10pm to 6am thing. Click here for a calendar of SF raves.

I'm not much of a smoker, but when you ban smoking, you also ban toking. To have a really active club scene you need three things...

1) Electronica till sun up
2) Lots of sexy people in outrageous outfits
3) Free flowing alcohol and available drugs

Some will disagree, but whatever's on your list, resident's are probably objecting to it.

A slightly off-topic rant... Why are all the gay clubs so much cooler than the straight clubs? Where's a hip breeder boy to go when the straight joints feel about as sterile as a cubicle maze?

Hi,

maybe this is what you're looking for:
http://www.hyperreal.org/~est/oolaboola/

(It hasn't got mp3 support yet, but I think it's coming soon.)

Not sure about his K use, but (as near as I can remember) he was disqualified from serving in WWII more as a joke than anything else... he basically manipulated the poor shrink in to thinking that he was insane...

No shit man, water is a killer:
FAQ-W on hyperreal

First of all, this isn't necessarily obvious. Lots of people use illegal drugs and don't have any problems with them, much in the same way that a lot of people use alcohol without problems. In some cases illegal drugs can actually be beneficial. I credit MDMA ("Ecstasy") with helping me to overcome a clinical depression which had been untreatable with a wide variety of antidepressants that I've tried. I took MDMA in 1992 and worked through some psychological problems that I had, and haven't been depressed since then. Of course, for every person out there with a story like mine it seems like these days there are a dozen 16 year old kids doing E every weekend at raves and getting fucked up. Anyway, my point is just that it isn't obvious that drugs are a bad influence and that they can even be positive.

However, why shouldn't I be able to find out that if I take LSD, I can have some pretty amazing hallucinations - but, that if I take LSD, I will never be able to be a surgeon, because of the possibility of LSD flashbacks?

You probably made your point here much, much better than you expected to. The fact is that if you take LSD, you can still be a surgeon. Rampant misinformation like this is why we need to protect the freedom of speech with regards to drug information.

One thing that worried me is that in this wired article they mentioned that some people in congress were trying to make it illegal to distribute information, by whatever means, on making illegal drugs. This would therefore include forensics and chemistry journals in your public libraries. If you'd like to learn how to synthesize LSD, check out this link and then go look up the primary articles in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology, Biochmistry and Behavior, which is precisely what I did in order to write up the info at that link.

Now, there are obviously bad reasons for spreading information on how to synthesize LSD, but there are also good reasons. If you have the synthesis, you can look through it and determine that nothing remotely resembling strychnine is found in the synthesis, which gives the lie to many rumors which circulate in the drug culture. If you're concerned about the health effects of impurities left over in the synthesis you can see what chemicals are used to make it. Very few people who actually read that synthesis for LSD will actually go out and attempt to make it, and anyone who has the knowledge to synthesize LSD using those instructions could have just as easily gotten it from the journal articles. Full and complete knowledge can only be good in this case, since it eliminates ignorance. Censorship will limit discussion and spread ignorance.

-- lamont@hyperreal.org

First of all, this isn't necessarily obvious. Lots of people use illegal drugs and don't have any problems with them, much in the same way that a lot of people use alcohol without problems. In some cases illegal drugs can actually be beneficial. I credit MDMA ("Ecstasy") with helping me to overcome a clinical depression which had been untreatable with a wide variety of antidepressants that I've tried. I took MDMA in 1992 and worked through some psychological problems that I had, and haven't been depressed since then. Of course, for every person out there with a story like mine it seems like these days there are a dozen 16 year old kids doing E every weekend at raves and getting fucked up. Anyway, my point is just that it isn't obvious that drugs are a bad influence and that they can even be positive.

However, why shouldn't I be able to find out that if I take LSD, I can have some pretty amazing hallucinations - but, that if I take LSD, I will never be able to be a surgeon, because of the possibility of LSD flashbacks?

You probably made your point here much, much better than you expected to. The fact is that if you take LSD, you can still be a surgeon. Rampant misinformation like this is why we need to protect the freedom of speech with regards to drug information.

One thing that worried me is that in this wired article they mentioned that some people in congress were trying to make it illegal to distribute information, by whatever means, on making illegal drugs. This would therefore include forensics and chemistry journals in your public libraries. If you'd like to learn how to synthesize LSD, check out this link and then go look up the primary articles in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology, Biochmistry and Behavior, which is precisely what I did in order to write up the info at that link.

Now, there are obviously bad reasons for spreading information on how to synthesize LSD, but there are also good reasons. If you have the synthesis, you can look through it and determine that nothing remotely resembling strychnine is found in the synthesis, which gives the lie to many rumors which circulate in the drug culture. If you're concerned about the health effects of impurities left over in the synthesis you can see what chemicals are used to make it. Very few people who actually read that synthesis for LSD will actually go out and attempt to make it, and anyone who has the knowledge to synthesize LSD using those instructions could have just as easily gotten it from the journal articles. Full and complete knowledge can only be good in this case, since it eliminates ignorance. Censorship will limit discussion and spread ignorance.

-- lamont@hyperreal.org

One thing that might make the circle even more complete is the fact that Hyperreal is on the same server as http://www.apache.org/. Hyperreal has a lot of information on electronica and I believe the Aphex Twin FAQ lives there too. It also hosts the IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) mailinglist on which Richard James or many of his other names gets mentioned.

Selected AFX Loops
It's not MP3, and the songs aren't complete, but it's quite a comprehensive site. it has a little of almost every song he's ever released.
if you insist on mp3 just do a search for either "aphex twin" or "afx" in an mp3 search engine.

* Bi-polar syndrome ("emotional rollercoaster")

A form of depression. As the name indicates, the syndrome consists
of alternations between mania (happiness) and depression (sadness), with
no obvious reason for the cycling up and down. The period of cycling varies
from days to minutes, with the amplitude of the effects eventually dying
down to zero within two weeks or so. Unfortunately, there isn't much one
can do about it except wait it out and enjoy the fun parts, but maybe just
being aware that the depression is chemically induced and will end may help.
Oddly enough, unlike other post-trip phenomena, it appears that this
syndrome does not correlate with dose and this may well happen even
after a non-spectacular low-dose trip.