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I went bushwalking today near the spot where i found these beautiful mushrooms, and the surrounding bush (maybe 40, 50 acres) has been knocked down, and flattened. It was private land, and i have this dread fear they are going to develop it because the views are stunning. I am so pissed off because it was beautiful forest, and i loved walking there. the mushroom spot itself is on another property, but is now an island so to speak. I want try and help conserve the mycological diversity in this spot, but i know the local young lads also visit the same spot and trample it to crap. What am i to do? I am concerned that they may be pushed (trampled) out of the area because of abuse and also because there is now a huge area of empty land beween it and the rest of the local wilderness, and the local animals are gonna be wanting something to eat. I have seen the same thing happen in other areas, where the mycological diversity has been ruined, and only now starting to come back after 10-15 years. It pisses me off how humans push our forests back ruining biodiversity as they do it. cheers, Obtuse

Hi people, Just confirming Shroomy, Here in Tas, Gold Tops are most defintely what we call our local Subaeruginosa. Check these out (they are not from tas, but illustrate my point): http://shaman-australis.com.au/gallery2/di...um=3&pos=29 Amazing beautiful samples. Wheras blue meanies (and i think the Beatles' Yellow Submarine has a lot to answer for) while they are officially Copelandia cyanescens, i have known people to look for wierd little blue things that do in fact have a resemblance to the dudes from Yellow Submarine. Maybe this year i will be able to get a photo's of them to share with you all. I remember some friends proudly showing me their collection. They were most definitely not psilocybe. (Edit: They were not active, and fortunately not poisonous - always identify your mushrooms before you eat them!) So, i think it depends on where you live, and also who you talk to. cheers, Obtuse

I love that scene too. lol

Such a horrible tradgedy, I love old books and have a thing for collecting esoteric and exotic books myself so to hear of such a magnificent collection being destroyed really does bring tears to my eyes, let along the fact it was terrence's own collection . Interesting to hear Dennis has an index, I would love to read it. If you watch the last interview you can see a small part of the collection in the lefthand side of the footage How i wish i could have touched, and smelt the books, and read... oh well the transiense of material things...

Hi people, Peter Greenaway, while not specifically drug films, use a lot of amazing symbology, and his cinematography is simple quite stunning.. I think the main ones: Prospero's Books. Mad mad film, amazing sets, amazing overlays, the whole human knowledge thing re books... Z and two noughts. bent. the sped up decay sequences are amazing. are certainly worth watching. The thing with greenaway is some of his scenes can be very shocking, and mind bending, i.e. why i'm not including "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover". cheers, Obtuse

Be damned, That is so funny. thanks for posting that FungalFractoids. cheers, Obtuse

It seems to always be down. I think i've connected to it three times since it was decided to keep it going. Again, i offer my assistance in helping out if necessary. cheers, Obtuse

hahahahaha very good. Thanks tepa.

Its sad to hear stories like this. My heart goes out to Annabele's family and friends. and unfortunately "Good Vibes" will be tainted by the death which is unfortunate. It will be interesting to see what the autopsy report says, but if it does not affirm the media conclusion they will probably ignore it anyway, and continue the negative hype against E and the scene. Some years ago i had a friend who died after a hard nights drinking at the pub, and then at a party. She passed out, threw up and chocked on her own vomit. It was seen as an unfortunate accident, and a lesson to all those around us to be more responsible when drinking. There was no media backlash against the pub, or alcohol in general (there was no media involvement at all). It makes me wonder about our culture and where we put the blame.

Going through my book collection, I found my copy of "altered states". who'd ever thought it was based on a book. I certainly didn't till i found this a couple of years ago. There is also a film verion of hesse's Siddartha, really good film if you like the books. I found it fairly accurate to the book, they had obviously thought about their script. Not a drug film as such, but nice film to watch nonetheless.

Hi Shroomy, this appears to be a catha seedling. may help: http://shaman-australis.com.au/gallery2/di...=16&pos=201 hope this helps, Cheers.

Hi Shroomy, someone may have already pointed you in this direction, but here is a good pic of some sunopener seedlings http://shaman-australis.com.au/gallery2/di...=16&pos=121 There are loads of other pics here too. cheers, Obtuse.

Hi Bongchitis, Thats a fantastic sounding method. I'm going to take up the same routine, as i'm always losing track of what i've done and when. cheers, Obtuse.

And Don't forget FANTASIA (1940). Probably the original tripper movie. The whole point of the film being Synesthesia. That scene with the mushrooms dancing around - they look a little bit too much like gold tops to me. then in another scene they look like amanita muscaria. I remember hearing some story about how Disney was into lsd... and then he was a good friend of Dali too. The first 2/3 is amazing, there are a couple of boring bits, and the last bit is a blast. -------------------------- I don't know if it counts but Barfly (1987) is also worth a mention, while its about alcohol, it presents are very interesting viewpoint on the way in which Bukowski lived his alcoholism. cheers, Obtuse

Cheers. We get heaps here mate. Come winter their all over the place. as long as no-one else finds your patch lol.

Don't forget, The Doors (1991) Blueberry (2004) Sid And Nancy (1986) Midnight Express (1974)

Yeah what a blast. my dad had "Los Cochinos" and "Big Bambu". They were soooooooo funny. unfortunately they went on to do those films. although the one where the guy turned into lizard (very Hunter S.) was pretty good. Thanks for the links Ed.

I Noticed you included "The Committee" because of the pink floyd soundtrack, in which case you have to include the others: Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967) More (1969) Zabriskie Point (1970) La Vallée (1972) Live at Pompeii (1972) The Wall (1982) and: The "wizard of oz" with the "dark side of the moon" dubbed over the original audio track. Pink Floyd also did loads of documentary soundtracks. including one on fractals called "The Colors of Infinity" (actually it was only david gilmour) Also, Beatles films: Magical Mystery Tour (1967) Yellow Submarine (1968) still thinking...

Cool, Altered states (1980) - ordinary scientest turns mad scientist researching effects of lsd in floatation tank. Dead Man (1995) - w/- Johnny depp - peyote use, very nice black and white sequence. 2001 (1968) - just because of the 15 minute sequence Steppenwolf (1974) - based on herman hesse's book - no drugs but definitely a tripper film. Chappaqua (1966) - Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. soundtrack by Ravi Shankar, v. cool And of course Naked Lunch (1991) Drugstore Cowboy (1989) I'll think of more later cheers, Obtuse

I mustn't be looking hard enough. I'm only new to cactii and i get lost in hardware shops v.easily.

Yeah its a pain heh Shroomy, and mitre 10 isn't much better.

Your friend has done well. very nice

Sorry, i meant the posts from www.ethnobotany-australia.net there is gold in them there hills...

I didn't have any problems opeinging it. download it again and see if that makes any difference. cheers, Obtuse

cool. its been on and off for days, and i was really starting to wonder. are all the old posts going to be made available? I had some bookmarks to some of the cool cactus threads, and i am required to log in. i can't because i hadn't signed up to it. i even tried registering but debug mode is on and i can't. cheers, Obtuse