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He was a full blown functional amphetamine addict. Some artists really are something else on drugs, can’t really take away all the stuff he made on it. Someone
by crate_barre 5y ago
He was a full blown functional amphetamine addict. Some artists really are something else on drugs, can’t really take away all the stuff he made on it.
Someone else can go vet this, but found this with quick googling:
Afterward, according to Kyle Arnold’s biography, he was taking speed by the handful. “He stuffed his refrigerator with thousand-pill jars of amphetamines” and “told his mother he consumed a thousand-pill jar per week.”
There’s a fine line with all of this, and he is lucky he didn’t enter full paranoid breakdown (that we know of). Zappos CEO pretty much operated in the same way and it got his life.
YMMV, for real.
- yeetaccount3 5y agoI hope those were the small pills
- bserge 5y agoGoddammit, where do they get all of it? Is it just for rich people? I'm fine with breaking the law for it, but I still can't get amphetamines.
- blamazon 5y agoPKD himself wrote a semi-autobiographical story (“A Scanner Darkly”) about mental breakdown due to drug use. It’s a haunting book and the feeling it evokes has stuck with me since I read it about ten years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly As with many PKD stories, it was turned into a film, which although I have not seen it, is technically notable for being entirely rotoscoped.
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- exciteabletom 5y agoThe rotoscoping in the film makes the film feel so surreal, it's like nothing I've ever seen before. Absolutely worth watching if you get the chance.
- krylon 5y agoSecond that, the movie is brilliant. The cast is brilliant, too. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and I'm certain I'm forgetting a few more.
- tudorw 5y agosecond that, it's a piece of art soaked in tragedy, stay for the credits, they stayed with me...
- filoeleven 5y agoIt’s also notable for being nearly the only film to stay pretty faithful to the original story. Blade Runner being the other.