Makes for a fun night. Here’s what I remember about it:
That’s for S and E. Awesome.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Tagged as: Activities, Bars, Cocktails, Humor
Makes for a fun night. Here’s what I remember about it:
That’s for S and E. Awesome.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Tagged as: Activities, Bars, Cocktails, Humor
Yeah lucid is a type of absinthe that is now legal in the united states and has been for quite some time now. Not many people carry it though.
I must have some.
As soon as I saw what color it was, I was thinking that it had to be absinthe. What’s the point when wormwood isn’t involved?
CBS This Morning did a story in this legal stuff a few weeks ago. High end liquor stores can’t keep enough of it in stock! People are so curious…I wonder if they realize that it’s not the real thing.
Wormwood’s very involved, I thought. The story goes that a chemist had a bottle of the real stuff a couple of hundred years old and worked his way backwards to get this recipe. Yes, it’s hard to find.
I just read the website…it has wormwood in it?!? Hm.
http://feeverte.net/guide/
TheUpstart: I saw the program you saw, on CBS. Did they actually say that it doesn’t contain wormwood? Or that it contains properly processed wormwood, proven to not have any sort of hallucinating effects? I was thinking they said the latter, but hell, it was like 9:30 on a Sunday morning. I was probably still suffering from the previous night’s hallucinations. Or I just hallucinated the whole program. One of those.
Yeah… I’m no stranger to the bottle, but I was pretty weary. So potent.
That Lucid website scares me, lilith. The eyes kept following me.
ooh it’s delicious. I ordered a couple of bottles when I first heard of it so I’ve been lucky enough to have it around.
I definitely describe a beverage as “delicious” when smelling it makes my face look like a shar pei.
Any side effects?
Means to an end, for me!
Related: anyone tried Mansinthe? It’s the official Marilyn Manson absinthe.
oh come on, it’s not that bad.
I’ll admit that calling it an acquired taste is a little obnoxious. But I do quite like it. (I do quite like licorice as well, too, which probably puts me in a certain (small) part of the population.) Anyway, it’s definitely a -certain- kind of drunkenness, very bright-eyed but also very, well, drunk. The whole hallucination thing never happened for me; I do remember reading somewhere (read: don’t quote me on it) that absinthe’s original reputation for hallucination/ill longterm effects was due to poor (/unregulated) distillation and possible lead contamination from the stills.
It’s like ouzo or sambuca, times two. I’m over-playing it. Come on, I had it once, and it was a lot of fun
I promised I’d write about it in appreciation!
where do you get this stuff in cville?
@lillith–
cheers!
@Thor– I ordered mine from NY, but I’m sure that now there are (somewhat) closer distributors.
Ouzo clouds up when you add water, too. Seems as if Lucid and ouzo have some things in common, what with the licorice taste and all.
There’s one in DC…
I thought the stuff that was legal in the States wasn’t real absinthe.
And FYI - I went to the mansinthe website and my antivirus went berserk. Maybe just me?
Criminy! The cheapest I see it, ordering online, is $55 a bottle! I can get a pretty bangin’ single malt scotch for that.
I must have some.
Im banned from DC.
izzat a Bad Brains ref, yo? Saw them at the old 9:30 Club - at least I think it was them. Might have been Minor Threat. Fug - could’ve been anyone, really - memory fades and I wasn’t exactly coherent for many of those nights…
Do tell, B Yo. Do tell
That story will have to slide for a while.
And it sucks, cause Im making connections to maybe get some big(ger) gigs up there.
But Im not going. Not for a while. I’d freak out. I need vallium thinking about it. Can we start talking about liquor again…
please.
So, I hear that this stuff clouds up w/ water huh? Trippy. Um.
Minor Threat (in San Francisco) remains one of the best early hardcore shows, or any shows, that I have ever seen. Unbelievable. I left deaf and changed.
B’Yo, do you have Netflix? You simply have to see “American Hardcore” if you haven’t already. It’s awesome. It’s basically a documentary of hardcore music. They interview absolutely everyone who was anyone…and is still alive.
ThatGrrl, that’s lower than what I was quoted, do it!
Lil: No way! That’s cheap?! I’m a’gonna have to think on that. Christmas purchaes are still kicking my ass.
almost everyone - no Jello Biafra.
Was a little shocked to learn that Moby got his “start” as a hardcore singer…
Good point, oy. And only discussion of Husker du, as I recall. No appearances. But that Moby thing sort of blew me away. Wimpy little Moby? A punker? Never saw that one comin’.
Beastie Boys started as a hardcore group, til they recorded cookie puss, which redirected them.
I have seen them all (well… that came through sf btw 79-84 anyway), even the brig brits.
Didn’t know about moby though.
ditto 7 Seconds - but an amazing documentary, nonetheless. But do NOT watch the supplemental videos - seeing the Circle Jerks playing after thanking their sponsor, Hot Topic, made a large part of my soul die…
And speaking of Hüsker Du, did you know HE (Bob Mould, I think) is now a club dj. Just saw him in *shudder* DC last I was there. Audience was all bears (the furry muscly gay kind). Trippy.
Great older documentary is “The Decline of Western Civilization”.
Fear, Jerks, X, Germs etc etc… LA groups. GREAT footage. Hilarious interviews.
Loves me some 7 seconds.
Mould played Gravity a couple of months ago. Showed a portion of a concert DVD recorded at the 9:30 Club and did a short set. Hearing him sing “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” at max allowable volume, in such small quarters, was pretty awesome! He’s doing a full band show on March 15, up at the 9:30.
you got 7 Seconds yo? Hook me up? All I’ve been able to find is their much later stuff.
Yeah, Decline and Fall was awesome - haven’t seen that in forever.
I’m a sucker for most all music documentaries, but I thought American Hardcore was mediocre at best. While a lot of the stuff about the evolution of the various scenes was pretty interesting, it fails to to acknowledge that like 95% of the music being feted is effing terrible in hindsight.
I know, I know. It’s hardcore. But still.
Sounds as if I need to search out “Decline of Western Civilization.” thanks for the tip!
All my hardcore is on vinyl and stored in california.
I could try to work some internet magic though…
Anyone remember the Maximum Rock and Roll Compilations?
dave - most every genre is 95% crap, but most of the bands in the doc were at least above average. But it’s all subjective, anyway - I liked Blag Flag, but always thought they were waaay overrated, and the Dead Kennedy’s were a one trick joke, for the most part…
Yeah you do Grrl. Xene Cervenka’s interview about the dead painter in her back yard is pretty damn funny. And Michael the Xhead’s (random punker) commentary is outstanding in its own way. Its got pre-Henry Rollins Black Flag (better!) footage and just so many treats. I think it was shot in 1981. And to actually see what Darby Crash (germs) was like, damn, makes Sid Vicious look like a choir boy.
Here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082252/
Circle Jerks (whom I must have seen 20 times) thanking their sponsor equals death of my soul a little. I don’t want to see that.
That movie *was* my mispent youth, just 300 miles south.
Heh. Xene’s a hoot. And I just can’t help myself. I effing love Henry Rollins. Seriously. I have no doubt that pre-Rollins Black Flag rules, but I could listen to that guy just talk, forever. His sort of journal-ish “Get In the Van” is a really funny read, regarding the Black Flag years.
The people who voted against the threadjacking in the poll are gonna love this shit!
Wormwood! OK? Worm effing wood.
I like drinking absinthe while listening to Bad Brains! Actually, wormwood causes bad brains, so it’s sort of all related.
hehheheheheh - he said “wood”
Anyone ever see G.G Allin?
Just hearing a description of a GG Allin show was enough for me to think I needed to be decontaminated.
don’t recall ever hearding of him before today - from what I can tell by a quick perusal of the net, he was the kind of idiot who gave punk a bad name (like that twat Syd Vicious)
He was certifiably and totally insane in a very public way, is all.
I’ve had my moments. His moments just lasted his whole life.
Hey regular commenters following this thread who I know, check your email.
From the villain poll:
See e.g. comment 55
I bought a bottle of the ABC store stuff out of curiosity and I can tell you it’s not real absinthe. It’s basically Pernod with a different marketing technique. I love Pernod. But it’s no Absinthe. And the wormwood in it (if you look carefully) is one of a different variety that they said is “less bitter” than its older predecessor. I.e. it wont get you lucid and dreamy. Avoid, unless you really like black licorice. I’m planning a trip to Prague at some point 0- I’ll bring back a couple bottles of the real stuff.
So as not to perpetuate this sites, cliquey elitism, I will paste the contents of Lilith’s e-mail below:
HAHAHA Sil… nice one
I missed all the fun today. Work got in the way of life.
I read some really long article about absinthe last year. There are two kinds, green and blue/clear and people were less afraid of one kind and regarding Lucid, from… WIKIPEDIA!!!!!! :);):)…. “There is much speculation about whether it contains thujone, and the extent to which thujone is important.”
A certain bow-tie sporting boulevardier of cville used to make his own. by soaking wormwood in gin or something.
Interesting thing about anise liquors (raki, ouzo, pernod) is how far they stretch across central Asia, all the way to the western, mainly Turkic Muslim province of China (Xinjiang).
Grappa is more harder to drink anyway.
you can order absinthe from Europe over the internet… probably completely illegal, but not as expensive as you might think. The trick would be to find someone with a very old bottle so you can try it & tell the difference between that and the new stuff. The Thujone is important, no doubt.
Silmo, that’s obviously not me.
I write out “because.”
I would totally backspace and make that “to.”
Only prissy girls need that many exclamation points. See also: Yupster.
i could use some absinthe tonight; i am sore ALL OVER. but the weather at wintergreen was lovely! h-d: it was powder, and lots of it, but i spent a good amount of time with my rear end planted in it.
caroline, i must have missed you. i was in purple earmuffs - this is starting to sound like a missed connection ad… ! ah well.
byo - i think i might stop by the cafe tonight to pick up my CDs. i won’t be wearing purple earmuffs, but i’ll, um, holller at you, as the kids say. (the nonpareil lady is creepy.)
mmm, hot shower… (and no. you can’t watch. well, maybe silmo. ;))
lilith why are you avoiding me? I got no email AND you lost my number?! Are we becoming too cliquish
Buster, I saw you in yer muffs, you cute girl!
Caroline, I got an email for ya.
aw, thanks! …but who were you? perplexed. but beer calls! adieu!
the really hot one.
lilith, right back atcha…
i drank the legit absinthe one night… plenty of people on this board can probably tell me all about it, because i don’t know a motherfucking thing. it was at a hash christmas party one year, at MC’s house. i blacked out right after shenanigans poured a large glass of red wine down the front of my shirt. HI SHENANIGANS!
i think i did 7 (8? 9?) shots? tipped the bottle up and drank?
i died ten thousand deaths the next day. so, enjoy!
not at my house… i wish it was at my house. parlie, I think i love you.
i’m wasted, but not on absinthe. please, god, let me be anonymous.
MC is the best ever! No worRies about the parlie!
yeah, different MC, not you mc.
also your drunken proclamations of love are hollow.
It was a pleasure to meet you the other evening, mc.
Still wanted you to rock the mic.
/anonymity is a mixed blessing.
I love you all!
meh.
Lilith!!!
parlie, you have spurned me! And yet it is your surliness that I love so much. *sigh*
belmont… yes, hopefully my next cafeteria visit, I’ll bring a cd gift for you. You need to be on the receiving end once in a while!
mc’s love may have been increased by liquor
and parlie’s heart’s skin seems much thicker
But before this is done
they may have some fun
and someone will be in somebody’s knickers!
yeah, that spanish absinthe is crazy. after pouring wine on you, I got in a fight with some psycho bitch who tried to rip my hair out of my head.
it was magical.
was the psycho bitch silmo?
hehheheh….receiving end
ahaha. no some waitress from south street.
what’s a christmas party without absinthe and hot girl-on-girl violence? our parents would be so proud!
What? No qway. I don’t get in fights I know I can’t win
yeah, that spanish absinthe is crazy
it is not for the alcoholically lazy
fun, til some drunk slut
tries to give you a haircut
cuz she thinks she is patrick swayze