More Drugs, More Rock: The R.U. Sirius Interview, Part II
In the first part of this dopey Q&A, Wonkette’s Ken Layne asked Everybody Must Get Stoned author and cyberpunk prankster R.U. Sirius about the glorious excess of rock-art past, and where the William S. Burroughs of the 2010s might be hiding out today. In the final installment, they cover Kesey, R.A. Wilson, Lou Reed, French Bohemia and psychedelics in modern medical trials.
Q: Robert Anton Wilson and Ken Kesey are two of the crucial counterculture writers, and you got to work with both of them. They haven’t been gone very long, but it feels like forever. This is basically the same question again, but where are the philosophical/spiritual leaders a druggy counterculture needs to keep it from descending into, say, the scene around where I live in the Mojave Desert, where illiterate high-school-dropout OHV idiots are cooking meth in double-wides and spending the meager profits on neck tattoos promoting terrible white-rap bands and Aryan gangs? Is the intellectual/arty drug era over?
A: You know, I don’t see how people can take meth and want to ride around on their “hogs” all day. Doesn’t it make you want to re-read Gravity’s Rainbow… backwards… and then diagram the relationship between it and the Kabbalah? continue »














