Altered States: Secret Machines' Narcotic Bliss
Stevie Chick, Stranger, The, 17 June 2004
"THE FIRST TIME you take acid, or have any kind of a psychedelic experience, from that point on you look at the world a little differently." Brandon Curtis squints his eyes a little as he says this, like a scientist subtly underscoring the tenets of his lesson.
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