anything by hermann hesse
dharma bums, on the road is overrated in my opinion
life of pi
fight club
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
to kill a mockingbird
i love medeski martin and wood, i have seen them 6 times to date. but when im in the mood for real improv i listen to the old jazz pioneers, stuff like coltrane, monk, cannonball adderley, charles mingus, and oscar peterson.
there's no way to make drugs safe. thats why drugs are drugs. they fuck with your brain chemistry and let you create your own reality. what's safe about that? if you want to do something that if safe, eating a banana. making drugs safe would entail altering chemical equations and then drugs...