For those of you who don't know, Grant Morrison is one of the most celebrated comic book writers of our time, known for turning tired old super-hero plot lines into complex tales of morality and motivation. But there's also something else we now know about him thanks to a bold interview at this year's ComicCon: He's a frickin' head! Video at the link, but here's an excerpt:
To what extent do drugs play a role in your creative process?
They were very big in The Invisibles. I was a very straightedge kid until I was 30 years old — I didn't touch anything, and I was anti-drinking, anti-drugs, everything. But I got to 30 and I kind of decided to treat myself as a laboratory and become something else — I wondered how much you could mess with your own personality. I became a tranny for awhile; I used to dress up as a girl, and I was beautiful! I just started to take tons of psychadelic[sic] drugs, though I was never into amphetamines or anything. But I'm getting old now, so I don't do so much of that.
Did that also have a role in your experience in Kathmandu?
The Kathmandu thing was really weird. I had taken a little bit of hash — but just a very little bit. That experience was so profound — nothing like that has ever happened to me again. Part of taking so many drugs in the 90s was trying to recreate the experience: the clarity of everything was so much more real, the way things are made ... all this is just cheap dream compared to the place I was. I've taken DMT, high doses of mushrooms, high doses of acid — nothing took me back. I've never been able to go there again.
Thanks for the tip Gene!
