In American culture, there is an image of the tortured artist who abuses alcohol or drugs. Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock and Kurt Cobain are a few examples. Several of the writers we have read so far, including Baldwin, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Carver had serious problems with alcohol. Some, like Carver, chose to get sober, while others did not.
Jim Morrison - After he completed high school Jim Morrison was about to jump into his own realm of creativity. In 1964, he had moved to the West Coast, and in 1966 he enrolled as a film major at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). It was at UCLA where Jim Morrison had begun consistently using psychedelic drugs; such as LSD.
Although The Doors performance was somewhat like a cult gathering; all of them were performed while they were on some type of drug or alcohol substance. They were a popular band and a major influence to other bands, poets, and artists in our generation today. "Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity." -Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison had always excelled at school and anything for that matter in what he put his mind to. His IQ was 149. He had met three other individuals somewhat like himself and drugs that brought them together to form a band known as 'The Doors'. Inside of the book on mescaline by English author Aldous Hexley'
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