Meth Orgy Reimagined As Tragic Opera

We’ve been too strung out to properly describe what goes on at these parties for partiers, but luckily for us, Jack Hoffman at Carnal Nation has sobered up long enough to provide a stirring rendition of a meth-fest. It has to do with opera.

 Most people think meth is something like a fast-paced music video with vertigo-inducing hand-held camerawork and thumping techno or driving drum and bass. These may well be—and often are—on the soundtrack for meth, but if you listen, really listen, to the original cast recording, you will hear the overwrought lament of the aria and the occasional roaring crescendo of the lovers’ confrontation. All of it, however, will be tone-deaf and off-tempo and sung over and over and over.  As for that vertigo, well, that’s just the peculiar and involuntary choreography of meth’s opera, which, by the way, is a traveling company of one. The fact that tweakers tend to congregate only adds to the operatic nature of meth: intense, melodramatic, and interminable. I am not a fan of opera, though I did have a dazzling run on the stage…

… The others are transfixed by their computers. They’re online ostensibly trying to lure others to the orgy, but they’re really just gossiping. “No, not him; he steals.” “Yeah, he might have looked like that ten years ago…” There might also be someone stationed by the window, staring out at nothing in particular. That was usually me. I’d like to say I was looking for something better or wishing I were elsewhere, but I was more than likely just stuck. This is the setting you encounter upon entering the stage. After your eyes adjust to the fetid semi-darkness, you’ll want to leave, but then you think about the effort it took to make it here at all and that you’re really horny and… Someone hands you a pipe, so you guess you’ll stay. Everybody’s waiting for the dealer to come with more. He’ll be here in twenty minutes. Somebody offers to re-install Windows on your laptop.

Sounds like an atonal Berg composition to us. You can read the full article here.

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