rant · moment 6 of 15
Andrea the Witch and Long Island Drug Days
from The Choker | The Tim Dillon Show #313 · #313
6 min
Tim reminisces about a manic-depressive goth/wiccan friend named Andrea who cut herself with a knife, hung out getting high in the back of libraries, and whom he suspects (but doesn't know) is now dead, tying it back to the danger of over-medicating troubled but memorable people.
- Andrea was a witch, a modern wiccan who was part of Tim's youth group that included skaters, stoners, goths, and drug dealers.
- Drugs created a big tent that brought all those different people together, which Tim says is why he recommends them.
- Andrea wore all black, carried a big knife she cut herself with, and had a lot of weed they'd all smoke together.
- They'd sit in the back of Long Island libraries smoking pot because nobody goes there and the staff doesn't pay attention.
- Tim believes Andrea was in mental institutions repeatedly and thinks she's probably dead now, but admits he doesn't actually know.
- Andrea had problems but was a beautiful person who'd cackle like a hyena and run off with her knife into the night.
- Tim worries that medicating Andrea earlier might have prevented those beautiful, fun moments they shared, though he hates sounding selfish about it.
- In the late 90s and early 2000s, hanging out on drugs meant going out at 11 a.m. and returning at 5 a.m., with different drugs for different hours.
- Overhearing a guy at the grocery store brag that his Bay Area friends are smart and really into hallucinogens, which prompts Tim to say the whole state is full of drug addicts in psychosis.
- Tim met a guy who claims to provide drugs for the Rolling Stones, called Keith Richards, and played him "Satisfaction."
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