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Roky Erickson update
Mar. 1st, 2007 12:33 amLooks like my decision has been made for me. The Roky show is sold out.
Strangely, this makes me feel better. It's out of my hands, so I won't regret my decision.
Did see the documentary on him tonight. It was very good. I did know that he was sent to the psychiatric hospital for marijuana possession, but I didn't now that he'd already had a psychotic break and been diagnosed as schizophrenic before that point, or that he was originally sent to minimum-security hospitals but was sent to the high-security one because his girlfriend kept helping him escape to her place to drop acid. Also, Roky comes by his crazy naturally: his entire family is messed up beyond belief. Even the most outwardly stable-seeming of them, his youngest brother Sumner, is definitely damaged goods.
Had beer & snausages with a friend in the Mission afterwards. Then home and to bed.
Strangely, this makes me feel better. It's out of my hands, so I won't regret my decision.
Did see the documentary on him tonight. It was very good. I did know that he was sent to the psychiatric hospital for marijuana possession, but I didn't now that he'd already had a psychotic break and been diagnosed as schizophrenic before that point, or that he was originally sent to minimum-security hospitals but was sent to the high-security one because his girlfriend kept helping him escape to her place to drop acid. Also, Roky comes by his crazy naturally: his entire family is messed up beyond belief. Even the most outwardly stable-seeming of them, his youngest brother Sumner, is definitely damaged goods.
Had beer & snausages with a friend in the Mission afterwards. Then home and to bed.
