Thursday, April 28, 2005
Bo Bice and His Big Bag of Cocaine
Bo Bice, my favorite in the current American Idol series, has a history with drugs. Which is probably about as surprising to some people as was the fact that Syria might not have been entirely forthcoming about their withdrawal from Lebanon. Anyway, Drudge, the Great Gossip, is linking to a Smoking Gun story about Bo’s felony arrest for cocaine possession and subsequent trip through a drug diversion program.
What can I say but good for him?
Let’s get this straight:
- Almost all of my favorite albums were fueled by either drugs or a recent trip through rehab.
- Real rockers have a druggy phase. He was just proving his devotion to the genre.
- I’ve used coke. And you know what, I liked it. A lot. I mean, if it were made legal, I would buy the occasional 8 ball to share with friends.
- What, you could look at this guy and think he wasn’t knee-deep in coke or meth? Please…
To tell the truth, I haven’t touched coke or meth since 1993 or 1994. I haven’t touched any illegal drug since 1997 or 1998. I’ve had a few opportunities, but I’ve turned them down because I don’t like the drugs that make you feel more screwed up than a good beer buzz, I worry about the health effects, and I don’t like the idea of going to jail. So, if I’m ever on the verge of becoming a household name, let it be known that I’ve always been fully forthcoming with my drug history.
To paraphrase the great (deceased) Bill Hicks: never murdered anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, laughed my ass off and went about my day. That isn’t a blanket approval of drug use: some people shouldn’t use drugs the way some people shouldn’t drink and Michael Jackson shouldn’t be left alone with young children.
But for a few of my bartending years--the years immediately Pre-Marriage--I was a regular user of coke and meth. I stopped using by choice one day and never looked back. There was no dramatic withdrawals or trips to a clinic; there were no tearful confessions to a therapist and no regrets.
No regrets about either using or stopping.
So, here’s to Bo and his former drug habit. I hope he’s one of the majority of people who have used drugs: he’s had his fun and he realizes when it no longer fits the life he’s trying to live.
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...so where’s your edgy, dark, hit underground/independent/college album, then? Man, you wasted a good drug jag! [grin]
Oh, man, you’re right--my one chance at stardom, and I wasted it.
Keep this up and I might regret my relative sobriety. Heheh.
Let me get this straight, understood-wise: Good Art can’t be had unless drugs are involved?
I’m going to have to disagree with that assertion.
If it’s any consolation, I don’t agree with that, either. I just don’t happen to think that drug use is the big, scary thing that it’s made out to be--but, yes, most of the best CDs in my collection were probably influenced by drugs in one way or another.
I am beginning to think that I am going straight to heaven. The blogsphere has convinced me. I never even tried pot (or even a cigarette!). I was around pot in my acting days but I would never even THINK of embarassing my dad (who was a state senator and a well repected lawyer). I never even saw other drugs.
I had some fun in college, no doubt. But all legal and everything. I thought I was KAH-RAZY. I now see I was something of a really fun angel...
Somehow, I think we already knew that about you…
Rightwingsparkle, you and me both! I had friends who did drugs and smoked, but I never touched any of it. I remember one night when I was a desl clerk and a guy offered me coke to keep the hot tub open for a few hours more. I didn’t take him up on his offer
Okay, should I start feeling guilty about now?
In honor of you two, though, I am throwing in a little Adam Ant right now. “Goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes...”
I did end up trying to smoke a few times, because inhaling the smoke myself deadened the nerves that hurt like the dickens if all I got was sidestream.
Other than that, though, all I’ve tried is alcohol. Absolutely no illegal drugs have entered my body, either.
Okay, now y’all are just trying to make me feel bad.
Zombyboy, one day you will have kids. This is my advice and on any other thing you would NEVER hear me say this. But when they ask you if you did drugs- LIE. Lie like a rug. Trust me on this one.
Don’t feel bad. Everyone has a past of some kind. No one is perfect. I did go skinny dipping with girlfriends. I raced cars in college. I did get drunk a few times. ( a feeling I HATE ) and I broke a few hearts, which is what I feel the most bad about.
Not hellbound stuff, but still....I feel bad about some of it.
Never done anything more illegal than pot. Had several friends that went down the opium/meth road, didn’t look like fun.
Next Drudge is going to tell us that Carrie once drank warm beer from a keg near the old water tower and that a Scott shoplifted all his Usher CD’s from Sam Goody. Oh, and that Anthony really really likes Journey.
RWS,
Well, not to be a jerk, but: those are hell-bound sins, right? Just like drugs, or stealing a penny, or a little white lie.
Any and All sins are hell-bound sins, which is exactly why we need His blessed Grace.
Returning to the less-serious tone:
Zomby,
There’s no need for you to feel bad or anything...we all bring different experiences to the table. In your case, you just bring...a drug-addled haze of LSD flashbacks or something.[grin] Without even having a hit record to show for it.
Nah, like RWS said, we all have not-so-wise actions in our past. The trick is to try to reduce the number of them in your future.
Nathan, well, I think that none of them are even sins except maybe the getting drunk a few times.
Not sure though, as with most kids, my sin-o-meter was hidden away during the college years. I was only as good as I was cuz I wasn’t an idiot and I so didn’t want to disappoint my parents.
Good point, RWS. I guess I was projecting a little to the idea that my parents would oppose most of those things, and so I would be dishonoring my parents; as well as assuming the hearts you broke were due to typical youthful selfishness. And all that under the canopy of: if it isn’t God’s will for you, then you are placing your will above His, which I consider a sin. However, those are derivative assumptions, and I was reaching in making those assumptions.
...which is probably a sin, too!
Nathan, well there is always Zombyboy here to make us ALL Feel better!....
I stabbed a guy in the heart.
dorkafork, ok......you win.