Me and my drinking

Well, I wasn't really a drinker until Covid. Before then, I drank occasionally, mostly as part of socialising with other musicians. Like, even when the whole flat was taking LSD and smoking weed, nobody was drinking more than a few of the big beers a day (at the flat, anyway). In 2020, I drank a bottle of whiskey during the month where I ran my Ad, but felt real guilty about it after listening to Gary's lectures about booze. - After the referendum loss, I spent a year mostly drinking and not smoking weed because I was suddenly a bit paranoid about being a stoner. Didn't stop me from taking DMT and LSD (and Nitrous). - Then, after deciding that I was going to continue the weed campaign following my EP, I was drinking a bit less and smoking a bit more, which was the pattern until I got the job at RNZ, which probably changed the balance towards drinking until I got fed up and decided to start smoking at the office rather than having these sprees of consumption where I'd pound a few and get real stoned after doing the night shift. The drinking probably peaked in 2023, and it's been trending down this year. I'm getting to that age where it takes longer to recover, so that's encouraging me to be moderate. - I do reckon that there's a cycle that I get in where being angry and being drunk can become symbiotic, but it's not like I drink to get angry. We're talking about a few drinks, but nothing like the 18 standard drinks that some of those homeless people that Joel MacManus interviewed for The Spinoff drank.

Usually like a six-pack or a bottle of wine or cider.