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Hey man; it's not all groovy melting rainbows and sparkly magical muffincakes that taste like yellow. Sometimes it's demons and spiders and hellfire and free fall and other shit that is totally fucked up and leaves you shattered and shaken. Yes, we're talking about a bad trip down the lysergic acid diethylamide highway, soon to be the subject of a forthcoming book from authors Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker.

Good Times: Bad Trips hits shelves later this month courtesy of Gallery 16 Books. The 138-page, hardback tome collects firsthand accounts from some fifty folks who took the bad acid-- musicians, artists, writers, and the like-- rendered in words and (you guessed it, trippy) visuals.

Musical contributors of note include Devendra Banhart, Matmos' Drew Daniel (also a Pitchfork contributor) and Martin Schmidt, and Vetiver's Andy Cabic. WAIT A MINUTE, DEVENDRA DOES DRUGS!??!

In conjunction with the book's release, Gallery 16's actual San Francisco gallery space opened an exhibition today (October 15) featuring work from Bad Trips. It runs through November 3. And while we're on the subject, let us take a moment to remind our readership to please trip responsibly.