Coma Tour – Hollywood

Last night we crammed into a one-bedroom apartment with touring mates Hellas Mounds, making a total of 15 people to find space to sleep. Noel and Tommy slept in the van, and woke us up in the morning. I guess we all stunk up the place pretty bad, but I didn’t notice because I was immersed in whatever-stench the whole night.

Today we walked and drove around Hollywood. The most notable stop was the “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” museum. Inside, there were exhibits and video stations full of propganda designed to make you think that Psychiatry is 100% evil, that it’s a playground for the dark deeds of mad scientists.

The early history of Psychiatry is pretty shocking in its archaic theories and experiments to heal psychoses (spinning contraptions and torture techniques). But this place hopes we should write off what we know about treating mental conditions completely… by playing scary music with holocaust footage, and images of lobotomies and shock treatments.

But there are no doubt some scary sides of psychiatry, such as a mandate with the whole new American health care plan to make pregnant women take anti-depressants for post-partum depression during pregnancy. It’s already been mandated in New Jersey, and a woman was put in Jail for refusing to take her pills. This is what the guy at the front desk told us.

This is a photo from the music/photography venue we played tonight:

This is also a photo from the music/photography venue we played tonight: