by Damon Martin

Alone in the Universe? Still Not Sure

A few weeks ago, scientists discovered what was thought to be a habitable planet called Gliese 581-g, which had all the characteristics of a world that could create and contain life as we know it on Earth anyways. The “Goldilocks” planet was found to be in a zone not too close to its sun (ie. not too hot) and not too far away (ie. too cold), in the sweet spot in between where an atmosphere could form and life could grow.

Not so fast.

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by Sash Suicide

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By Erin Broadley

“Everything in life is fear based”
– Nikki Sixx

It’s December 25th 1986, and Nikki Sixx is alone in his mansion, crouched naked under his Christmas tree with a needle in his arm, scribbling in his diary about watching his “holiday spirit coagulate in a spoon.” He writes, “Merry Christmas…it’s just you and me, diary. Welcome to my life.”

This is just one scene from a particularly harrowing chapter in Motley Crue bassist and founder Nikki Sixx’s new memoir “The Heroin Diaries” — a collection of riveting entries from his personal journals spanning one year from 1986 to 1987, a year he considers the height of his downward spiral into drug addiction. It’s a story about drugs, depression, and the train-wreck of self-destruction — but ultimately it’s one man’s story about survival told with unflinching and unapologetic honesty.

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Silencia Suicide in The Other

• INTO: Loud Music, wearing too much black, vegan cookies, religious iconography, sarcasm, impeccable wit, used book stores, socialist feminism, spontaneity, innocence, love.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Gay men, handwritten letters, black coffee, New York, Portland, Kubrick, Borges. Sioux, a good sense of humor, grandparents, intelligence.
• MAKES ME SAD: Conservative politics, people who force their views on others, how necessary money is sometimes, “text” typing in e-mail/online messages – scratch that – “text” typing in general (yes, even in text messages), when people refer to tattoos as “ink” or “tatts.”
• HOBBIES: Lots of things that end with “ing.”.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Paper, black ink pen, background noise, my brain, my heart (all the other organs aren’t as important).

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