RrentTreznor

Semantics is pretty important, especially when discussing treatments for cognitive disorders. At this stage, it seems like a poor idea to go ahead and state that your music therapy could supplant known, empirically-proven pharmaceutical treatments.

I would disagree with this suggestion. I've been using Yotta for a good bit now and I think part of the appeal is getting a daily gambling "fix" by way of those 9 PM EST drawings. While I personally don't actually check them until Sunday evening - I'd imagine there are quite a few that keep daily tabs to see how they're faring by end of week. For anyone that doesn't want the notifications, they can do exactly as OP did and ignore them.

I've been diagnosed with REM behavior disorder. It's not a regular thing, but a couple times a week I will violently kick, usually upward, while acting out in a dream. I'm able to manage that and protect my wife, but I am constantly living in fear that I will develop Parkinson's down the road, since it's one of the early indicators of the disease. What do you know about the link between REM behavior disorder and Parkinson's, and should I genuinely be concerned about this? If so, is there anything I can do besides excercise and a healthy diet to prevent Parkinson's?

Excessive use of anything shows unhappiness and deep emotional issues.

Listen, this is just coming from someone who overcame a decade of heavy, heavy marijuana usage. I was certainly an addict, as much as that terminology is frowned upon with the community.

But, what I learned about myself after the fact, is that I simply have an addictive personality. My addictive personality manifested itself through the path of least resistance, which turned out to be marijuana.

Since then, I've channeled that addictive personality into other, more healthy alternatives such as sports and exercise, cooking, and music production. And, as a stoner, the hard truth is that I would have never been able to achieve what I have in the past three years of sobriety.

This is entirely anecdotal, and marijuana affects individuals differently, I simply don't want you guys to neglect the fact that, there are a ton of people out there like me -- lost in their addiction, willing to come to the defense of marijuana as not the underlying reason for why I hadn't achieved in (in my case) that ten year span. I was relatively healthy in that time, had a successful relationship, but man was I at a complete stalemate in my life. And every other stoner friend I knew was in the exact same boat, as much as they refused to admit it to themselves....that's the thing with marijuana addicts, they have the ability to rationalize so much better than an addict of a more dangerous substance.

But, that first comment you made, about excessive use of anything shows unhappiness and deep emotional issues -- that's sort of what I mean when I am talking about rationalization. That's a blanket statement which you shouldn't use in general terms. I'm not saying anything about you, in particular, as you guys are clearly extremely ambitious, but don't discount that your audience would consist of many folks like my former self.

So, yeah, a "real-life" show documenting an addicts attempt to quit would be pretty neat, and groundbreaking, if you ask me. Even a sitcom depicting the darker, addictive components of weed would be refreshing to see, rather than seth rogen stoner comedies that reinforce various stoner stereotypes that aren't necessarily true.

Do you ever think back on how your career as an actor manifested itself? What are your thoughts on that period from 04-07 (Mysterious Skin, Brick, The Lookout)? To me, those three films really established you as a premier talent in the industry, and it's in part because they each achieved their own respective cult status.