Showing posts with label Jenkem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jenkem. Show all posts

Saturday, December 29, 2007

The return of Jenkem: a song by Tay Zonday: Chocolate Reign (a/k/a Choklit Reighn)

In this YouTube™ video, Tay Zonday performs his song Chocolate Rain/Choklit Reighn, a song about Jenkem. Jenkem is perhaps best described as an end-user delivery system for a psychotropic substance confected from human waste matter. We wrote about this earlier. . .here, and here, if you'd want to know more. On the whole, I think I'd prefer bourbon.




The Lyrics:

Some stay dry and others feel the pain
Chocolate Rain
A baby born will die before the sin
Chocolate Rain
The school books say it can't be here again
Chocolate Rain
The prisons make you wonder where it went
Chocolate Rain
Build a tent and say the world is dry
Chocolate Rain
Zoom the camera out and see the lie
Chocolate Rain
Forecast to be falling yesterday
Chocolate Rain
Only in the past is what they say
Chocolate Rain
Raised your neighborhood insurance rates
Chocolate Rain
Makes us happy 'livin in a gate
Chocolate Rain
Made me cross the street the other day
Chocolate Rain Made you turn your head the other way
(Chorus) Chocolate Rain History quickly crashing through your veins
Chocolate Rain
Using you to fall back down again [Repeat]
Chocolate Rain
Seldom mentioned on the radio
Chocolate Rain
It's the fear your leaders call control
Chocolate Rain
Worse than swearing worse than calling names Chocolate Rain Say it publicly and you're insane
Chocolate Rain
No one wants to hear about it now Chocolate Rain Wish real hard it goes away somehow
Chocolate Rain
Makes the best of friends begin to fight Chocolate Rain But did they know each other in the light?
Chocolate Rain
Every February washed away
Chocolate Rain Stays behind as colors celebrate
Chocolate Rain
The same crime has a higher price to pay chocolate Rain The judge and jury swear it's not the face
(Chorus)
Chocolate Rain
Dirty secrets of economy Chocolate Rain Turns that body into GDP
Chocolate Rain
The bell curve blames the baby's DNA
Chocolate Rain
But test scores are how much the parents make
Chocolate Rain '
Flippin cars in France the other night
Chocolate Rain
Cleans the sewers out beneath Mumbai
Chocolate Rain
'Cross the world and back it's all the same
Chocolate Rain
Angels cry and shake their heads in shame
Chocolate Rain
Lifts the ark of paradise in sin
Chocolate Rain
Which part do you think you're 'livin in?
Chocolate Rain
More than 'marchin more than passing law
Chocolate Rain
Remake how we got to where we are
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

First hand account of a Jenkem user

From a posting on livewire, comes this first person account of a Jenkem trip. To find out more about Jenken, check out this earlier post on All This Is That.

The posting seems to be by "pickwick" on the totse website.

2007-06-13, 12:55

Well today I finally did it. I became probably the first person in America to huff his own s**t gas. No video though, sorry, no camera. I hope you are not too disappointed. I could bet pictures though and I wrote a trip report.

Today the bubbles had mostly stopped. The balloon had possibly grown a little bit since last time but it was oblong from days in the sun or maybe from the gases inside so it was hard to tell. The shit in the bottle was very settled and did not look like shit anymore even.

I first lightly shook the bottle to make sure all of the bubbles had popped. I then pinched off the balloon and took it off of the top. I held that while I huffed from the bottle. After exhaling all air from my lungs I took my straw and inhaled from the inside of the bottle. The flavor of shit struck me, it stuck to the tongue like the flavor after smoking a cigar. My body wanted me to stop breathing it but I kept going by putting the end of the straw further back in my mouth, behind my tongue. I took a some more breaths of that and I waited a few seconds, then inhaled the balloon. The balloon was less harsh, I could barely taste any of it and it felt like breathing oxygen.

After breathing it in I immediately felt that I was passing out. I did not even have time to spit before I became unconscious. When I woke up my spittle had oozed out of my mouth and down my chin. I asked my friend how long I was out for. He said for about a minute, and that he had repeatedly tried to wake me but I would not wake up. During this short conversation I began to feel light dissociative effects come over me, accompanied by buzzing in my ears. The feeling got stronger and stronger until I felt like I was in a dream. This was somewhat enjoyable, it made me feel like nothing really mattered. The apathy actually made the rest of the trip more enjoyable.

After I was fully into the dream like state visual hallucinations began to start. I had fleeting visions of people who seemed completely random, like my second grade teacher. I would say something to the person and then he or she would disappear. Normally I would be fearful of trips like this but the dream feeling made it almost fun. Hearing was dulled during the trip, I could only hear what I was saying and some random noises like screeching and car noises. After I the effects wore off my friend told me that I was mostly talking in gibberish so I guess I couldn’t hear my own voice anything in the outside world throughout the trip. At the peak of the trip I saw things like pillars in my lawn that disappeared and shapes in the sky. My sense of time was slowed, so the whole trip felt like it was shorter than it was.


The comedown was mostly auditory hallucinations, like voices and loud cracks. The dream like feeling lessened and I drifted back into reality. In the last parts of the trip I became paranoid from the noises because it felt real instead of like a dream. I asked my friend how long it had been. He said about 40 minutes. He also told me that I spent long periods of time staring at different spots. I also, according to him, spoke slurred works to trees and rocks. I was very surprised by how messed up the jenkem got me. That was higher than I have ever been. Other drugs distort reality, but jenkem really distorts reality. I was almost completely unaware of my surroundings. My friend said that seeing me was scary and he was thinking of getting an adult. Thank god he didn’t do that.

In conclusion: was it enjoyable: no, not really. Would I do it again? Defiantly not. Would I recommend another person to try it? I wouldn’t to anyone who I am close to. If you are very adventurous and would try anything then I guess you should try jenkem. But know that the preparation is not made worthwhile by the trip.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Jenkem: better living through chemistry

Jenkem is an inhaled gas which reportedly causes dissociation and hallucinations. It is made from fermented sewage (most frequently, the user's own urine and feces). Jenkem was first reported on in 1995 on the Inter Press Service Wire, and the BBS ran a news report in 1999. Recently, Jenkem has been sweeping American high schools. It is apparently still popular in various places in Africa.

The Wikipedia says: "According to Fountain of Hope, a non-profit organization, Jenkem is used by street children in Lusaka, Zambia as a substitute for ordinary inhalants such as glue or petrol. The news reports give no information as to how or when the children first began manufacturing jenkem."

Jenkem is made by placing urine and feces in a plastic bottle and allowing it to ferment in the sun for days. You then sniff the resulting gas. If you don't believe me, do a GIS. I did, and got 20,000 Jenkem hits...

You do have to wonder, though, about outhouses and honey-pots. Does Jenkem explain hillbillies? I remember being at a Willie Nelson-Old 97's show this summer, with the hundreds of porta-potties sitting in the 100 degree sun. No wonder the lines were so long! Was everyone just jenkem-ing down?

In the late sixties, I remember people getting high--or attempting to--on various ordinary, and less revolting substances like glue, gas, and other inhalants of course, nutmeg, morning glory seeds, and banana peels (remember the Donovan song Mellow Yellow?):

"Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase"

Jenkem. Well, kids, at least it's still legal, unlike Cannabis (THC), Barbiturates, atropine, scopolamine, nutmeg, nitrous oxide, phencyclidine (PCP), Opium (Papaver somniferum), codeine, fentanyl (Duragesic®, Actiq®), heroin, hydrocodone (Vicodin®), hydromorphone (Dilaudid®), meperidine (Demerol®), methadone (Methadose®), morphine, oxycodone (OxyContin®, Roxicodone®), oxymorphone (Opana®), dextropropoxyphene (Darvocet®), ephedrine, MDMA (ecstasy). MDEA, MDA , mescaline (found in peyote and other cacti), cocaine, dextroamphetamine (crank), methamphetamine, dimethyltryptamine (DMT, found in numerous plants), psilocybin and psilocin (found in psychedelic mushrooms), ergine, LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide), amyl nitrites (poppers), chloroform, and quaalude.

For a limited time, All This Is That will ship you everything you need to create Jenkem: jug, balloon, sterile water, and the raw ingredients, for just $89. Send us a PayPal cash payment, and the kit will arrive within a week. If you want the deluxe kit, send us $12,000, and we will deliver the kit personally, in your brand new Hyundai Accent. . .yours to keep.
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