head trip

1. n. a session with a head drug. (Drugs.) Bob had his first head trip last night.

2. n. an ego trip. Come down from your head trip and see if you can get along with the rest of us.

See also: head, trip

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The results are disjointed and wonderfully weird: art created from, and for, an intimate, one-on-one head trip.

What a head trip it was, at 16 or 17, and that was working with good people and having a pretty good introduction to it.

John Cusack; 60 SECONDS WITH THE STAR OF DAVID CRONENBERG'S NEW MOVIE

Heinlein's 1960 short story "--All You Zombies--and if it's better in the intimate early stages than in the more grandiose later passages, all in all it's the sort of boldly illogical head trip that gives preposterousness a good name.

Predestination

After the impassioned singer belts, "I'm going to give my aimless love/My angry heart and my desire," the song turns into psychedelic head trip with a transcendent, four-and-a-half-minute instrumental that is destined to make a deeply cognitive connection with the listener.

A respectful morning after

Over a propulsive, New Order-inspired mix of guitars, bass, drums and synths, Flowers musters up his inner Bowie and whips up a delusional head trip of a hook-laden chorus that's out of this world (despite the singer possibly being out of his mind).

Flowers' delivery so sincere listener can overlook his inanity

With imaginative handling, this freewheeling juggernaut of a head trip, its assorted visual treatments rendered in relative degrees of awkwardness and artfulness, could catch on with hip ands worldwide.

Mind Game

And that's an appropriate place to go if the movie is ``Adaptation,'' writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze's follow-up to the 1999 fun- house head trip ``Being John Malkovich.

BEING AND NUTTINESS NICOLAS CAGE PORTRAYS 'MALKOVICH' WRITER, TWIN FOR FOLLOW-UP

Late in the book, Kraus recounts a story that suggests she and Dick did have sex, but it still reads as both unlikely and unverifiable, part of Kraus' head trip, her project.

I Love Dick

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But the whole thing feels too safe and tame to be much more than an interesting trifle instead of the stylistic head trip that was intended.

THE EMPTY PROMISE OF 'FULL FRONTAL'

It's a head trip, alright, as we return to the psychedelic decade when all they needed was love - and some recreational drugs - to get by.

PICK OF THE BOX; All is not well on the wards

She adds: "I have actresses who won't let me put any foundation on them before going on television, because they don't want it to settle into any lines--or whatever their head trip is.

No day at the beach: going for the gold yields orange results

And then there is high school - the ultimate head trip for most teens, where they listen to contradictory instructions from parents and teachers as they try to navigate through their uncertain and painful social growth.

VIDEO NEW 'HUNCHBACK' PROVIDES SANCTUARY FOR OSMENT

But there was no denying the blazes of excitement thrown up by David Leveaux's rending production of "Jumpers," a Tom Stoppard head trip that seemed newly aimed at the heart, especially as enacted by Simon Russell Beale and the ceaselessly versatile Essie Davis.

Reflections on a mixed year of Brit legit

Considered quite a head trip when it was first released in 1968, ``2001'' remains as visually innovative today as it was then.