Most of these come from my
Random blog, which is an electronic scrapbook of stuff I thought I might like to view at some time or other. For those who want to view stuff on drugs I've collected the very best links here. Unless otherwise stated these are full-length features, usually an hour or more.
If you have a slow connexion and are unused to viewing multiscreen films on Youtube here's what to do: click the first one and play on mute, stopping and starting as it does. Then, when it's done, click on Repeat Play and you get the full entertainment without interruption. While you watch screen one, do the same to screens 2, 3 and so on. So as each bit finishes, the next part's ready and waiting.
Mexican Black Tar Heroin: "
Dark End"
Khun Sa, whose name meant Prince Prosperous, had been, before his death in the mid 2000s, the world's biggest dealer in China White Heroin: "
Lord of the Golden Triangle"
In-depth portrait of the Afghan heroin trade at its very height. Includes heroin-lab bust. "
Afghanistan's Fateful Harvest"
Classic miniseries whose title became a catchphrase for the misery of life in East Asian prison. Nicole Kidman plays a privileged middle-class girl set up to mule heroin through Thai customs with the inevitable consequences. This is so long it had to be posted in two parts. "
Bangkok Hilton 1" (first 2 hours or so); "
Bangkok Hilton 2" (last couple of hours).
Short film: from tapwater-clear H4 in the USA to murky black Afghan brown in Norway: "
Heroin Addicts Speak"
Before his untimely death this guy kept a video diary. Here's the hour-long highlights as broadcast on BBC TV: "
Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict". Thanks to
Noah for the original link.
Some of the most entertaining scenes from Britain's top soap (as much for the poor research as anything else). Not even Phil Mitchell would go from nought to multi-hundred pound binges this fast: "
Phil Mitchell on Crack" (just over 5 minutes).
Scientist lady shows us how to cook up gear: "
How Much Citric?" Lucky cow: her brown is 70% purity! Oddly we never see her actually do her hit... maybe she got camera shy...
And lastly:
German documentary following a life from teenage addiction to untimely death before the age of 30. The decline in this girl's appearance is truly shocking. "
Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit". Sorry no subtitles; this is here for anyone learning German who's after practice material a little more gripping than Lindenstraße!
15 comments:
Yikes! I hate how a bad dream feeling lingers :O( I always find it quite hard to shake off....luckily I havent had one in a while! XO
When you write them down right after the dream they seem to make sense...a couple months later when you read them..it's like "What was I drinking that night???
Don't like bad dreams, the feeling hangs around for ages after I wake up. Fortunately I don't have them often but when I do, they always involve people I love...shudder...bloody awful!
hi gled
thanx thanx thanx for your reaction. no i haven't left yet, but leaving on saturday.sorry for writing the blog in dutch, but my head is full of stuff so writing is easier then. i was thinking on starting on centro america, and then fly to bangkok.
but don't know yet.
looking forward to be keeping in touch once in a while. ciao! claire
what an horrible nightmare...must be hard to get out of it...but I think sometimes help our subconscious to sort things out...may be...
anyway, have a very nice day dear
Mousie
What an odd dream - very peculiar indeed. Have you ever had Freudian analysis? The sense of powerlessness and out of control events could be indicative of something... also the supposed connections to the world famous - even if dead.
omg.. *faints* ick! nightmares!
hope u get better dreams soon!
I hate bad dreams - it usually means something isn't right in my life! I see you are still struggling with whether to take the rehab step. I am thinking it would be a huge and rather anxiety provoking spot for you to be in - maybe it is crossing over into your dreams. I wish you peaceful sleep!
Mellowlee: yepp! And I terrified myself by waking self speaking in that horrid guttural throaty voice. Ukk!
Tom: you're right often I can come up with a pretty reasonable (seeming) interpretation just after the event ... dreams fade though, fade bad ...
Puss-in-Boots: Mine don't usually involve loved-ones except in the background. Usually during the worst part I'm on my own (how typical. Just as in life!) ...
Claire: as I said the word I picked up on was "morgen" (that does mean tomorrow, right?) ... assumed you were leaving some day before yesterday ... glad you've not gone quite yet ... as I said please stay in touch when you go; I know you can't be in touch every day but once a month or so ... please..?
Mousey: yeah I'm okay now ... did it come over as horrible as it was? I was quite lucky that night to actually remember so much of it... I think the dream had been recurring over a couple of hours. I'm fairly OK. How are you?
Mutleythedog: I've never had dream analysis ... can I get it? If so how? Where? Please tell me!
Edyta: To the best of my knowledge I've dreamt nothing since. (And I don't believe in that psychologists' claptrap about you spend X-amount of your time dreaming every night... That means you spend X-amount of time in REM-stage sleep and if woken can recount thoughts you were thinking. They are not to my mind the same as full-blown dreams. So there, psychologists!!
Kahshe Cottager: I think you're right it is anxiety over what to do next ... (although it cannot be literally next week as I've to go through a lengthy form-filling process to get funding/etc ...)
What a very intriguing blog and a talented writer. Thanks for the invitation to come here.
Jan: glad yer like it!!
I have nightmares about 'Jeepers Creapers'. I've watched the film and hammering on the pay booth, pleading for my money back.
This would make a great music video Gled!
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