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!
IT'S A RAINY SUNDAY with repeats all over the TV and I didn't want to get out of bed except a craving for a cup of tea and cig with new vanilla Hobnob creams dragged me to the shops. Basically I can't wait to get back to the safety and shelter and my half a bottle of methadone left. I'm avoiding the world today!
7 comments:
Wow - that's an old one. How did that get in your head? I recall the tune well but the story was totally gone.
Geez - I was the age my kids are now. I'm not sure what happened in between.
Tomorrow is another day Gleds. x
I remember that Richard Marx song. I rather like his voice. As for rainy days...good days to curl up in bed with your favourite bikkies and a good book.
I don't particularly like weekends. I don't know why I feel "lost", but I do (Saturdays are my worst day - used to spend them with my Mom). Rain just makes it that much worse. Just surrender to it and know that the sun will, once again, rise again.
I love Hobnobs. We have them here.
xo
Who killed Mary? I never figured it out...I like rainy days because that means I don't have to do anything
constructive [that's how I psych myself out].
Jeannie: I remember Tiffany (remember her??!?) saying Richard Marx was her favourite singer and the magazine having to put his American stardom in brackets... this was probably his only UK hit and the only one I remember. Quite a hit tune, don't you say..? I've no idea what the plot's about. is it from a film...?
I know that thing about being the age they were... now. Strange how music's stayed current over the past 20 years in a way it had not really done between the 60s and 80s. I mean, kids nowadays seem au fait with Michael Jackson and Madonna and even Abba, acts that were peaking before they were even born. But to me aged 14 in 1987 when Madonna's True Blue was out, and Bon Jovi were topping the charts, the 60s ~ with that gormless dollybird look seemed a different time and, Beatles and Rolling Stones aside none of us in my class at school could really have named very much about the 60s at all. In fact I'd say Simon and Garfunkel werer probably the biggest, least-dated 60s remnant at that time...
Akelamalu: aye, you're not wrong there. It feels like another dimension today let alone "tomorrow"... I slept so so so LONG..!
Puss-in-Boots: aye which I did... and slept and slept and slept like you WOULD NOT BELIEVE (specially as no drugs were submerging me down...)
Debs: rainy days really can be melancholy... nothing doing nothing doing nothing doing doing doing...
Anon: I'm already listed on Google etc but thanks for the message/spam/// how did you get my url???
My Daughter's Addiction: aye I'm with you there, too!!!!
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