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!
9 comments:
OMG ! that's a very long time I haven't heard from her, wasn't she involved with Mick Jagger ? I thought she was dead !
Marianne Faithfull was with Mick Jagger from the mid-60s till around 1971.
She spent much of the 1970s homeless in Soho, central London, addicted to heroin...
In the 80s she moved to New York, where the drugs got worse and worse until eventually she tried to kill herself with an overdose and only succeeded in falling down the stairs and breaking her jaw. Around 1985 she went to rehab for the final time and has remained clean via the 12-step NA programme ever since.
She and her "whiskey-soaked voice" have done a lot of touring over the years... she recently released her 22nd album!
We used to watch the Paul O'Grady show every day - great TV.
I always thought Marianne Faithfull was so beautiful when she was young and her hairstyle was copied by practically every girl I knew, including me. She's not aged very well. :(
A hard life for Marianne.
Anita Pallenberg aged worse. The picture on the second video is Anita not Marianne... Marianne Faithfull said in the 1990s that lots of young supermodels wanted to meet up with her, they considered her the epitome of cool... turned up to lunch mashed, but were astonished to find her not even drinking alchol and noticed they were shocked every time by the damage to her face from razor-cuts (to release "maggots" from under the skin on too much coke) and having broken her jaw and been trussed up with a handle, like a human guitar for 6 months... She always said she had been killing her own life force because she was somehow afraid of it... I think I know how she feels!
I love the name Alan Titmarch. It makes me laugh. And yes, I have the maturity level of a 13-year-old.
Have a grand weekend!
OK I have a confession, the name is SUPPOSED to be Titmarsh, but I think he's a tit so I accidentally misspelled it...
this man has only been on teatime tv for a month or two and already has the temerity to refer to his own show as "the AT show" ~ I mean how pretentious can you get. Hopefully he will be marched out, the tit...
Anita may not have aged well but Keith Richards is hardly an oil painting now! Funny clip.
Keith Richards looks like man crossed with withered crow!... certainly puts paid to the myth that heroin somehow keeps you looking "younger"..!
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