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!
11 comments:
Jimmy Somerville is a fav of mine not only do I remember it and love it but it's a constant on my playlist
... as is him singing with the Communards.
Jimmy Summerville must have been a real leftie: BronSKI Beat, COMMUNards...
I love that kind of synth pop. I just really wish I'd collected more of it in the day
he has a great voice ...
Course I remember that one! Sure brings back memories...wow - a lifetime ago
I'm not so keen on the voice... I like the backing a great deal...
Was it a hit in America?... O yeah I remember I looked it up and they said something about that...
Also Bronski-beat has nothing to do with him being a Russian communist ~ the keyboard player was called Steve Bronski or something
but that still doesn't explain why his next band was called the COMMUNARDS
I've still got the original 12" extended vinyl of the track :-)
This is the message I want to drop in Nick's comments but the computer won't let me:
I love that before/after cat thermometer pic... I mean how degrading not to be able to shove it under the tongue/under an armpit like ordinary people... or in the ear like nowadays (what a spoilsport system ~ all those old British films where the patients used to drop the mercury into a cup of tea to get an extra day away from the nagging wife...)
(note to self)
Here's a message about guns I'm not sure whether to drop in:
Interestingly there are some scriptures telling the Mosaic law ~ I think that's the phrase ~ somewhere between Exodus and Deuteronomy of what you can and can't do re intruders. I think the law went if someone's in your house uninvited after dark (and in those days of course people completely shut and shuttered their home with all people and even perhaps even animals inside, maybe the dogs were outside, so there was no question of receiving a casual visitor without all sorts of to-do: lighting lamps, unshuttering, unbolting etc)... anyway, if I remember correctly you had every right to bludgeon a midnight intruder; however if it was daylight and if the person was running away not so... So I think the British cases would probably have been OK under that system, but the Texas one would have had to answer in court
I still do a mental "hurrah!" when I think about that one ~ serves the dirty tea-leaf right
do you know for years the police here went unarmed? I remember being on holiday in Malta, marvelling at the armed guard in the bank ~ something you still wouldn't see here...
We have a special fire-arms squad that comes out VERY quickly, even if someone's waving a water-pistol threateningly (& that's been in the news, too)
in a way I'm glad to live in a relatively gun-free society; on the other hand I do think it's ridiculous that someone on their own, male or female, in a remote house should NOT have the right to see off an intruder in no uncertain terms ~ shooting the b*****d if necessary ~ and that's the situation now. Until they clarify the situation nobody really knows how our lettuce-leaf-limp law actually stands!
Finally, someone else learning Dutch & lovin' it!!
http://www.newelty.com/2010/04/27/next-stop-dutch-fluency/
Note to self:
poesies francaises
http://grismoire.blogspot.com/
aBortive comment to anna g
didn't know whether to send it
prattling too much anyway
sorry i 4got to say: yes Gled is my name!
the idea i had involved us meeting in nyc but there is more to it than that
i don't know how that can possibly happen, but it's an idea for some time future
i long to see new york, i have had a thing about the place for years
somehow i don't think i will get to travel until clean
when on earth that will happen, God only knows
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