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!
6 comments:
That truly is a lovely poem. :)
Good I'm glad someone likes it.
I know it is quite famous and appears sometimes on BBC stuff to do with war: but it also gets ridiculed and reviled.
I think the ridiculers are misunderstanding Rupert Brooke's sentiment because he is NOT claiming it to be sweet or noble to die for his country. He is saying if he does die then some part of that country might live on both with him and in the ground
well that's what it says to me
I have always liked that poem, along with In Flanders Fields:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
it's good!
any idea who wrote it?
WORLD WAR 1.
All the attention goes to its more dramatic and bloodier sequel, but I would like to research the first war more myself.
They used lots of toxic gas and stuff! It was awful.
That mustard gas was the worst. It appaently burnt up any sensitive membrane open to the air: eyes, lungs, especially... nasty stuff.
For some reason, Hitler didn't use it. Perhaps he had other things on his mind.
If I remember rightly the stuff they used on Jews was a nerve agent called Zyclon B. Having seen what nerve agents do to cockroaches I would say that ain't pretty either, but at least it's (probably) a quicker death, at least when you think you're having a shower and there's no way out... ugh I have the most horrible image in my mind now.
I know somebody who said she got a book from the library many years ago about war atrocities ~ from the 1st and 2nd world wars. Torture/etc etc. She said she wished she had never opened its pages. Some things aren't worth knowing about and I share that philosophy now. Some things I would rather not know. If I can do nothing about it, why hurt knowing about it..?
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