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:
Chirpy-chirpy-chirrruppa-tweetle-di-deetle-eeeeeeee(!!)... Chirp.
O come on someone leave a comment. Are blackbirds so very boring..?
No blackbirds are definitely not boring Gleds! We have lots in our garden all trying to claim the territory. Their song is just beautiful. :)
Beides ist falsch ! es muss heissen :Wenn Sie dies in deutsch lesen, lassen Sie bitte einen Kommentar.
Sprachwelt sagt man nicht in diesem Fall und "hinter" ist nur hinter dem Haus !
Of course you can ask me what I did before I do nothing anymore ! I certainly wasn't a teacher, what an horrible idea. In fact I was Assistant to the Sales manager for whole Europe, especially for Germany and France in an American fibre company. But I have also worked for a chemical company, a marketing company, an export (to Iran) company etc etc. I had so many choises because of German and English in a French speaking country. And I forget Italian. When I was fat up in a company I looked for another,it was as easy as that. Looking back now, I really had a funny time, especially when I had to write the "good bye" letters for my (married) boss to his girlfriends, because his writing wasn't that good, lol. I also had a lot of tissues in my drawer !
I like to listen to red wing black birds that are in the marsh. They have a wonderful sound.
Akelamalu:> aren't they amazing? Did you know for years I thought the only song they had was the chip-chip-chipping noise they make when the cat prowls too near their babies...
Gattina: it was incredibly hard to guess what type of job you would have done bc you strike me as a v capable lady; also I don't think you would be the type of person to endure a working enivonment that was too high powered or stressful just for the prestige or to put it another way you seem to me someone who v much appreciates quality of life. Now you see why I wanted to learn languages now ~ the same reason you got so far ahead! I know my German is terrible. I never ever know quite how to say anything quite right bc the grammar is so kompliziert! I can understand it pretty Ok now. But I'm sure those poor German gardeners were quite bemused suddenly to get comments in pigeon German from someone they've never heard of before!!
PS How much dirhams did you want for the cows' heads..??!?
Syd: do you think they're the same type of blackbird as we have here? With orange-yellow-rimmed eyes? I was amazed on googling the Great Tit (yes that really is the name ~ one of our prettiest birds, similar to the blue tit pictured in the Evil Mr Fox post) that these birds have a range of habitation from the UK (but not N America, hence the titters and cackles I get when I mention them!) down through Europe, across the Russian steppes and a bit of N Africa, right down to India and even Thailand and up through China, Korea and Japan!!! And there was me thinking of them as "British" garden birds...
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