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!
10 comments:
Or psychotic...but why quibble?
Hahaha!!
I think it means once you're able to face up to your own ambivalence and accept that the world is not black and white, you've become a rounded person
Hi Gleds ~~ How nice to relive your travels and many adventures again by
whatever means. Go for it and enjoy.
I did so enjoy the previous post about Queen Elizabeth - that was great and I will come and watch the entire doco about her. We have a holiday tomorrow (Mon) for the Queens birthday.
I am glad your cousin came from Sydney to London for 4 years, she must have enjoyed it. We have very hot summers and I guess it shows on our faces. Thank you my friend for your kind words about my son.
I think he will be OK, but just have to watch it. I am so sorry you had an accident and very glad you have got over it well and very little scarring. Take care,
My very best wishes, Merle.
Hi Merle
Re your son's skin cancdr ops you're welcome and I'm glad he's OK. As I said, he really shouldn't worry about scarring. Any marks will fade quickly.
The Queen Elizabeth II documentary is called Elizabeth R. I remember it coming out when I was in the holidays from university around 1992. It is the best Royal documentary by far and well worth the watching.
When my cousin lived in London it wsa the coolest time ever. Re her friends' skin ageing, I think she believed it was UV-damage causing this.... the southern ozone-hole is massive, and she thought it was this making her friends look older. Not any lack of stress! The Aussies used to say London was incredibly stressful and busy, but it was a great place to launch a power-career...
I'm glad you seem to be fine all things considered and hope all continues to go well.
Lots of love
xx
I'm had a lot of these spam Chinese comments but I thought they were obscene. So it is nice to know that they are proverbs or statements.
Oh no some are obscene!
In the same bunch of spam was a thicket of advertisements for feature-length porn. One phrase that came up over again was "self-timers"... (like an egg-timer?) ... what on earth self-timers might be in the context of porn I don't wanna know
Wow wish my flashbacks were as vivid. You do write well you know, ever thought about short fiction? Could be a nice little earner. Yeh I get this chinese spam all the time but just ignored it, I never bothered to translate.
I never feel inspired to write short fiction (maybe coz I hardly ever read it ~ I don't like the ordinarily-sketchy characterization). But I DO still have that "longer" work of fiction in the "pipeline", hahar!
Dur: and double-dur, bc I posted this under the wrong comment. Anyway, here goes ~
I forgot to say; as much as anything it's the feeling that comes back to me. The feeling of being on holiday. And the coconutty smell of Ambre Solaire factor 2 (Malta in the early 80s)
which is a North African island in the Med, v much like Morocco
they have a fantastic drink there, bitter orange with herbs, called Kinnie. I would really like to get a few bottles...
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