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!
12 comments:
Thank you so much for the links you gave me to the tiger post and the squirrel post. Enjoyed both of them enormously! I had never seen a white tiger before, nor a baby squirrel :)
As for blank pages. I think they stare at me invitingly... Alluringly even.
I think you write really well. REALLY well. No writer's block there, eh?
It's a page that is meant to be written on. Just like a new chapter of life.
Most important is that a blank page has not been written yet. Write on it what you really want it to read.
A clean sheet just waiting for you!
aye!
I agree with all the people above me. Clean slates and the best slates....
yes: I am lucky in a way that my slate IS relatively clean. That's a real luxury and a privilege. I'm sure there are millions of people who with fervently they could undo stupid things they've done that now count against them... sometimes being "boring" is a plus-point then...
I do - and I'm glaring back.
Trying to eat more good and far less bad and do it without alcohol while life is piling up and becoming unmanageable and I think menopause is fucking with my head.
Go for it Gleds.
Jeannie: hormones! You either need more or less of 'em...
Baino: cheers
ah yes, i know just what the haiku means....sigh. but it's true, the blank page is mainly a good thing, yeah?
i'm working on turning over that new leaf too. i started with quitting smoking rather than anything else :)
blank pages can be inspiring or depressing... in what proportion says a lot about You.
i LOVE a good blank page to dirty up with my own Permanent Black jottings....
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