Gledwood's Random Video Clips Blog

White Light Black Rain

2011-08-04T03:59:00.002+01:00

DOCUMENTARY ON THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

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Hypomania

2011-06-14T17:00:00.003+01:00

THIS is what Hypomania looks like. See he's a bit excitable but is very much in control. When he loses his thread he usually finds it again. He talks of crazy ideas, whereas a manic person would see crazy ideas as perfectly rational. He talks about wanting to spend lots of money, says he has no money, then drops in the fact that he has enough for a trip to Colorado. See: self-control. The difference between hypomania and full mania is control.

This guy is funny. He's a bit hypomanic here:~
Citalopram is Cipramil, an SSRI which you shouldn't really take if you're HYPOMANIC.

Real and Fake Mania

2011-06-05T00:54:00.001+01:00

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Royle Family Christmas Outtakes

2011-05-25T16:47:00.002+01:00

From "The New Sofa" Christmas special 2006

Bock auf Sex?

2011-05-09T18:15:00.004+01:00

Specially posted up for Anna Grace in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
"Do you want to have sex?" Who says the Germans have no sense of humour? This is German TV comedy. About sex, of course. You don't need to speak German to follow any of this.
Sehr vulgär

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Speaking Out on Depression (and Bipolar)

2011-05-09T18:06:00.002+01:00

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What it's like to be psychotic

2011-05-07T02:53:00.002+01:00

What it's like to be psychotic (and manic). This bipolar lady describes it very well:

Psychosis

2011-04-23T21:34:00.002+01:00

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT MAD

NO IT'S NOT WHAT I WAS LIKE IT'S WHAT YOU WERE ALL LIKE

THIS IS HOW PEOPLE TALKED TO ME, THIS IS WHAT YOUR BLOGS WENT LIKE, LIKE THIS:

Depression

2011-04-19T19:07:00.001+01:00

Depression video:

Same lady looking well. The mood is if anything slightly "elevated"

Bipolar disorder

2011-04-17T03:54:00.003+01:00

This Canadian woman is lying on the street at night talking to camera in the midst of what she says is a manic episode (looks like there's a goodly portion of attention-grabbing going on too "I'm crazy" and all that...)

This is medicated mania; she's still rabbitting away 19 to the 12 though!

If this is mania we're all cyclothymic. Come on man, this guy is in a perfectly ordinary frame of mind. No sign of racing speech, thought derailment, grandiosity, elevated mood or irritability. In short no evidence of even mild hypomania.

He's supposed to have cyclothymia, which is so mild you only get subclinical depression and subclinical mania. In other words totally normal mood swings that only a real hypochondriac would ever feel the need to medicate.

Oh I know why this guy is so obviously losing his mind: he's just had a Red Bull "sugar free of course; God knows what would have happened if he'd had it with sugar". Oh he'd have had a psychotic episode for sure. Sucrose is well known for inducing severe affective episodes. On Mars.

Dr Kay Redfield Jamison: Suicide

2011-03-10T09:26:00.003Z

Dr Jamison is head of a mood disorders clinic in America. She famously came out as a sufferer of severe bipolar disorder in the 90s with her classic memoir An Unquiet Mind. She is also author of Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. She's now written a book about suicide.

Open University: Coping with Depression

2011-03-10T08:55:00.002Z

Coping with depression. This is really good.

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Monkey: Pigsy's 10,000 ladies

2011-02-02T09:41:00.002Z

MONKEY is cult TV in the true sense. Probably doesn't appeal to everyone. Those to whom it does appear like it very much!

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Acid Visuals

2011-01-15T14:07:00.002Z

PSYCHEDELIC LSD MUSHROOMS TRIPPY TRIPPING TRIP-TRIP-TRIP VISUALS FOR THE CHEMICALLY UNHINGED!

Latah Boy

2010-12-26T23:18:00.000Z

Latah syndrome is a cultural and psychiatric phenomenon peculiar to Malaysia-Indonesia where the affected person copies the words and actions of others. In various manifestations it is described as hysterical-dissociative or psychotic.

Spare the rod and spoil the criminal..?

2010-12-16T16:36:00.009Z

LAW AND ORDER: LET'S HAVE A HEATED DEBATE. Should they bring back the lash for burglars, muggers, rapists and child abusers?

Filmed in a Malaysian prison, this shows an individual getting 20 lashes (on top of a prison sentence) for rape.

It's supposed to be pretty gruesome. His backside is torn open. If I was the victim of serious crime I'd be well pleased if this happened to the offender.

WARNING don't watch if the sight of blood and gore apalls you. And be warned, the still only shows about a third of the way into it.

I tried to find a less gory one but ended up with the same one twice. The first one goes black and white for some reason, but it's less blurry.

Ukh. Well it is pretty nasty. I heard the Tory party want all this. Or they want it back in schools. Anne Widdecomebe wanted it back, I believe.

It was never done quite this viciously at school, where I only remember 3 kids getting caned. Most corporal punishment was done with paddles or shoes and caning was never done on the bare bum. Then again nobody committed rape at my school.

In my view this punishment serves the rapist right.

Please share your comments and opinions below. Should whipping be brought back for burglars and sex offenders? If someone stole my plasma screen TV I'd be delighted to see them get 20 strokes. If my daughter got raped I'd be even more pleased if the bastard who did it got soundly whipped. It's just a shame he doesn't scream more. They're obviously not beating him hard enough.

Newsnight: Does Prison Work?

2010-12-02T05:15:00.000Z

ROTTWEILERIAN INTERVIEWER JEREMY PAXMAN GOES TO PRISON! Unfortunately he's not banged up, just interviewing staff and inmates... DOES PRISON WORK? 1

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Lord of the Golden Triangle

2010-11-21T04:05:00.001Z

Khun Sa documentary

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Black Tar Heroin: "dark end"

2010-11-14T19:23:00.003Z

"Of all the heroin in the world, this is the worst, it looks like shit, it is shit." And that tiny "gram" STICKS TO HIS FINGER... yukh!

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李白 ~ 诗人 ~ 纪录片 Li Bai (Li Po) documentary

2010-11-13T13:23:00.006Z

Documentary on Li Bai 李白 (aka Li Po), Tang Dynasty poet. Considered the greatest of China's golden age of lyric poets. Mandarin with Chinese (simplified) subtitles.

李白，中国最伟大的诗人。普通话，中文字幕。

I'm studying Chinese, but I think it will be quite some time before I can follow this:

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Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit

2010-11-13T02:45:00.003Z

Addicted: a report on helplessness

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2010-11-13T02:20:00.003Z

Heroin: das Beste High?
("They said heroin was the best high they had ever had"... antidrugs ad)

Geschichte einer Drogensuchtiger
An addict's story

Drogenpark
Needle park

Learn Mandarin Chinese Lesson One

2010-10-30T22:18:00.003+01:00

Various series...

This one's more professional, but includes no English! You can pick up a lot from context... Actually it does have English ~ dur! ~ and it's very good. I speak as someone who's done classes in eight languages and this is good:

Some Learn Chinese Free Links:

Learn Chinese Online: links to 11 online Chinese courses:
http://lelaon.com/learn_chinese.php

chinese-tools.com http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese

freechineselessons.com http://www.freechineselessons.com

learnchineseeveryday http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com

Learn Chinese 3.0 free download
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Educational_Tools/Learn_Chinese.html

My Chinese Lessons http://www.mychineselessons.com

E Language School: learn Chinese online http://learnchinese.elanguageschool.net

Ninhao.com http://www.ninhao.com/?gclid=CJu86f3P-6QCFUWZ2AodsmaX5w

5 top beginners' Chinese books from about.com
http://chineseculture.about.com/cs/toppicks/tp/chinese_books.htm

Heroin on Eastenders

2010-08-16T06:42:00.003+01:00

NICK COTTON'S DRUG HABIT
POOR DOT (HIS MOTHER): POOR NICK!

DOT CATCHES HER SON NICK STEALING FOR HEROIN

NO HEROIN, MORE LIKE
NICK COTTON GOES COLD TURKEY

1 He's not actually clucking yet, because he's had a sneaky hit

2 "Kindly" Pete Beale the greengrocer finds Nick's stash

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Absolutely Fabulous: Gay

2010-08-15T10:43:00.004+01:00

2002 special episode in which Eddie and Patsy trek to New York to track down Eddie's long lost (gay) son Serge...

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Ost Berlin 1990

2010-07-16T06:18:00.002+01:00

East Berlin 1990
Video shot through car window. V good considering.
Shot just after the wall came down, showing the half-stylish, half-depressing DDR-half of the city.

East Germany/West Germany

2010-07-16T06:04:00.003+01:00

DDR/Bundesrepublik
Film über die Grenze zwischen die zwei Teilen Deutschlands
Film about the old border between East and West in Germany

East Berlin

2010-07-16T05:59:00.003+01:00

OST BERLIN

ZDF Fernsehbericht 1972
TV report from 1972
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Geschichte von Preußen: HISTORY OF PRUSSIA

2010-06-20T00:28:00.004+01:00

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VOM KURFÜRSTENTUM ZUM KÖNIGREICH
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VON DER REFORMZEIT ZUR REVOLUTION
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Es geschah in August

2010-06-14T01:19:00.004+01:00

FILM ÜBER DER BERLINER MAUER
Film about the Berlin Wall ....

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War On Drugs with John Stossel

2010-06-09T05:11:00.002+01:00

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FATEFUL HARVEST: AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM AND HEROIN TRADE

2010-05-27T08:01:00.002+01:00

8 parts

1 of 8 AFGHANISTAN UNDER SEIGE

2 of 8 RISE OF THE POPPY PROBLEM
(since 1973 when the King Mohammed Zahir Shah was deposed...)

3 of 8 U.S. ERADICATION PROGRAMMES

4 of 8 WAR AGAINST POPPY

5 of 8 HEROIN LAB BUST

6 of 8 CORRUPTION

7 of 8 ADDICTION

8 of 8 A GLOBAL PROBLEM

HOW HEROIN IS USED

2010-05-27T07:57:00.001+01:00

BALTIMORE, EASTERN UNITED STATES, THE CITY WHERE ONE PERSON IN TEN IS A HEROIN ADDICT

101 East: Golden Triangle Drug Problem

2010-05-27T07:39:00.003+01:00

2008: HEROIN and METHAMPHETAMINE ~ yaa-baa in the Golden Triangle border areas of Thailand, Burma/Myanmar and Laos

The Secret of Levitation

2010-05-18T01:10:00.004+01:00

BBC VIDEO IN SIX PARTS

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Deutsche ICE Zug geht nach Russland

2010-05-16T02:03:00.003+01:00

Der Siemanns-gebaute Zug geht aus der Bundesrepublik nach Russland...
Film about the German-built ICE highspeed trains being exported to Russia...

Christiane F ist zurück auf Drogen (2010)

2010-05-06T02:53:00.007+01:00

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German
2010 news item from German TV: Christiane F, the woman whose life of child prostitution and heroin addiction inspired the famous book (1979) and film (1981) Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo... after a life travelling the world and running away and lapsing and relapsing... and losing custody of her son to child protective services in Amsterdam... is back on drugs in 2010.

Links:
Stern-magazin: Wie geht es mit Christiane F (2009)
Stern-magazin: 27 Jahren nach Christiane F (2005)

Sind wir eine gedopte Gesellschaft? Menschen bei Maischberger

2010-05-06T02:16:00.025+01:00

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German

Sandra Maischberger presents discussion about drug use in Germany: are we a doped-up society? Featuring a painkiller-addicted housewife, reformed crack addict, red-haired pro-cannabis advicate, the mother of a heroin addict and a medical expert this in-depth look at drugs in modern society also includes an extended interview with Christiane Vera Felscherinow ~ the Christiane F of the famous film and book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.

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How much citric?

2010-04-30T14:30:00.006+01:00

Most of the heroin illicitly produced in the world today is the "number three" base form of the drug, which is usually brown in colour, but can be grey or white. This base form of heroin is high purity at point of manufacture (though nearly always adulterated by dealers) yet readily smokeable. (The heroin is put on a strip of tinfoil and gently heated from underneath, which causes it to melt into a little puddle. The foil is tilted and encouraged to run and the fumes are inhaled through a foil tube stuck in the mouth. This gives a better "bioavailability" than snorting (ie more of the drug taken actually reaches the brain), but to smoke anything more than a tiny dose this way takes tens of minutes as the heroin only vapourizes fairly slowly... Many long term users prefer to inject heroin as all the drug taken hits the brain in a matter of seconds, saving money and maximizing the high.
Injection-quality heroin hydrochloride is produced in small amounts in Afghanistan and, more famously in the Golden Triangle area centring on Burma, where the product is known as China white, because production and distribution has long been controlled by ethic Chinese gangs from Thailand, Vietnam and surrounding countries. But "number four" heroin as it's known in the trade, is more expensive than the more common "number three", and is considered by dealers to be a less versatile product, because it cannot readily be smoked. Injecting addicts, however, usually prefer number four heroin because it dissolves easily into plain tap water without the need to add citric acid or vitamin C, which can sting and cause damage to veins.
This video uses actual heroin of about 75% purity to demonstrate the "cooking up" process and shows how much citric acid should be added and what the resulting heroin solution should look like...
Too much citric damages veins!

Heroin Wars

2010-04-28T02:39:00.002+01:00

Heroin trade... from Burmese opium fields to the streets of London

Glee: Like A Prayer

2010-04-26T15:29:00.003+01:00

GLEE Club ~ there is no such thing as a Glee club here in the UK. I mean, I didn't even know "Glee" was a generic name for theatre groups till I accidentally fell across a passage in a Bette Davis biography that mentioned her own schooltime Glee associations... Here, "Glee" Club would be called the School Drama Society... Anyway, the TV show has been running here since late last year. I think the actress who plays Sue is amazing... some of the musical performances are pretty good too...

Glee cast: Like a Prayer (sound only) ...

Heroin

2010-04-09T10:39:00.002+01:00

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Bangkok Hilton II

2010-04-01T12:39:00.018+01:00

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Bangkok Hilton I

2010-04-01T12:22:00.022+01:00

OR "BANGCOCK" ~ AS I TEND TO SPELL IT

I HAVE RECURRENT NIGHTMARES of being in this situation, though I have never trafficked (or wanted to traffic) drugs of any kind. But I AM addicted to heroin... so I kind of have an empathy for this type of thing...

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Literary Agents

2009-12-14T17:48:00.003Z

Because I'm (slowly) writing a NOVEL, I dug out these Youtubes... I hope they interest some of you too:

NOW HERE'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Irving "Swifty" Lazar, legendary Hollywood films and books agent who represented Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noel Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams. interviewed here at Spago's Restaurant, Beverly Hills on Oscars night... It is said that if only he hadn't died in the early 1990s, Random House would never have had the cheek to sue Joan Collins in 1996 over badly written novels. He always said "if you pay a star to write a book, don't expect a professional author" ~~ yes, exactly.

Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict

2009-10-23T11:44:00.005+01:00

Watch this film about drug addiction from the UK: 5 parts ~
Thanks to Noah from the USA who flagged this up on his
Junkie ~ heroinitis blog http://nodnodnodout.blogspot.com

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KEITH FLOYD ~ A TRIBUTE

2009-09-27T20:42:00.000+01:00

KEITH FLOYD was one of the most classic TV cooks of all time. Here from his best series Floyd On France, is his attempt at a mushroom omelette ~ with "angry dragon lady" "simmering" behind ...

And here's the most classic clip of all. This wasn't a set-up ~ the French-Basque lady was for real! "FLOYD CAN'T COOK!"

Cyst 4: The Final Explosion

2009-09-10T13:32:00.001+01:00

The title alone is classic.

I don't know what is most shocking: the pus-volcano on this guy's spotty back ~ or the utter lack of hygeine care in its bursting.

Ooo ~ watch that pus ooze!!

Beautiful Abscess Pus Surgery

2009-09-10T13:26:00.003+01:00

Wondrous footage of an abscess being lanced under medical supervision. Man I would love to have a job doing this!

UK Government's Anti-Drug-Driving Commercial ...

2009-08-31T21:27:00.001+01:00

DRUG DRIVING IS (QUITE RANDOMLY, IT SEEMS TO ME) THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW OBSESSION ...

"Don't drive home from that rave!"

IT'S ALL IN THE EYES!

I love these "how it was done" films ...

Threads ~ Full Movie

2009-08-18T15:36:00.009+01:00

(1984) About nuclear annihilation. Set in Sheffield, UK

If it's not all posted here, see the other segments here:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=joyandian&view=videos

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The Day After

2009-08-18T15:23:00.001+01:00

1981 American TV movie about nuclear attack:

Attack segment:

Threads

2009-08-18T15:20:00.002+01:00

NUCLEAR CHIC!

This British TV movie from 1984 documents the events and aftermath of a nuclear strike against the northern town of Sheffield:

Dropping the bomb:

Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

2009-06-26T14:27:00.022+01:00

"Wir, Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" by "Christiane F", memoir of a teenage heroin addict and prostitute, was a massive bestseller in Europe and is now a set text in German schools.

Bahnhof Zoo was, until recently, Berlin's central railway station. A kind of equivalent (in more ways than one) to London's King's Cross...

Of course my local library doesn't have it. So I'm going to have to order it through a bookshop and plough through the text in German. I asked my druggieworker Maple Syrup, who is Italiana how she learned English and she said reading books is the best way.

For some reason every section except Part 1 is ENGLISH SUBTITLED ~ wahey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2fvE4aJmQ&feature=PlayList&p=E081BB3E116C56C0&index=0&playnext=1

Some kindly German has posted up all 13 parts of the movie ...

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Überblick of the film, with music: Mad World

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Part 12B Tut mir leid, aber keine Untertitel from here on. Watch this from the end, it makes up the gap between 12 and 13 as posted here
The overlap comes in at about 9 and a half minutes, just before the end, when she's whipping Stotter Max with the flyswatter:

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Deutscher Fernsehbericht ueber der echter Christiane F
German TV report on the life of Christiane F

Esperanto!

2009-06-17T18:14:00.003+01:00

I came across Esperanto "many years ago" in the 1980s and even learned a bit. Here's a documentary on the scattered numbers around the world who speak Esperanto fluently:

This "Esperanto TV" broadcast comes from Poland, homeland of Esperanto's creator. The language sounds a lot more natural in this East European accent:

Esperanto is supposed to be spoken with an "Italian accent"; that is, the 5 vowels have the same values as in Italian and word stress is on the penultimate syllable in polysyllabic words or the first syllable in two-syllable words.
This lady really does speak it naturalistically and fluently. This class is about "how to talk on the telephone in Esperanto"

Stephen Fry: Secret Life of a Manic Depressive

2009-04-13T21:53:00.015+01:00

MANIC DEPRESSION! Or "bipolar disorder" as it's presently known. It's everywhere nowadays. Everyone seems to have it.

Here's the British actor Stephen Fry's fascinating documentary, featuring Carrie Fisher et al:

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Piri Piri!

2009-04-10T11:02:00.002+01:00

(Also spelled peri peri.) DOMINO'S PIZZA AD:

Here's where my piri piri obsession was ignited. I eat pizza just like that too...

And here's how to barbecue "piri piri chicken under a brick" from South Africa...

Shutuppa Your Face

2009-04-09T10:20:00.002+01:00

Here's the 1980 original by Joe Dolce:

And here performed as movie script by Samuel L Jackson:

Waterloo Bridge

2009-04-04T17:03:00.012+01:00

Starring Robert Turner and Vivienne Leigh, here's the full film:

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Brief Encounter

2009-04-04T16:51:00.003+01:00

This is one film I'm sure I've not seen but would really like to:

And here's the Victoria Wood parody on the BBC:

Home Levitation

2009-03-20T12:29:00.001Z

How to levitate!
Easy: the foot furthest away's going on tiptoes. Arms whooeah-hooeah!!~ing enhances floaty effects...

Levitating Magic Trick (Its A Doddle!!) - Watch the best video clips here

Talk to FRANK, UK National Drugs Helpline TV ads:

2009-03-19T12:40:00.002Z

The National Drugsline is on 0800 776600

THERE'S A DARKER SIDE TO COKE:

HERE'S PABLO, "drugs dog" in the UK national drugsline's "talk to Frank" campaign...

WHY I LOATHE CANNABIS: THE MOST BORING BORE'S DRUG OUT

American 1960s Antidrug Propoganda

2009-03-10T17:31:00.002Z

THIS IS CLASSIC! Purloined here from't Australian Heroin Diaries blog...

Ultralight Trike Flight

2009-02-23T19:57:00.001Z

THE BRITS and Kiwis call this "microlight" but because everyone else understands it as "ultralight" I defer to the common comprehension...

... isn't this a fantastic video. The view!!

Wicked Witch of the West telephones ad

2009-02-23T11:01:00.002Z

I LOVE THIS advert for extras by the Orange mobile phone network...

Miracles in Birds

2009-02-21T19:16:00.010Z

THIS documentary is absolutely fascinating... well worth a watch:

There seem to be TWO distinct documentaries with the same voice-over artist, so I've put up both...

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THE TWONK WHO POSTED THESE UP WENT AND DISABLED EMBEDDING ONLY ON PART 1 OF THE 4 SO TO SEE IT CLICK HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wGAErF4C4U ...

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Microlight and Geese

2009-02-21T19:12:00.002Z

I've seen pictures of gooseflight from the goose-tamer's perspective (isn't it hilarious the way they honk-honk as they go?) But this is a first from the microlightist's point of view...

Microlight Flight

2009-02-21T19:06:00.002Z

THIS is something I've ALWAYS wanted to do so bad... In fact it's one of my life's ambitions. If I go to my deathbed without at least having done this once, if not many times and owned the gear (a far better type of gear to own than the one I'm used to...) then I shall have failed...

Talk to FRANK: Nasty Cannabis/Spliff/Puff/Weed...

2009-02-16T12:13:00.001Z

THIS IS WHY I LOATHE CANNABIS: THE MOST BORING BORE'S DRUG OUT THERE:...

Sleep Disorders

2009-02-13T20:39:00.001Z

Here's a half-hour film (from America) about sleep disorders... which I haven't seen all of (I nodded off..!)

Norma Stupid on The Price is Right

2009-02-09T15:48:00.005Z

WOW: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS: I've actually found the original game show presented by the original Alan Partridge..! (Lesley Crowther.)

This is one programme I vividly remember right down to the first episode (and what chav-tastic 80s hairdos on the women!!)

Norma Stupid was such a legend in her own lunchtime that her name "Norma Stupid" has been a catchphrase in my family ever since...

Opening Bit of First Price is Right 1984

Even the chime from Central TV brought back memories... of Findus Crispy Pancakes... and a time when ITV still meant Independent Television ~ about 14 companies independent and interdependent upon one another, pouring home-made programmes into a common pot, of which Central was just one... How of course ITV has 4 channels (and dropped their news channel, even though they still, by government mandate HAVE to make newsprogrammes every day... worst of both worlds if you ask me. In it's heyday ITN News At Ten with Alistair Burnett and Pamela Armstrong was THEE evening news. They always did longer features on Princess Diana and showed more interesting stuff... now the BBC rules and ITV are trailing miles behind even Rupert Murdoch's Sky.l..

Norma Stupid shows what she's made of

Hum Di Chuke Sanam ~ Nimboda

2009-02-09T15:26:00.006Z

संगीत सोमवार

From the film Hum Di Chuke Sanam, which means "Straight From the Heart"

The song's called "Nimbooda" and is about "sour lime"... "sour lemons"... some sort of intellectual subcontinental metaphorical allusion...(!!)

This Indian "Bollywood" style music purloined from TutTut's blog

Efterklang Caravan

2009-02-09T00:01:00.002Z

Not as visually funky and nowhere near as good in tune as Mirador, this also purloined from Let Nature Be...

Efterklang Mirador

2009-02-08T23:53:00.003Z

Visually very much more funkier and musically a bit better: what oddness! From Let Nature Be blog...

The Price of Heroin

2009-02-06T00:38:00.001Z

UK documentary clip

There's a Darker Side to Coke

2009-02-06T00:36:00.001Z

HERE'S PABLO, "drugs dog" in the UK national drugsline's "talk to Frank" campaign...

Carlos and Dadinha

2009-02-06T00:35:00.000Z

First 10 mins of documentary on a couple dragged down by heroin addiction in Mozambique, East Africa and their progress in kicking the habit... You don't need to see the rest on DVD as they suggest, you'll get the gist of the story from this...

Heroin Addicts Speak

2009-02-06T00:34:00.000Z

"China" white in the American Midwest, Afghan "brown" in Oslo, Norway... the drug changes colour country to country, town to town: but wherever you go, junkie lives are the same drab grey .......

Austen Powers Goldmember English English

2009-01-21T16:32:00.003Z

Starring Mike Myers, Michael Caine...

This came on telly the other day; I understood nearly all this scene without glimpsing subtitles ~ oo matron!

Heroin Addicts Speak

2009-01-20T16:52:00.000Z

Addicts from across the world...

Carlos and Dadinha

2009-01-20T16:12:00.001Z

35min documentary on a couple dragged down by heroin addiction in Mozambique, East Africa and their progress in kicking the habit...

A Rajastani Jagrata

2009-01-19T15:42:00.003Z

... whatever the hell a "jagrata" is!!

This purloined from Catvibe's blog...

The Price of Heroin

2009-01-19T12:01:00.001Z

Why on earth this girl weighs so very little I'm not sure. Heroin alone doesn't do that... crack can, anorexia can, so can HIV so I'm pretty sure something else is going on they're not reporting here...

UK documentary clip

Heroin: American Antidrugs Campaign

2009-01-17T20:58:00.003Z

THIS IS NOT what heroin does to brain and body. How can I say that? Because millions of people have been given heroin ("diamorphine") in British hospitals~ and survived without their shells broken. It's the most effective painkiller there is.

The rest of this commercial, in my opinion, is pretty much bang-on.

"There's a darker side to coke"

2009-01-17T20:29:00.002Z

HERE's the TV ad featuring Pablo the "drugs dog"... made for Talk To FRANK ~ the UK National Drugs Helpline

California: High Speed Trains Coming to America At Last¬!

2009-01-05T16:00:00.002Z

I found this totally at random while searching for an Escaped Horse Trots Through Cinema (while there was a film on!)... Youtube is a bizarre place to be!

Being British I can hardly opine about how countries "should" infrastruct highspeed rail rather than more and more new roads... after all OUR one and only highspeed link's the one running to FRANCE! How embarrassing is that..?!? Anyway THIS is America's one and own fast rail (bullet-train-style) project. God speed the California Express!!

Tron: Disney on Ketamine

2008-11-29T18:33:00.003Z

Drugs experience has been sneaked into films in all manner of subtle and not-so-subtle ways (c.f. the Beatles' Yellow Submarine)... But here, in the 1980s, is Disney's own film about "going into a computer game"... just so happens the games experience as portrayed here has a striking resemblance (right down to the sound and everything) to the "K hole" of the ketamine trip...

Pingping: Smallest Man in the World

2008-09-18T12:34:00.003+01:00

It's oGuinness Book of Recordsfficial. He Pingping, from Chinese inner Mongolia, aged 20 is a big hit with the ladies. This week he was in London promoting the 2009 , in which he claims said title. This guy is barely more than 2 ft tall!

Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5 COLD TURKEY

2008-09-16T10:42:00.003+01:00

More about Xmas lunch than drugs

Part 1 of 4

Part 2 of 4

Part 3 of 4

Part 4 of 4

Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5 Episode 1 "CLEANIN"

2008-09-16T10:34:00.004+01:00

Took me a while to get into this one as we've raced into the 2000s...

What do you think's making Patsy so sniffy and hyper in part 3..?

Part 1 of 4

Part 2 of 4

Part 3 of 4

Part 4 of 4

Cor Meibion Cymraeg

2008-09-06T12:10:00.001+01:00

Dyma cor meibion cymraeg. Oedd y clip hwn ar blog Welshcakes Limoncello...

Gumby Trailer

2008-08-29T17:09:00.001+01:00

This purloined from Lu's blog... real surreal... reminds me of that BBC kiddies' TV superstar of the claymation, Morph... anyone remember him?

Bejing Olympics 2008 Opening Ceremony live footage

2008-08-09T18:46:00.002+01:00

Yeah this is the real deal... would you believe I missed it on the day..?!? Didn't even get an update from the evening news as I don't possess a telly..!!?!

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

2008-08-09T18:44:00.001+01:00

This seems to be some offical Chinese Government film rather than live footage of the actual event, but it's quite good to watch:~

Thorn Birds: Beach Scene (Love Theme Music)

2008-07-21T17:03:00.002+01:00

The book was a massive international hit when it came out in the late 1970s. The only romantic novel I have ever managed to read to the end...

Then the TV adaptation starring Richard Chamberlain as the Pristley Lover, was a huge success when broadcast in the early 80s.

How many of you remember this, the Love Theme music...?

All these years later and still it has not gone out of my mind!

Nuclear Bomb Power

2008-07-19T17:12:00.002+01:00

I found a really poetic compilation of nuclear test fireworks, it was absolutely beautiful... Nuclear fusion is the very power of God Almighty in action and this video is the nearest thing I could find to it today...

Hiroshima

2008-07-16T17:42:00.000+01:00

The Hoobs

2008-07-11T21:16:00.001+01:00

"Hubba Hubba steals the show"..!

This is the former "favourite children's TV prog" I used to go on about well over a year ago...

... (little else to say about it now..!!)

Randy Pausch: Last Lecture

2008-05-01T17:51:00.004+01:00

Sufferer of terminal pancreatic cancer, this guy, a professor at an American university, gave a true Last Lecture in line with a famous academic lecture series:~

Here he is interviewed by a Diane Sawyer. Famous on American TV, yet far, far poorer than Oprah (how can she look herself in the MIRROR each morning?!? How does she survive on only $10 million a year? That's a question for HER to answer, only she just likes giving questions OUT~ haha! Yes! Diane Sawyer, the same lady who did my Whitney Houston/Bobby Brown interview last year... !!

Dangerous Liaisons treble-bill

2008-04-25T00:56:00.004+01:00

1. Extracts from the John Malkovich/Glenn Close film

2. French and Saunders' Dangerous Liaisons spoof

3. Madonna: Dangerous Liaisons Vogue