Good Documentaries

[mydrugbuddy]

^ No gonna lie. I would.

Are they all post op though ? I probably wouldnt say no if one of them was to throw themselves at me either.

One of them has all muscley arms though, and you can tell the difference between masculine and feminine muscles. Dunno how (s)he made the final.

 

[ColtDan]

Sister Helen

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303394/

"In this emotionally compelling documentary, Sister Helen opens a private home for recovering addicts and alcoholics in the South Bronx after the death of her husband and two sons. The film's fly-on-the-wall technique succeeds in capturing the day-to-day existence of Sister Helen and the various residents of the home."

She was a badass, didnt take no shit

Loved by everybody

 

[dopemegently]

Religious approaches to addiction are quite hard line as a rule.

 

[Shambles]

Watched The Ambien Effect earlier. Fascinating stuff. Is one of those Hamilton VICE drugs ones but more on the medical than the recreational side. Looks like zolpidem has a whole range of really rather amazing effects on a range of neurological conditions. Most impressive being bringing a man out of a persistent vegetative state to the point where he can move and talk. Also, the effect on ex-voice actor with nerve damage that makes his speech incoherent is just amazing. Had never heard of these effects but looks very promising indeed. Only short and well worth a watch if yer interested in such things cos if it's as effective as it looks it really could provide immense improvements in quality of life for people with a variety of seemingly incurable - untreatable even - neurological disorders.

If recreational drugs are more your bag then Heroin Holiday was also a recent watch and also pretty good. Another short VICE one about a bunch of Prague-based junkies who go down to the commercial poppy fields (grown for the seed used in baking) and camp out over the harvest cooking up homebrew "heroin" over the campfire. Is it actually heroin? Wait till the reveal at the end where the fella gets it labtested. The recipe and cooking instructions are included but I can't see me whipping up a batch and IVing it anytime soon I must admit.

 

[Uncle Robert]

Some decent documentaries worth the watch at the moment are The Only Way Is Essex and Made In Chelsea

 

[Shambles]

^ Never seen 'em and probably never will but ain't they scripted and performed? Not documentaries anyway

Somewhat random PooToob find I just started watching - America's Secret Slang. Etymological entertainment. Whoulda thunk it? Lightweight stuff but for folk like me wot enjoy loitering where the three roads meet there's some fun facts in and amongst it. Just watched first episode and learnt a fair few fings wot I previously did not know. Expect a barrage of mildly diverting - bordering on Quite Interesting - phraseological factoids incoming over the coming days and weeks

 

[pinkpapaver]

did anyone watch that thing on growing your own on ITV last night. It was just ITV>

 

[Shambles]

Rain in my heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0InrPZpjg

Fucking brutal if your battling the booze. A real eye opener. Best doc I've ever seen on alcoholism by far.

Sad stuff. Essential watching

Missed this but seconded. Absolutely heart-wrenching stuff. There's another excellent doc about end-of-the-line alcoholics I'd recommend alonside that one but buggered if I can recall what it's called offhand and don't have me linkies to hand at the moment. Will have a rummage as and when.

I've always been kinda sniffy when it comes to alcoholics but have known a few right at the end of the line over the years and is one of the saddest conditions I've ever come across. Was a fella who lived in the room below mine in a shared house many years ago who really opened my eyes to it. He'd been a proper oldskool tramp for years and years until he ended up being given the room for his last few years. Couldn't even get out of bed, had to drink more or less constantly throughout the day and night to avoid fits, booze had fukked his system so badly his skin came off in stinky, flaky mess (his room was inches thick with shed skin unless one of us went and cleaned up every now and then). The kinda person people just turn their nose up (not to mention hold it) and walk away muttering stuff and shame and disgust and stuff. Was such a lovely bloke when he was coherent. And he got so much better when we made an effort to go in and spend time with him. His was the first funeral I ever went to. Just me, me then missus and his one surviving mate (also bordering on death from alcoholism). Was all rather sad really.

Dunno what the essentially pointless above ramble is there for but alkydoc reminded me of Flaky Johnny so...

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Ive had a atrange relationship with alcohol, during my first year of university i drank several pints practically every night, by the time 5.30 pm came around i wanted a drink, and was thirsty for alcohol, not water, but as soon as i was away from that environement i didnt crave drink at all. I very rarely drink atall these days. One of my ex-work colleagues told me about a friend of his who had to heat up cans of tennets special brew in a saucepan, to precisely body temperature, before downing the lot in order to quell his addiction. Sounds like the very nastiest of addictions.

 

[Uncle Robert]

^ Never seen 'em and probably never will but ain't they scripted and performed? Not documentaries anyway

Possibly the furthest from a documentary something can be good to see you posting again, was definitely a void left behind (although you might have been posting for a while I've not been on in ages).

Used to love Walking With Dinosaurs as a lil'un.

Countless docs on youtube that I don't remember the name of, a lot of hard-hitting stuff on there. Vice obviously gets a mention but I'm sure other people have linked some of em.

 

[backroll]

Sharkwater. Fuck Jaws

Blackfish. Fuck Sea World

Tears and insight a plenty. Humans are cunts.

 

[kingme]

anyone ever seen Jesus Camp?

quite the doc right there, if ever you thought fundamentalism was something that happens somewhere else

 

[Uncle Robert]

Graffiti Wars: Banksy vs. Robbo

This (one-sided) docu looks at a long feud between street artist Banksy and graffitist King Robbo, and how Banksy stole his style from French artist Blek le Rat.

 

[backroll]

it's one sided because it's true. I have been in Team Robbo for some years now, and so I am of course biased myself but it's about time real graffiti writers told the true story.

get well soon mate.

TEAM ROBBO

 

[Uncle Robert]

Wouldn't look twice at Robbo's stuff and I think Banksy is a lot more creative, but was surprised at the couple of Banksy's stuff that was near-identical to Blek's.

Shame Robbo didn't do more stuff like featured in his exhibition, thought they were good.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Saw the first episode of Stephen Fry's Out There tonight, hes doing a really brave thing in using his prominent position to try to make a difference. I think i now understand a bit better why countries such as Iran are known as rogue nations; you get publically hanged there for getting caught comitting the "crime" of homosexuality. BBC advised him it wouldnt be safe for him to go there. Thank fuck he didnt. Amazing to consider that homosexuality was only legalised in Scotland in 1982 or 1992 (i forget) and only 1967 in England. Who would have thought it was Elton John who was the first big name star to come out of the closet in 1975, That gave hope to so many people. Ive never been much into his music apart from Tiny Dancer a great tune, but he deserves a lot of respect for being the first mega star to go public on that.

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

Who would have thought it was Elton John who was the first big name star to come out of the closet in 1975, That gave hope to so many people. Ive never been much into his music apart from Tiny Dancer a great tune, but he deserves a lot of respect for being the first mega star to go public on that.

Bowie did a couple of years earlier?

 

[Mendo_K]

Graffiti Wars: Banksy vs. Robbo

This (one-sided) docu looks at a long feud between street artist Banksy and graffitist King Robbo, and how Banksy stole his style from French artist Blek le Rat.

See what someone has done to Banksy piece? Stuck a metal shutter over it..

Some kid still managed to deface it. whats with all his work getting defaced anyway? None of the cunts in the US like him or something?

Ended up getting decked.

NSFW:

 

[Uncle Robert]

Some kid still managed to deface it. whats with all his work getting defaced anyway? None of the cunts in the US like him or something?

Ended up getting decked.

Certainly seem more hostile over there- this is a video of some guys covering up a banksy rat and refusing to let people take pictures of it unless they pay.

[video=youtube_share;SOpRUDbpwc0]http://youtu.be/SOpRUDbpwc0[/video]

 

[backroll]

Wouldn't look twice at Robbo's stuff and I think Banksy is a lot more creative, but was surprised at the couple of Banksy's stuff that was near-identical to Blek's.

Shame Robbo didn't do more stuff like featured in his exhibition, thought they were good.

Ffs, Banksy does not do graffiti he used to but got shook in a train yard one night and decided to start doing stencils.

Graffiti has code, a set of rules, a sub-culture of thousands of individuals. Robbo is a one time king of this world. Banksy used to get up in Bristol when he was younger but pussied out and joined the "street-art" scene.

Two very different things. So please don't compare, Banksy got a slap from Robbo (literally) because these two worlds collided one night, and Banksy gave it the bigun. Fair play to the fucker he has made his mark and made his $ but Robbo is of a different ilk, he don't give two shits about whether he sells canvases, he painted trains mate, trains, tunnels and streets, watch Style Wars if you wanna know the history of GRAFFITI. Not fucking street art.

Banksy and Robbo is like chalk and cheese. And Banksy took the fucking piss out of King Robbo for no other reason apart from being a prick.

Graffiti writers HATE Banksy, and we aren't the only ones...