The ego is your hero, born to work zero, and trusted with such hand to uphold all by command. The toll blows for you unsurpassable deflation, because it is not for your hand that grows for the motion, to pick which ******* **** you want to lotion. But life is never what it seems to be, instead you look yourself in the mirror pointing at me, you, fool. Longer then your heart to feel content and warm, to feel the essence of a breath among a group of bad breaths, in other words, to breath among a group of brothers and sistersįrom whom you can gain so much. Is day like today less then feeling of want to rot, because so simple as a breeze brought down your temperment to be pleased.caught in a storm, that has outlasted
The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Life is never what it seems to be, always reoccuring with a thought as put upon the length of arms that revolutionize this thought.for those that can be bought, This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. GORDON: Jimi Izrael is a columnist for the Web site AOL Black Voices.Ĭopyright © 2006 NPR. The title is decidedly whimsical, but Crackheads is only funny for about the first 15 minutes before it descends into the rawest anti-drug documentary you have ever seen. As hard as it is to watch, I have to recommend it as required viewing in any thorough discussion about drugs. Yes, you've seen those before, but not like this.
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There's a tour of a crack house and an in-depth interview with a crack-addicted prostitute. Rather than trying to illustrate your brain on drugs, the unseen host interviews real people as they talk about the early days when crack hit the inner city, tell tales of their first hit, and share stories about snatching crack pipes from the hands of dead friends. Critics of the DVD say it exploits the drug addicted. The language, graphic sex scenes, nudity, and drug usage preclude this version from being a high school health class pick. The producers should consider editing a version of this must-see DVD for use by parents and in classrooms. Crackheads Gone Wild is evidence that it's returning harder than ever. What it does is allow people to tell stories that would scare anybody straight, unfiltered by pundits with pie charts and expert panelists.Ĭrack hit hard the first time around in the late '80s. This DVD documents the folly of mixing poverty with drugs like 60 Minutes never could. This is as close as any of us wants to come to understanding what it means to live with crack addiction.
As a reporter that has interviewed crackheads myself, I can say that this is the realist, necessarily grittiest portrayal of crack life on film - Sam Jackson's Gator notwithstanding. But Crackheads is more a PSA unlike any you've ever seen. It would be easy to dismiss this as just another in the ever-growing collection of extreme DVDs, where college students pay homeless people to commit outrageous acts of violence and antisocial behavior. And they give an astonishingly insightful thesis on the underground economy without missing a stroke. IZRAEL: Substance abuse is no laughing matter, but it's hard to deny the entertainment value of a crackhead doing the Harlem Shake, not to mention the one crack couple caught outside in flagrante delicto. Now, let's get this disclaimer out of the way. It features the exploits of Crypt(ph), Zookeeper(ph), DD(ph), and a cavalcade of crack fiends answering the musical question, what's the craziest thing you've ever done for crack? You know, mixed tapes, incense, Fred Sanford T-shirts, and hood DVDs, because, you know, I can't find that stuff at the mall.Ĭrackheads Gone Wild is one of the growing genres of hood films made for the hood, by the hood. Now, I happen to have a copy, as I frequent an (unintelligible) hood spot that keeps all my necessaries in stock. It's caught the attention of pundits in some news circles, and to date has sold over 65,000 copies, netting over a quarter of a million dollars. JIMI IZRAEL (Columnist, AOL Black Voices): There is a DVD called Crackheads Gone Wild being sold on the Internet and select spots in the hood. And while the film title may come off as prankish or even cruel, commentator Jimi Izrael says the message it sends is serious. What's the craziest thing you've ever done for crack? That's the question posed to homeless addicts in a little-known DVD called Crackheads Gone Wild.
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