A week long investigation into the illicit substances that drive our culture.
Sept. 19, 2011
Cigarettes And Coffee by P.T. Anderson (1993)
PT Anderson's first film was made for $20,000 and connecting multiple story lines with a twenty-dollar bill.
Doc - Horizon: We Love Cigarettes
A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed, tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost?
Movie - Bright Leaf (1950)
A "lost" classic by Director Michael Curtiz. Loose chronicle of 19th-century tobacco farmer (Cooper) building successful cigarette empire, seeking revenge on old enemies and finding romance.
Sept. 20, 2011
Talk Show - Charles Bukowski
a detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free
Sept. 21, 2011
21 Jump St - Raising Marijuana
Penhall and Ioki go undercover as the "Swark Twins" to get in with teenage boys working for drug smugglers. Meanwhile, Hoffs becomes romantically involved with the head drug smuggler!
Sept. 22, 2011
Talk Show - Alexander Shulgin
Some words with the man credited with refining and popularizing ecstasy
Doc - Ecstasy Rising
Peter Jennings on the history of ecstasy, legit investigative journalist style.
120 Megabytes - Episode 4
videos from 808 State, Orbital, SL2, Atlantic Ocean, Sensorium, Stellar Om Source, & Light Freedom Party
The Trip Back Vs. Strangers With Candy
Strange after school special that became the inspiration for Strangers With Candy
Movie - A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)
Shakespeare and raves? Why, those go together like, well, two things that don't really go together at all
Sept. 23, 2011
Movie - Christiane F. (1981)
Follows a 14yr old junkie around the streets of Berlin in the 70s. Music by David Bowie
Collection - Jim Carroll
A collection of music and spoken word by the former high school basketball star/prostitute/junkie turned musician/poet
Sept. 24, 2011
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
The Smurfs, Garfield, The Real Ghostbusters, The Muppet Babies, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fight drugs - together.
An Evening With Robin Williams (1982)
Robin Williams gives a very, um, energetic performance in San Francisco in 1982
Live Music Show - White Line Fever
I have a mirror, a razor blade and a straw if anybody else wants to meet me in the bathroom with... well... you know
Sept. 25, 2011
Movie - The Trip (1967)
Paul Groves (Peter Fonda) takes his first dose of LSD while experiencing the heartbreak and ambivalence of divorce
Peter Whitehead - The Pink Floyd: London 66 67
Interstellar Overdrive with Syd Barrett in this psychedelic video-EP including footage from the legendary '14 hour Technicolor Dream' extravaganza in April '67 at Alexandra Palace
Talk Show - Albert Hoffman
Albert Hoffman, the person who discovered LSD, talks about his discovery and the experiences connected with it
Movie - The Tingler (1959)
Vincent Price stars in this 1959 classic about a doctor who tests the effects of LSD on mental patients as part of his research. It is the first depiction of LSD use in a major motion picture
