[Frameworks] drugged

[Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T)]

I think there is an important distinction between trippy and drugged. 
"Drugstore Cowboy and Sid and Nancy I'd call drugged but not trippy.


At 12:40 PM -0800 2/10/13, J Vent wrote:
>Don't forget to look at things like Cheech and Chong flicks, and 
>other comedies in this vein, Dazed and Confused, (loosely) Donny 
>Darko, etc.
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>ok I'm done.
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>JV
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>On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:32 PM, J Vent 
><<mailto:jvent.subscriptions at gmail.com>jvent.subscriptions at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
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>Certainly there are the bits with the high on speed/acid/booze Hells 
>Angels and others (hanging about on stage, before the murder,) from 
>the Maysles film "Gimme Shelter" and though not a psychedelic drug 
>film, there are few films that are druggier than "Requiem for a 
>Dream" and I guess "Drugstore Cowboy" might be considered in that 
>way too. Oh, and then of course there is the more recent "A Scanner 
>Darkly".
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>Puff N Stuff has been mentioned so I'll include my reference to the 
>"Mr. Show" episode that puts the Sid and Marty Croft man in a suit 
>Saturday morning kids shows into a proper context, i.e., Lidsville, 
>Sigmond and the Sea Monster, etc....supper druggy and funny.
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>If your looking for more transgressive depictions of 
>drug/underground culture then look into the films of Richard Kern 
>and the other Transgressive filmmakers, "Right Side of My Brain" and 
>others from his canon might help.
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>others:
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>"Rivers Edge" - weed/booze/speed/narcotics
>"Quadrophenia - speed/booze/weed
>"Dogstar Man" certainly looks druggy
>"What We Do is Secret" - Germs/Darby Crash biopic heroin/speed/weed/booze
>"Sid and Nancy" - you name it
>"Martin" - vampirism as drug addiction - George Romero
>"Addiction" (also vampirism as drug addiction) , "Bad Lieutenant" - 
>Abel Ferrara
>Loads of goofy getting it ridiculously wrong drug stuff in the old 
>cop show "Adam-12."
>
>Thats a pretty disparate group I've listed but hope it helps in some way.
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>Joe V.
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>On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Watter, Seth 
><<mailto:seth_watter at brown.edu>seth_watter at brown.edu> wrote:
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>Ken Russell's Altered States: William Hurt tripping in the desert 
>with natives.
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>Seth
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>On Sunday, February 10, 2013, Francisco Torres wrote:
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>Back in the late 60s/ early 70s most TV cop shows included a "trip" 
>sequence. The trend culminated with The French Connection 2 infamous 
>heroin room. Most of those trips were more funny than scary....
>Some TV series were a trip like Land of the Giants and Puff N Stuff 
>(Which we 5th graders used to call "Puffing stuff" back in 72). 
>Nixon TV press conferences were also quite trippy.
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