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METH

Meth In any talk about drugs, there is always a clutch who want to argue the toss about whether a certain drug is "addictive" or not, as if "addiction", "dependency", "habit" and "problem" are the John, Paul, George and Ringo of narcotics discussion, each drug authored primarily by one and not the others. Such talk might be useful in a purely scientific context, but where humanity is concerned it is a bigger waste of time than addiction itself. We all know what we are trying to say when we refer to "addiction", and I'm not going to add to the chinstroker's library by attempting to quantify it here. Perhaps a more useful analogy is to simply say that all drugs have a tendency to lead you to 'The Beatles'. Today, we're going to look at heroin, undoubtedly the White Album of the catalogue, but I'll post that around midday. In the meantime, here's that curious gatecrasher called crystal meth, which can ...

Home Movies co-creator Brendon Small

Home Movies co-creator Brendon Small By Daniel Robert Epstein Jul 13, 2005 Home Movies co-creator Brendon Small and I have a lot in common. We’re nearly the same age, we were both fat kids and we love to watch bad movies. I got a chance to talk with Small about the Season Two DVD set of Home Movies that was just released. But we ended up mostly chatting about the worst movies ever. Get Home Movies Season Two Daniel Robert Epstein: What are you up to today? Brendon Small: Today? Nothing, nothing good, no, no. I did a big show last night that was fun at the Comedy Central Stage so, that’s, that’s what I did yesterday, but today I got nothing. I was going to see a movie. DRE: What movie? BS: Kung-Fu Hustle possibly. DRE: Oh it’s awesome! BS: That’s what everyone says, yeah. DRE: Did you see Shaolin Soccer? BS: Yeah, I did see that. DRE: Same guy so… BS: What else is out there? DRE: Eh just see that [laughs] BS: I saw Sin City. DRE: That’s good! BS: Yeah, I thought that was good too. DRE: ...