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PUBLIC HUMILIATION: Arrested for heroin possession...
...filming street musicians one afternoon, a man approached me offering a far more engaging story. I followed him on a 40-minute subway journey to his apartment. Once inside, he lit a flame, opened a drawer, and injected himself with heroin. The story we were going to tell, he said, would be called “Junk Documentary...
...spent the last two months of my freshman year following him through his daily routines as he struggled with his addiction. Yet as much as I saw of the problems that surrounded heroin use, I was also constantly reminded by the man himself that the video should be an avowal of the excitement of his lifestyle rather than a critique...
...home, so recently I’ve been listening to a lot of X, Tragedy, Tear It Up, Harum Scarum, Charles Bronson, D.R.I., Husker Du, and Atom Kinder. I’ve really gotten into Lightning Bolt over the past couple of weeks, and both Mecca Normal and Heroin have made more than a few appearances on my turntable. While I’m studying, I lean towards Murder by Death and Billie Holiday. In terms of shows, I recently saw (and loved) Lucky Dragons and Pleasurehorse, both from Providence...
...cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before the elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Jeff never spoke kindly of his dad, but he did inherit Tim's nimble vocal range and worked tirelessly on the New York City coffeehouse scene to develop his songwriting before landing a record deal with Columbia in 1992. Jeff's only album, 1994's Grace...