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Anyone remember the movie Parents? It's the touching tale of a kid and how he fears his parents are actually cannibals. It's a funny albeit totally disturbing take on that weird sense of mystery and fear that surrounds your parents private lives...or at least for some of us lol.



Funny thing is that this movie totally changed my feelings about a song called The Magic Trumpet. As that wistful and somewhat slick "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass" instrumental is going through the soundtrack, the mom in the movie is working over gross amounts of meat and blood as she happily prepares people/dinner. Now that song is always a bit creepy to me. Funny how that works.



It's the same way that someone's use of a word or subculture, can create an impression about the entire meaning or idea of that word or subculture. God forbid that your first real meeting with a cop is a bad one when you're 16 and 'anti-establishment'. To this day I find myself feeling nervous and guilty when I pass one on the road regardless of how legal I am in fact being. I feel like I've got a big target on my car and that cop is bound to pull me over and make my day miserable.



How does all this relate? Well that power of suggestion...that first case scenario tainting all that follow, is a huge issue for the modern day living vampire. For every smart and philosophical interaction that has occurred between two people on the intellectual or metaphysical natures of modern vampirism, there has been 300 interactions that start somewhere with some young teen explaining how he is actually a combination demon/dragon/elven/vampire spirit trapped in a human shell and that he feasts on the living while harboring immense untapped powers. It's going to color all future interactions with modern living vampires. It's certainly something that needs to be addressed by the modern vampire community if one wishes to take their case seriously.



I'm aware that The Magic Trumpet is not a song about cannibalism. It wasn't meant as a creepy song. My full awareness of that doesn't change the fact that it still creeps me out. I'm aware that not every cop is out to get me. I'm not paranoid or even upset by the situation but I do know that they will always make me feel nervous and subconcsiously guilty of some unknown moving violation. I'm aware that there are many intelligent, and mature people in the modern living vampire lifestyle. That doesn't change how colored my perceptions get with each new case of young 'vampirism' I run across.

A long and proud history in film and funny enough, often a genre where some of the best music is usually put forward on the big screen. Still, what is it about these films that appeals to me so. Why does a film showing the negative sides and even the deadly sides of drug use, so inspire a drug user. It's been years and years since my 'glory days' of drugs but for some reason, a film like many of the one's below, actually make me miss them. Some scene where someone throws up and then starts doing lines...how is that appealing? What part of my brain accepts that as a fond memory? There's certainly a lot of these films on my favorites list hehe:





Anyone remember Drugstore Cowboy? A young Matt Dillon leads a crew of prescription drug addicts? I have to say this was one of those first films that made drug use seem fun as well as sad and self destructive. They have crazy capers as they knock over drugstores either through con jobs, or distraction or breaking in at night and then spend all evening doing pills and smoking and talking about nothing.

First time I had ever heard some real ska/rock steady music with Desmond Dekker doing the theme song for the movie: The Israelites





Ahhh Trainspotting - heroin chic no? God these guys had fucked up lives and yet it certainly seemed interesting. Again they bring out some wonderful old tune like "Lust for Life" by Iggy and the Stooges. Why is it that only drug movies seem capable of using good music that missed mainstream and it works. How many movies could show you every terrible and sick aspect of drug addiction and still leave you thinking "That looks like fun".





Suburbia - this is a punk rock right of passage. Required viewing for the young initiates of rejected society hehe. The music here was brilliant. The drug use was certainly given a remarkable shot of reality with an slipped mickey and a drug suicide. Music is true early 80's punk - brilliant





The Brat Pack rejects of the 80's took a slightly different turn in their career in Less Than Zero. Robert Downey Jr. perhaps in a move that signaled his future, does plenty of coke, smokes crack and then gets whored out to smoke more crack. Life of the party that guy. Weirdest soundtrack ever with bands like Public Enemy and Slayer sharing vinyl space with the Bangles and Poison. Still, it had Joan Jett doing a song.





Sid and Nancy holds a dubious spot here with me since it shows how much of an ass Sid was but somehow still brought up another generation of Sid worshipers. Of all the punks out there to idolize, a loser who could barely play bass but managed to bring about the rise and fall of his own band through acting like a complete tosser. The music is self explanatory. There is something though. Again it's the appeal of self destruction. Maybe that's what all the kids see.





Requiem for a Dream was just a fucked up movie period. The drug use, the sex, the infected arm from dirty needle tracks. There was a lot to be disgusted with here and yet they managed to still create an illusion of drug appeal. How I'll never know. What is it about these movies that makes me want to smoke a pack or two of smokes and get really fucking wired? Anyone?





Spun. hehe this movie actually was the closest thing to real life I'd ever seen about drug use. Blind stupidity in one's day to day choices. Complete lack of a sense of time. The feeling that every idea is a brilliant one and the realization that none of them are. Violence, sex, drug use, and cops all seemed like some kind of strange entertainment to the drug user. This movie looked like some of the best years of my youth hehe. How much of a oxymoron is that lol.





I'm not really sure that the Salton Sea should be on a list of drug films. It's sort of an action flick and in that respect almost like a cops and robbers flick. But there's some serious drug commentary. Hell the first lines of the narrative perfectly describe the speed user:

"Tweekers, lokers, slammers, coming and going...swearing eternal allegiance for one another...only to wake up realizing you wouldn't cross the street...to piss on them if their head was on fire.