The mayor of Boring-town

[blue_lotus13]

Really, that's about it. That's why I have not been updating. This week, I am in charge of three newspapers and am packing more boxes.

This Saturday, I watched "Bladerunner", read Stephen King's "The Mist" and then got sucked into "Intervention" and watched about three episodes. If you have never watched this tv show, please stay far away from it. It's a reality tv show, and it's extremely disturbing. Family members intervene in order to stop their friends or loved ones from drinking, or abusing drugs and then the addict gets the opportunity to accept help and go to rehab or continue using. Never before have I watched a heroin addict shoot up in the ass with water he used from a toilet bowl.

I could not look away and basically needed an intervention to stop watching. In fact, I had a hard time falling asleep after all the horror (real-life and fictional) that I ingested Saturday. And last night, I woke myself up during a dream in which I was yelling, "You have a drinking problem!"

I should talk about the books I've been reading and the movies I've been watching. Both are more interesting than anything I've been doing lately.

Comments

[bitsandb0bbins.livejournal.com]

haha, i am addicted to "intervention".

i take solace in the fact that the reality of those people's lives is not my own...i always liked reading (fiction and non-fiction) about addicts for the same reason. living the rough life vicariously, or something like that.

[blue-lotus.livejournal.com]

What I find fascinating is how prevalent drug abuse really is, how it affects people from all groups of life, and how people fall into drugs to deal with their past traumas... and how this abuse affects everyone around them.

[starfishchick]

HEE, I am addicted to 'Intervention' as well!!

[dandelion5.livejournal.com]

That show is so disturbing. I couldn't watch it at all. I was most disturbed by the follow up and most of the people went right back to abusing drugs. I'm not exactly sure what the people staging the intervention are hoping to accomplish by having it aired on TV.