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Originally posted by EqualizerUK
reply to post by Allegory of Illumination
Actors I like Tom Hardy, people i look up to are Malcolm X, MLK....singers i like alot of different people....from Jonny Cash to Coldplay.
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The first liquor I drank, my first cigarettes, even my first reefers, I can't specifically remember.
He excelled at his job for which he would show up "loud and wild and half-high on liquor and reefers."
After he lost his bartending job in New York for connecting an undercover cop with a prostitute, Malcolm turned to "peddling reefers." Some merchant seamen he knew supplied him with " gunja and kisca smuggled in from Africa and Persia," and "musicians, among whom I had so many good contacts, were the heaviest consistent market for reefers." On his first night, he was able to pay back the friend who had staked his business.
"In every band, at least half of the musicians smoked reefers," he wrote. "I'm not going to list names; I'd have to include some of those most prominent then in popular music, even a number of them around today. In one case, every man in one of the bands which is still famous was on marijuana. Or again, any number of musicians could tell you who I mean when I say that one of the most famous singers smoked his reefers through a chicken thighbone. He had smoked so many though the bone that he could just light a match before the empty bone, draw the heat through, and get what he called a 'contact' high."
Malcolm was soon making $50-$60 a day. "And I didn't sell and run, because my customers were my friends. Often I'd smoke along with them. None of them stayed any more high than I did." Soon, however, he attracted the attention of police, and after trying to peddle his wares in poorer neighborhoods, he jumped back on the railroad, selling pot in small towns where he would find the Black neighborhoods by looking for a Lincoln High School.
Back in New York, he turned to armed robbery, using coc aine to hype him up for his jobs. He smoked opium to come down and was smoking reefer "by the ounce." In 1946 he convicted of burglary and sentenced to 10 years (he served 7). In prison he spent much of his time high on nutmeg or reefer until his family got him placed in an experimental prison where he read up on history and was introduced to Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. After his parole in 1952, he became one of the Nation's leaders and chief spokesmen as Malcolm X. For nearly a dozen years, he was the public face of the Nation of Islam, but ultimately broke with Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 by three members of the NOI.
Chris Martin, 34, said: "Success and fame, alcohol and drugs. We've been through all of those things. "They're just pitfalls, and that comes from a lot of traveling and a lot of down time. "
As his career was taking off in the late 1950s, Cash started drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates. For a brief time, he shared an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings, who was heavily addicted to amphetamines. Cash used the uppers to stay awake during tours. Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic behavior, many ignoring the warning signs of his worsening drug addiction. In a behind-the-scenes look at The Johnny Cash Show, Cash claims to have "tried every drug there was to try."
Originally posted by Kryties
Originally posted by CallYourBluff
Hello bud, off topic but new RedDwarf in a few months.
I don't think it's off-topic at all, how can something be off-topic when the subject isn't really a decent topic to begin with?
And yes, the Boyz from the Dwarf are back this year, hence the avatar
Originally posted by EqualizerUK
reply to post by CallYourBluff
None of them ...just a guy that has little time for people that are weak and selfish, forcing there problems onto others for all to see.
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Originally posted by Kryties
Originally posted by EqualizerUK
reply to post by BrokenCircles
Then your very weak minded and any amount of help would not work for you ....
How utterly ridiculous. Where are you coming up with this nonsense? Oh, that's right, you're on a very tall horse so the air must be thinner up there. It's the only reason I can think of for this astonishing lack of anything resembling logic or intelligence.
Originally posted by EqualizerUK
reply to post by BrokenCircles
I just totally disagree with you ....its a public forum to put what every i like (within reason)...i respect your right to not agree with me.
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That would be none of your dam business, Captain High&Mighty.
Originally posted by EqualizerUK
reply to post by BrokenCircles
Im sorry what were/ are you addicted to then?
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Originally posted by EqualizerUK
reply to post by Kryties
I really have no clue why you get from my opinions that you think im better than anyone else...?
Its a public forum fella if you don't like what your reading feel free not to comment.