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10/18/09
We do not watch tightrope walkers to see them be successful. It's the potential spectacle of failure that draws us in. #djam
10/18/09
If you start with the basic assumption that many of these people have encountered and dealt with addicts before (e.g. his manager who also manages Eminem, a man who has admitted drug problems), his show and death become a clusterfuck of malfeasance.
The thing that I find most egregious about the way the people around DJ AM present this is that they act as if there were no signs even though his therapist, his manager, and all these other people are talking about how he started sweating while holding a crackpipe.
How do you witness that and not apply the brakes? #djam
10/18/09
10/18/09
Having him pick up a crack pipe? Over the line, clearly. He was a crack addict and not fairing too well. Just looking
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10/18/09
I don't know...I feel like people could have seen this coming if they gave any thought whatsoever to Goldstein's mental health. Didn't anyone at MTV ever think about how the plane crash could have affected him emotionally? Not to mention the high probability that pain meds could have a destabilizing effect on a former addict? #djam
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I never felt for the guy before this particulary story, but it hits home in a lot of ways and reminds me of people I've lost. You shouldn't treat the overcoming of addiction like a vacation from the drugs or the alcohol, something that you can eventually return to if you feel better and "can control" yourself; you should treat it like a death, something that is removed and gone and buried. Watching people return once they're "better" only to fall apart again is an accepted part of (eventual) recovery, but on the flipside it can also lead to horrific death, and I just think considering where we're at as a society, and how damning addiction has become, we should be trying, even as television networks, to help one another out. Having viewers is useless if a chunk of them end up dead because of misinformation via clever editing about the recurrence of addiction. #djam
10/18/09
Does that make any sense? I'm trying to write comments during commercials for Desperate Housewives *cough gay cough*, so I'm not sure if I'm explaining things adequately.
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10/18/09
Well said, Foster. Overall, I thought the NYT article captured that feeling.
This analogy, however, felt off to me:
"'If you want to stay monogamous with your wife, don’t get into a hotel room alone with a woman — even if you’re only in there to fix her Wi-Fi. It’s not a good idea,'" [a family medicine doctor with a specialty in addiction] said. #djam
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-"I'm here to fix your Wi-Fi."
-"Come on in. I was just in the shower." #djam
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09/30/09
jeez i'm thin-skinned.
09/30/09
Oh, and yeah: He's probably hoping Conan comes through with a crew and in the meantime, some favorable stats are getting YouTube play.