Tuesday, October 09, 2007

There's an awesome show on the online television station VBS now called Balls Deep. In the first episode I saw, the host (Baby Balls) goes to some New York leather bars and investigates the dying leatherman scene. Interesting, especially if you have seen one of my fave Al Pacino movies, Cruising (1980) (BTW, here's a cool interview with William Friedkin, the director of Cruising).

In the other episode of Balls Deep, the host goes into the sewers of Bogota, Columbia to meet some of the poor street kids who live down there. Originally these kids went down there to escape the violence on the streets--a total nightmare. In order to deal with the fact that they are living in complete darkness, knee deep in human waste, they take a lot of drugs. To add to their problems, death squads made up of cops and off duty soldiers periodically go down into the tunnels to perform "urban cleansing." This either consists of shooting them, torturing them, or dousing them in gasoline. It's a frightening documentary.

Check it out on VBS.

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