Oh, those bad weekend decisions. It’s Monday, and you may or may not still be suffering for it, depending on your vice. But whatever they may be, surely they don’t top the above.
Inspired by the above Giphy-categorized “drugs” GIF, a lift from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction — spoiler: Uma Thurman’s bored mob wife, Mrs. Mia Wallace, isn’t snorting coke — are three free associations on a memorable drug scene being augmented by an unnamed Tumblr user to great effect:
- Beyond the 90s minimalism that gave us crisp, wide collared white shirts, cropped black flares and Chanel Vamp nail polish, the Mia Wallace haircut still holds up well. It’s a shiny, shiny rounded-brush blow-dry style hallmarked with Bettie Page bangs, and I know this because an xoJane beauty writer broke down all the smooth infusion, anti-frizz hair care products you need to shlep in order to make the look work.
- The glitchy, radial blur is everything in this GIF. All that lies beyond the looped frames is an adrenaline shot to the heart. (Related, but the Explain Like I’m Five sub-reddit discussion on this scene is hilarious, especially when an EMT weighs in with a fact check: “paramedics will usually push a drug called Narcan to counter the effect of opioids like heroin. Narcan is actually pretty cool in the way it works and it’s effects are pretty instantaneous.”)
- Drugs are bad. Which is a shame, of course, because our celebrity culture thrives on a good go-crazy-do-drugs-have-breakdown-go-to-rehab-come-clean confessional front cover yarn. Even though most of us last week were fascinated once more by Bowie’s Thin White Duke-era diet of coke, milk and red peppers — and with the recent death of the Eagles’ Glenn Frey, the allure of rockers that shaped the 70s “denim-clad California cocaine-cowboy music culture” — let’s not romanticize the fact that drugs overdoses are kicking up the death rate of young, white American adults. We are entering the twilight of boomer rock gods, and now white millennials can lay claim to being the first generation since ‘Nam to experience higher death rates in early adulthood than Generation Xers. Talk about short end of the stick. (Although another related topic of conversation on this tip could be the ravages of the 1980s crack epidemic. Choose your poison.)
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