Leading the Movement

This post isn’t to do with music, so I’ve placed it in our seldom used and fairly enigmatic “Lifestyle” category. Taxonomy aside, I am now proudly addicted to CurrentTV’s Vanguard series and it’s all because they love to investigate guns, gangs, drugs and injustice. Anything remotely dangerous or controversial, for some unknown reason, tends to float my boat. If you were a television producer trying to specifically target me, then you’d create a show called: ‘Brutal Gangs: The Guns, The Drugs, The Bitches’. Perfect.

I’ve attached a new episode of Vanguard after the jump. Entitled ‘Forest of Ecstasy’, this instalment is presented by Adam Yamaguchi and investigates the recent proliferation of illegal safrole oil factories in the forests of Cambodia. Safrole oil, for those of you who don’t know, is the main ingredient used to make ecstasy, so it’s a bit of a big deal in South America. I have no idea why I find this shit so interesting.