Overdose

While the french love of pleasure is quite a bit more obvious than the Asian or american one (at least if you exclude the love for fatty food), When does it become too much? In the US there is a expression PDA or public display of affection. Here in Paris, France there is no such term. It's completely natural to display such feeling openly. Also it's not against the law to drink in public like many other western countries. heck in many a western country a brown hobo lock alike paper bag is required to carry your preferred liquid poison pleasure. But does this poster intrude on the over the top?
Would it be OK in your country to Do a commercial like this? I know the heroin chic style of fashion was quite in for a while. is this pointing towards a come back?
In my opinion quite a few narcotics laws are outdated and misplaced. I mean weed is way more healthy than both alcohol and tobacco. An overdose still indicates an unhealthy over-usage, an dependency issue. Has the french love of pleasure become so blatantly routine that only an overdose would give rise to interest?

Binge with a capital M

Those of you being families with Indonesia will know that there are some difficulties going to the movies there currently. When I first arrived I was way excited to go to the movies properly. The island in Thailand where I had spent my previous two months was too small to host a movie theater so I was looking forward to the big screen in Jakarta.  I was up for a surprise though. No big time movies where available. Apparently Hollywood had decided to not ship movies any more. But why!?
Turns out that the Indonesian government, always in need or tax money or bribe money decided to put some extra taxes in for the foreign movies. They claimed it was money that was going to support the domestic movie industry. Which by the way is in horrible condition. Movies made 15 years ago are way better than the crappy horror comedy (comedy part non intentional) movies that air today. They are so bad that parts of Indonesia ban then when they showcase their area in them. It seemed to be much confusion about what taxes or fees had in fact been put on these importers of movies. Eventually people seemed to conclude that if was a extra tax put on all distribution, which makes up of a very large part of movie costs in Indonesia.
I guess that's one way to really encourage pirating DVDs and downloading. I mean if it's the only way to watch movies that's what people will do. Good job Indo government.
Anyway getting out of J-town and flying to Kuala Lumpur, with a brief stop over in Bali, I'm again in a nation which likes movies. And not only are they available here, they are cheap too. There are also a range of different classes of movie theaters. The most interesting one being "gold class". Gold class is a theater class with really big and comfy sofas that serves food and drinks during the cinematic experience. of course the air con is way cold and thus you have blankets to boot.
So far I've seen Transformers 3D, the Green Lantern and X-men. Will definitively have a look at what else is available over here. Movie Binge here we go!