It's been a rough couple of months, my little honeylumps, sugarcrumbs and other assorted antipastry. Did you miss me? Aww.
I have the cough from hell, very puerile of old Luci to poke me in the alveoli with his silly cutlery every two and a half minutes. It's summertime and the weather is fine for the sweet oblivion of sleep and misery. I now have no idea if I should pick up a Middle English reader or a copy of 'How To Read D.H. Lawrence's Fiction Without Wanting To Commit Random Acts of Homicide - For Dummies' because this optional course business is just sparkly and unpredictable like that.
There seems to be a copy of 'Trainspotting' in the Film Studies library, which is exciting but sad because Ewan IS SO NOT Rent Boy.
What else? VH1, please stop showing Arctic Monkeys videos. As India's resident expert on British 'indie' rock, I declare them provincial, overrated and just plain sorry.
I fail to understand what I've recently identified as a folkloric obsession with the procreative powers of snot, but I guess it's all good.
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India's resident expert eh? Now you've gotten my blood up and I shall have to test you.
And Ewan is Totally rent boy and I love that book (and the movie, for that matter) with an infamous fervor. I have been known to yell "It's shite being Scottish' at the oddest moments. And to take pleasure from saying 'Pussy Galore' just the way Jonny Lee Miller says it in the movie. And he is so right about The Name of The Rose and Sean Connery too.
And you should be happy about The arctic monkeys' bassist quitting recently, then, eh?
I agree with Abhimanyu. Ewan is totally Rent boy (although it not might seem as such before you watch the movie), and the movie is utterly awesome. (Plus it uses 'Perfect Day' in a brilliant manner.) My favourite thing about it is Ewen Bremner (whose character is apparently a perfectionist).
And if you like that one, you should also see 'The Acid House', which is also adapted from Welsh's stuff, and which is almost, but not quite, better than Trainspotting.
heheh, Aditya, you serious? The Acid House doesnt hold a candle to Trainspotting. It IS really weird, parts of it are very inspired, there's some decent acting but the problems are certainly legion. The source material is also a problem since The Acid House doesnt have the heart and the characterization of Trainspotting which is just one of my favourite books ever. I'm just waiting for them to do that adaptation of Porno.
And isnt Bremner the greatest. The guy never fails to crack me up even when he's playing a psychopath (see Mike Leigh's disgustingly brilliant Naked). His twitchy performances are priceless. It was one of my biggest 'aw man' moments in recent moviewatching history when I found that he was playing a straight, serious supporting role in Match Point. Really, I have an enormous fondness for the entire Trainspotting gang even though they have some patchy periods on their resumes - Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, McGregor, Kevin McKidd....Danny Boyle as director, of course, too. Anything they're involved in, I would give a try.
Hey. Sorry for the really, really late reply.
Um, now you've made me doubt myself. I watched the movie a long time ago, and don't remember much about it apart from the sex scene between the fly's parents and Ewen turning into the baby. But I do remember that Acid House struck me as a bit more interesting than Trainspotting, though that's quite possibly because I'd read the Trainspotting book (which is utterly magnificent, of course) tons of times. I haven't read Porno, though, and my flimsy excuse for that is the library hasn't got it yet.
Bremner is wonderful, as are the rest. Jonny Lee Miller is fiine, and I quite liked 24 Days Later. I didn't, however, try the Beach movie, because I like the book, and I've heard the movie spoils it. Can you confirm?
Do you mean 28 Days Later? Miller wasnt in that, was he? I cannot recall him. But it was great. One of the best zombie movies ever.
As for The Beach, I don't know whether it spoils anything as I have not read the book. However, I did enjoy the movie in and of itself. It's a bit silly and not up to Danny Boyle's other work but I certainly wasnt bored or anything.
And I reiterate, the movie (or even the book) The Acid House does not even compare with Trainspotting.
Have you read Filth? That would make an absolutely hilarious movie, though it IS very shades of American Psycho. What if Patrick Bateman was a cop in Leith sort of thing.
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