Who loves ya baby

Focused, curious, manipulative, independent

Tomorrow

I go to my daughters special school

342 days

Conan the Barbarian.

This film is a classic, in fact it is the classic film. Why does it speak to us ?
Because we were there. Or at least our ancestors where
If you are reading this,  odds are your ancestors were from the North of Ukraine, they lived there about three and a half thousand years ago. They drank milk and rode horses. They smelted bronze and they liked to eat salmon and honey. They got drunk a lot. There were lots of young men
Conan the movie digs into this vein. This is why we like it. Oh yes, the cinematography is beautiful, Arnold is a tremendous  presence on screen.
 But its also our chance to see ourselves as we once were. When the steppes where endless. When the cities of the South, were large and strange. When the land, was a beautiful woman, and when opening the land met mastering the beautiful woman. Oh you know blonde hair and blue eyes come from the milk drinking steppe dwelling folk right. Here is the cute fact, blonde hair and blue eyes, are probably  products of sexual selection. So the warrior woman thief, tough and capricious needs to be tamed, and brought to control to make ready for the plough, despite the facts that the Gods, that crom is so indifferent, so it takes Arnold, The man ready to strike out on his own, to master them

Sean Hughes

1966-2017

Comic, writer team member,

Turn the Jazz down...

never to listen to the wonder stuff again

Life in Peru

Dancers in Plaza Norte

Peru national Jersey, Peru V Colombia

Dancers in the park, quite the Kardassian!

Congratulations Ireland

On reaching the World cup play offs
Tomorrow Peru V colombia

Trainspotting.

Its been a while since I sat down and watched this film.

Re-watching it now, 20 years and half the world away. I want to give a more balanced judgement, is it a classic? Mm-mm I am honestly not sure. What I notice now is actually how dislikeable everyone is, with the exception of Spud, and the guy who played Vorenus (Kevin Mckidd)

I can understand why teenagers liked the movie, its rebellious, it tells a truth people take heroin because of the kick. Its full of Anti heroes. Begbie, Sic boy, and Renton. There is a dig at Thatcher, there are digs at consumerism. Even bloody Keith Allen

I was surprised by the nude scenes.

By the way, I was in the VolcanoThe Nightclub in the film- the line about the successful segregating themselves from the unsuccessful in mating was quite cutting

The shit scenes, lose their shock effect after we have seen the scatological triumph which is Bombay Millionaire. The violence is well done. Not Carlyle throwing punches but the punters gasping and begging. 

Interestingly the scene from the Edinburgh festival was misunderstood by some audiences. It was claimed they beat him for being a Yank...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(film)#/media/File:Glasgow._North_Kelvinside._Crosslands._182_Queen_Margaret_Drive.jpg

I was actually in there, it was up the road from my halls of residence.)

So, did I enjoy it, yes, I enjoyed the nostalgia, the energy of the original is still there!
 The deft character touches. With Gods, help I will overcome the terrible addiction. When Spud Murphy's mother is turned away in the bar-This may have sectarian overtones.

The horror of a dead child, and the fear of an Aids test do not compare from this distance.

.Granted with the dead baby Renton is an onlooker, and we see a change in Sick boys character. From then on Sic boy is as amoral as Begbie
Yet the death of McKidd does not seem to have the punch it should. He is the innocent sacrificed to reefer sorry needle madness  We do not see the real fear AIDS was met within the early eighties

The hit wears off over time