#trainspotting.

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The latest Choose life.

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           BOOK STARTERS VOL.47    TRAINSPOTTING    IRVINE WELSH

❛ We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. ❜

❛ By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. ❜

❛ I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. ❜

❛ And the reasons? There are no reasons. ❜

❛ Love does not exist, it's like religion, made to control you. ❜

❛ After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. ❜

❛ You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt. ❜

❛ Everything in the street today seems soft focus. ❜

❛ What does that make us? The lowest of the low. ❜

❛ Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin’ miles off the pace. ❜

❛ It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the way things are in a dream. ❜

❛ It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but I fear that this internal sea is going to subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in my body. ❜

❛ It cuts me up. It confuses me. ❜

❛ It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. ❜

❛ Protect me from those who wish to help us. ❜

❛ They mean well, and they mean well to me, but there's no way under the sun that they can appreciate what I feel, what I need. ❜

❛ The pit of melancholy is a bottomless one, and I am descending fast. ❜

❛ Living like this is a full-time business. ❜

❛ I’ll stand or fall alone. ❜

❛ We are no wiser now than at the start. ❜

❛ This is pathetic, and fucking boring. ❜

❛ Death is usually a process, rather than an event. ❜

❛ We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? ❜

❛ We are all acquaintances now. ❜

❛ The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads of poisonous flotsam and jetsam. ❜

❛ Life is beautiful. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to have a long life. ❜

❛ The grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. ❜

❛ There must be more to life than this. ❜

❛ We all see what we want to see. ❜

❛ Statistically speaking, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than by anyone else. ❜

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Choose COVID-19! 

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Someone from Shell Energy obviously doesn't know who  Irvine Welsh is 😂😂😂

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Happy 48th Birthday Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, born January 23rd 1972 in Edinburgh.

Bremner has worked with many of the most respected directors in world cinema, including Danny Boyle, Mike Leigh, Ridley Scott, Joon-Ho Bong, Werner Herzog and Woody Allen. Ewen has established himself by creating unique characters in critically acclaimed films, as well as going toe to toe with many of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Bremner had worked widely in theatre, television, and film for years before being cast in his breakout role in Trainspotting, by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. Having originated the role of Mark Renton in Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre production, Bremner then made waves opposite Ewan McGregor playing Spud Murphy and earned screen immortality with his character's infamous "speed fueled" job interview scene.

Prior to Trainspotting, I first saw Bremner give a striking performance in Mike Leigh's Naked, starring opposite David Thewlis. In 1999, Bremner received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a schizophrenic man living with his dysfunctional family in Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy.  He then worked with director Michael Bay in his high-profile 2001 war film Pearl Harbor, proving his versatility once again by portraying the role of a wholeheartedly patriotic American soldier fighting in WWII. The following year, he stepped back into fatigues for a supporting role in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, while rounding out the next several years with roles in high-profile Hollywood releases such as The Rundown, Disney's Around the World in 80 Days (2004), AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Woody Allen's Match Point, the comedy Death at a Funeral directed by Frank Oz, and Fool's Gold starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. This past few of years proved to be a busy when Bremner was invited to join the DC Universe in the Zack Snyder-produced feature Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, co-starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine. Ewen would also reprise his unforgettable role as "Spud" in the highly-anticipated sequel to Danny Boyle's cult classic, T2: Trainspotting and he rounded out last year with the feature The Lake, produced by Luc Besson.

On TV Bremner was in the TNT Drama Series Will with Shekhar Kapur. The series told the story of the lost years of young William Shakespeare after his arrival to London in 1589 but only lasted one season.

Other notable film credits include Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, David Mackenzie's Perfect Sense starring again alongside Ewan McGregor, Great Expectations directed by Mike Newell, Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer, and Snowpiercer directed by Bong Joon-Ho and starring opposite Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton. Further credits include Exodus: Gods and Kings, Wide Open Spaces, Mojo, Mediator, Faintheart, Hallam Foe, Sixteen Years of Alcohol, and Snatch.

In other television work Ewen has worked on many acclaimed productions including David Hare's Worriker trilogy starring Bill Nighy for BBC, Jimmy McGovern's Moving On and also his Australian mini-series Banished, Strike Back for Sky TV, Dominic Savage's Dive, the Dylan Thomas biopic, A Poet In New York and the adaptation of Day of the Triffids for the BBC. Other noteworthy series appearances include portraying legendary surrealist Salvador Dali in the U.K. television drama Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali, and a guest spot on the successful NBC series, My Name is Earl.

More recently he has appeared in the film First Cow, about a wild ride through the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, I will need to try and find this one. One I am really looking forward to is Creation Stories, written by Irvine Welsh Ewen stars as Alan McGee, it is an adaptation of McGee’s acclaimed autobiography, Creation Stories – Riots, Raves and Running a Record Label. Trainspotting director Danny Boyle is working on the film as an executive producer whilst Nick Moran. If you don't know the name, McGee signed a relatively unknow band called Oasis to his record laebl, Creation in 1993. Another film Ewen is shooting just now also looks interestin, called Freedoms Path it is set during the American Civil War, and tells the story of a unique friendship forged between a Union soldier and runaway slave, centering in and around the Underground Railroad. Ewen  was awarded the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor in Trainspotting T2, with Ewan MacGregor on Arthur's Seat with Edinburgh in all it's glory.

Pics are Bremner as Archie with David Thewlis in Naked, as Spud  in Trainspotting, again Spud, in my favourite shot for the film Trainspotting T2 with Edinburgh in all it's glory below Arthur's  Seat, the final pic is Ewen as Alan McGee .

A wee bit more on the Creation Stories film here https://www.nme.com/news/first-pictures-released-upcoming-alan-mcgee-biopic-creation-stories-2513650

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Happy 54th birthday Scottish actress Shirley Henderson born 24 November 1965 in Forres, Moray.

Please not Wiki say Shirley was born in Forres, IMDB says Kincardine in Fife, An interview in the Telegraph mentions Forres so have plumped for that as I'm sure she would have corrected it, had it been Fife.

Shirley began performing young and at the age of 13 found herself singing in a boxing ring between bouts after winning a local singing competition. She went on to sing in the local working men's clubs on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons. After deciding upon acting as a career, she uprooted to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

After graduating in 1986 she embarked upon a stage career that included spells at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Traverse, Hampstead, the Citizens, and the Whitehall Theatre.

There are very different roles that you might remember Shirley from, in my case she played Gail in the two Trainspotting films, if you need another reminder who she was, well remember Spud,s girlfriend and the incident with "dirty" bedding that he wanted to was and got into a tugging contest?

Other film fans will know Shirley as Moaning Myrtle in a couple of the Harry Potter films.

Romcom fans will know her for her role as Jude in Bridget Jones's Diary who is always in the ladies' room crying about her boyfriend, others might even recall Shirley from her days in all but one of the episodes of the excellent Hamish McBeth as Isobel Sutherland.

She has of course been in numerous other shows and films including Wish Me Luck, Casualty, The Bill, Rob Roy, Dr Who,Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Happy Valley (Coincidentally Henderson, Sarah Lancashire, were in the same class at drama school together) and more recently she played Lucille Hardy, wife of Oliver in a Stan and Ollie.

Other recent roles include appearing in the mini series The ABC Murders, as well as the upcoming satirical film,Greed with Steve Coogan, David Mitchell and Isla Fisher. Two other projects announced are The Nest and a short, The Sands of Venus, both earmarked for next year, there are little details about either, as yet.

I love this quote from Shirley "I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound."

Shirley's work takes her all over the world but she says she is happily based in Fife where she grew up.

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