The Acid House

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It's also tougher and grimier than Trainspotting, which, for all its taboo-breaking harshness, revelled in pop-thrill glamour. The Acid House is seedier and uglier - the screen is awash in pallid, pasty, spotty flesh throughout. And it's truer to the letter of the text - verbally at least, these are very faithful adaptations. But there's something crucially missing. You'd never guess that these grim vignettes of estate desperation are derived from crisp and inspired stories.

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Since Danny Boyle’s film adaptation of Trainspotting was released in February 1996 Irvine Welsh has remained a controversial figure, whose novels, stage and screen plays, novellas and short stories have proved difficult for literary critics to assimilate, a difficulty made only more noticeable by Welsh’s continued commercial success. A corrupt police officer and his tapeworm served as the narrators for his third novel, Filth (1998). The main character of Filth was a vicious sociopathic policeman. The novel was adapted to a film with the same name in 2013. It's all very funny, highly surreal stuff. And despite the metamorphosis, body-swapping, magic, and a truly repugnant production design I can't help but find it an accurate depiction of Scottish life. Spend five minutes in a deprived area of this country (and believe me there is a lot of deprivation) and you'll encounter half of the cast of this film. All these stories collected in this collection are good, but the few that really stand out make it worth reading all of them. The title story is just outstanding: a lightning strike switches the soul of acid-tripping Coco Bryce with a newborn baby. "A Smart Cunt", a logical extension of "Trainspotting" and whose narrator is largely indistinguishable from Mark Renton, is supreme as well, with it's look at crime, death, and shitting on other people's faces. "The Granton Star Cause" is the other genius standout: Boab Coyle meets a drunken, angry God in a pub and gets turned into a housefly as punishment, but also to act as God's instrument against shitty people.BG I’m glad we’ve got two beautiful sons [Wolf, 19, and Lux, 17]. It’s about giving them a loving environment to grow up in, letting them be themselves. So long as they’re all right, I’m all right. Like The Butcher Boy, The Acid House explores the seamy side of, in this case, Scottish rather than Irish workingclass culture. It follows demented characters who pursue debased agendas under circumstances which are at once supernatural and decidedly sleazy Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) dramatizes three plots from his raunchy book of short stories, The Acid House. Given Welsh's imagination and penchant for depraved characters, decadent circumstances, and just plain rotten motives and outcomes, the result is a creepy movie with totally grotesque content. The Granton Star Cause" segment is named after an Edinburgh housing district and was filmed on location in Muirhouse and Pilton, including Ferry Road Drive. [4] "A Soft Touch" was filmed on location in Niddrie. BG There’s Andrew Weatherall’s quote: “Ecstasy is a great drug but it’s also very dangerous because you find yourself on the dancefloor, punching the air to Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh.” But you know, ecstasy, acid house, it all goes together. We liked drugs. I loved taking drugs. I wasn’t wrong. We weren’t wrong. I was right to do it. I’m glad I did it. I just got to the point where I couldn’t take them any more and manage myself.

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Cavanagh and Welsh have also collaborated on screenplays. The Meat Trade is based on the 19th-century West Port murders. Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present-day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market. Acid House", ca și "Varza reîncălzită", reprezintă o antologie de povestiri care ating subiecte de toată mâna: droguri, obsesii, relații, pasiuni, mizeriii ale vieții etc. The Acid House" is a series of three short stories penned by "Trainspotting" novelist Irvine Welsh, and true to his style, it is inspired by a terribly bad acid trip. Being a huge fan of Irvine Welsh, I had high hopes for this film, but I was also aware that it would most likely not be as good as Trainspotting. It wasn't, but a good movie all the same.The people here seem unable to get out of the grooves in their lives, and a fairly existential look at nature-vs-nurture slow-boils in these stories. Particularly in the novella, A Smart Cunt, which feels very akin to Trainspotting (almost like a draft, honestly, as the characters could very well be the same just with different names). ‘ It seemed that drug-taking over the years had reduced me to the sum total of the negative and positive strokes I received from people,’ the narrator, Brian asserts, ‘ a big blank canvas others completed.’ Like many in this book, Brian isn’t a bad dude and is fairly bright but at every turn is a friend ready to shoot-up or offer another wild night. The world around these characters, it seems, is always ready to bring them down. But there are those in the same situation, like Brian’s brother, who was able to clean up, get educated and get a good job. Brian wonders if the fault is on him, or the world around him. With nearly all single Scottish male protagonist with some sort of drug connection led, but this further allows the reader to see the pure naked talent of Welsh's world view of a stark working class 'lost generation' with limited prospects living life day by day... but importantly at times darkly comedic as well though. Overall 5 out of 12... usually triggers for drug use, violence and explicit male-lens sexual imagery.

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The script is full of energy if not substance and it rattles along really well, although I suspect that even some Scots will struggle to catch every word thanks to the speed of delivery and the accents. The cast are reasonably good but aren't sure what to make of the material at times. McCole just flops around the place and doesn't seem to understand his character or motivation. Roëves is good as God but is poorly used by the script – it would have made a better double-hander in the second half of this story. Sweeney, McCrindle and others all spit their dialogue with passion and do OK as such. McGuigan's direction focuses on the crudity and excess of Welsh's script but forgets anything else. Welsh followed Trainspotting with a novella and collection of short stories called The Acid House (1994). One aspect of the use of drugs in Welsh’s fiction is that it has allowed him to integrate elements of fantasy into his portrayals of urban life. So, in the title story, ‘The Acid House’, Welsh has Hibs casual Coco Bryce exchange minds with a young baby, and then follows the baby and Coco as their mother and girlfriend try to make them into the men they want them to be. Elsewhere, in ‘The Granton Star Cause’ Boab meets God in the pub and is then turned into a bluebottle. Pingitore, Silvia (19 November 2021). "From Trainspotting to the TV series of Crime: the Irvine Welsh interview". the-shortlisted.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021 . Retrieved 20 November 2021.He co-authored Babylon Heights with his screen writing partner Dean Cavanagh. The play premiered in San Francisco at the Exit Theatre and made its European première in Dublin, at The Mill Theatre Dundrum, directed by Graham Cantwell. The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of Munchkins on the set of The Wizard of Oz. The production included the use of oversized sets with actors of regular stature. I ask Gillespie and Welsh for their thoughts on Brexit and Scottish independence. In July, Gillespie expressed concern about Brexit making life harder for musicians. Previously, he described Scottish independence as “inevitable”, while emphasising that he in no way considered himself to be a nationalist. IW For me, it started with Bowie, because what he did as an artist was quite rare. Normally, people are coy about their references, everybody wants to appear highly original. Bowie was incredibly generous and shared all his sources. He was working-class art school, basically. Through him, you got into Lou Reed, Kraftwerk, electronic music, Burroughs, the Beat writers… He just threw it all out there for everyone to have a rummage around.