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. The characters in these stories are usually teetering on the edge of destruction--usually self-inflicted--and living dark and violent lives. Yet, despite these grim outlooks, Welsh doesn’t moralize or preach but simply show these lives as they are. These are people for whom fornication and fisticuffs register interchangeably on a deep emotional level, and are looking for anything to make them feel alive to escape crushing despair. A man watches every movie in a guide until he can’t take life anymore, rival philosophers grow so angry with each other they brawl in the streets (and find out they are gratified), a man books a cruise for one last fling before flinging himself in the ocean still torn up over his wife’s death a decade ago...this isn’t exactly an uplifting collection but Welsh handles the situations with grace and near-humor. The Acid House was penned by Trainspotting writer Irvin Welsh and follows a similarly dank and downbeat style of storytelling and setting. This time the film is split up into three shorts rather than one continuous narrative alá Trainspotting which some others might tell you felt like two stories given the path involving the drug deal the film decides to go down right nearer the end. Visually, The Acid House is very similar to Trainspotting but it also blurs the boundary between realism and surrealism in the same fashion Trainspotting did. If there's one thing I enjoyed Trainspotting for, it was the use of the everyday; of the mundane in locales and dialogue as people spouted Sean Connery trivia and made reference to famous goals in World Cups gone by. The third instalment, The Acid House, is probably the most laugh out loud, ridiculous and depraved. Coco is a drug taking football hooligan who during a trip is hit by lighting and swaps bodies (but not minds) with a new born baby. IW The media fanned the spark that had been there for years. Brexit became a kind of civil war of elites that everybody else was dragged into … I’m not as much for Scottish independence as I am against imperialist nation-states. I think it’s better to be governed by non-hierarchical nation-states that aren’t based on imperialist precepts and entrenched beliefs. I’m for Scottish independence as a mechanism for breaking up the UK, and I’m for English independence and Welsh independence. The real fear of elites in England is that, if Scotland is independent, at a stroke, there’s no royal family, no House of Lords, no Eton. And people in England are going to say – we’ll have some of that. I’m glad I’ve got two beautiful sons. It’s about giving them a loving environment to grow up in... So long as they’re all right, I’m all right Bobby Gillespie

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Three short stories provide a triple dose of mayhem. I've never experienced anything quite like this. Expletives abound in every sentence. Fast-paced dialogue is sub-titled. It's just as well and so necessary with the strong Scottish accent. Theatre". Irvine Welsh. The Random House Group Limited. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012 . Retrieved 29 July 2012.Shown as an standalone film recently, The Granton Star Cause is the story of Boab. Never the sharpest or most driven of lads, he finds himself dropped from his local football team (a team that can only dream of playing a match with proper nets), forced to move out of his parents' house, beaten by police for vandalism, dumped by his girlfriend and fired from his job all in the space of a day or two. Sitting alone in a pub with a pint of lager for comfort, Boab is surprised to find himself approached for a chat by a man claiming to be God. Book Genre: British Literature, Contemporary, Crime, Cultural, Dark, European Literature, Fiction, Literature, Modern, Mystery, Novels, Scotland, Short Stories Irvine Welsh is a fantastic writer. This is only the second book I've read from him (the first one being Filth), and I think I'm in love. There's this depressing underground feeling, a sense of no escape that he captures perfectly. We are all caught up in our bullshit, moving from day to day without any remorse. Good Arrows". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, Inc. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012 . Retrieved 29 July 2012.

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IW I wouldn’t have been a good parent. I’m not interested. I always moved around physically. I would have been very absent, and conflicted. What I wanted to do required a lot of selfishness if you were doing it right. I’ve met your dad. I recognise him from what you say in the book. I didn’t meet your mum. His characters are, as always, flawed and vicious, but mostly wonderful. I do love it when characters from Welsh's other novels make an appearance, this time Spud from Trainspotting cropping up in the novella A Smart Cunt. 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. In "A Soft Touch", Johnny marries Catriona, a slovenly part-time prostitute, in a shotgun wedding. Their baby Chantal is born around the same time that the arrogant Larry moves in to the flat above them. Johnny is mostly left to care for Chantal, and Catriona starts sleeping with Larry. Johnny increasingly finds himself being taken advantage of and mistreated by both Larry and Catriona, but can't do anything about it due to his kindhearted nature. Hattenstone, Simon (17 March 2018). "Irvine Welsh: 'When you get older, it's harder to be a bastard' ". Theguardian.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018 . Retrieved 14 October 2018.

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