memories of a different me

Tweet

I was a different me in 1996. It was the year my Nana {with the long-garden} died, I graduated from university and I met and fell in love with a drug-taking, alcoholic scoundrel. It was also the year that Trainspotting was released on the big screen. And my drug-taking, alcoholic scoundrel of a boyfriend looked exactly like the main character Renton, played by Ewan McGregor. He also shared many of the same characteristics and personality traits, and even the same long eyelashes and similar friends. Yep, even a Begbie. The one major difference was the accent; Scoundrel was a Mackam {similar accent to a Geordie, but from Sunderland not Newcastle.} Trainspotting is probably my favourite film of the nineteen-nineties. Or maybe it's Dogma. It's possibly too close to call. Anywhichway, Trainspotting had a special screening at the cinema this evening so that all the grey-haired and wrinkly old fogies could relive a life in a world which was just on the cusp of an infusion with technology. Husband and I went. It was amazing to see it on the big screen again. It's funny, cringeworthy, and brings back bittersweet memories of a me who doesn't really exist anymore. Trainspotting 2 will be released Friday week. Huzzah!