Welsh Porno

We watched Trainspotting last night, one of our all time favorite movies. We're glad to see we still enjoy it. Afterward, we decided we wanted more, and since we were not particularly thrilled by other productions by the director, we assumed it was the writer who should be given credit for our enjoyment.

Irvine Welsh wrote the novel. [He also appears in Trainspotting, we learned, as Mikey Forrester]. A few months back we were intrigued by the cover art of Porno, and since it was on clearence, and because we knew Welsh wrote Trainspotting we bought it. We finally decided to start reading it [despite that we heard Trainspotting was nearly impossible for a Yank to read due to the obscure Scottish diction].

We realized we were right in crediting Welsh with our solid enjoyment of Trainspotting when we read on page 4:

"Even as I'm shovelling it up my hooter, I realise the sad truth. Coke bores me, it bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the centre of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somwhere else..."

Welsh has some people pegged [There are others, less famous, that we could name; but they might be reading]. Aye, in either case, we're looking forward to reading the rest of Porno.