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Rewatching Trainspotting 1 again it is the introduction that really grabs one into the movie and won't let you go from there. It opens with a funny and accurate diatribe against everything that is wrong with suburban life. Meanwhile there is racing music as Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy run from the police.

FABULOUS TRAINSPOTTING INTRO- CHOOSE LIFE

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Text of the intro: "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television Choose washing machines, cars, compact-disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments, Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose D.I.Y. and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose Life. But why would i want to do that? I chose not to chose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

TRAINSPOTTING 2 - CHOOSE LIFE FROM TRAILER

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Text of Choose Life 2: "Choose life. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames wishing you had done it all differently. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose your future. Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn. Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work and choose the same for your kids only worse and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody else's kitchen. And then take a deep breath. You're an addict so be addicted. Just be addicted to something else. Choose the ones you love. Choose your future. Choose life!"

A bit of Lancashire crossed my path.

This March I've had a bit of Lancashire England cross my path. My friend Julie of 24 years of Colne in Lancashire came to the U.S. to visit me after we hadn't seen each other in 14 1/2 years. We worked together in SF in 1993 then she moved to Berkeley, Kuwait,Beirut and then back to England. Colne is 6 miles northeast of Burnley or 25 miles from Manchester. This is a wonderful snow globe she got me for my collection.
Lancashire 2
Had the fortunate experience to see an invitation only preview of Trainspotting 2 and met Danny Boyle the famous director from Manchester.

Trainspotting 1 was shot 20 years ago and was about a gritty young group of friends from Scotland and their story of growing up on and off of Heroin. Trainspotting 2 is 20 years later, same actors and it shows what has happened with their lives. It had the same charming group of actors/characters always struggling and scheming to get ahead. The camera shots were stylish and there was magical realism in the shots portraying what they were experiencing on Heroin visually.

My two wonderful Lancashire experiences a few days apart and over 20 years in the making.