― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't know about the Devon thing, but surely it should be left out because it tastes like cough medicine?
I'm going to go for shortbread. And the Loch Ness Monster, because I was fascinated by it when I was small (or when I was wee, as I should say on this thread.) Also - T The Park was great because I wasn't the only stupidly pale person frying in the sun.
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, x-post - I liked Soma too.
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Ben Nevis
West Highland Beaches
Lucky Tatties
The Arches
Hogmanay
― Rumpie, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
i have never experienced the "real" electric brae. i should. although isn't it just full of cars rolling slowly into each other?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
John Byrne - Fantastic painter and playwright, you might have come across some of his work without realising it as he has been commisioned to do album covers for The Beatles and Gerry Rafferty among others. He wrote Tutti Frutti which was a big deal in Scotland, in the late eighties and deserves a DVD release but this, I'm told, is somehow stymied by rights/credits issues.He also wrote an incredible trio of short tragicomic plays set in 1950's Paisley called The Slab Boys trilogy which are worth checking out.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon - a turn of the century author who wrote a series of books called 'A Scot's Quair', concerning a young womans life growing up on a remote Croft, it's a rite of passage tale with the slightest mystical flavour. You might say he's almost like a Scots Steinbeck, it's great stuff. There's a film apparently being made as I speak but I don't know if it's just going to be dealing with the first book 'Sunset Song'.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Lots of experiments with footballs and small children.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb/teaching/hume/hume.jpeg
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/images/maxwell2.jpg
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~awarwood/omega.html
Scared the living shit out of me as an 7 year old.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/02/21/17166.shtml
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Madchen OTM about Deuchars IPA. Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted is a good un too.
John Byrne is pretty awesome. I've never seen Tutti Frutti though. Apparently the reason it's never been repeated is that the BBC are being funny about royalites for the old rock n roll songs used on the show, but that always struck me as rather dubious.
Alexander 'Greek' Thompson. Renowned architect who made Glasgow look like it does, whose buildings have all too often been demolished or left to crumble by shortsighted/corrupt (ahem) local councillors.
The Barrowlands ballroom!
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
[ahem subs pls check spelling] but otherwise good fucking call.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
i'm still not entirely sure what it was. a dude showing cartoons? that sounds kinda neat.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
and my mum *FORGOT* to send in my birthday card to get read out. Unlike Mari0n W1ls0n's mum, who didn't. So on my birthday weekend, I had to suffer girl-cleverer-than-me getting her card read out by Glen. boo.
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah yes - I forgot the hankies!
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
and this ...
So on my birthday weekend, I had to suffer girl-cleverer-than-me getting her card read out by Glen
this explains everything, stet :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Glen Michael was in fact my first "gig" in Cumbernauld.
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
bloodthirsty barbarians who paint themselves blue and hurl themselves at the English, and yet the ultimate, almost parodic genteelness of the twee worldview of B&S, almost as if it's a an exaggerated reaction to the former (see also Momus). Is that all about the Highlands/Lowlands divide?
I don't think I'm particularly twee. I feel a sense of kinship with people like Alasdair Gray (I met him years ago in Aberdeen) and also with people like Stuart Murdoch, and also with Robert Burns. The gentleness in these people might be described as fierce, and, as in "The Wicker Man", there's a strong pagan sensuality and Celtic lyricism. My own ancestors were Gaelic speakers from the Hebrides (mainly the island of Mull, which my mother has written an excellent book about), and at least two of them (the McKechnies, Angus and Donald) won the bardic crown at the Mod for poetry in Gaelic.
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
i tried to visit mull once but the clouds poured down for two straight days and it was the most i could do to just see its outline across the harbor.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link