Trainspotting

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 DIY 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, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life...But why would I want to do a thing like that?




Mark Renton (starring Ewan McGregor) has instead of life chosen a "sincere and truthful junk habit" and a bunch of friends who inhabit a world all of their own.

Renton
Name: Renton a.k.a. Rents, Mark Mum's little baby
Sport: Suppository Diving
Opponent: The worst toilet in Scotland
Recipe for Success: Tomato soup, ten tins of; mushroom soup, eight tins of for consumption - cold; ice-cream, vanilla, one large tub of;
Hobbies: Watching home movies, selling real estate
Philosophy: "Choose life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a fucking big television."




Begbie (starring Robert Carlyle)

Begbie
Name: Begbie, a.k.a. Francis, Franco
Sport: Short distance crotch kick
Opponent: All pub-visitors on the British Isle
Recipe for Success: Ten pints of ale, four packs of cigarettes
Hobbies: Committing armed robbery with toy guns, unwittingly charming transvesties.
Philosophy: "No way should I poison my body with that shiite."




Sick Boy (starring John Lee Miller)

Sick Boy
Name: Sick Boy
Sport: Reciting James Bond trivia
Opponent: Sean Connery detractors worldwide
Recipe for success: One air rifle with telescopic sights.
Hobbies: Target shooting, pawning off British passports
Philosophy: "At one point you've got it, then you lose it - then it's gone forever."




Spud (starring Ewan Bremner)

Spud
Name: Spud
Sport: Laundry-room dash
Opponent: Girlfriend's mother
Recipe for success: One pink soiled sheet, one hangover
Hobbies: Giving bad job interviews, doing hard time
Philosophy: "Pleasure in other people's leisure.; Ayy?"




Diane (starring Kelly MacDonald)

Diane
Name: Diane
Sport: Double-fisted disco diss
Opponent: Male species
Recipe for success: One tight sequin dress, one flannel school girl uniform(optional)
Hobbies: Seducing older men, singing New Order in the shower
Philosophy: "Music's changing, even drugs are changing. You've got to find something new."

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Welcome to "Long heard days"... Have you seen Trainspotting? Read the book?
Trainspotting is great! Here you'll find info on both the movie and the book, an assortment of pictures of Rents and the rest, some quotes, links and more. If you want to chat about Trainspotting or about this homepage,Email me!