MetaFilter posts tagged with trainspotting

Second Coming

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:16:09 -0800

Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here (previous)

Revisiting Mother Superior

mannequito — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:15:14 -0800

In what may be an attempt to make amends for causing Susan Boyle to 'flee America' (although that apparently wasn't the real cause), Lou Reed has directed her new music video, a cover of his own song Perfect Day. The original, of course, would find fame later in life as the soundtrack to the overdose scene in Trainspotting.

Steam Punk

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:27:37 -0800

Captain Sensible travels on the historic Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch steam railway to Dungeness Captain Sensible visits Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Captain Sensible trainspotting In Dawlish The Damned go Steam Crazy

Our show's a hit, it's sh1t - you watch it anyway

mippy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:13:07 -0800

The Adam and Joe show ran on Channel 4 during the 90s. There are many marvellous memories from the late-night lo-fi bedroom fest, but most fondly rememberered are their re-enactments of popular films and shows using toys. Kids. This Life. Toytanic. Shine. Se7en. American Beautoy. Saving Private Lion. Furends. The Toy Patient. ToyTrainspotting.

Scotland's heroin problems

peacay — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:19:32 -0800

What happened to the Trainspotting generation? Heroin and Scotland: the relationship continues.

Wait. Wait some more. Turn around. Wait.

lucia__is__dada — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:17:38 -0800

As Orwell said, "another English characteristic which is so much a part of us that we barely notice it,... is the addiction to hobbies and spare-time occupations". Of those, trainspotting must be the most misunderstood. But now you can try it yourself with the online trainspotting simulator and join in the fun!

This is the time. And this is the record of the time.

mykescipark — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:45:07 -0800

MeFi Trainspotting Dept.: While most music consumers long ago traded up their sonically dodgy, graphically threadbare, non-bonus-enhanced early CD pressings of their favorite albums, a subculture has naturally arisen to absorb their discarded digital detritus. Witness "Target CDs", a family which encompasses certain early West German and Japanese pressings on the Warner/Elektra/Atlantic (WEA) labels. So named for their distinctive label design, Target CDs - unlike, say, MFSL Gold CDs - make no particular claim to superior fidelity or longevity; in fact, due to their notorious "flat transfer" process from whatever version of the album happened to be lying around, it seems quite the opposite. (Further evidence for the purely nostalgic and/or aesthetic value of these discs can be seen in the "hypothetical Target CDs" threads.) Even so, as within any oddball subculture of collectordom, one can now expect to lay out serious bucks for certain of these shiny little period pieces.

Everyone featured on this site requires a fucken glassing.

mcsweetie — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:06:44 -0800

Everyone featured on this site requires a fucken glassing. Who do you think needs to be glassed?

Train Spotting

jasonspaceman — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:53:13 -0800

Train Spotters rejoice! Rail Pictures has all sorts of locomotive shots.