10 things I love about Scotland

#8: Trainspotting. And Scottish Indie cinema for that matter. An all-time classic is this '90s gem. This scene - and the hilarious Ewan McGregor rant - is all I could think about yesterday when one of my colleagues was assigned a story where he was asked to hit the cobbles and ask everyday people a very dangerous question. A newspaper report this week in a British paper said that Scottish people are the grumpiest and most miserable people in all of Europe - although Scotland is not in Europe, well that's another blog altogether. He is an Englishman, and was actually fearing being "done in" by one of the working class Scots he put his questions about the grumpy and rain-soaked Scots. I'll put a link to his story, which was an absolute "belter" (fantastic), with hilarious quotes which all came out on the streets in the pouring rain. Classic. Anyways, Trainspotting. #8

Green Day

While hiding out from the rain the past little while, I've been listening to nothing more than the new Green Day record. I've bought bet each and every album they have put out on the day of its release since 1994. To help celebrate 15 years, a little video that was dubbed one of the greatest rock performances of all time. Albeit way behind the legendary sets of Hendrix, the Who, Pink Floyd or the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the infanous Woodstock '94 MUDFIGHT is still classic. I remember seeing this on Much Music the week it was released. Happy Saturday.

Scandal and Politics, BFF!

A few weeks back, the Daily Telegraph (one of three publications printed on broadsheet newsprint, along with the Financial Times and yep, the Glasgow Herald) paid more than £150,000 for details of MPs' personal expense claims over the past four years which it has published in excess every day since.

The details of the report are thrown about in every medium, every little tabloid or major newspaper, and have taken over probably 75% of what is covered in the news section of publications each day. I'm tired of hearing about it, but the phrase 'Mps expenses' has now replaced 'global financial crisis' which soothes me for now.

Art

Photo: Daniel C. Bach