Category Archives: Building
The Lighthouse (2019) is out there.
This movie defines fate and foreboding, superstition and subterfuge. It’s ostensibly about two blokes with shady pasts, but segues to a hysterical Puritan sermon on the dangers of drink, with a style which harks back to German Expressionism
It all gets a bit hardcore. You’re on a lighthouse island and with no escape, stranded with two total lunatics, the nominally quiet one and the macho man – and a descent into madness is the only outcome. It’s a gnarly movie.
And subtitles are needed for Willem Dafoe.
St James Quarter.
I’ve seen worse, but I’ve seen better. In all honesty, I just miss the stinking thing which signposted the gateway to Leith. Same shops, but fancier. Welcome to Hell.
Edinburgh Castle, January 2022.
Obligatory annual Waverley snap.
Best job I ever had. My duties consisted of putting ramps on trains, turning off my radio and hiding in the ScotRail toilets whenever there was a crisis, and occasionally pointing an annoying member of the general public in the wrong direction or directing them to an incorrect platform if they vexed me.
Brilliant times.
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 