May 2012
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Old pals are the best.
I’ve known Gina about ten years, and just saying that makes me feel ridiculously old.
We met through a mutual early uptake of the internet back when you had to dial up on a 28k modem. Whilst normal kids were out riding bikes and drinking in the street, we were coding websites and spending Friday nights on IRC.
Sure, that may not have seemed like a great idea at...
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Cathouse 12-05-12
There’s an unspoken rule amongst the Cathouse staff that no matter what happened the night before, that every day is a new day. No matter how much of a wreckage someone might be, it could always be you next week… ‘One big fucked up family’.
It’s a good way to work, and something which has probably saved me on more than a few occasions.
DJ...
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Cathouse 06-05-12 - 80s Night
My memory of this night is fairly hazy.
Here’s Kirsty. She’s a legend.
Every so often my 5D does this stupid digitising thing… It’s pretty odd. Had a look online but haven’t seen anything about it. Any ideas? It’s only once every few months on one picture.
Aw, how cute.
It wasn’t till the following day I...
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Cathouse 04-05-12 - Star Wars Party May the fourth be with you.
Dunn Dunn DunDunDun DUNN DUNN… etc.
It’s May the 4th, so cue a host of cheesy puns which of course lead to nothing less than an entirely Star Wars themed night at the Cathouse.
For reference, here’s me showing how it should be done:
Nice.
Who knew that there were so many Star Wars fans kicking about.
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I’ve written and re-written what I’m trying to say here a few times, and decided just to spit it out rather than give some elongated introduction.
I hate the fact that we live in a world where the benefits and inevitability of globalisation are preached throughout our entire culture, whilst the complete opposite is true for those of us who do not have the luxury of owning...
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The cool thing about having a place like this is that I can put up pictures that don’t really do too much on their own, but that let me ramble around about them.
I’m in this weird nether space of transition between different stages in life, and I wish it would hurry up and switch over rather than drag the whole process out quite so much. There’s a whole theory about identity...
April 2012
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December 2011, Glasgow Hasselblad 500CM - Polaroid Back Fuji FP-3000b
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So it’s a Monday… what are we going to do?
Drink Hendrick’s gin with cucumber in the park and take some pictures obviously.
Me and Charlee have been talking about hanging out and doing just that at somepoint for ages, and finally got round to doing it. The current screwed up schedule that my life keeps can be pretty tough to keep a handle on, but it means you get to do...
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Dear 6x6,
Please forgive me. I’ll never cheat on you with that slut digital again.
Yours,
Stephen McLeod Blythe.
Mugdock Castle, April 2012 Hasselblad 500CM - Kodak Portra 400UC (expired 2007)
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Cathouse 20-04-12
Another night, another ridiculous amount of Jack Daniel’s.
These girls were nice.
This band played the worst DJ set I have ever heard. I don’t usually notice the music too much in clubs one way or another… it all fades into background noise after a while, but it was truly woeful.
Luckily the punters were as awesome as ever.
This guy’s friend...
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I haven’t taken ‘proper’ pictures in ages, for lots of reasons… bored of chasing people up to ask if they’d mind me taking their photo (and feeling like a creep); too much going on; pish weather; laziness in using digital a lot; more convenience for blogging purposes; and most of all… because I am so deathly bored of developing and scanning film.
Either...
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Cathouse - 11-04-12 - Jäger Tour Afterparty (and unofficial bar launch)
Know what? I really love my job, and nights like this remind me why.
The Cathouse have re-done their ‘spider bar’ (or bar 4 to those stuck in the past) to become the first officially branded Jägermeister bar in the UK. To help kick it off, the Jäger music tour rolled into town and out afterwards to...
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Cathouse - 15th April 2012 - 90s Night
Who doesn’t love the 90s?
It’s probably better not to ask that actually.
No matter what people thought of that particular decade, people seemed to love Daz in a morph suit.
Personally, the 90s nights in the Cathouse are some of my favourite. The music of that decade was some of the most formative in shaping my tastes, and influencing the...
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Cathouse 14-04-12
This past week has been pretty crazy…
I’ve been in the Cathouse about seven times out of ten days; ended up pulling more than a few all nighters; and now have a fair whack of photos to upload. Prepare for a slew of clubbing photos for the next few posts.
Some guy saw me walking to work and tried to find a quick fire insult to hurl because I wasn’t wearing...
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Faslane
Somewhere I’ve become fairly familiar with over the years… the Faslane base on the mouth of the Clyde, where the UK’s nuclear weapons are kept.
No words this time, just pictures.
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Cathouse 10-04-12 - A Little Bit of Variation.
I was down to work last night at the Angels and Airwaves aftershow at the Cathouse. It wasn’t as busy as I’d hoped, so I decided it was best to take the night off and just have a few drinks instead. I’m always hyper-aware of harassing people with a camera, and think it’s important to be able to read the atmosphere and know...
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Crail
Birthdays are good, but they also come with a whole lot of pressure to do something worthy of such a momentous occasion as marking another year on this mortal coil.
The traditional method of celebration in the West of Scotland is to go out with a bunch of friends and consume ridiculous amounts of alcohol. Since I do this for a job, it doesn’t have quite the same significance as it...
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I’ve been thinking the past few days, and there’s a lot to be said for loyalty.
Whether it’s returning to the same tattoo artist, or piercer, or club, or restaurant, or 24 hour shop… going back to the same place over time because of the people that are there and the service that they offer is more than worth the extra cost that you might end up paying either financially...
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I always heard that if you wanted a tattoo design, you should put it off for six months, and if you still wanted it after that time, then it was right for you to get it.
My own experience is somewhat different. I’ve found that I’ve hummed and hawwed about what to get for ages, and then out of the blue something has come up and I’ve known immediately that I was going to get that...
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Cathouse - Thursday 29th March 2012
Out working again… this time as the clocks turned over and I became a whole digit older.
Who better to meet on your birthday than a real life, bonafide Jack Daniel?
You’ve got to love the Cathouse. Even when you turn up on your own you find somebody to hang out and drink with. What a wonderful place… like these two lovely,...
March 2012
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Here I am, avid readers. Look at that short hair. Am I respectable yet?
Old buildings with brightly coloured bits are the coolest.
Speaking of old, I turn 24 tomorrow.
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Cathouse - 27th March 2012
Still recovering.
Errrr.
Donna scarily suits my glasses pretty well.
William Brown gets around.
You probably already know him.
It’s always cool meeting people in person that you’ve only ever seen kicking about the internet. It’s weird; almost as if they aren’t real until you see them in real life; a collision of two worlds.
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Why I hate (occasional) sunny days.
Sunny days are rubbish.
Rather, occasional sunny days are rubbish.
When the sun only appears once every so often, you have this awful pressure to actually go out and make the most of it. Waking up later in the day feels like some sort of crime against humanity.
Given my rather disparate nature, I’m not exactly the first person that gets called...
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Glasgow in the Sun
What a sunny day in Glasgow.
Okay, so I might have gotten up at half two, and only left the house after four, but it was still sunny… and still warmer than any other day of the year. I hope that it ends up raining tomorrow, since I’m in work all day. Not that it really matters, since I wouldn’t be out and about either way.
After being at uni for four...
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Couchsurfing - Tessa
I haven’t had any Couchsurfers stay in a while (okay, a few weeks), and so it was rather nice to be able to help out Tessa for a bit. She’s in the process of moving over to Glasgow from Cologne in Germany, and going through the thankless process of having to seek out both a flat and a job. Ouch.
We headed out for a few beverages, which was rather pleasant....
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St. Paddy’s Day 2012
It’s that time of year where people across the world get out the Irish flags and drink Guinness in memory of some long lost historical roots that they may or may not actually have. To be honest, it’s just like any other night in Glasgow.
Before heading to work, the wonderful Lindsey joined me to sample some vodka gummy bears that I’d put together. She...
Cathouse 10-03-12
Catty Cat Cat Cat Cathouse.
It was pretty mobbed last night as there was a couple of gigs on in town, which is always good fun. It’s much better to be in a busy club than a quiet one.
This is one of the bands who were playing at the Arches. I’ve no idea what they were called, but they were from Sweden, and had a hot blonde singer with blue lipstick.
There...
Stumbling Home at 3am - Glasgow
Where we are in Glasgow is a perfect spot for people watching.. avid readers of the blog will know the many sights that we’ve come upon over the years.
Around 3am you get to see all sorts of stragglers making their way home from the clubs in the City Centre. Some are on their own, some kiss goodbye to groups of pals, some stop for cash, and others fall...
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Cathouse - Friday 2nd March 2012
So I’m back to work at the Cathouse, and all is right with the world again.
p.s. like my t-shirt?
aye.
Daz is getting his own back on Ryan here by throwing a pint over his laptop, after his was drenched in similar circumstances the night before. I, of course, managed to save the hard disk with my unbelievable skills.
Motherboard was fucked though.
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February 2012
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order from noise
It’s been a while since I updated, as I’d warned may be the case.
I got the new motherboard for my beloved Macbook today, and despite having four empty holes for screws to go in, and two screws left that fit none of them, it seems to have gone okay. Even the glue I had to use to hold the fan connection together seems to have been effective enough. I had planned on...
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Man Date III - Back with a Vengeance
Eh, guys from Kirkie in suits?! This can mean only one thing… Man Date is back.
Essentially, a gathering of our local hoodlums (err, friends) meet up, head into the big city after drinking a fair amount, have dinner, then drink some more… all whilst suited up. What could possibly go wrong with that?
This was my first Man Date experience, and...
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This is Molly. She came to Couchsurf last week. I’ve not had anybody stay in ageees, and I probably won’t be having too many for a while given the amount of stuff that I’ve got on, but I like to keep my eye on the ‘emergency’ couchsurfing group to lend a hand to people that are stuck for somewhere to stay last minute.
Being off work is pretty strange. Undeniably...
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Despite having a loan of somebody else’s Macbook, it’s not quite the same as having my own setup. Given that mine is currently in a pile of plastic parts and screws (God knows how they all fit back together), that’s not really an option. However, I’ve ripped out the hard-disk and managed to boot up from the OS into something resembling my own config, so taking the...
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Updates are going to be scant on here for a bit. After things being incredibly full on for a while, I’m having to take a bit of a step back from life before I wind up dead before the beginning of summer.
On a more practical side, the motherboard on my beloved Macbook of five years has gone and given up the ghost. As one may expect, to get this repaired through Apple would cost...
January 2012
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Birmingham - 35mm black and white
I finally got my finger out, replaced a broken thermometer and developed a few black and white films that had been sitting gathering dust for a while. (Absolutely nothing to do with putting off writing my disseration, for the record.)
Turns out that one of the films was from when I went down to Birmingham for a few days back in January last year (2011), which I...
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50 - Murder Mystery
Continuing on with the celebrations for my dad’s 50th (which he claims have to last the full month), a pile of us gathered at the house back in Kirkie for a gangland themed night.
With all of the cigars and cocktails kicking about, it was almost like being back in New Orleans.
Ever since I was wee and read a book on Al Capone, I’ve had a soft-spot for the...
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The Cathouse - Saturday 28th January, 2012
One of the best things about this nightclub photography malarky is the unexpected folks that you meet.
Keeping in touch is the hard part.
Pale skin, red lips and blue hair = awesome.
I do love coloured hair. Maybe one day I’ll dye mine a ridiculous colour again.
I think she could probably pull them off.
People...
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Cathouse - Australia Day
G’day. Tie me kangaroo down sport. Throw another shrimp on the barbie ya old cobber, etc… It’s time to throw on some ridiculous (and inaccurate) hats, drink pish beer and celebrate Australia day at the Cathouse.
This night only served to confirm that my memory is shot to pieces.
Not a good omen for upcoming degree exams probably.
This is a nice...
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Wisdom dictates that one should not act in the heat of the moment, or write and post something online whilst angry and in the throes of intoxication. It can often be unwise and ill thought out.
However, as I’m sure you wonderful readers will know, sometimes you have to give words to feelings that you have immediately when they occur, else risk losing the zeal for them forever afterwards.
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50.
It’s been over a week since I got back from America, and it all feels oh-so-far-away. Despite being a pretty private person, I’m often fairly open on here, which is probably partly because I feel like nobody reads it, so I don’t have any intended listener in mind. As a result, sometimes it’s a good idea to withdraw for a bit to avoid spilling out more truths to the...
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American Update - The Finale
This is written from the comfort of my own bed back in Glasgow, after returning from sweet home Alabama. Even though I’d successfully taken numerous flights between three airports and a myriad of security checks (as well as a bus or two), I managed to fall at the last hurdle and take the long train back from Haymarket in Edinburgh to Glasgow. You know the one...
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American Update #something or other - the penultimate.
So it’s come to that point again; that point where I feel the horrible lurching feeling about leaving people that I’ve met behind, knowing that I might never see them again, and wondering just how far distance can stretch relationships… that time where I piss everybody at home off by missing a time and place that they...
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American Update #7 - NEW ORLEANS
Wow… what a place. I’m not sure where to start. Anybody that gets half a chance to come here should definitely go out of their way to make it happen.
This American city is definitely my favourite so far. What Atlanta lacked in a bit of life, New Orleans has by the bucketloads: shops and bars and unique places round every corner, this is somewhere...
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American Update #6 - Nashville
Welcome to Nashville… ‘Music City’.
I like this place. It feels a lot more like a City than Atlanta did. Whilst the latter seemed fairly empty and lifeless, Nashville has a bit of soul, and a downtown area that actually has shops and bars to wander about in.
One of the cool things was walking past the various bars and hearing different styles...
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American Update #5 - Jack Daniel’s Distillery - Lynchburg, Tennessee
The time has finally come…
but first… Dan (my couchsurfing host for the few days I’m Nashville) and I had breakfast. Apparently you can’t go to the South without having at least one meal at Waffle House.
It’s funny how things work out.
Ever since I started drinking Jack Daniel’s,...
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American Update #4 - Post Hogmanay, and the City of Atlanta.
Hangover? Luckily the South have a love of deep fried food in common with the Scots. You can get all sorts of things battered, which is fine by me. I’d lost a fair bit of weight before I came to the States… I’m sure when I return to the homeland I’m going to be like the side of a house.
Behold… Deep...