February 24, 2004
Sally
One thing I think the Young Adam movie does better than the book is capture exactly how utterly grim Scotland was in the 1950's.
Edinburgh certainly seemed a lot more grey when I was a kid than it does now. Not that I cared. I was too busy trying to getting laid.
Back when we were 18-19, Dave (the Young Adam director) and I used to go out a lot and try to meet girls. There was this one girl called Sally, who was a real firecracker. Sally was pretty cool by teenager standards. Badass-attitude girl, really pretty, but really sweet. Dave had this big, big crush on her. Sally would roll her eyeballs every time Dave came into the room. Dave was just too geeky for ol' Sally.
I saw Sally the last time I was in Edinburgh. She works in a restaurant owned by a guy I went to school with.
We chatted for a few minutes. She's doing OK. I told her about Dave and his uber-cool film gig. Yep, she rolled her eyeballs again. Heh.
Posted by hugh macleod at February 24, 2004 3:49 AM