Bedrock - For What You Dream Of (Trainspotting)

life is like a box of chocolates. You are just getting the ones made of shit.

Witness, the walks of low lifers, as told in trainspotting.

this song, is inspirational trance in a philosophical and humane way. While, the stuff of Forrest Gump, is a American idiot-making pipe-dream.

“For What You Dream Of”

When the taking on the giving starts to get too much
Let the music hit you with its healing touch
Last night just a way of marking time
Everybody must express their feeling sometimes

Express their feelings sometimes

They say a tree
Is as tall as its many branches
mm-hmm

But not all God's children
Had the same chances

Get Down

Let the self be the need in life
Don't you know that you can count on second chances
Remember the future
And never look back
Listen to the spirit while your body dances

You're loosing your mind but that's ok
You're locked in the groove, don't

The hall of dangers
The power in love
You walk the fire for what you dream of

…

You loosing your mind but that's ok
You're locked in the groove, throw the keys away

“For What You Dream Of”, a song by Bedrock, featuring KYO (Carol Leeming), from the soundtrack of Trainspotting (1996). Written by John Digweed, Nick Muir, Carol Leeming. Produced and arranged by: John Digweed, Nick Muir.

'tis How Love is Made

• Mark Renton: Excuse me, excuse me. I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. And I was thinking to myself, now this girl's special.
• Diane: Thanks.
• Mark Renton: What's your name?
• Diane: Diane.
• Mark Renton: And where are you going, Diane?
• Diane: I'm going home.
• Mark Renton: Well, where's that?
• Diane: It's where I live.
• Mark Renton: Great.
• Diane: What?
• Mark Renton: Well, I'll come back with you if you like, but like, I'm not promising anything, you know.
• Diane: Do you find that this approach usually works? Or let me guess, you've never tried it before. In fact, you don't normally approach girls -- am I right? The truth is that you're a quiet sensitive type but, if I'm prepared to take a chance, I might just get to know the inner you: witty, adventurous, passionate, loving, loyal. Taxi! A little bit crazy, a little bit bad. But hey -- don't us girls just love that?
• Mark Renton: Eh?
• Diane: Well, what's wrong boy -- cat got your tongue?

The song in the dance club is Blondie ♪ Atomic

The Characters

• Mark “Rent Boy” Renton -- the main character and antihero of the novel, Renton is the voice of (relative) sanity among his group of friends, many of whom he cannot stand. He narrates his daily life -- from supporting his heroin addiction with dole money and petty theft to interacting with the “normal world” -- with a cynical, black-humoured eye. He is capable of fitting in well enough to common society, is relatively good-looking and of above-average intelligence, but is misanthropic and depressed, and uses heroin both as a means to withdraw and to give meaning to his life.
• Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson -- A slick, promiscuous, amoral con artist, and Renton's oldest friend. He picks up women with ease and flaunts this quality in front of his friends. He is often on the lookout for potential scams, and despite his friendly, charming facade, he generally regards the women he seduces with little more than contempt. By the end of the novel, he has become a pimp of young girls. Essentially, a combination of Byronic hero and villain, he becomes even more immoral after the death of his daughter Dawn, who asphyxiates while her mother Lesley and Sick Boy are on a heroin binge (Sick Boy outwardly denies parental responsibility until years after the fact, but it is heavily implied that he blames himself for Dawn's death). Sick Boy considers himself above everyone he interacts with in terms of restraint, and moral fibre, despite being one of the most shallow and callous characters in the novel. When thinking to himself, he often imagines he is speaking with Sean Connery. While Begbie represents unavoidable, unanswerable violence to the antihero of the novel, Sick Boy represents cold, calculated expediency, the type of life that Renton would have if he had no conscience or moral restraints.
• Daniel “Spud” Murphy -- Naive and childlike, Spud is both the whipping boy and only real source of comfort among Renton's circle of friends; they feel genuinely protective of him, even as they repeatedly mock and take advantage of him. Although very light-fingered, Spud is notably more kindhearted than his friends, shown, for instance, in his love for animals. Spud represents the product of a society indifferent to social ills; he uses heroin because it feels good and because the simple truth is that he would not be able to achieve anything even when sober. Spud is sent to Saughton prison for a section of the novel for petty theft.
• Francis “Franco” Begbie -- A violent sociopath, Begbie terrorises his “friends” into going along with whatever he says, assaulting and brutalising anyone who angers him. He expresses intense loyalty to his friends though he considers junkies to be the lowest form of life, despite being thoroughly addicted himself to alcohol, amphetamine, and, most notably, the adrenaline rush of violence. He is part of the YLT (Young Leith Team) football hooligan gang.
• Davie Mitchell -- The “everyman” of the novel, Davie seems to be the most “normal” of the characters. Unlike the others, he is a university graduate and holds down a decent job, and represents, to a degree, the “straight life” most of the characters try to avoid. He is not immune to the dangers of his environment, however, and his life is thrown into chaos when he contracts HIV; his experiences with the disease form the basis of the story in the chapter “Bad Blood”.
• Tommy Laurence -- A childhood friend of Renton's, Tommy does not use heroin and seems completely content to drink, use speed, play football, and listen to Iggy Pop. However, he is insecure and depends on others for validation; when his girlfriend dumps him, he numbs the depression by experimenting with heroin, grudgingly provided by Renton. His resulting addiction, downfall and death weigh on Renton's conscience (and, in part, provoke him to seriously attempt sobriety).
• Rab “Second Prize” McLaughlin -- A friend of the main group, who is often inebriated due to drinking vast amounts of alcohol. His nickname comes from the fact that he gets into many fights whilst drunk, and always loses. He had a promising career as a pro footballer lined up, but ruined his chances when he became an alcoholic, and returned home in shame. His girlfriend Carol eventually breaks up with him due to his constant inebriated state. Second Prize often makes a fool of himself whilst drunk, so far as to put his drug addicted friends to shame and embarrassment. He goes to London in the conclusion of the book with the others, and spends the whole time intoxicated.