Midnight Train Going Anywhere

I have decided to take 5 days off and jump on a train and see where it takes me. There are a few condintions I must follow though. In the wonderous words of ‘Journey’ the train must leave at midnight and be going anywhere…I’ll be armed only with my camera and a tent.

I can’t get in too much trouble in 5 days can I? I left my phone in someones car last weekend so if I get it back before Thursday I’ll always be able to phone someone if I do. I really hope that he forgets to chuck it i the post though so I can at least pretend I am going on a real adventure. I know that people do this kind of thing all the time but I am pretty sure they plan well in advance and actually know where they are going.

Sweet Jesus. If the fact that Journey coming on my ipod right now isn’t s sign that this trip is going to be awesome I don’t know what is. I only have 25 songs on my ipod but still….fate yes?

Finding a midnight train is tough though. I was planning on just turning up at the train station and jumping on the first train that leaves at midnight but I might run the risk of having to go on a train to Glasgow *shudders*. I am currently going throught the list of destinations after I typed in ‘anywhere’ into www.thetrainline.com and I am not having much luck. All I need is to just see that there are some trains leaving at midnight other than to Glasgow and I am set.

Why would anyone want to use the words of ‘Journey’ as a basis of a 5 day holiday I hear you ask? Why not? I had my usual 3 day holiday to Rock Ness booked and planned for at least 4 months, a music festival in one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland with weather hot enough to give me sun stroke 2 years in a row. It is what I look forward to the most each summer, nay year. The friend that agreed to go with me decided to ruin it by leaving 12 hours after we got there. She knew how angry I would be that we had to leave but she put all that aside andI was back in Edinburgh less than 24 hours later because the location and atmosphere wasn’t ‘as described’.

Why didn’t I just stay on my own? Because the whole point was to go on a trip with someone and enjoy it with someone. Not get dumped in the Highlands of Scotland on my own.I’ve done going to Rock Ness thing on my own before and while I enjoyed myself I still felt a miserable because I was on my own. The whole point of going with my best friend is because the last time I went on an actual holiday with a friend was in 1997. Wait..I went on a camping trip last year with a friend but I was left on my own most of the time while my friend went to climb a few Munroes. It was fun but if I had wanted to go away somewhere with no company I would have gone away on my own.

So I have given up on the fantasy of being able to go away for a few days with a friend and actually enjoy myself. Over 10 years of going away on my own should have being a big clue as to why I don’t tend to travel with other people. All I wanted was a few relaxing, drunken days away from the village of Edinburgh. I had plans of wandering around Dores all day taking photos of anything and everything. I had plans of sitting by the Loch and just relaxing. I had plans of maybe seeing some bands in the evening too haha!

So this is what has inspired my midnight train journey. Planning and going away on holiday with someone doesn’t seem to work for me. So this is my anti holiday. I don’t want anyone to ruin something I had been looking forward to for months so I don’t want to know where I am going until I get there and I certainly don’t want anyone with me. I might not enjoy myself as much if I have no one to share it with but at least I won’t have a whiney bish with me desperate to get home so she can argue with her boyfriend instead of wanting to spend time with someone who is suposed to be her friend…

Don’t Stop Believin’
- Journey

Just a small town girl
Living in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere

A singer in a smoky room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers, waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding somewhere in the night

Working hard to get my fill
Everybody wants a thrill
Paying anything to roll the dice
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on

Don’t stop believing
Hold on to that feeling
Streetlight people

Back To The Future Lied To Me And I Want My Money Back

I got my lomo photos back today and I have just realised that that was the third roll of film I have had developed THIS CENTURY! How can that be? Damn the future and our stupid need to have everything straight away. One day, in a drunken rage I imagine, I will throw away my mobile phone, laptop, digital camera and regress back to the days of yore when living was moderately harder but much more fun.

Ah the 80’s! They seem so distant but I remember them well…No mobile phones, no internet in it’s current soul sucking form, no digital cameras, no mp3 players, no mp3’s(!) and no CD’s until 1982 – was this the beginning of the end?

Lomo-Tastic

I got myself a second hand Lomo Fisheye 35mm compact camera today on a very rare ’shopping’ trip that consisted of hitting every charity shop in Tollcross. Also purchased were a £2 pair of ‘Ballet Pumps’ (Are we American now?) and ‘Now 18′ on vinyl for 65p.

I’m very excited to be using film again. I forgot what it was like not knowing how the photos were going to come out and how expensive it is to get film processed. Fun!!

My Lomo Fisheye Camera!