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I came across Drugstore Cowboy on TV today. Even better it was just before the section that's scratched on the library DvD so I could actually watch the stuff with William Burroughs in it properly. (Abe and I watched it together the first time when we were going through are post Naked Lunch beat phase, so i have a soft spot for it). Anyway, listening to Burroughs talk, I am always amazed by how well Peter Weller does him in Naked Lunch, catching the odd intonation and vocal mannerisms without turning it into parody. Anyway, I watched it with Trainspotting in my head, which I've watched a few times, most recently last week, pocking at the different ways the movies handled similar themes. Narrative voice is so important in both of them, the themes so similar, yet the effect is very different. There is a shot of Matt Dillon on a train, when he's going back to Portland where for a second he looked like Christian Bale. He turned, and his profile suddenly morphed into Robert Pattenson, complete with the famous hair and Edward Cullen emo sulk. Ah the recurrence of certain facial proportions in male leading men. I have nothing profound to say here.