Pringle of Scotland Animation by David Shrigley

Speaking about Scottish, here's a truly hilarious stuff made in Scotland.

Camera Obscura

I posted on my Facebook awhile ago saying "Starved of new, good music."
My colleague "Big Mouth" pointed me to this Scottish band.
I am deeply, utterly in love with them ever since.
I feel what we Chinese say"相逢恨晚" (regretting not having met earlier).
Now, one more thing Scottish that has won my heart over (after Travis, Snow Patrol, Belle & Sebastian, Trainspotting, Kenny Dalglish, and their very own accent.)

From the heart of hummingbird to ours

You can brick up your heart as stout and tight
and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can
and down it comes in an instant,
felled by a woman's second glance,
a child's apple breath,
the shatter of glass in the road,
the words I have something to tell you,
a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die,
the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in a thicket of your hair,
the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen
where he is making pancakes for his children.

The last lines of "Joyas Voladoras" by Brian Doyle.
A beautiful piece of writing begins with an invitation to consider the heart of a hummingbird, beats and pumps with facts, vigour, and ends inside a little left of our chest.

For full essay here.