i had a free redbox code to use, as it was expiring at the end of the month. so i used it to see 'greater', a bio-pic about Brandon bulsworth, a football player. since i was equipment manager on my high school's football team i like football. and as a 'stodgy academic' i am partial to bio-pics. so when i saw it while searching for a good one i said 'that's the one!' i was unfamiliar with his story, as he was from Arkansas. but i liked this movie. sometimes i said 'you can't coach desire' too often, but he sure had it, making the college team as a walk-on. it of course made me think of some other bio-pics, including 'brian's song' as one line from that earlier movie fit this one. 'ernest hemingway said every true story ends in death'. in this case, it seemed sad from the word go when it started out with the main character's death. and then his life story was told in various flashbacks. i didn't recognize many actors in it, just one, leslie Easterbrook, who was in the 'police academy' movies. some of what was in the timeline of the movie reminded me of where i was at that time in my life. i was living in suburban Chicago near the end of the time period covered, which is 1999.
i had a job interview this morning, and i would like to think it went well. but i won't know right away, as it is close to the holidays. and what i know is that i seem to say the same thing on most interviews, and first dates. how i hit the right chords and most of the time i am wrong. i will hope for the best, but it was my fifth interview and no offers yet. so it would be foolish to stop looking, when there are no offers yet. at this point i must be realistic and know i would be back at work on January 1 at the earliest. it was the first time i recalled speaking freely about being a performer- at an interview.
i performed at two different venues tonight. first was karaoke, i did one song, 'torn' by natalie imbruglia. some really enjoyed it, saw somebody holding up a cigarette lighter like we were at a concert. i saw a friend of 'the button' as well, two of them actually. but i know one better than the other. the first is the one i have seen at another venue, she did 'my heart will go on', it was from the 'titanic' movie. the other did a Kelly Clarkson song, 'since you been gone'. then i went to another venue as it was crowded. and i was on near the end of the lineup and i liked seeing a record label bossman in the bar area.
i had a job interview this morning, and i would like to think it went well. but i won't know right away, as it is close to the holidays. and what i know is that i seem to say the same thing on most interviews, and first dates. how i hit the right chords and most of the time i am wrong. i will hope for the best, but it was my fifth interview and no offers yet. so it would be foolish to stop looking, when there are no offers yet. at this point i must be realistic and know i would be back at work on January 1 at the earliest. it was the first time i recalled speaking freely about being a performer- at an interview.
i performed at two different venues tonight. first was karaoke, i did one song, 'torn' by natalie imbruglia. some really enjoyed it, saw somebody holding up a cigarette lighter like we were at a concert. i saw a friend of 'the button' as well, two of them actually. but i know one better than the other. the first is the one i have seen at another venue, she did 'my heart will go on', it was from the 'titanic' movie. the other did a Kelly Clarkson song, 'since you been gone'. then i went to another venue as it was crowded. and i was on near the end of the lineup and i liked seeing a record label bossman in the bar area.
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