Success
Success comes in many different forms. I think my brother's annual quote went something like this: "Everyone says that the definition of success is whatever you make it out to be. I'm still looking for a better dictionary." Well, the Vancouver Week-end to end Breast Cancer "[raised] 5,500,000 dollars for BC Cancer Foundation in support of research and enhancements to care at the BC Cancer Agency." Yay!
And last night I watched a pirated DVD from China about a British DJ (based on a true story!) who did drugs and got drunk a lot but was this amazing dance/techno DJ who got the party going like no other DJ...until he went completely deaf and his performances were terrible (because he couldn't hear what he was playing!) and he couldn't make a CD because it was crap. His trophy wife leaves him and he isolates himself in a room for a few months, where nobody bothers him and all he does is hope that by staying in the quiet his hearing will come back. No such luck. He comes out a new man, learns how to lip read, falls in love with his lip-reading instructor, who takes him out to watch a flamenco dancer. He realises that he can't hear the music or her dancing, but he can feel the vibrations from the port in the glass on the table. They go to a club and he can feel the vibrations coming from the huge speakers on the dance floor. So he goes back home and puts his feet on his speakers and decides to make music that way. He makes a CD which people think is better than the one he made when he wasn't deaf! He never hears it, he just "feels" it with his feet! He does this one absolutely out-of-this-world concert that has everyone raving about him - and then he disappears with his girl (the lip-reading instructor) never to be seen again. People don't know where he is! He just wanted to prove that he could DJ again and then he vanished!! It was a bit documentary-style with narratives from people who knew him, or people in the music business. It was a cool movie that I had never heard of but I bought because I liked the cover (yup, I'm that shallow; and for $1/DVD, I don't have to be picky).
So another success story. And I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams to ya!
And last night I watched a pirated DVD from China about a British DJ (based on a true story!) who did drugs and got drunk a lot but was this amazing dance/techno DJ who got the party going like no other DJ...until he went completely deaf and his performances were terrible (because he couldn't hear what he was playing!) and he couldn't make a CD because it was crap. His trophy wife leaves him and he isolates himself in a room for a few months, where nobody bothers him and all he does is hope that by staying in the quiet his hearing will come back. No such luck. He comes out a new man, learns how to lip read, falls in love with his lip-reading instructor, who takes him out to watch a flamenco dancer. He realises that he can't hear the music or her dancing, but he can feel the vibrations from the port in the glass on the table. They go to a club and he can feel the vibrations coming from the huge speakers on the dance floor. So he goes back home and puts his feet on his speakers and decides to make music that way. He makes a CD which people think is better than the one he made when he wasn't deaf! He never hears it, he just "feels" it with his feet! He does this one absolutely out-of-this-world concert that has everyone raving about him - and then he disappears with his girl (the lip-reading instructor) never to be seen again. People don't know where he is! He just wanted to prove that he could DJ again and then he vanished!! It was a bit documentary-style with narratives from people who knew him, or people in the music business. It was a cool movie that I had never heard of but I bought because I liked the cover (yup, I'm that shallow; and for $1/DVD, I don't have to be picky).
So another success story. And I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams to ya!
posted by Caro at 2:19 PM
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