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Tommy’s MY attention👀👀👀? and then lol GIVEN THE CHANCE I too would attach any and all body parts to that mostly legs BEEFCAKE.

#eddie diaz #buddie #evan buckley #evan buck buckely #tommy kinard #opportunity knocks #and just once apparently

"Those were the days", Mary Hopkin

1968 Written by Boris Fomin and Gene Raskin

One of fifty posts in Let's Do It, my personal favourite singles from 1954-76.

Take the tune from a Russian romance song, and discard the words. Add a fresh lyric written by an architecture lecturer. Have it sung by a gamine nymphet from OpKnox, and get top pop star HRH Sir Paul McCartney in to produce it. Release it through Paul's label, and watch the royalties roll in.

OK, we're being a bit snarky. "Those were the days" works because it's a bit exotic, the trills and arrangement in the introduction tell us how the song isn't foursquare rock 'n' roll. It works because Mary Hopkin is a tremendous singer, uses her voice to conjure up a spell, a vision of the scene. And it works because the lyric fits, tells a story and meshes perfectly with the tune.

Perhaps the only dissonant note: Mary is young, and she's singing an old woman's song. She later reflected, "Maybe that's what worked with the song, the fact that I was almost a child, singing an older woman's song. That's what people liked about it. But I felt privileged to have been given that song by Paul." She revisited "Those were the days" in 2018, worth a listen.

#mary hopkin #those were the days #1968 #paul mccartney #apple records #opportunity knocks #russian folk song #let5d0it #let's do it #pop music #20th century #1954-1976

FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

The Jonson Sisters (1971)

Opportunity Knocks was a tv talent show that ran from 1949 to 1990. It spawned many successful comedians, musicians and variety acts. (We'll go into the show and the reputation of its original host Hughie Greene in the future).

I don't like talent shows, (well except for The Gong Show or Novelty Island!) To me, the acts are not as much produced, more vacuum-packed. Oh they have talent, but why sell it cheap? Something is lost when a performer is given a song that a committee hopes the punters will like and then a sob story to tug at the nation's collective heartstrings. I'd rather listen to a band in some lowlife boozer, where the only tears shed are your own when it's your round.

#friday night special #opportunity knocks #the jonson sisters #70's #medley #talent shows #funny #girl group #Youtube

Opportunity Knocks (1990) dir. by Donald Petrie

#opportunity knocks #dana carvey #todd graff #robert loggia #julia campbell #donald petrie #90s #*#nati

Last week I sent out a Hail Mary application for a job as a library specialist in my old college town, and I fully excepted to be ghosted or sent a form email with the word "unfortunately" in it, but today I was told that I had been selected to move onto the next hiring phase. They want me to come to the library for an interview and a written test, and it pays two dollars more per hour than my current job (if I got a full 40 hours, that'd be $650 or $700 extra per month after taxes). This would literally be a dream come true were it not for the fact that they scheduled my test for this coming Wednesday, August 17th.

Problems:

I am 400 miles away.

I have no car.

I have a job to which I am currently employed and expected to show up on Wednesday.

"To ensure fairness for all candidates, requests for alternate or makeup assessment dates will not be granted."

What do I do? Do I pass this up, or do I throw away everything for a chance at a career. Not even a guaranteed career, just a chance, with who knows how many other applicants vying for the same position. I could quit my current job, take a coach bus up there, crash with my sister for a few days, take the test, and they pick someone else. Then what? It's high risk/high reward, but I'm not a betting man and I can't possibly be the most qualified person for the job (I'm an English major who has exclusively worked retail and customer service since high school).

I'm trying to convince myself it's not worth it to continue, but then why did I apply in the first place?

I want it.

I want it, but it's just as much luck as it is skill, and I can't afford to go for it and fail. If I do this, I either move on to the next phase of my life, OR I wind up stuck at my parents' place for a very, VERY long time. The job I have now is perfect for my mental health because it's easy, low stress, low stakes, and my boss doesn't care what I do in my considerable amount of downtime; I am basically paid to browse tumblr for hours and occasionally answer the phone/door. I'm never gonna find another job like this down in the Keys, it's lightning in a bottle, so if I give it up and don't land the library gig, I'll have to go back to bagging groceries or some shit. I can't do that again. I can't stand for 8 or 9 hours a day. I can't return to the "the customer is always right" mindset when my current boss knows the customer is very often wrong and expects me tell them so. I can't do it. I won't. Certainly not for less than I make now (my job pays well over minimum wage; most jobs down here do not)

My boss is pretty lenient, but I don't think she's lenient enough to give me multiple days off, on such short notice, for the express purpose of finding another job. She wouldn't let me come back after that. I can't unburn that bridge.

I don't know what to do...