Here's "At The Ballet", from the original Broadway cast.
I remember the day I heard it the first time. My mentor T took me and a couple others to see B, who'd let our community theatre scene. And we drove some hours to go to B's house.
I was just a kid, maybe 15? And B's house was exquisite, far classier than I'd yet encountered. And I adored them both, of course, mentors. And she had a pre-release tape. None of us had ever heard or seen the show.
But you know, your mentor, and her best friend your other mentor, there I was, a boy tryna to get what was going on.
B was very sad, Kids are dumb, ya know, but we're not stupid. She was so happy to see us, so cheerful, so hostful, so very lonely, that me and T and the others were a place she could be with.
So we listened to her tape.
There are several good songs in A Chorus Line.
This one, tho.
T was a central force in my life. I still talk to him a couple times a year. I hope B made out okay. God, it was sad.
Grown-upping is very very hard.
... i was pretty ... i was happy ... i would love to ... at the ballet.
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I use this to introduce the kids to jazz, cuz of that piano.
But. Alone. At night.
I just sing it to the trees.
Mom, ya know, mom was a pretty hurt cookie, not well at all, tho decent, I'm not saying any abuse-like shit. And of an evening, she'd have a beer, and would put a record on our record-player. It wasn't a stereo, we were poor as fuck, but a record-player.
I'mo not bust someone cuz they sibling was fucked up. My sibling was an abuser. I done some bork things in my life, but not like that. Having a family member who committed evil is not a legitimate criticism.
Yeah, I know, awkward.
Predators live in the spaces where we don't talk about it. Cuz, you know, it's awkward.
Coaching Pro-Tip: When the developers act like testing the code is a time-wasting checkbox that costs a great deal and rewards very little, they are usually right, and one has to find out why, and tackle that, before pressing them to test more.
In test-after shops, it's quite common to set a test goal, usually but not always expressed in terms of coverage numbers. Once this is done, the org begins to press the developers to meet that goal.
My experience is that this kind of pressure backfires way more often than it succeeds.