Secret Ambitions?

AnnBanks

Posted: Dec 30, 07 3:55pm

The other night I saw Juno, the new comedy about a pregnant 16-year-old who chooses Mark and Vanessa, a suburban professional couple, to adopt the baby. Complications arise when Mark gets cold feet and bails on the marriage. A former punk rocker now writing ad jingles, Mark announces that he is planning to move to a loft in Soho and “work on his music.” Vanessa looks at him with pity and says, “Mark, you will never be Kurt Cobain, no matter what you do.”

No, he won’t and neither will you. I won’t be a country music star, either. This secret ambition of mine is all the more absurd because I can’t sing. At all. (I don’t care what the scientists are now saying, some people are just plain tone deaf.) Still, I think the lifestyle would suit me – I can see myself in one of those nicely decorated Loretta Lynn-style tour buses, with a cute bass player for company. Other secret ambitions: Egyptian archeologist, scuba instructor, bartender, major philanthropist. All in all, I’m happy with the way things turned out. One of my secret ambitions is now my profession. But it’s still fun to imagine an alternate life, in which I would be coming to work in a pith helmet, a wet suit or a spangled gown. Any other secret ambitions out there?

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Posted: Dec 31, 07 6:48pm

The other night I saw Juno, the new comedy about a pregnant 16-year-old who chooses Mark and Vanessa, a suburban profess...

Very interesting thread starter by a woman in dark glasses photographed in shadows.

my secret ambitions: I'd be Jim Morrison's therapist; be a friend of Donald Turnupspeed's who convinced him to stay home on Sept 30, 1955; Meg White's lover-on-call; PI of pedophiles; Lizzie Borden's boyfriend

Posted: Jan 4, 08 7:07am

Very interesting thread starter by a woman in dark glasses photographed in shadows.

my secret ambitions: I'd be Jim ...

Probably you know this already, but if you're into tracking pedophiles, you might like the novels of Andrew Vachss. In real life Vachss is a lawyer for abused kids; in his fictional world, the protagonist of his novels is a New York criminal who hunts down twisted people who prey on kids.

Posted: Jan 5, 08 2:00pm

Very interesting thread starter by a woman in dark glasses photographed in shadows.

my secret ambitions: I'd be Jim ...

Well the photo didn't look quite so mysterious in its original form -- I'm in a kayak with blue water and sky all around. Stripped of its color and cropped, it does look a bit shadowy.

Interesting about your ambition to be a PI of pedophiles. I have had a similar fantasy of being an investigative reporter of pedophiles. I was following this issue since a trial in Providence many years ago, long before the media was reporting on it.

Posted: Jan 5, 08 2:03pm

Very interesting thread starter by a woman in dark glasses photographed in shadows.

my secret ambitions: I'd be Jim ...

Do tell. Who was Donald Turnupspeed? And I know about Lizzie Borden, why on earth would you want to be her boyfriend? Wouldn't she ax you too?

Posted: Jan 5, 08 2:08pm

The other night I saw Juno, the new comedy about a pregnant 16-year-old who chooses Mark and Vanessa, a suburban profess...

A Rockette!! Don't ask me why--I am way too short, but I love their precision dancing!!

Posted: Jan 5, 08 2:12pm

Very interesting thread starter by a woman in dark glasses photographed in shadows.

my secret ambitions: I'd be Jim ...

Donald Turnupspeed was the driver of the other car in James Dean's fatal accident.

I think talldwarf is saying that he'd like to change history and prevent tragedies from happening. I respond that maybe he's already done that -- how would you know?

Posted: Jan 5, 08 2:16pm

The other night I saw Juno, the new comedy about a pregnant 16-year-old who chooses Mark and Vanessa, a suburban profess...

I've always wanted to be in the movies. At one time I had some serious acting chops, but I don't think I have the concentration any longer.