I have heard it said that "sex is like air, it's only important if you're not getting it."Well, people need it and apparently ain't getting it. The otherwise attractive older lady who opens her mouth and lets her ugly out at my girlfriend in the coffee shop for not being psychic about her culinary desires. People who try to run me over to get to the stoplight. (Shit, man, you are in a car. You'll get there before me no matter what.)
I will make the effort to get the world laid. I will make an attempt to get everyone happy. I am important, but small. We all are. "Even the president of the United States sometimes has to stand naked." I have paid my dues, but the world is slow to learn. If you are any part of the entertainment industry, you are a cog, no matter what they tell you. You are Johnny Bravo. You fit the suit.
I once did sound for a really cool modern dance performance and had to double as a body double to try on various costumes so the star could sit in the audience and see how they looked under different lighting. Even in that empty theater, being just a guy in the clothes, I felt good under the lights, good that care was being taken how I looked--even though it wasn't me they were really caring for. There, ducky, is the crux of the entertainment industry. We are all that guy, wanting to fit. In an increasingly digital age, where artists of all mediums are cutting and pasting, it is less important what the source material is an more important how you rearrange it. As Cash Newmann said in Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women, "Everything that can be done, has been done. Being a great artist today consists simply of being a great editor."