"Lucas, do you think it's possible for a person to be in love with someone else and not even know it? "
A.J.
Empire Records
1995
Could one night change your life? Could one corporate decision cost you your integrity? Empire Records was a story about music, teen angst, and capitalism at its best. When the store, Empire Records becomes behind financially, the crew has one night to decide what they have to do to save the store and what they are going to do for the rest of their lives.
Open till midnight, yet, choices for the future.
I think about my first job and how crucial it seemed to make sense out of the role in which I was assigned. I think about how serious I took the job and how much I invested in perfecting my skill. That job led me down a seven year path of learning, growing, experiencing and experimenting. Yet, what I remember the most were the friendships, the laughs, the challenge and the accomplishment.
The best part about having a great job, is being surrounded by the people you grow to care about the most.
The greatest part about incorporating music and song and lust and angst in a job is that you find yourself drawn to go to work each day because it becomes your mini-series story. Empire Records idolized the teenage job category with creativity and skill. Work was supposed to be fun as a teen. Work was supposed to test your will power and evoke your own creativity.
Work is just like it is supposed to sound; work. Yet, when you work to play and play to work, are you realistically a part of a little experiment we call life? Or are you playing in someone else's play?
The cast of characters in Empire Records were diverse, yet, troubled in their own little ways. You have the dreamer, the creative thinker, the Mr. corporate, the free thinker, the suicidal, and the lover. Think about the characters in your life's movie. Think about the personalities and roles each one of them play.
Do you know the dreamer? Do you know the free thinker? Perhaps you know the lover, the one that seeks to find passion and lust in everyone, or maybe the Mr. corporate that takes everything so seriously.
Either way, jobs lead to careers, and friendships lead to relationships. Embrace the music, remember your story and live like each day closes down at midnight. If we can't find peace in the job, we can always look to the people to make the workload just a tad bit manageable.
Or I guess we could just sit around and fantasize about a rock star.
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Thanks for sparking my memories of this great movie. My favorite charachtor is Waren.