Langston Hughes wondered "What Happens To A Dream Deferred?" I don't want to find out.

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I've been writing songs for about 20 years and it had always been a thought "Wouldn't it be cool if one day someone covered one of my songs? To hear a song I wrote on the radio?" But that was about it, I just kept writing and keeping my songs to myself. I hosted an open stage for while and did a spot on "The Big Breakfast" the local morning show, at the time, here in Calgary.

I took a date to see the movie Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. During a car chase scene Nickleback's cover of Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting plays for about 30 seconds while a car is flipping through the air in slow motion with smoke and explosions and all the glitz that hollywood could pack into 30 frames a second. I thought to my self "forget radio... I need one of my songs to support a kick-ass scene in a movie."

Following the movie I finished design school. Bought a house. Started a new career in web design. Got married to the girl I took to Charlie's Angels. Had a baby. Changed career direction to user experience design. Read a poem by Langston Hughes.

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

- Langston Hughes

I decided I didn't want to find out and started back on the path to getting a song on a soundtrack. Of course in the 7 years it took to get from Charlie's Angels to where I am now, the music industry has changed significantly. Changed to the point where getting a song placed in a commercial, TV show or movie soundtrack is the path to take for indie artists. I have some hard work to do and some damn fine competition in the indie scene.

Here's to working on a dream,

-tucker-