Tick Tock... Mixtape by Houston Longino 7/19/08

Houston created a great mix tape for me this last time on short notice... We discovered that even though Sacha Dzuba had finished his tape, a gig with his band The Julia Dream was taking him away from the theatre the night of my performance and we both wanted him to be there to see his magic at work. Though I don't yet have the a description of his method-to-madness I do have the track list...

1. What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani


2. Fate's Wide Wheel - Scott Bakula


3. Yesterday - The Beatles


4. Timebomb - Old 97's


5. One Week - Barnaked Ladies


6. Four of Two - They Might Be Giants


7. Synchronicity I - The Police


8. I know its Mine - Oysterland


9. A Question of Time - Depeche Mode


10. Make tomorrow - Peter Gabriel

Synopsis:

Jeremy, a confused young man suffering from what many people call "being male" has made some stupid choices in his life and unfortunately stands at the brink of losing his beloved wife forever. When she packs her bags and walks out the door, Jeremy goes on the road hitchhiking to re-discover a bit of what life is all about.

Amongst the people he crosses paths with are a superhero (who is nice enough to make him a "sidekick" and teach him the power of the double layered mask) and a truck driver who is "a little bit racist" due to  his girlfriend and business being stolen by a "china-man." He later reveals that he isn't racist, he just has it in for that particular unnamed person of Chinese heritage. We can tell from the character of the truck driver that he was probably the cause of the breakup and business loss himself and is just blaming it on his girlfriend's new Asian Beau.

When Jeremy goes traveling long distance with the truck driver, he forgets to tell him that he is diabetic and when he pays no attention to his blood sugar and slumps on the dashboard the trucker breaks from his duty of delivery and heads to the emergency room. This causes the truck driver to miss his scheduled delivery of his shipment and so he stays in the waiting room and with Jeremy because he has no place else to go.

Jeremy's wife Gwen shows up at the hospital because she thinks he is going to die.  Jeremy botches any type of apology or patch up job on his marriage at the hospital but you can tell things are finally getting through to him. In the following scene we see him over apologizing to the truck driver and asking him to room with him since he feels responsible for the driver's lost job and truck. Gwen comes home and the two of them close themselves in the closet for a private conversation and finally Jeremy is able to commit to his wife and tell her his revelations of how he should act as a husband. The show ends on a happy note with the feeling that things might work out between them.