Tied Together By a Tune

Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined. Written by Sujit R. Varma

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2410938649/

Filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana
A Love Song For Bobby Long. 2004. Internet Movie Database. December 16, 2009 .

In this movie, the young girl, Purslane sorts through her mothers personal items and discovers a book her mother once read titled "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers. She reads the book and finds its relevance to her current life experiences with the men who have settled in her mothers home.

The book's main character is a little girl named Mick Kelly. However, it shifts back and forth from the perspectives of all it's characters. It expresses how each point of view connects the story through emotion, social class, and a level of interdependence on each of it's characters.
As an account of daily life in a long-passes age, Mick recounts incidents of death with a stoic attitude. This character has much in common with the character Purslane in the movie A Love Song For Bobby Long.

The book also has an interesting reference to technology. On page 27, from Mick's thoughts comes this:
"M.K.-That is what she would have written on everything when she was seventeen years old and very famous.......Maybe she would be a great inventor. She invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears. Also flying machines people could fasten on their backs like little knapsacks and go zipping all over the world. After that she would be the first one to make a large tunnel through the world to china, and people could go down in big balloons. Those were the first things she would invent. They were already planned."

McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940.

Mick loved music. So it makes sense that she wanted to invent the smallest imaginable portable radio. I am familiar with her invention.The little tiny "green pea" sized radios that I carry around and stick in my ears are called Ear Buds. And the device which produces the music is called an iPod. Strangely enough, the green pea grows in a pod.




This technological innovation allows you to "clip on the world’s most wearable music player and take up to 500 songs with you anywhere, choose from two capacities and five colors to make your musical fashion statement, andoperate the iPod shuffle controls with one hand. Enjoy up to 12 hours straight of skip-free music playback."

Model	iPod shuffle
Capacity	2GB1(Up to 500 songs)3
Battery life	Up to 12 hours of music playback4
Ports	Stereo minijack
Connectivity	USB through included dock
Charge time	About 4 hours (2-hour fast charge to 80% capacity)
Audio support	AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), WAV, and AIFF
Size	1.62 x 1.07 x 0.41 inches
Weight	0.55 ounce
Included accessories	Earphones, USB dock

iPod Shuffle. 2009. Apple Inc.

If I wanted to listen to some popular tunes, I could download the soundtrack of A Love Song For Bobby Long. It would be categorized as:

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Chef John Folse explains says, "It is important to realize that cultures and cuisines must constantly evolve. This evolution process is brought about when new ingredients and ideas are introduced into a region. Here in South Louisiana, the evolution process may be witnessed at every turn. The Cajuns today have more access to the outside world because of increased mobility and as interstates began to cross the bayous, cities arose from our swamplands. An example of this process of change is the merging of cultures in New Orleans."
One of Chef John Folse's most loved receipts is Green Peas with Andouille.

History. 2007. Chef John Folse & Company.

We have to "Make It Right" for New Orleans, or we will lose the keystone of its foundation; its people. There is a spirit of the residents which can not be matched by other cities. These people have bound together throughout history to continue their culture. Most of us have been to New Orleans and will gladly enjoy the cities unique offerings and festivities, but are we not obligated to lend a hand when it is at its precpice of colapse?