Had It

The camera is set on a couch in a living room wih two empty chairs.  Two Adam and John enter the picture with suites and ties on.  They set down briefcases to inform the audience.  They have an abvious look of disappointment on their face as they go through the start of their routine:

John: How was work?

Adam: It was Work. ( Sigh)

John: Fucking work.

The scene then cuts out to the open couches again a week later.  They enter the scene again but this time show more negative emotion from their work day.

Adam: How was work.

John:  It was ….Fucking work.  Gets up and throws a vase.

Adam remains still nodding his head.  They sit back down as if it never happened.  They begin watching television:

Adam: Whats on

John: uhm Boxing, Mtv

Adam: Wait wait, go back to boxing. The camera zooms in on Adams face as he looks “gloriously” at the screen, the camera pans in on his face while zooming in on the boxing match and shows the audience its something he’s into at the moment.

John then sits on the couch with a guitar in his hands. As the song playing in the background gets louder.  The music takes over all sound as the camera zooms in on john staring intensely at the player. “ I can do this” he murmers with no other sound but the music playing and in slow motion.  The camera then zooms out on the both of them as they simultaneously have epiphanies that they need to chase their dreams.

The song then quickly switches to something more fast paced as they train for their dreams. And the next four scenes unravel in sequence.

Adam begins by taking a glass of eggs and throwing them up, conveniently into a frying pan.

John begins practicing by doing pushups on his guitar./Curling the guitar/

Adam is then shown boxing and destroying young children.(winning feeling confident)

John is then shown playing guitar hero with his guitar sitting on the couch next to him.(winning feeling confident)

The scene then comes back to John and Adam back at the apartment but the song playing goes to a softer slower pace.

Adam: Are you ready?

John: I don’t know I haven’t played much guitar. Are you ready?

Adam: I don’t know I spent most of the time in the hospital with food poisoning.

John: No time like the present.  Lets do this!

The two share a comical handshake and they head off to their individual debus.

John is introduced at a local coffee shop.

Announcer: Next up we have John Zaller……….. John Zaller……. Is there a John Zaller in the building?

A stage hand comes out and whispers in the ear of the announcer who looks irritatingly at the stage hand. The stage hand then hands him a note card with his introduction on it.

The announcer begins reading it silently as John yells from behind the crowd and draws attention.

Announcer: (Reluctantly) Introducing………John….The Machine……Zaller

Crowd gives minimal applause as John heads on stage fist pumping and getting the crowd involved. 

John: 1 2 3 4…

As he begins playing it is obvious that he has no musical talent whatsoever.  He is quickly booed until a young listener approaches the stage and whips a beer at his face screaming simultaneously

Listener: You suck.

The crowd then Joins.

Crowd: You Suck! You Suck! You Suck!

John then runs off stage  out of the bar and into his car. 

The scene then goes to Adam who is in a locker room mentally preparing for the fight he is about to take part in.  He punches a locker and cringes in pain.  Just then a trainer comes in and tells him its time.  He nods and walks out to a big crowd and a ring in the middle of the crowd.  As he gets closer to the ring he sees his competition.  A 6 4 black man who makes a throat cutting gesture his way. He begins trying to backtrack but because the crowd is closing in behind him he cannot back out. They push him forward as he tries to turn and run.

He enters the ring and the announcer introduces the two fighters.

Announcer:  In the blue corner standing 6’4’’ tall, weighing in at a solid 285 lbs.  Guaermo the Killer Johnson.

The crowd begins booing.

Announcer:  And in the red corner. His opponent.  Standing 5’ 11’’ tall, and weighing in at a mere 160 lb. Adam Michel.

The crowd cheers, and begins taunting “the killer”

As the bell rings the camera only shows Adam get hit a couple of times before it switches to the view of the audiences reaction.  Blood sprays the crowd and girls begin crying yelling out, make him stop.

The scene then goes back to the apartment where the two walk into the picture broken and battered. John has beer and food all over him and is carrying his broken guitar.  Adam is blood soaked and can barely speak from the amount of swelling in his face.

Adam: How’d it go.

John: Uuuuhm, It went okay, id say.  Ill probably beg for my desk job back tomorrow, but you know what Im glad I gave it a shot. How’d you…….(he is stopped as he looks over and sees the condition of his buddy)

Adam:  (Interrupts) It went better than it looks.  It doesn’t hurt that bad, the doctors said my body would be in shock for a bit, and then the pain would kick in.

John: No pain killers?

Adam: Uhm nope apparently when you quit your job you loose your benefits.

John: You quit your job?

Adam: You didn’t?

John: No, I took my vacation time.  Weve only been doing this for a week.

The two sit in silence

John: So any glimmer of hope? Did you land any shots?

Adam: No but I think he may have sprained his wrist when he broke the ribs on my left side.

John: Huh.

The two then turn towards the Tv in silence.