Requiem for a Dream Book

We all want to have better lives. When I was young, I wanted to be a teacher my father said no money in teaching. So, I wanted to be an agriculturist he said you will be digging dirt till the day you die. So, I wanted to be a priest priests die with their ass dirty as no one takes care of them. So, what? Why not be a doctor? Okay. After becoming a medtech, what? But he did not have money to send me to a medical school. Ha ha ha ha

In my iPod, I have this song by The Pussycat Dolls. One morning, I had LSS (last song syndrome) and my daughter caught me singing a part of it. She shrieked with joy and laughed out load. Strange but songs just get into our heads.
♪♫♪When I grow up
Fresh and clean
Number one chick
When I step out on the scene ♪♫♪ Not sure why this song kept on popping in my head while reading this 1978 novel by Hubert Selby, Jr, Requiem for a Dream. It is an easy read and each character has its own voice. The appropriate emotion in each scene gets reflected on Selby's narration: it can get doped with the wrong spelling and narration; it can get lonely as you remember how many failed diets you tried and they all did not work; it can get orgasmic as Selby makes the lovers moan and moan endlessly and it can get very angry with the junkie son shouting at his poor mama's ears: WHATTA YA DOIN TO ME??? YOUR ONLY SON!!!!

It is about four dreadful pathetic characters. Four Americans in Bronx in the 80s. There is middle-age, living by herself, obese Sara, the mother who wants to appear on a TV show in an old red dress that her dead husband Seymour really liked on her. So, she takes dieting pills until she can fit into that old worn-out dress. The thinks that being slim means being new and the whole world will discover how wonderful girl she is.
♪♫♪When I grow up
Be on TV
People know me
Be on magazines ♪♫♪ There is Sara's only son, Harold or Harry and his girlfriend Marion, who, aside from making love twice a day, injecting their veins with cocaine and smoke grass and cigarettes in between, dream of putting up a coffee shop where Marion's paintings (she loves to paint and dream of become a famous painter someday) can be put on display. Then later they can go and tour the whole of Europe.
♪♫♪When I grow up
I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars
I wanna have groupies ♪♫♪ Then there is Tyrone "Ty" C. Love thats ma name babe dreaming of a better life for him and his girl Alice.
♪♫♪When I grow up
Be on TV
People know me
Be on magazines♪♫♪
But Harold's and Ty's way of achieving this dream: drug pushing.
♪♫♪Be careful what you wish for
Cuz you just might get it
You just might get it
You just might get it ♪♫♪ That's where the song went all wrong. They dreamed. Wrong way. They lost.
♪♫♪HA HA HA HA♪♫♪

Seriously, there is that part in the lyrics.