Amber Wu - Miscellenia
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Amber would be played by Olivia Burnette or Eva Mendes - but only 5'3 and with dark auburn hair.
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Jobs & Employment: the many ways of earning a living
In her haphazard upbringing, Amber has held employment (usually unpaid) in an unreasonable number of jobs. Most have lasted only a week or two. Virtually all of these do not require 'job skills' as such. A vast majority are ones she was 'hired out' by the orphanage to do as a kid.
For amusement, this is a partial list of things she's spent a week or more doing at one time or another.
... Baking ... Berry & Fruit Picker ... Bookbinder ... Calf Feeder ... Chicken slaughterer ... Circus Cleaner ... Ditcher ... Egg Collector ... Farmhand ... Fencing Hand ... Farriers assistant ... Fruit Preserving ... General Cook's Assistant ... Grape harvester ... Hide Trimmer & Salter ... Kitchen Hand ... Laundry Worker ... Market Garden Hand ... Mechanics Trainee ... Mill Hand ... Mushroom Drying ... Orchard Hand ... Postal Delivery ... Pruner ... Potter's Assistant ... Printer's Hand ... Rabbit Skinner ... Rope Maker ... Scrap Metal Sorter ... Sales Assistant ... Shoemaker ... Sideshow assistant ... Slaughterhouse Trimmer ... Smokehouse Loader ... Stable Hand ... Tent Maker ... Tinker's Assistant ...
Many of these categories cover a number of other skills. For example, 'farm hand' would include tasks varying from pushing hay off the back of the MULE to feed steers, heating irons to de-bud calves, hold piglets for castration, sharpen scythes, mix pollard for ducklings being fattened, milk a house cow, bucket-feed orphan lambs, grease gates, help clean and prepare fruit for preserving/drying, feed the dogs, gentle the yearlings before they're broken to ride, make sure the well pump is fuelled . . . and yes, it is possible for a country kid to do these, and more, over a few years for experience.
Themes & Songlists
Most of these can be found on YouTube [1] if you're curious.
| Alice Cooper | Hurricane Years | Hey Stoopid |
| Allizee | Mademoiselle Juliette | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Fortunate Son | Willy and the Poor Boys |
| Enya | Caribbean Blue | Shepherd Moons |
| Elaine Paige | Nobody's Side | Chess |
| Eric Bogle or John McDermott |
No Man's Land | |
| Journey | Wheel In The Sky | |
| Kansas | Dust In The Wind | Dust In The Wind |
| Krypteria | Victoriam Speramus | |
| Krypteria | Get The Hell Out Of My Way | Liberatio |
| Leonard Cohen or Concrete Blond |
Everybody Knows | |
| Loreena McKennitt | All Souls Night | |
| Mecano | Hijo de la Luna | |
| Mike And The Mechanics | Silent Running | |
| Pam Tillis | Land Of The Living | Greatest Hits |
| Pink Floyd | High Hopes | The Division Bell |
| Savage Garden | To The Moon & Back | Savage Garden |
| Steve Hackett | Ace Of Wands TV theme | Voyage of the Acolyte |
| The Mike Curb Congregation | Burning Bridges | Theme from Kelly's Heroes |
| The Waifs | Lighthouse Man | |
| Traditional | Early One Morning | |
| Traditional | The Maid Who Sold Her Barley |
Funnies
Freefall Comic : http://freefall.purrsia.com/
"...It is a humorous science fiction story detailing the misadventures of the spaceship Savage Chicken and its crew: Sam Starfall, a lovable alien con artist; Helix, a childlike robot; and Florence Ambrose, a genetically engineered "Bowman's Wolf" (i.e. an anthropomorphic canine)...
Simon's Cat on YouTube [2]
Simon Tofield is an animation director at the UK's Tandem Films. His award winning animated short series Simon's Cat has captured many a cat lover's heart with their very funny, yet accurate, depiction of a cat and their human.
Pigs Is Pigs
Ellis Parker Website [3]
At Project Guttenberg [4]
Pigs Is Pigs is a noted story written by Ellis Parker Butler. First published as a short story in The American Magazine in September 1905, "Pigs is Pigs" went on to dozens of printings as a book and in anthologies over the next several decades.
Puppetry
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