The Thing Called Love

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to Nashville.

In just a few minutes,

we'll begin boarding our 4:45 departure for New York City.

Howdy. How you doing?

Applications and pencils are on the bar.

Don't steal the pencils.

Hurry it up. Doors close at 4:05.

Anyone not inside at 4:05

doesn't audition.

When I call your name,

I want you to come up on stage.

If it's your first time,

I think you should know that if you don't pass,

it just means I don't think you're ready.

Go home and keep on writing

and come on back again.

You're going to try out for writer's night?

Yeah.

I'm a writer myself.

I had a top 20 hit last year.

Young writers always hate it when I tell them that.

I tell them, live for the moment.

Don't get a picture of when you hit

'cause you ain't never going to be in that picture.

This is it.

doesn't matter what it looks like on the outside.

It's what's going on inside that counts.

Thanks.

What time is it?

4:15.

We're going to have to do something about this.

You're here with me.

I changed a flat tire for you,

which is why I'm late.

James, you know the rules--4:05.

I just stopped to fix this girl's flat tire.

That was really nice of you.

You are a regular Good Samaritan.

Next time, let the cab driver change his own tire,

and you get here on time.

You should consider breaking one of those rules sometimes.

It might be liberating, if nothing else.

Hey, I don't know him.

That tire thing was his idea.

I just came here from the bus station,

all the way from New York.

Look, I know I'm late,

but I really did suffer to get here.

What was your name, honey?

Miranda Presley... No relation.

Well, Miranda Presley, no relation,

there is nothing you can tell anybody in this room

about suffering.

There's another audition next week.

Hey!

I don't appreciate you

including me in your lie back there,

especially without asking me.

Well, that's a fine point to make.

Thank you.

Okay.

There might be a song in that.

Huh?

I was going to ask you out for a beer,

but I've since changed my mind.

What is that, some kind of line?

Yes.

Does it work?

Sometimes. Rarely.

I'll bet.

I might change my mind again.

Maybe you should change your line.

That'll be $20.

I'll pay for the whole week.

Oh, that won't work.

Well, the strip is shot.

The card's good.

You can call it in if you want.

No need for that.

You said it was good.

Never did cotton to the idea

of trusting a machine over a person.

You've got an honest face, Miranda.

Have I got a room for you.

come on in, sweetie.

You can sit wherever you want.

I'll be right with you. Thanks.

applications, pencils are on the bar.

Don't steal the pencils.

I sure hope so.

hey, my name is Linda Lue Linden,

and, um, I'm from Briar Hill, Alabama,

and I just finished this song,

and it's called Heaven Knocked On My Door.

uh, Miranda Presley.

Yeah.

Hi, my name's Miranda Presley.

I'm from New York City,

and this song is called Big Bar Hair.