meaty inspiration

I have for several years maintained a list of "things I like," so I can remember what they are. One is "piano music," of which I own precious little, but discovered one day that I like a great deal. Another of them is the Rocky special feature with Sylvester Stallone. This is a retrospective, with a modern-day Sly reminiscing about permanently damaging his knuckles by pounding meat in a freezing cold meat locker, and, more importantly, about being a penniless actor in danger of having to sell his dog, and then being offered money for his screenplay but without an offer for him to star in it, and his turning it down, and by damn is that a good story. I might just watch that now.