T. Rex, The Kinks, Django Reinhardt, Beck, The Doors, Louis Armstrong, Nino Rota, Devo, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes, The Rolling Stones, Blind Willie McTell, Blondie, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Raymond Scott, Jelly Roll Morton, Mozart, Prince
Movies
Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Buster Keaton, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, Francois Truffaut, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Hal Ashby, John Huston, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Sergio Leone, Terry Gilliam, John Waters, Sofia Coppola, George Romero, John Carpenter, Quentin Tarantino, Luis Bunuel, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, The Sarah Silverman Program, Freaks and Geeks
Books
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexandre Dumas, Honore de Balzac, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Hunter S. Thompson, Guy de Maupassant, Voltaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Arthur C. Clarke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jack Kerouac, Stan Lee, Charles Schulz
A young man in modern America, Victor, over-read and over-imaginative, believes himself to be a World War I veteran, injured in France, returning to the country in the Roaring Twenties. He's discovered wandering the train tracks by a young and impulsive 20-something girl named Jane, who soon befriends him and adopts him into her life. These two friends grow inseperable, and Victor soon becomes the envy of Jane's jealous and over-protective friend, Dean, and the object of her neurotic and pushy boss Faye's affection, much to her meek husband Walter's embarrassment. The film explores the effects this strange character has on those around him, as well as his struggle to reconcile reality with his illusions and the everyday monotony of modern life with his romantic visions of the past.
20th Century Boy is an independent film written, produced, and directed by Joe Kramer and starring Andrew James McManus and Jess Bernard currently seeking distribution.
Who I'd like to meet: Someone that can get this mother seen.
Sorry I didn't see your message until just now. I haven't gotten started on the new music yet, but I should be able to get things rolling this weekend. You're looking for two songs, right? One for the bar scene (in place of the Kinks song) and one to replace the guitar riffs when Victor's walking along the tracks? Would you prefer that I try to emulate those existing tunes but just change the melodies (and lyrics)? Or did you want me to be more creative than that? Any guidance is helpful.
