IKOAFS Music

IKOAFS Movie Music Ideas Nov. 09
	ARTIST	TITLE	IDEAS/ NOTES     * = .wma file
1	The Wowz	"Happy Today"	=D>
2	Say Anything	"The Church Channel"
3	Lach	"Drinking Beers with Mom"	[for a chillin' scene; Lach if you're reading this you better still be around]
4	Moxy Früvous	"Sad Girl"	[Craig/ Nia]
5	The Swinging Neckbreakers	"The Girl Can't Help It"	[Aaron & Nia together]
6	Blunderbuss	"Git My Dog Drunk" *	[to show madness! "Blunderbuss" is an obscure solo project of a guy I know who used to have a job where his responsibility was to watch YouTube videos all day and report on what was cool; he told me that he spent most of his time picturing his co-workers' heads exploding.]
7	Thee More Shallows	"Freshman Thesis"	[entering hospital/hospital hallways]
8	The Dwellers	"Sepulchers" *	[any late-night scene; The Dwellers are from Moab, UT and I'm proud to say I have spoken with TJ Turner, who gave me the tracklisting for his record]
9	Saosin	"Deep Down"	[HS scenes]
10	MGMT	"The Youth"
11	The Atomic Bitchwax	"S&*! Kicker"	[Craig playing a competitive sport with Bobby]
12	The Felice Brothers	"Chicken Wire"	[Craig & Aaron having a fun day together]
13	Reid Paley	"Lucky's Tune"	[first morning in the hospital -- I think this is a great song to wake up to.]
14	Pink Floyd	"Let There Be More Light"	[seeing Bobby in Six North]
15	Queen & David Bowie	"Under Pressure"
16	Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros	"40 Day Dream"	[getting ready to leave the hospital; Pitchfork, where is your review of this?]
17	Ray's Vast Basement	"Why Can't I Be Slow?"	[Craig & Bobby together; my original antifolk mix starts with "Happy Today" and has this as track 2, as a strong track 2 is always the most important element of a good album]
18	Elvis Costello	"Veronica"	[morning scene]
19	The Barkays	"Soulfinger"	[hospital pizza party]
20	Weezer	"The Good Life [live, acoustic]"	[fantasy montage of Craig; this is from the readily available Good Life OZ EP, I have a better version on my computer but I don't know where it's from and it has weird popping noises]
21	Om Kolthom	"Ana Fee Entezarak"	[Muqtada's favorite artist!!]
22	[the] Smashing Pumpkins	"Thirty-Three"	[leaving the hospital, saying goodbyes]
23	The Useless Bastards	"Nothing But A Useless Bastard"	[pizza party!!]

[soundtrack ideas moved to top of entry from their original position in the middle -- 11/21/09]

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Now, how do people feel about abbreviating book titles?

Does it annoy you when people refer to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius as A.H.W.O.S.G.?

I always wanted to stay away from it, because I figure you're splitting your web searches. I'm lucky to have one book named It's Kind of a Funny Story, I shouldn't be littering the web with cryptic phrases that might or might not be related to it.

But then I searched "IKOAFS" and found this:



That's really amazing. Thank you Billy Galant on MOCpages.com. I'm adding this to the art I've found over the years:







If you have made art related to my book, please please send it!

---- added 10/28/09 ---


So, I'm going to be dipping into "IKOAFS" for It's Kind of a Funny Story from now on. If people object and/or get confused or hit me, I'll stop. It does have the advantage that it's pronounceable, although it doesn't really sound like anything, does it?

The IKOAFS movie is in pre-production, casting and scouting locations as we speak. New things burble up in IMDB frequently, so check the IMDB page. Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis and Adrian Martinez are cast so far... Shooting scheduled to begin in 1 month. Thanks to everybody who has been writing or talking about this movie.

And now: soundtrack.



I don't keep blog metrics because I would get neurotic about them, but the most popular post I remember writing here was the one when I wailed on Apple for its sub-human MacBook Air. That was, until the last post: I think we're in triple-digit comments and people keep making suggestions for the movie soundtrack. This had a really unexpected personal benefit for me: I've been discovering wonderful new music all month.

This is the music I have not heard before that I now know:

• Say Anything


• MGMT


• The Felice Brothers


• Elvis Costello


• The Flaming Lips


• Daniel Johnston


• Silversun Pickups

I always wanted to keep music off this blog because I figured it's so specific and idiosyncratic, but it's an important part of my life and if people want to start risking my taste, let's go for it. I opened up a Lala account. Let's see, what's on my mind? I think Flaming Lips Embryonic is great and I always detested them, except of course for "She Don't Use Jelly."

Daniel Johnston's "Fake Records of Rock N Roll" is the best song out right now -- and I've never been one of his mental illness fetishists.



As to the music for the soundtrack, I have made a mix. Here it is. There's one song here that is going to be in the movie -- not gonna say what, let's keep it fun -- then there is one, "Happy Today", that is really special to me, then the rest are songs that were suggested or that I came across over the last month. If they're mp3s, don't just steal the mp3s! LISTEN to them and then buy things of the bands'!

[soundtrack]

Now, putting that together took me way, way more time than I ever intended or imagined. So I'm not going to be refining it or anything... I'm just burning a CD and bringing it to the music supervisor, who supervised the music for (500) Days of Summer! She may have songs 100x better, which would be really exciting. My goal here is to have a classic movie soundtrack.

My backup goal is to have a soundtrack that gets a higher rating from Pitchfork than the New Moon soundtrack. That seems like a worthy goal. We can do that, right?


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Please tell me what you think of the songs for the movie!