Motion City Soundtrack was pretty influential on my teenage years. I came across them after Mark Hoppus mentioned them on his podcast because he was producing their latest album at the time, then I went down the rabbit hole and got obsessed.
As I’ve grown up, the music has matured with me, my musical taste has gone in a different direction to what it was ten years ago, but whenever I catch wind of MCS, I’m checking out whatever the news is straight away!
Read MoreI was out for my late-night walk one night, and I flicked open Twitter to get rid of whatever notification was bugging me at the time.
The first tweet I saw was this;
REST IN POWER Jordan Alexander Groggs a loving father, life partner and friend. (6/1/1988-6/29/2020)
Read MoreThis whole story starts way back in 2013 when I wrote a short sketch script about a superhero. It was called “ZERO” and was a big metaphor for me trying to make films whilst working to pay off uni debt coming off the graduation buzz of university - big fish, little pond and all that.
It was fun and I made a cool little mask for the character of “Wonderman”, but I just wasn’t satisfied with how I shot it. I’d never shot anything that should make people laugh before - intentionally anyway. So, it just gathered dust and was always something I’d talk to Peter, the main actor, about maybe revisiting someday.
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