How Did a Writing Project Gone Wrong Ruin Garden State (2004) for Ryan? w/ Brandice Wilson and Nicole Barlow

02/14/22 • 63 min

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Happy Valentines Day! For this week's episode, Ryan, Brandice, and Nicole talk about a film where a character tells another character "This song will change your life." which seems like the perfect film to discuss on this podcast! That's right, we discuss Zach Braff's 2004 film, Garden State, and it's Grammy Award Winning Soundtrack. Ryan and Nicole originally saw the movie in its original theatrical run, while Brandice had never seen the film until she was tasked to for the podcast, so there's an interesting discussion about how the movie spoke to our 3 hosts. We talk about whether the soundtrack and film have aged gracefully, the influence that they had on popular culture, and why this film didn't lead to bigger and better things for our actor/writer/director triple threat. Of course we talk about The Shins, and Ryan shares about trying to help someone write their own version of Garden State.
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Pulp Fiction (1994) w/ David Ballantyne of The Vinyl Score

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David Ballantyne of The Vinyl Score YouTube Channel stops by to chat with Ryan and Nicole about the 1994 Quentin Tarantino blockbuster Pulp Fiction and its triple platinum soundtrack. It's a soundtrack that seemed to be everywhere in 1994 and it opened up a lot of ears to a bunch of different genres of music including surf rock, R&B and classic rock. We start with "Pumpkin and Hunny Bunny" / "Misirlou" and go through our favorite tracks from the soundtrack as well as how Tarantino wanted to license The Knack's "My Sharona" for an iconic scene in the film, but was ultimately rebuffed by the band. We also talk about Urge Overkill and their surprise hit, a cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon", and how they had two women in Chicago intensely troll them back in the late 80/early 90s. Check out David's channel, The Vinyl Score at: https://www.youtube.com/thevinylscoreIf you'd like to support our podcast, you can buy us a coffee at http://buymeacoffee.com/soundtrackcast
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon Score (2011) w/ Author George Sirois

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Author of the international best selling books, Excelsior, and Ever Upward, George Sirius shares about how Steve Jablonsky’s score to the 2011 Michael Bay film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon has directly inspired scenes in the Excelsior Journey series. While George is a fan of the majority of Jablonsky’s work for Transformers, he explains why the score Dark of the Moon stands out in particular. We also chat about Jablonsky's filmography dating all the way back to when he was an understudy of Hans Zimmer and we discuss about how different composers from the Harry Potter franchise have helped inspire other scenes in his books and he shares about his quest to complete the Excelsior Journey trilogy and beyond! He is also the host of the Excelsior Journey Podcast and the From Duck Til Dark: Outside the Marvel Studios Podcast.More information about George and his work can be found at http://www.hesgotit.com He can be found on FB/IG/Twitter @georgesirois.
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