Aaron is an anxious rule-follower
According to Jordan Rowe, the
who lives under the roof of his pen- film was based on his own friend-
aggressively suburban Bristol, Con- friend from film school and one of
cil pusher, helicopter parents in the
necticut. Grant is a pot-smoking
slacker with a youthful single moth-
er, a pesky little brother, and an eye
on the world outside of Bristol.
At the tail end of summer, the
week before Aaron starts state col-
lege, they get an offer from a rough
around the edges, has-been man-
ager, Eddie Iverson (played by Allan
Greenberg), to play as the opening
act in a cross-country tour for one of
his bands. The problem is they have
one day to decide whether to take
the gig or not.
ship with Yves Pasquarelli who is a
the film’s producers. The two were
not in a band together (although
Jordan is a musician) and never had
to make a split second decision like
that, but Jordan’s personality helped
inspire the character of Aaron and
Yves helped inspire the character
of Grant. Yves also production de-
signed the film, hand wrote the end
credits, helped with some effects
work, and let them shoot scenes in
his aunt and uncle’s houses. Rowe
calls him a “a real jack of all trades.”
Jordan Rowe wrote, directed, and
This forces Aaron to decide wheth- composed the music for the film.
ban life his parents planned for him he moved to New York to attend
everything to live the very unstable the band The Neurotics. New Jersey
er or not to settle for the safe, subur- Originally from Southern California,
and disappoint his best friend or risk NYU and now lives there and plays in
life on the road.
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