What I am doing this summer

This summer I am making a movie.  I am writing it.  I am directing it.  I am composing the soundtrack.  I am starring in it.  So are all of my friends.  We are then going to pay ~$30(US) and submitting that movie to the Sundance Film Festival.  Our goal being: Not Having a Real Job.  The movie is about us forming a band that is going to save rock & roll.  The entire idea is a joke.  But a joke that is going to be carried out.  It is all very postmodern, you probably wouldn't understand.  

  The idea behind the movie started in the spring of 2008 when a group of us were on spring break.  As per typical of guys, on a "crazy" spring break, we decided that if only we had filmed our misadventures, everyone would want to watch it.  Our jokes were clever and our spirit was inspiring.  People would pay to watch that, right?  The idea later evolved into a movie that would be a social commentary on our generation.  I am 19 years old and culture has yet to define my generation.  Kanye West said he was the spokesman but fuck him.  He isn't my icon.  

So, the movie, as it stands, is a comedy about music, brotherhood, growing up, substance use, obscure indie references, a generation looking for definition in a social climate where everything is defined, Steve Malkmus and Glen Danzig jokes and the lack of icons in our culture.  We are a group of boys who haven't had anyone to look up to since Michael Jordan retired from the Bulls.  The music today mostly sucks, the "iconic" figures mostly suck and the ideas of what is "fresh" or "hip" or "counter-culture" is all just indie bullshit.  Fuck Juno.  Fuck Pitchfork.  Fuck Animal Collective.  

The Bind, which is the name of our movie band, is going to redefine music and save the music culture from itself.  Where are our Bob Dylans or Lou Reeds or even our Ian Curtis'?  We have no one.  Along the way the band will partake in culturally relevant, self aware and post-ironic adventures ranging from becoming a horror-glam-punk band to not being able to find a drummer.  The movie will deal with substance abuse, growing up in the 21st century and "just trying to find yourself".  Above all else, the movie will be funny.  Just like Superbad.