Half-Cocked

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“We started playing these shows so we could make money, so we could eat.” Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s fictional story of life on the road in 1994 isn’t much of a stretch. Soaked in the era’s rock, Half-Cocked tracks Truckstop, a nonband acted by nonactor musicians Tara Jane O’Neil, Jason Noble, and Jeff Mueller of Rodan; Jon Cook; and Cynthia Nelson. Half Reality Bites, half Slacker, and packaged with Hawley and Galinsky’s 1997 Spanish feature Radiation – another unique look at the music industry – both films are soundtracked with Unwound, Crain, the Grifters, Smog, Come, Codeine, and more. ***

This article appears in December 22 • 2006.

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