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Tuckered out, I headed over to the Santa Cruz Film Festival and saw Green Lights, a sweet and seriously independent comedy about a location scout who deludes himself and the whole city of Ithaca into thinking he can produce a film. The writer-director compares it to Waiting for Guffman but I kept thinking of The Music Man. It's a funny movie, but the best thing about is the film's love for its setting--it was filmed mostly on location, with a small professional cast surrounded by dozens of Ithaca locals essentially playing themselves.

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Allow me to share with you "lucky" by Keyke, a young woman with an emotive, hiccupy voice who sings bitter, fairly juvenile lyrics about someone who done her wrong while playing the same four chords over and over and over on an acoustic guitar. It is exactly the sort of thing I don't like, but for some reason I like it a lot. Favorite line: "I wanna kill you but I'm too tired to." I also enjoy the name of her alleged record label.