Someone on ILM started a thread about “Suburban Sound” and in it they mentioned Real Estate, which seemed right. And that made me think of Hal Harley’s 90s movies, most of which I believe took place in suburban Long Island. Those movies were very inspiring to me back then because they demonstrated that mundane settings like the one I grew up in could be the setting for something creative and funny and emotional that felt personal and new. That it was a matter of looking closely enough. Seems obvious now but it didn’t then. And the music in Hartley’s films, much of which he made himself under the alias Ned Rifle, captured the spirit of the movies perfectly. Always loved this closing music for Simple Men. And it sounds kind of like Real Estate.
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