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It Hardly Hurt a Bit
By Mike Miley
Punch-Drunk Love,
I Heart Huckabees,
Lady Bird) or a record producer for some of the most creative names in popular music (Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Katy Perry, Janelle Monae), and rightly so. But for me, Jon Brion is nothing less than the composer of the soundtrack to my creative life, a soundtrack with just one song on it. “Ruin My Day” has been the theme playing under every joyous, resentful, morose, and conflicted feeling that I have about the film industry, as well as my sad and ordinary failure to insinuate myself into its ranks.