Sean Fennessey

vocation.

And I think you captured some of the sadness in that vocation in your film.

Just tell me a little bit about why you pursued that line of work before you started becoming a film director.

Well, it is.

I mean, it is like eerily accurate, both in terms of, I think, the perspective of the characters, the scene, and just the general like angst in the relationships.

Like I thought you got all that stuff so right.

Yes.

One of my earliest mentors.

Just the smartest guy ever, yeah.

Don't put me in that league, please.

I was a lowly 20-something back then.

You have nice tributes to various music writers in your film.

So we have eerily similar paths.

Sort of.

Yeah.

I mean, I was on Chuck's desk as an intern at Spin in 03.

When he was out reporting what became Killing Yourself to Live, his book.

So I never interacted with him at that time.

He's now a good friend of mine.

But at the time, I also really, really looked up to him and he really – I really loved what he was doing and the way that he was kind of like colliding pop culture.