Скачать или смотреть Tickets Please. The First Video from Joe Burns' Tools of the Trade Album

This song is a celebration of my favorite movies. I hope you're able to pick out all the references. If not - find them listed below.

BTW - this is my own song. I wrote, performed, mixed and mastered the tune. It has been submitted to the government Copyright office, Copyright 2023.

This song is from my new album (as of January 2023). To hear it all, search "Joe Burns Tools of the Trade" on Spotify, Pandora or Apple Music. I also have the entire album posted under my channel. Look for Tools of the Trade.

Here are the references in order:

Opening Sequence: Star Wars

1. Cut Print Check the Gate: The Grinch making fun of Ron Howard
2. Our star's gonna be late: Marilyn Monroe was known for being late
3. I think we have a failure to communicate: Cool Hand Luke
4. Are You talkin' to me: Taxi Driver
5. Well I'm mad as hell: Network
6. It ain't my fault the pictures got small: Sunset Boulevard

7. Four images from Glengarry Glen Ross

8. Damn it Janet: Rocky Horror Picture Show
9. You're tearing me apart: The Room
10. Open the pod bay doors: 2001 A Space Odyssey
11. And smell the napalm: Apocalypse Now
12. Killer's a clown: Killer Clowns
13. Well, he's funny how: Goodfellas
14. Is the crazy enough: One Flew Over the Coo-coo's Nest
15. Or should I go up to Chinatown: Chinatown
16. Guns or Knives man: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
17. Whadaya got: The Wild One
18. I got a bigger boat: Jaws
19. You gonna seduce me or not: The Graduate
20. Mother: Mother by Vsevolod Pudovkin
21. What's wrong with the hive: Wasp Woman by Roger Corman
22. I'm on a mission from God: The Blues Brothers
23. And Oh yeah, I speak Jive: Airplane

24. Four Images from Sideways

25. Directors in order:
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Tim Burton (Many, including Corpse Bride)
Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)
Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
Fritz Lang (Metropolis and M)
Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing)
Sergio Leone (Spaghetti Westerns - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly)
Oscar Micheaux (The first popular African-American director)
Georges Méliès (Arguably the first popular director: A Trip to the Moon)
Gordon Parks (Blaxploitation Films including Shaft)
Jordan Peele (Get Out)
Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)

(Guitar solo – Joe Burns)

26. Jack Butler (Crossroads)
27. Marty McFly (Back to the Future)
28. Bill and Ted (air guitar)
29. Stephen Bishop – Animal House
30. Wayne – Wayne's World

31: Four images from Fight Club

32. I'm walking here: Urban Cowboy
33. With the usual suspects: The Usual Suspects
34. Gettin' busy livin: Shashank Redemption
35. With a nice Chianti: Silence of the Lambs
36. You got a war face, that's a war face: Full Metal Jacket
37. As if: Clueless
38. You damn dirty ape: Planet of the Apes
39. Don't shoot your eye out: A Christmas Story
40. Merry Christmas: White Christmas
41. Why so serious: The Dark Knight
42. Ask me 'bout my business: The Godfather
43. Never say your sorry: Love Story
44. We all abide: The Big Lebowski
45. I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy: The Departed

46: Four images from The Warriors.

A couple lobby clips take us out to the end of the video.

I hope you enjoyed it.

This has been an "I Don't Know What I'm Doing Production."

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