David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy , is an American composer , musician , songwriter , and multiple Grammy winning record producer . He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mostly to production work, often with alternative rock , hard rock , electronic related genres, and then to scoring feature films.
21-571: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sardy was active as a singer, songwriter and guitarist (most notably with his group Barkmarket ), but since the mid-1990s, he has been more active as a producer, writer, composer and mixer. He has worked with an eclectic mix of rock, punk, alternative, electronic and industrial rock performers, and critics have called him a " Hardcore super-producer." In 2006, Sardy won six ARIA Awards for his work with Jet and again in 2008, three more ARIA awards for Wolfmother ; he has also received five Grammy Awards (for Toots and
42-475: A beautiful young woman who finds him attractive and appealing and decides to introduce him to as many positive and compelling experiences as possible. Also trying to help him is yet another psychiatrist, Dr. Blaine, who initially resists his advances but ultimately has an affair with him before revealing she has serious issues of her own that require professional attention. Although the film is set in Los Angeles ,
63-405: A game/it won't take long/we'll list all our beatings in a cursory rhyme " ("How are You") add a dash of laughter to the often humorless scowl across the face of hardcore music." Numb (2007 film) Numb is a 2007 American dark romantic comedy film starring Matthew Perry and written and directed by Harris Goldberg . According to an interview with Goldberg on a bonus feature of
84-399: A promise to himself that each of their albums would be a progression in the muli-track recording technology used, from 4 track on 1-800-GOD-HOUSE , to 8 track ( Easy Listening ), to 16 track ( Vegas Throat ), and then 24 track ( Gimmick ) with a promise to go back to 4 track for the final album. The beginning of "Visible Cow" on the album L Ron was an attempt to keep that promise. Sardy
105-455: Is disturbed by the sudden change in Hudson's demeanor and urges him to seek psychiatric help. Dr. Townsend diagnoses his condition as depersonalization disorder and prescribes various medications including Clonazepam , and when nothing seems to help Hudson consults Dr. Richmond, who also sees drugs, albeit divalproex sodium and others rather than Clonazepam, as the solution. Hudson meets Sara,
126-692: The Lardroom EP . During this time, they released the Peacekeeper EP on the Man's Ruin record label. L. Ron (1996) was Barkmarket's final album. Sardy's engineering/production work was taking precedence over his own band, and the group quietly broke up in 1997. Sardy has since become an in-demand producer and mixer for many heavy rock groups (e.g., System of a Down , Marilyn Manson , Wolfmother , Helmet , Quicksand ) or even pop heavyweights like Oasis or The Thrills . Sardy has been quoted as saying he made
147-888: The Boom , The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King , War Dogs TV show soundtracks: The Sopranos , Cold Case , Entourage , One Tree Hill , Criminal Minds , CSI: NY , Grey's Anatomy , Scrubs , The O.C. , Six Feet Under , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Chuck , Fresh Meat , Beauty and the Geek Australia , Roswell , Teachers , Dancing with the Stars , Skins , 24 , and Ed . Video game soundtracks: Guitar Hero , Rock Band , Gran Turismo 4 , Le Mans 24 Hours , MotorStorm , Pure , Saints Row 2 , NHL 2004 , Tony Hawk's Project 8 , FlatOut 2 , and Rugby 06 . Barkmarket Barkmarket
168-589: The British band The Fall . Sardy has produced and mixed on the following albums, among others: Other productions include: Film soundtracks: The Green Hornet , Wanted , Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , I Love You, Man , Igby Goes Down , Flushed Away , Shrek the Third , Jackass Number Two , Shoot 'Em Up , The Replacements , Little Nicky , Antitrust , Sugar & Spice , Crazy/Beautiful , Summer Catch , Clockstoppers , Mayor of
189-498: The DVD release, he was inspired to write the screenplay by his own experience battling depersonalization disorder and clinical depression . When modestly successful screenwriter Hudson Milbank descends into a strange mood in which he feels detached from the world around him and unable to connect with his surroundings, either physically or emotionally, he initially attributes it to a night of excessive cannabis use. His writing partner Tom
210-747: The Maytals , Rodrigo y Gabriela , OK Go , Wolfmother and Marilyn Manson ) and multiple Brit Awards for Oasis , Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother and The Ting Tings . He was Grammy-nominated again in 2007 for LCD Soundsystem 's Sound of Silver and in 2010 for the Band of Horses album Infinite Arms . Sardy has been involved with some of the most popular licensed music for film and advertising. Although never writing directly for commercials, he has produced music used in many campaigns, including 3 key iPod campaigns: Jet, Wolfmother, and The Ting Tings. He produced Oasis' seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul , in 2008. This
231-746: The Sunset Strip , Foolproof , Dig! , Delirious , Man of the Year , Numb , If I Stay , The Big Bounce , The Holiday , Wild Hogs , What Happens in Vegas , A Lot like Love , Grind , Going the Distance , EuroTrip , The Longest Yard , She's Out of My League , Battle of the Year , TMNT , The Comebacks , Drillbit Taylor , School for Scoundrels , The Game Plan , Spring Breakdown , 500 Days of Summer , Lesbian Vampire Killers , The Hangover , MacGruber , Here Comes
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#1733084632874252-503: The US box office. More recently, Sardy contributed work to The Green Hornet , Lawless , and Eat Pray Love and scored Premium Rush , Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance , Sabotage , and Bright working once again with director David Ayer. In 2019, Sardy produced a new studio album by The Who . And in 2020 Co wrote and produced a new Modest Mouse album called The Golden Casket Sardy's sister Marcia Schofield played keyboards for
273-545: The film was shot on location in Vancouver and other locations in British Columbia 's Lower Mainland , including Coquitlam , Port Coquitlam , Maple Ridge , Pitt Meadows , and Langley . The film's original score was composed by Ryan Shore . The film's soundtrack includes songs by The Dandy Warhols , Ivy , Iron & Wine , Elliott Smith , Blondie , and Doves . The score was released on June 17, 2008, and features
294-734: The following tracks: Other songs featured in the film include: The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 and was shown at several other festivals, including Marché du Film , the Austin Film Festival , the Palm Springs International Film Festival , and the Sedona International Film Festival . It was given a limited theatrical release in Canada on April 18, 2008. The DVD
315-477: The nearly delta blues acoustic slide guitar on "Visible Cow" (from L. Ron ). Sardy's ragged, proto- screamo vocals usually offered bizarre lyrics that were at once evocative and absurd, and rarely without a menacing undercurrent: "I bought a handgun made out of glass/I cut a hole in the side of a wild ass" ("Visible Cow"); critic Ted Alvarez wrote, "Sardy's distended poetry often has a dark humor about it; lines like "I opened all your mail" ("Feed Me") and "I got
336-416: The second album Easy Listening the band moved to Triple X Records , who released the group's third album, Vegas Throat ; the latter featured guest work from avant-jazz guitarist Marc Ribot . Vegas Throat attracted the interest of Rick Rubin , and Barkmarket was one of the first groups signed to Rubin's American Recordings . Vegas Throat was reissued by American, which then issued Gimmick and
357-553: The tonal imbalance is ultimately disorienting." Wally Hammond of Time Out gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing that although the film starts to get repetitious and uncertain, "things liven up as Goldberg reverts to more conventional, romantic territory" and with the introduction of Collins' character. Harris Goldberg won the Gen Art Chicago Audience Award at the Gen Art Film Festival , and Ryan Shore
378-525: Was Sardy's second time working with the band, having produced their 2005 album Don't Believe the Truth and he worked with Noel Gallagher again in 2011 with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds . Sardy scored the Stage 6 Films logo for Sony Pictures Entertainment , as well as the films 21 and Zombieland , and the drama End of Watch , written and directed by David Ayer , all of which went to number one at
399-679: Was a rock music group formed in New York City in 1987. Personnel were singer/guitarist and main songwriter Dave Sardy , bass guitarist John Nowlin and drummer Rock Savage. Barkmarket's music was usually loud and aggressive, touching on many styles (most prominently including heavy metal , hardcore punk and noise rock ), but not resting definitively in any one genre. In 1986, they released an independently recorded demo tape called BARKMARKET, then in 1987 recorded 1-800-GODHOUSE on cassette 4tk. They were signed to Purge/Soundleague in NYC. After recording
420-436: Was picked as one of the top ten up and coming film composers of 2010 for his work scoring the movies 21, and Zombieland by Composers Monthly. Critic Stewart Mason wrote that the band "can at times be frustratingly difficult to pin down, but their best work has a noisy, rattling power." There were also odd touches that demonstrated an experimental edge: the eerie banjo and tape loops on "(Radio Static)" (from Gimmick ), and
441-456: Was released in the US on May 13, 2008. The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "There’s an obvious personal resonance to Goldberg’s screenplay, but the film never fully succeeds in its attempted straddling of psychological drama and broad comedy. Whenever we start to become emotionally involved in the main character’s angst, the filmmaker throws in gags to provide comic relief. The result is neither as broadly funny nor as moving as it intends to be, and
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