"Don't Quit Your Daydream" is one of the best music documentaries of recent memory. It's the kind of film that could very well have been packed with self-pity and unbearable pretension, but instead it presents itself honestly and with a humble reverence for the act of creation. It is also thoroughly a documentary that belongs to the 21st century. In the midst of the incredible odds now against a kid in a garage ever making it big as a rock star someday, it has the maturity to admit that while fame would be nice, it's simply never a guarantee. Better to be an artist first.
A decade ago, Clark Stiles and Nathan Khyber were in a band called Absinthe. After playing South by Southwest and signing with a major label, the band fell apart. "Five guys with dreams being realized at the same time is a freakshow," Clark reflects. "We were kind of blitzkrieged by the notion of success," Nathan observes in a separate interview. Clark was unceremoniously dumped from the group. Sony did nothing with Absinthe's debut. And so both Clark and Nathan found themselves without a band and with a friendship in need of repair.
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