La Plante says: "I'm dribbling into a microphone in a tiny LA sound studio, trying to record an audio book of my memoir Hog Fever and the sound engineer looks as bored as I feel.

"Then a thought hits me like the crack of thunder from a V-Twin exhaust. 'Sh*t, why don't I do the Hog screenplay, not the book, and get real actors in, sound effects, rock music, the works? I'll phone my writing buddy, Kevin Godley - the Scorsese of music video - and we'll call it an...ear movie."