Whats the deal with Guster and the movie “Life As A House”?
“Life As A House” is a 2001 movie starring Kevin Kline, who plays a man recently diagnosed with cancer. He decides to take his last summer to build a house and bond with his troubled son, played by Hayden Christensen. Writer Mark Andrus is a fan of the band, and ended up using “What You Wish For” as inspiration for the opening scenes; the tune was also featured prominently in the theatrical trailer. “Rainy Day” figures into a disturbing prostitution scene later in the movie (although in a bit of trivia, the script originally called for “All The Way Up To Heaven”), the family dog’s name is Guster and there are two little boys named Ryan and Adam (sorry, Brian). And in the subtlest nod of all, the license plate of one of the cars in the movie is “FAN 321” – a double reference to the fan2fan mailing list and the “4,3,2,1” countdown during “Barrel Of A Gun”.
