An aspiring composer and commercial songwriter
with punk roots
New cover song! A quiet, emotive piano cover of “As It Was” by Harry Styles
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About Me
My name is Zac Markey. I am an aspiring composer and commercial songwriter. I grew up playing in punk and ska bands. I am currently a guitar and drum instructor. I have my BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School and have been a professional video editor since I graduated in 2009. This editing background helps me to make the best choices for scoring when it comes to rhythm, pacing, and aural storytelling. Let me help you tell your story!
My favorites
“Awhile back, Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like.” - High Fidelity
Here are some of my favorite bands, composers, musicians, directors, authors, books, films and TV shows:
The Princess Bride, Andrew WK, Richard Band, 50s scifi with stop motion, Tombstone, Jaws, Bernard Herrmann, Drugs as Weapons Against Us, Shirley Walker, Gore Verbinski, Breakdown, James Newton Howard, Sleeping Beauty, Wyld Stallyns, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Chuck Cirino, any and all 80s B movies, Leonard Cohen, Danny Elfman (even though I think he’s a creep), John Prine, A Fistful of Dollars, Rango, 70s exploitation films, Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, UHF, Titanic, Troll, Bright Eyes, Pinocchio, John Du Prez, Dio, CHAOS, Bruce Swedien, Troll 2, King of the Hill, Ray Harryhausen, Liquid Mind, The Devil’s Chessboard, Signs, Of Montreal, Little Shop of Horrors, Bad Astronaut, Lisa Frankenstein, Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Magic, the Revenant, Tom Petty, 90s action films, Chopping Mall, Jimmy Eat World, Beef House, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Walt Disney, Lord of the Rings, Howard Ashman, Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare, Townes Van Zandt, NOFX, Ghostbusters, Sergio Leone, Charles Band, Yukihiro Takahashi, Disney, Roger Corman, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Christopher Guest, The Breakfast Club, Chameleo , AC/DC, Bob’s Burgers, SRV, Soul, Snow White, Lagwagon, Slumber Party Massacre 2, James Dean, Pixar, Conor Oberst, MASH, Michael Jackson, Mort Garson, Blink 182, James Horner, the Godfather, the Ataris, Bill and Ted, Designing Women, the Lawrence Arms, Alan Menken, Pink Floyd, James Cameron, Cars, William Goldman, Bruce Broughton, Back to the Future, Percy Shelley, Quadrivium, the Pixies, Onyx the Fortuitous & the Talisman of Souls