As Smart As They Are The Author Project (2005)

A documentary film tracing the collaboration between One Ring Zero the Brooklyn houseband for McSweeneys Publishing and an ensemble cast of awardwinning authors each of whom contributed original lyrics Author Myla Goldberg torments guest singer Syd Straw with tongue twisting five star vocabulary words Paul Auster riffs on the ills of Cincinatti and the Iraq war The films title in fact comes from the inspired dialogue of a talking cockroach