Once upon a time in the Lower East Side… a writer-director frustrated with the Hollywood waiting game started shooting a scrappy indie film in his neighborhood. The story revolved around a seen-it-all narrator who talked like he stepped out of a dimestore paperback (“That summer in the city started like every other — right after winter”) and had a fondness for the good ol’ days. Back then, the character’s band 3-Legged Dog was all the rage, and he walked those city streets like a conquering