Good to Go (film)

Good to Go (also titled as Short Fuse[2]) is a 1986 crime thriller film written and directed by Blaine Novak, and stars Art Garfunkel as a beat journalist pursuing a murder investigation, with the Washington, D.C. go-go-scene in the backdrop.

Blass reaches out to Matthew Harrigan, a detective for the Washington Metropolitan Police department, looking for a good story to pursue.

Blass takes the story and publishes it with the title: "Nurse Murdered at Go-Go: Music and Drugs Blamed for Violence."

After fifteen years of playing at local clubs, he feels the timing is perfect to take go-go music nationally.

Because of this, he decides not to sign the artist and heads back to L.A. Little Beats (an up-and-coming conga player for one of Max's go-go bands) has an older brother ("Chemist") who was once a promising college student majoring in chemistry.

Ain't and his street crew as they travel around the city wreaking havoc, including the rape and murder of the nurse.