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[listersgirl]

Dude, I'd forgotten just how much I love Hard Core Logo. It's just this crazy perfect blend of fake and real, with the actual director and real punk bands from Vancouver. And a quote from NOW magazine! And Terry fucking David Mulligan!

And of course Callum Keith Rennie and Hugh Dillon. My love of CKR is long-standing and well-documented, and it's because of this movie that I own a Headstones CD. Hugh Dillon has a new band, now, too - The Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir. It's good stuff.

Whoops, I got off topic there. Movie. Awesome! See it!

(The book, by Michael Turner, is excellent too. Read it!)

Comments

[emiline.livejournal.com]

I really need to read Hard Core Logo. I loved the movie, too.

[listersgirl]

I can lend you the book. I'll try to remember next time I see you.

[eanja]

I have seen the film, but not read the book. I shall add it to the bottom of my scarily too long reading list.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That'd be great.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i'm trying to tell myself that just because i have a temp job doesn't mean i can order hcl & ww from amazon.ca

so far i have listened, but i'm not swearing i'll continue to do so in the future ;)

[eanja]

Can I just say how much I love this icon? CKR and coffee both!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

two of my favorite things ;)

[listersgirl]

Heh. I went through the same thing just a few minutes ago.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i think i've decided i'm allowed the minute i get a permanent job. but two weeks is Not Good Enough For DVD Binges. woe. and i have to get them from canada because the american versions are crap :)

Long weekend recs

[eanja]

I was meaning to ask if you knew Hard Core Logo. Because of course nearly all HCL related fanfiction is horrifically spoilery. But since you know it, I can rec Kellie Matthew's Northern Comfort, a rather nice Ben/Billy crossover, though I think Billy is a shade to sensitive to be really in-character. There are two sequels, a Ben/RayK one, which I don't think is quite as good, and a HCL/Tales of the City one where Billy ends up with Brian Hawkins. (I haven't reread that yet, though I vaguely remember it being pretty good, and very, very long. I'm not sure you really need to know Armistead Maupin for it.)

First though, read Like A House on Fire - a lovely, long thing where Ben and Ray K haven't talked in years and finally meet back up, and slowly sort things out, while solving an arson case. Angst, cheap motel sex, internet arson groupies, and a Fraser who's gone a little soft around the middle and is really self-concious about it.

And swinging back to straight HCL, there is Kat Allison's Xeriscape, which for I have just no words.

Re: Long weekend recs

[listersgirl]

Fun! Let me return the favour. :)

Groupie (HCL)

And two HCL/Men With Brooms crossovers. I KNOW.

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Re: Long weekend recs

[eanja]

Thanks!

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

Now go read "hard Core Roadshow" which is the book by the screenplay adaptor writer person, documenting the hilarious making of the film. and the writing process, but mostly just drinking and goat slaying and drinking...

Lots of brilliant real life CKR moments in there, too. And apparently Hugh Dillon is amazingly attached to his girlfriend, in between all the drinking. I laugh out loud, and I've read it a dozen times.

Lovelovelove that book.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for reminding me about the HDRC album - I picked it up while I was in TBay this past week (but haven't listened to it yet - I'm "saving" it for getting me through the first day back at work). I remember Hugh from scaring the crap out of me in Kingston a few times. He was pretty high then but I suspect he's no less fucking scary now that he's not.

- Mary-Lynn