my moral standing is lying down

SHATTERED! -- as if in reply to the complaint made in my previous post!

Finally! A clip from the final version of the show, rather than the original pilot. Looks way sleeker than the original pilot and way more intense! (Though unfortunately no sexy!twisty!Callum in a hoodie with a camera. Guh, that scene was just so hot. Though I don't mind the exchange for sexy!intense!Callum...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjSNXPyqHo
posted by thursdaynext_27

CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS SHOW OMG GIVE ME IT NOWWWWW PLS!




BTW, HELLYEAH concert last night was fucking amazing -- met a bunch of crazy and awesome people from CT, NJ, and upstate NY, including a DJ from Sirius (and with all of whom contact info was exchanged); drank too much; discovered that the opening band (Black Water Rising) is AWESOME, and from Brooklyn; made poor life choices; got home too late (3am) and most unfortunately, was not able to sleep through my hangover as I usually do, so had a craptastic morning at work.

Leaving for the Hole concert in another hour. Don't have as much energy as last night, but I care less about Hole, so I'm good.

SO excited, in fact, that I don't want to even close the tab where I have this article about it opened in my browser.

SO excited, in fact, that I have watched this trailer MORE TIMES THAN WAS STRICTLY NECESSARY. (Necessary to what, you may ask. But I shall not answer.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7eA6IG2cE
posted by endcredits

The now-obsolete (as the show has apparently gone through a few changes since this was made) trailer for CKR's new TV show, Shattered, which is supposed to air this fall. Fall is WAYYYY too far away though! I have to wait til the fall for HOCKEY ALREADY OKAY! AND NOW THIS! A show in which CKR is FINALLY THE MAIN CHARACTER. I'd say that I should be glad I wasn't in C6D fandom til recently, because I didn't have to suffer the agony of the wait. But I must admit that I like the anticip

Just watched the first 5 episodes of Twitch City. So far amusing, but I'm not dying with laughter or anything. Still, more clever than the usual.

Many of you would recognize a couple of the recurring actors on this show from Kids in the Hall. CKR (yes, this is a CKR-related post) apparently went to high school with Mike McCullough of KITH-fame.

In any case, episode 5 is the first heavily Newbie-related episode and AWWWWW! More cute, even, than funny. Nice to see Curtis actually enjoying himself for a change, you know? If he's determined to be an ass in every episode (as well as Molly Parker's character, Hope, being a pushover), I will soon get bored with it.

But oh god, Newbie and Curtis's TV-challenge was great, and Newbie dancing in the store with Hope is awesome, and also CKR asking HUGH DILLON if there's anything else he can get him, SIR?! Too adorable for words! Especially knowing that they're good friends and the history of HCL they have at that point. And JEEZ, all I can think is-- "this is about as far from Billy that you could possibly get, Callum!"

Can I also note how different (exaggerated, open) CKR's facial expressions are as Newbie?

( how I dragged Callum and Hugh into my world of weird-ass dreams. )

<3

Watched HCL with Liz on Sunday night. She liked it a lot. Which made me very, very happy. After the movie, we watched some fanvids and interviews and things like that, I told her some of the stuff I know about CKR and HD from listening to the DVD commentary and reading HCRS, and eventually that sort of trailed off... at which point, she said something that made the stupid lightbulb go off above my head.

Why I've been unable to stop watching this movie over and over.

I mean, I'm not the type to watch something over after just having seen it. And I usually wait a while before watching something over again. Especially with movies: I'm not the biggest fan of the visual medium (as opposed to books, that is). But with this movie... I just can't get enough of it.

She said, "I want to watch something else like it."

And yeah, we agreed, there's just nothing else that has the same feeling. Sure, there are movies that will have the feel of this part, or the same maneuvering, or subtext, or emotion, as that part -- but nothing I've seen comes together the way this movie does.

And the ending.

The ending is what I look for in every movie I watch, or book I read, or story I hear. Something unsurprising -- as in, it's completely in character, so it makes complete and utter sense that it would happen -- but also completely unexpected. Didn't know it would happen at that moment, and whoa, the ending has just rushed up to you, out of nowhere, in your face. It lifted you way up, like a geyser, and left you cartoonishly hanging in the air, mouth agape and wondering in panic if you'll be able to come down without hurting yourself.

But the best thing about this movie is that you never come down. You're just forever at that point of inhalation, holding your breath; never letting it go.

It's just perfect.

Hard Core Logo (1996). A documentary-style movie about a (fictitious) punk band that reunites for a short tour. Not comedy. Extremely awesome movie. Great music. CKR is super hot and Hugh Dillon is such a captivating fucking asshole you can't help liking him just as much as you hate him. I feel so sorry for poor Billiam; he shouldn't have come back. They're so fucked up. Of course, then there wouldn't have been a movie...

...and fic. Oh, the fic. It's twistedly delicious. <3.

So in addition, Hugh Dillon actually fronted his own hard rock band, Headstones, for a good 15 years starting in the late 80s. Great music. Definitely a song or two that I skip over, but overall, good stuff -- and I'm really glad to have come across it. Of course, he's an actor now; not sure what he's doing musically (if anything).

Oddly, I'd really love to have the audio track from this movie. I can just listen to it in the background; it's almost as good as watching it. Happily, you can stream the movie from here.

Men with Brooms (2002). A complete 180 from HCL. A sports movie, which means it's got sports, comedy, romantic interest, etc. About CURLING. (Reading the wikipedia article about curling helps with some of the references.) Light-hearted and genuinely fun to watch, this was an unexpectedly enjoyable experience. And Paul Gross's, Kiss You Til You Weep, a romantic little song used in this film, is quite sweet. D'awwwww.

I can barely do anything that isn't eat, breathe or sleep due South and/or is hockey-related.

Normally I'd apologize, but really, it's making me happy right now, unlike everything else, and since it isn't harming anyone, you'll all just have to deal.