"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, a Rolling Stone article on Hard Core Logo" for spuffyduds

[exeterlinden]

For: spuffyduds
Title: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, a Rolling Stone article on Hard Core Logo
Fandom: Hard Core Logo, implied Joe/Billy
Author: exeterlinden
Lenght: 4000 words
Rating: NC-17 for violent imagery

Summary: Joe Dick, punk rocker and front man of the moderately succesful Hard Core Logo, shot himself on December 5th, 1995. On tape. Following director Bruce

Comments

[mrsfrankenstien]

Ohhh, this hurts in all the same places as the film itself does.

If I came across this without having seen the movie, I'd think it were real. I've read a ridiculous amount of Rolling Stone articles, and you've captured that style perfectly, even down to the pictures.

[exeterlinden]

Aw man, thank you! I love Rolling Stone - and I'm thrilled you thought I did a good job on mimicking them :) I may have sat down with an RS magazine and a ruler and measured out all the margins. Maybe. /dorkitude

[j_s_cavalcante]

OH MY GOD. HEE!!! Made of WIN!!!! Little did I know what you meant by "nefarious." I'm totally blown away.

The little "shrine" with the teddy bear and everything (it has safety pins stuck in it, doesn't it?) is hilariously perfect.

You are an Evil Genius, and I think you win the Internets. \linden/

[exeterlinden]

Heheh, you see how that picture fit *perfectly* into my evil plan? I'm so happy I came by it :)

And the teddy bear does indeed have safety pins stuck in it :D

Thank you so much for commenting!

You are a rockstar

[j_s_cavalcante]

The picture's perfect, of course, but what really blew me away here was the entire body of work. I think you nailed the characters perfectly, but you even went beyond that to nail the meta aspect perfectly.

And do you see, I found it evilly hilarious! I know some others didn't. But, see, since I already knew the ending, you know, suffered the shock of the movie long ago, have read (and even written) HCL fic, and last summer saw HCL on the big screen with a roomful of fans and fangirls (us!) and Bruce McD...I can now FINALLY see the overarching humor that is in the very premise. I think you brought it out very well! It's almost no longer pathetic, you know? I now GET IT, the way that the writer out-punked the (for want of a better word) "punk" movement--the original one, that didn't call itself that. The one that took itself far too seriously. It was human, like every other culture and counterculture...and finally I get the joke without the pain, this time. Thanks to you. And, incidentally, you slyly skewer Rolling Stone and the

Re: You are a rockstar

[exeterlinden]

I think I know what you mean: IMHO, the rolling thunder pictures DVD release of HCL did a bad bit of marketing by printing reviews calling the movie "Hilarious!" and the "Punk rock Spinal Tap!" on the cover - because that, it is not.

But it does have humour, even if it's more of the ouch-hey-heh variety: The punk rock movement and all the music movements which take themselves so very seriously, can be comical when viewed from a certain angle. We grow up with those rock myths, and music journalism reinforces them - but the people in the industry are also affected by, grew up with, and read/hear of their own press.

And that is kind of comical - they way the rock machine feeds itself, and how it has its own do's and don'ts, clichés (going accoustic, coming off drugs, being allowed to be an asshole because you're an artiste, etc.) and its own discourse through the way the press builds them up to be something (and the way the artist and the fans believe it). That is kind of silly, really, and I think HCL captures some of that,

[tinzelda]

This is amazingly cool!

[exeterlinden]

Yay! So happy you liked it :D Thank you!

[c_regalis]

This is AMAZING. Like others said, Bruce would LOVE it.

[exeterlinden]

... But not as much as I love him *g*

Thank you so much for commenting!

[tharaist]

Oh, damn! This was completely awesome! *grins*

[exeterlinden]

Heh! So glad you liked it - thank you for telling me :D