Okay, I'm embarrassed that I didn't know about this sooner. I am probably one of the biggest fans of Clane Hayward's memoir The Hypocrisy of Disco and I just found out today that there is a movie adaptation that was released on the indie circuit last year. Totally passed me by.  At any rate, the film is now available on streaming. It's called Lane 1974 and I'm about to check it out.

According to IMDB, they've changed a lot of the character names for the adaptation. (Clane is now "Lane"? And Clane's mom went from H'lane in the book to "Hallelujah" in the film?) I suspect they did that to make it easier for viewers who haven't read the book, as a lot of the characters have names that are similar sounding and that would make it confusing on film. Clane's name itself is a mashup of her mom and dad's (H'lane and Claude) and her youngest sister is named Ki (Japanese for Chi, aka energy flow). But hopefully those are the only major changes. 

It will be wild to see Kate Moennig playing a radical 1970's earth mother. I realize she's an actress and she's been in a ton of movies playing different types, but I'll always picture her rocking this androgynous look as Shane on The L Word. 

My love for this book has raised my expectations unbelievably high, so I'm prepared to be somewhat disappointed in the movie adaptation. (Or not? Who knows?) Regardless, I appreciate that the people behind the movie obviously also loved the book and were passionate enough to get this made. 

Want to read an interview I did with Clane Hayward for 3am? Here ya go.

  

Having my own magazine is awesome. Not only has it enabled me to discover some truly talented up-and-coming writers, it's given me the perfect excuse to talk to famous creative types whom I admire. So far I've had the pleasure of interviewing musician Joshua Path, The Room's Juliette Danielle, and writers like Dan Kennedy, Mary Jo Pehl, Clane Hayward, Jonathan Bernstein, and now Ned Vizzini.

Vizzini is the author of Teen Angst? Nah...., Be More Chill, It's Kind of a Funny Story (which was adapted into a hit movie starring Zach Galifianakis) and The Other Normals, scheduled for release later this year. He's also collaborating with a big-name Hollywood director on a new series of Young Adult novels, which already creating quite a buzz around Tinseltown. So yeah, Ned Vizzini is pretty much a literary rock star.

And you can read my interview with him here.

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TTWF UPDATE: I found something fun on Amazon. Turns out that you can now buy a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of my book. The creators of the shirt are actually referencing the song, but it's still pretty awesome. Maybe we can team up for a product tie-in? In the meantime, here's my book.

No time for much today, so I'm just going to shamelessly promote myself...

Check out my interview with author Clane Hayward here.

Cheerio!