High Fidelity: Classic Or Dud?

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I've been told a scary number of times "hey you're like that guy in High Fidelity", which pisses me off. by "that guy" they always say I'm half like John Cusack, half like Todd Louiso. Fortunately I'm not at all like Jack Black.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost oh, snap, Martin. That hurtz

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I understand the Jack Black comparison to me, and in some ways it is accurate... Still disconcerting though.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

he's shorter than you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I think he's a bit heavier than I am too, and he has more hair. I think the bits where the comparison is accurate have more to do with "annoyance or vulgarity as humor" than with physical appearance.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"upper decking" f'rinstance :)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw deep fried mars bars in glasgow. it's a very bad idea anyway. big country were not a joke.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought that was Eric B & Rakim!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Scotland might have its faults but I've never met a more unpleasant, up their own arse, blind to the rest of the country, unpleasant gits as those that reside in "Lahn-dan".

― CRW (CRW), Saturday, 1 May 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I make it my ultimate goal to never see this movie.

― Serya (Z_Ayres), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is like the most retarded thing on ILX ever, it's great.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 May 2004 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

pricks.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 2 May 2004 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

godam. if i hadn't just gone vegan, i would have suggested my favourite takeaway start doing deep fried creme eggs. they sound quite heavenly.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 2 May 2004 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

1) curmudgeonly dudes name-checking obscure musicians: CHECK
2) raging lunatics whose insecurities prevent them from getting along like normal well-adjusted people: CHECK
3) a pleasant (though agressively hip) soundtrack: depends on you, but in my case CHECK

(of course i'm talking about this thread, not some stupid film)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 3 May 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, Anyway... I really liked High Fidelity. Also, I live only a couple of blocks away from where the record store was supposed to be (in Chicago), so it's cool to walk around that corner and pretend I'm going to Championship Vinyl. Also, John C. is my back up.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I need a Mars Bar
Hey raid the Spa
To help me through the day
I need a Mars Bar
I've had total fun
It helps me - makes me - work rest and play
It helps me - makes me - work rest and play

I never eat my dinner
I push away the plate
You can see I'm getting thinner
Because I just can't wait

To get my Mars Bar
Hey raid the Spar ...

To Patrick Moore and David Bowie
And all the other stars
There's evidence here to show
That there's life on Mars

I need a ...

There's glucose for energy
Caramel for strength
The chocolate's only there
To keep it the right length

I need a ...

To anybody out there who still eats Twix ?
Anybody on packets of Buttons ?
I gave them up when I was six
I hope your teeth are rotten

I need a ...

Work - rest and play

― J (Jay), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, John C. is my back up.

For a second, I thought you meant me!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You're her back-up dancer. Like a Fly Girl.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

you blithering moron it's set in chicago or somewhere and has an entirely american cast

Just a blitheringly pedantic point, Cusack's Trixie girlfriend in the film is in fact Danish. And then there's Catharine Zeta-Jones in her very minor role, and she's "Welsh," whatever she means by that.

The only thing I remember from my one viewing is the minor character who interviews Cusack for the reader, and how I thought, shit, that's a hot hipster girl who looks like Natalie Wood, and sure enough, when I look at the credits and check out her name on the galactic interweb, the actress is Natalie's daughter.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Soon to be a stage musical, coming to Boston and Broadway...

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99267.html

Once again, I expect the actor playing Rob will be way too goodlooking.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

My mom always is like "YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE RIGHT OUT OF HIGH FIDELITY". GAH

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

haha i had a dude say that to me when i was being interviewed for a big time jobby

― city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Ian = Lisa Bonet, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

are you the skate punks who sound like royal trux?

xpost

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

DEAN GULB3RRY WAS IN OLD SKU77

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

read the book. think i've seen the film. didn't mind them but a bit forgettable. a lot of truth, a lot of untruths.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

truth: record store clerks can be dicks

untruth: record store clerks who listen to a lot of doug yule velvet underground and hallucinate conversations w/bruce springsteen rarely get tail from rich hot lawyer chicks who bankroll their record obsessions

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

he met her as a dj

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

there is no fucking way green day sound like the clash or stiff little fingers

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

there is no fucking way nick hornby is a writer so that's okay

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

is that originally in the book ?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

It's in the copy in the library that I defaced.

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i did like the detail about how ultra snob rob's musical defenses fell when confronted with lisa bonet's meek, spineless cover of "baby i love your way"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Nicely done. (x-post)

The only thing that's even more dud than the High Fidelity franchise are people who feel compelled to ask "have you seen High Fidelity?" once they learn that I have more than ten records.

Ain't that the fuckin' truth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

-Don't you want to see the rest of the movie?
-I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it.

― paul reubens, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Hahahhahhahaha.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

jesus christ people. your long neglected and often abused subculture finally gets big-screen hollywood treatment, with john cusack playing you, and you still whine about it? c'mon high fidelity is to record geeks as top gun is to fighter pilots: simplistic heroic mythology. enjoy your myth, chrissakes.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

my favorite movie record geek is still daniel stern in diner. his fight with ellen barkin is so great. "you never ask me what the b-side is!"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:09 (twenty years ago)

what about Buscemi in Ghost World?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Buscemi and Cusak don't blog

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

xpost
Max Von Sydow in Hannah and her Sisters.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Buscemi and Cusak don't blog

true, the blogger top gun has yet to come. but it will.

buscemi's fine, but he's a little too laid back. he doesn't seem really obsessive, which cusack doesn't either but daniel stern does.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Book: classic
Film: classic
Track: CLASSIC

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

my favorite movie record geek is still daniel stern in diner. his fight with ellen barkin is so great. "you never ask me what the b-side is!"
"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey!"

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

Put simply, Cusack rocks in *everything* - how could you possibly be a doubter?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

first saw in theater - that was really good, funny, bittersweet
see now on cable - he is so pathetic, sad, kind of a dick, WTF worst marriage proposal ever

― dmr, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Grifters: C er D?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

This movie made me way fucking self-conscious about my underwear choices. I never knew men had these judgements of women's underwear!

― Abbott, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

This movie was boring and irritating and full of jerks by the way! If there was one excellent thing about Juno, it is that it shows these type of mangs to just be frustrating as hell, and crepey!

― Abbott, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

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