Brought to you by Barry (Jack Black) from the awesome movie High Fidelity. Rob and Dick (John Cusack and Todd Louiso) have been enjoying some low-key jams while they work at the record shop when Barry decides to finally come into work. Barry does not approve of the music that they were listening to...
This is possibly my favorite movie of all time. The writing is phenomenal, which has much to do with the book of the same title on which the movie is based. The book was written by Nick Hornby. Click to check it out on Amazon. Anyone with a general interest in music that can relate to music from as early as the 1960s, and, you know, if you like to read, you'll like the book."People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives." - Rob Gordon, High Fidelity
He raises a good point. Does our heartbreaking pop music make us miserable? Is Marilyn Manson to blame for the Columbine shooting? Are there Satanic messages in Stairway to Heaven when it's played backwards?
What do you think?
Also, no, I didn't forget: the answer key to the band name image below.
Keep on rocking in the free world,
Jenna
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