"What came first - the music of the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?... People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent video games; 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. ...I don't kow whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives."
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. Go out and read it. Now. If not, see the movie with John Cusack. It's probably the only film adaptation of a book that I really, really, really like. Even if they did change the setting from London to Chicago, the bastards...
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. Go out and read it. Now. If not, see the movie with John Cusack. It's probably the only film adaptation of a book that I really, really, really like. Even if they did change the setting from London to Chicago, the bastards...