Beav's review
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
Beav's review
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Beav's review
rating:
recommended for: anybody that likes Irvine Welsh
P. 169
"So maybe what I said before, about how i listen to too many records messes your life up.....maybe there's something in it after all.......It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You've got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you've got to pick at it and unravel it until it comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absord emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized." That was almost a breakthrough for Rob. The movie for this actual do...more
"So maybe what I said before, about how i listen to too many records messes your life up.....maybe there's something in it after all.......It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You've got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you've got to pick at it and unravel it until it comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absord emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized." That was almost a breakthrough for Rob. The movie for this actual do...more
