Comments on: Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:15:15 +0000

Aye, of course Winston. I’ll be posting them over the course of next weekend, while I’m away at the End of the Road Festival.

By: Winston's Zen

Winston's Zen — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:48:22 +0000

Gah!!
I only just read this post now.
If I can knock something together tomorrow (the 8th) would the deadline be enforced??

Must try and keep up in future…..

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:24:00 +0000

Cool, will get it over to you soon.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:21:26 +0000

Alright, I’ll admit that High Fidelity had its merits. It was occasionally amusing and the portrait of an obsessive music fan really should touch all of us a little.

But a constant onslaught of ‘Waah waah what’s wrong with me why don’t women like me whinge moan my constant self-indulgent navel-gazing drives off women so I’m going to go and overpower them all with self-indulgent navel gazing until they tell me what’s wrong and why they don’t like me waaah waah waaah’ got a bit much. People don’t like you, John (or whatever his character was called), because you never stop whining and you never stop talking about yourself. Maybe if you grew the fuck up and got on with life you wouldn’t repulse people quite so violently.

And I don’t really like the ‘well you’re not much good, but I am beginning to despair of finding anyone any better so you’ll do’ approach to the reconcilliation at the end of all of Hornby’s books. No wonder the spineless nonce is so fucking miserable, if that’s the kind of capitulation with which he selected his life partner.

My three-word Nick Hornby review: stop fucking moaning.

So perhaps, while I can see where you’re coming from, I may still have issues with his work which I need to address.

As to Avalanche; looks like it, mate. No other takers.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:20:07 +0000

The book of High Fidelity was a pleasant enough holiday read.

The record shop scenes in the movie were obviously far better than the bits where he was schlepping about pursuing the love story, but I still love the film.

But then I suspect John Cusack would make redecorating his spare bedroom entertaining to watch.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:11:58 +0000

‘How to be good’ was excruciatingly. But High Fidelity, book and film, have a certian charm. So, I take it I can do Avalanche, then?!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:05:26 +0000

Brilliant, old chap, that would be superb.

Did you read How To Be Good? I wanted to track him down and punch him after that. I may as well have been written by a slightly awkward twelve-year-old.

By: jc

jc — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:20 +0000

I can’t provide photos (unless I steal them from elsewhere on t’internet), but I’ll say a few words about Rotate This in Toronto.

Oh and you’re wrong about Hornby (although I’ll admit that some of his books are annoying) and way off the mark about the movie. It was funny and enjoyable 1st time round, and still is on the 5th or 6th viewing….

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:08:42 +0000

i used to work in a local indie record shop in the north east of England, called…B-Bop….closed now.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:05:17 +0000

I’ve got a really cool idea for this – but I don’t know if I can actually make it work.

Watch this space…

(And if after an appropriate period of space-watching; nothing appears, just move along quietly and go about your business as normal.)