Let Me Take You On A (High Fidelity) Trip

Around the World and Back

'What came first? The music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns and watching violent videos - we're scared that some sort of culture of violence is
taking them over.

But nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?'

And You Won't Have To Move, You Just Sit Still

'You are as abandoned and as noisy as any character in a porn film, Laura. You are Ian's plaything, responding to his touch with shrieks of orgasmic delight. No woman in the history of the world is having better sex than the sex you are having with Ian in my head.'

Let Your Mind Do The Walking

'A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to hold the attention. Then you have to take it up a notch, but not blow your wad, so maybe cool it off a notch, and you can't put the same artist twice on the tape, except if there's some subtle point or lesson or theme involved, and even then not the two of them in a row, and you can't woo somebody with Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" and then bash their head off with something like GBH's "City Baby Attacked by Rats," and... oh, there are a lot of rules. Anyway, I worked hard at this one.'

And Let My Body Do The Talking

'I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old and, frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.'

+Words+

From Nick Hornby's 'High Fidelity'

Watch a clip from the movie

+Art+

Title image: 'greeneyeblind' by Thopper23

+Music+

Depeche Mode/Dead Can Dance/UNKLE (remixed by LeeDM101)