High Fidelity is one of my favorite movies, hands down.
Disregard the idiot in the back, Heather is on the right.
It’s just a perfect little cinematic creation and features one of the best, not to mention surprising (for non-Tenacious D fans), endings ever. When Jack Black takes the stage as “Barry Jive and the Uptown Five,” you don’t really know what to expect. You certainly don’t expect this arrogant twat to hit those notes, but he does. And watching the utterly shocked faces of Cusack and Iben Hjejle is just priceless every time. Lost in that shuffle of greatness are the closing lines from Cusack talking about making a mix-tape for Laura, “Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done.” This Wonderful Wednesday is sort of like that, but shorter and for my friend, Heather. Her birthday is tomorrow (Thursday) and she’ll probably be pissed I didn’t get her a real present, but those cost cash money.
Wonderful Wednesday: The If Clause
Ahh…the peanut gallery.
If someone is confined to a chair, can they still dominate a stage? Yes, Solomon Burke can.
I periodically get a kindly suggestion from a friend about thematic possibilities for a Wonderful Wednesday post. At some point in the dark reaches of February I was propositioned about whether such requests were honored (they are). Though no outside suggestion was given, I struck upon The If Clause because of its lawyerly associations (my old man and my step-mom are both practicing attorneys). It seemed a ripe subject.
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