Over the last 24+ years since watching this movie, I have walked into work on a Gloomy Monday or in my house the same way Jack Black walked into the store doing the same obnoxious sounds just to get a rise and smile from others!!!
The record store reminds me so much of my high school years hanging out in a small mom and pop video rental store by my house just talking movies with whoever was there for hours.
Belle and Sebastian are great and the next song from this album is Boy w the Arab Strap, which is a total bop. He should have let it play! You can really jam out to it.
I have 4 retro turntables...they are not sophisticated. My main turntable is at chest height. Above the turntable are two soft lights. Now and then, I take one of my 1100 jazz albums, slide the vinyl disc from its sleeve, and place it carefully on the turntable. I place the soft brush arm dust collector on the disc over the first track. I go over the disc with a Zerostat static remover and turn on the two soft lights. I position the tone arm with its SME cartridge over the aforesaid first track.Only then do I start the player. As the disc slowly revolves at 33 1/3 rpm, the lights cause a shimmer across the disc surface. With anticipation, I lower the head shell onto the 500m-long, spiral groove of the record; there's a faint pop, a momentary silence and then......the clear sound of Charlie Parker's 'Parker's Mood' fills the room. 2023 streamers won't have the faintest idea what I'm talkin' about...but many vinyl-lovers Out There will!
congrats on being the oldest vid ever suggested to me, beating out old Onion vids by a full year. Plus, I fucking love this movie, and Black, and Cusack.
All music junkies like myself can relate to having top 5 or 10 lists. It just comes with the territory. It's called having too much time on your hands and using it constructively.
How is it that John Cusack is still cool after all these years? His catalog of work is stunning. It was cool when we were young. And going back and checking it out again, it's still cool.
Grosse Point Blank is among the greatest comedies ever made. I also thought of him as cool as hell for a long time. That said, RM is right. I hate conservatism in general and have more in common with liberalism....but Cusack is so far left he even turned me off with a couple of those pandemic time speeches he made.
Rockaway Records; Vinyl Fetish; Aron's; Moby Disc; Poo-Bahs; Rhino Records, spending the day shopping for used and affordable vinyl. Those were the days. Grateful for those record stores still out there doing business, keeping vinyl alive.
I remember Probe in Liverpool back in the 80's. At various times behind the desk you'd find Holly Johnson ( later Frankie goes to Hollywood ) Pete Burns ( Dead or Alive ) Bill Drummond ( KLF ) and more. Burns was withering if a dad with his 7 year old daughter showed up at the counter and asked for the latest Kylie Minogue single. He would torch them. I'm sure that the child was definitely influenced though. Next week she'd be in with her Primary school mates asking for Crocodiles by Echo and the Bunnymen, or Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits.
Yep…as long as I can pay my bills just listen to music all day, take literally NOTHING negative home with you, and sleep like a baby every night. Heck, I might even develop real hobbies again. But all that will have to wait until I’m 65 I guess…
