Blog: Said the Gramophone

The Byrds - "You Ain't Going Nowhere" There is one moment of light in the otherwise frustrating and unfunny Ron Howard comedy The Dilemma . In one of his trademark virtuoso verbal improvisations, a nervous, lying Vince Vaughn, desperate to change whatever banal subject is at hand, spirals into a brief discourse on the metaphysics of art. Channeling Schopenhauer, Vaughn says, "They say music is the highest art form, that it can do the most emotional work the fastest." Such a lofty, irrelevant claim - I couldn't help but laugh. [...]

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