Video: High Fidelity - Jack Black - Let's Get It On

I think it is finally sinking in that I'm off to Chicago on Sunday. This was already going to be cool, but arriving and meeting up with some other out of town friendlies at the bar where the above scene was filmed adds an extra touch. I had no plans on geeking out on my favourite movie just because we were staying in the same area it was filmed, but then I randomly came across High Fidelity Film Locations . Now I'm not sure. I think I'll have to watch it again tonight. And probably pack a [...]

(photo from: http://www.queensjournal.ca/me dia/stories/v135/i18/matthew-g ood.jpg) This was a show I wanted to see out of pure nostalgia, and is the first real concert I have seen since moving to Chicago last fall. The nostalgia has its source from a show that the Matthew Good Band played at Red's in Edmonton's West Edmonton Mall…somewhere around 10 years ago (now I feel old). The band entered to the Imperial March, and then stayed after the show to sign posters/t-shirts/cds etc. I think I still have a signed poster (of the Underdogs album) somewhere in my storage closet. [...]

You've got a dinner date set, the flowers are ordered, and a suitable gift has been procured. What's missing from this picture? Yes, a suitably smooth soundtrack is the crucial ingredient to any proper Valentine's Day. But don't worry if you're looking at your collection of Animal Collective and Lil Wayne MP3s and thinking that the guy/gal of your dreams is going to run to the hills, because Amazon.com has come up with a last minute solution. If you click this link today (Feb. 13) or tomorrow (Feb. 14), you can download Marvin Gaye's "Let's [...]

Stubborn kind of fellow. Marvin Gaye sang a song with the same title but to all intents and purposes he could be talking about himself. Fed up with the non-stop rollercoaster of Motown promotion and hard-sell and at the same time defying the orders of label boss Berry Gordy (who wanted instant hit after hit), he set up camp for the best part of a year recording what many of us consider to be his masterpiece, 'What's Going On' . I expect most of you here to know about the socio-political overtones in the lyrics, about how [...]

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Yes, it's my favorite comedy by a long shot and I could easily pull 50 blog posts about topics covered in this film. Yet another Nick Hornby novel-turned-film, High Fidelity was released in 2000 and still causes me to quote lines from it every day at work and seek some of the obscure artists Hornby re-introduces. Jack Black and John Cusack capture the perfect music guru/snob persona that we each encounter at **fill in your local indie record store here**. This past weekend, I drove to Gunnison for a few days of fun in [...]

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