"What came first - the music, or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - I mean, literally, thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and lost. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives."
(Nick Hornby, High Fidelity)
Actual post coming as soon as I'm done writing it....stay tuned.
1.24.2009
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It's people wallowing in their own misery. I think if people stopped thinking of themselves all the time and about other people, they'd be happier.
Update.
Hey. Where did you go? You are missing out on all the fun. I have beer. Come back. OK?
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