Senin, 05 September 2011

high fidelity - nick hornby



judul : high fidelity

penulis : nick hornby
penerbit : the berkley publishing group, new york, 1995


saya nonton fimnya duluan, dan benar2 menarik! tentu saja begitu buku ini jadi koleksi c2o library, saya semangat banget bacanya! tokoh utama adalah rob fleming, seorang pria berusia 35 tahun, seorang dj, mengelola records store : campionship vinyl, apartemennya di london penuh dengan plat vinyl, dan punya selera yang bagus mengenai musik, buku, dan film. isi novel ini kebanyakan adalah kisah depresi rob karena dia baru saja dicampakkan oleh laura, kekasihnya.
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"what came first--the music or the misery? did i listen to music because i was miserable? or i was miserable because i listened to music? do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?"


banyak kisah menarik saat rob dan 2 rekan kerjanya, dick dan barry saat berhadapan dengan calon pembeli di campionship vinyl, dick dan rob juga suka membuat top five fave list tentang musik seperti five best side one track ones of all time and best five pop songs about death.
rob sangat sangat sangat menyukai musik pop, dan menurut dia musik pop sangat berbahaya!

"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--literally thousands--of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. the unhappiest people i know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like 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 in unhappy lives."

di suatu gig lokal, rob melihat pertunjukkan seorang single female songwriter folk-pop bernama marie lasalle. rob yang masih patah hati ditinggal laura, mencoba mendekati marie.


"all my life i have wanted to go to bed with--no, have a relationship with--a musician: i'd want her to write songs at home, and ask me what i thought of them, and maybe even include one of our private jokes in the lyrics, and thank me in the sleeve notes, maybe even include a picture of me on the inside cover, in the background somewhere, and i could watch her play live from the back, in the wings."

salah satu keseruan keseharian rob fleming adalah membuat mixtape!


"..making a tape is like writing a letter--there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again...a good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. you've got tokick off with a corker, to hold the attention, and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and...oh, there are loads of rules."


karya nick hornby ini banyak menelurkan quote yang sangat mengena kepada para penikmat musik, quote dibawah ini saya pilih untuk menutup resensi high fidelity :


"what really matters is what you like, not what you are like."

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