So like whatever, Danger, Will Robinson!  Spoilers ahead!  High Fidelity is about this loser dude who runs a fucking record store because he dropped out of studying .. apparently .. nothing .. in college, and he like goes through his "biggest five breakups" going back to try and contact all of the women involved and asking basically, "why am i always rejected?".  At some point he goes on like, [sic] "Yanno, I read stuff, like .., .., and 'Love in the time of Cholera', where are all the chicks".

OK, this like, belongs on e2 or something, but seriously, this exhibits one of the biggest problems with men at least in our culture trying to develop a personality that appeals to women.  No, don't like, understand stuff, or think about things, just read books with "love" in the name.  Did this character read the fucking book?  I am just digging into it because I was really impressed by the movie, which for some reason my girlfriend was all tripped that I wanted to see.

OK, the movie is about a dude who, yes, pines over like his first love or some really significant love for his whole life, but also he doesn't let that hold him back, he doesn't sit around crying and painting landscapes of the world ending.  He becomes old, eccentric, and successful.  He is like easily in his 60s or 70s screwing some college girl who visits him once a week when he finds out that his lifelong love's husband has died, and goes to profess his love to her.

So, yeah, it's sappy, but the dude is not a loser, he was waiting, like, he had his eye on things and stuff, but he wasn't letting life pass him by.  That is why that is an awesome story, and it is not a story that will necessarily "get you chicks" by reading it, it should inspire you to get chicks even if you think one is super awesome but she is too busy being super awesome for someone else.

So, yeh, fucking John Cusack can kiss my ass.

 Also, I thought that it held up lame gender stereotypes.  The #1 breakup was like this girl who kissed him on some park bench in like kindergarten or some shit, and then ended up with his friend, who she then later cries to the John Cusack character about being "basically raped" by when she loses her virginity.  Oh boo fucking hoo, maybe she should not have gravitated to the more aggressive guy.  You can't blame the gold for choosing silver, bitches..  What an interesting story it would be if instead of being a crumpled 20-something because of her own choice at like 7, she could learn from it somehow, and be a central character, instead of showing up in the very beginning, and then for about 30 seconds in the middle.

Also, why in these movies is the guy always the loser reflecting on his life, fretting over some moderately desirable girl who really doesn't even have it together as much as he does?  Where is the inverse, bitches?

I need to take a class, again, where I can get some credit for these sort of ramblings, heh..