High Fidelity (2000)

Todd Louiso: Dick

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• Dick : I guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological?

  Rob : No...

  Dick : Not alphabetical...

  Rob : Nope...

  Dick : What?

  Rob : Autobiographical.

  Dick : No fucking way.

  Rob : Yep. Let me tell ya how I got from Deep Purple to Howlin' Wolf in just 25 moods. And, if I want to find the song "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac, I have to remember that I bought it for someone in the Fall of 1983 pile - but, didn't give it to them for personal reasons.

  Dick : That sounds...

  Rob : Comforting.

  Dick : Yes.

  Rob : It is.

• Louis : I don't have that record... I'll buy it for forty.

  Rob : Sold.

  Louis : Now why would you sell it to me and not to him?

  Barry : Because you're not a geek, Louis.

  Louis : You guys are snobs.

  Dick : No, we're not.

  Louis : Yeah, seriously, you're totally elitist. You feel like the unappreciated scholars, so you shit onto people who know lesser than you.

  Rob , Barry , Dick : No!

  Louis : Which is everybody...

  Rob , Barry , Dick : Yeah...

  Louis : That's so sad.

• Barry : I wanna date a musician.

  Rob Gordon : I wanna live with a musician. She'd write songs at home and ask me what I thought of them, and maybe even include one of our little private jokes in the liner notes.

  Barry : Maybe a little picture of me in the liner notes.

  Dick : Just in the background somewhere.

• Rob Gordon : I will now sell five copies of "The Three EPs" by The Beta Band.

  Dick : Go for it.

  [Rob plays the record] 

  Beta Band Customer : Who is this?

  Rob Gordon : The Beta Band.

  Beta Band Customer : It's good.

  Rob Gordon : I know.

• Dick : Marie de Salle's playing. You remember I told you about her. I like her. She's kind of Sheryl Crow-ish crossed with a post-Partridge Family pre-L.A. Law Susan Dey kind of thing, but, you know, uh, black.

• Barry : Top 5 songs about death. A Laura's Dad tribute list, okay? Okay. Leader of the Pack. The guy fuckin' beefs it on his motorcycle and dies, right? Dead Man's Curve. Jan & Dean.

  Dick : Do you know that right after they recorded that song Jan himself crashed his car...

  Barry : It was Dean you fuckin' idiot...

  Rob : It was Jan. It was a long time after the song.

  Barry : Okay, whatever. Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down - Laura's Mom could sing it. You know what I'd want? One Step Beyond by Madness. And, uh, You Can't Always Get What You Want.

  Dick : No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill.

  Barry : Oh God. You're right!

  Dick : Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.

  Barry : You bastard! That's so good - that should have been mine... The night Laura's daddy died. Sha na na na na na na na na! Brother what a night it really was. Mother what a night it really... angina's tough! Glory be!

• Barry : Hey, it's half past a monkey's ass, let's go.

  Dick : Oh, I can't meet you guys at the club tonight.

  Barry : Why?

  [Dick smiles] 

  Barry : Who are you going to see?

  Dick : [grins bashfully]  Nobody.

  Barry : Rob! Loooky-looky! Dick, are you gettin' some?

  [Dick pauses] 

  Barry : Oh-ho-ho! Un-fucking-believable! Dick's got a hot date! How did this happen, Dick? What rational explanation can there possibly be? What's her name?

  Dick : Anaugh.

  Barry : Anna? Anaconda?

  Dick : Anaugh Moss.

  Barry : [laughing]  Anna M-ha-ha-oss? Is she all green and fuzzy and mossy? And you met this bruiser where exactly? The home for the mentally challenged or the blind or the bus station?

  Dick : Um, here. She asked me about the new Green Day album, and I told her...

  Barry : Oh, man, finally! *Anna!* That's great, Dick! Really! Smoke that ass!

• [while Marie de Salle is singing "Baby I Love Your Way"] 

  Rob Gordon : I used to hate this song.

  Barry , Dick : Yeah.

  Rob Gordon : Now I kinda like it.

  Barry , Dick : Yeah.

• Barry : Holy shite. What the fuck is that?

  Dick : It's the new Belle and Sebastian...

  Rob : It's a record we've been listening to and enjoying, Barry.

  Barry : Well, that's unfortunate, because it sucks ass.

• Dick : She should have done it on: The Number Four With A Smile.

  Barry : Wasn't her record called: Number Four With A Smile?

  Dick : That's what I said.

  Barry : No-no. You said: The Number Four With A Smile. There's no "the" in the front of the title of the album.

  Dick : It's a reference to a Chinese meal in Toronto. So, I think that there is "the". But, I could be wrong.

  Barry : You can be and you are wrong.