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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: High/Low Fidelity |
| Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:40:23 -0500 |
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:23:08 -0500
From: matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: High/Low Fidelity
Message-ID: <40872C89.44BF61E6@mindspring.com>
> On their website, they claim to have provided
> "information and expertise" to the making of the film,
> and they actually use the word "model" in their own (I
> assume) description of the store HERE:
> http://www.musicstack.com/seller_info.cgi?seller=6866
they shouldn't be boasting about that! they should be hanging their heads in
shame, for providing the model of a huge, fresh-scrubbed, shopping-mall
boutique that looks nothing like the dusty, out-of-the-way storefront in the
book, and nothing at all like a store that any record collector i've ever
met would go to in search of some old r&b and ska records or a stiff little
fingers white label.
Not so, Matty. One can do the old book-vs.-movie argument about *High
Fidelity*, but the authenticity of Championship Vinyl in the movie is
impeccable. It looks exactly like what it's supposed to portray -- a
yuppie-enclave Chicago indie record store. I don't know about Brooklyn, but
Championship Vinyl is precisely the sort of place where some North Side
hipster here in the city by the inland sea would go to hunt down a
mint-condition Captain Beefheart LP. Trust me on this one, Matty, as I
practically live in places like Championship Vinyl. And there's nothing
shopping-mallesque about the location; the movie sets the store at the
corner of Milwaukee and Honore, and the store's ambience and clientele is
very much in keeping with the Bucktown neighborhood.
Gregory Sager
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