High Five

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In the spirit of High Fidelity, a really great movie that a friend of mine bought for me, I have compiled a few Top 5 Lists of my own.

High Fidelity stars John Cusack as a disgruntled, jaded record store owner who is trying to understand what has gone wrong in his relationships with women. This time of reflection is brought on by his current live-in girlfriend moving out. He reviews his top 5 worst break ups of all time. The movie co-stars Jack Black (one of the funniest physical comedians of our time), who is a die hard rocker guy, determined to make music-buying as hard as possible for anyone who actually comes intot he store. Along with Dick, played wonderfully by Todd Louiso, these guys spend their days impressing their musical elitism upon the music peons that come in the store.


Louis: Now why would you sell it to me and not to him
Barry: Because you're not a geek, Lewis
Louis: You guys are snobs
Barry: No we're not
Louis: No, seriously, you're totally elitists. You feel like the unappreciated scholars soyou shit on the people who know less than you
All 3: Nawww
Louis: Which is everybody...
All 3: Yesss

Top Five Most Fucked Up Situations/Interactions With The Opposite Sex(he used "Break Ups" in the Movie, but I've only had one real "break-up")
1. All of the times I was forced to have sex, coerced into sex, or laid there while a man performed some sexual act on me.
2. This dude took a shit in my bowl and clogged it up, but didnt tell me and I didnt find out until he left. Not a word, nothing. Covert shitting all up in my crib.
3. Finding out this dude I'd been seeing was married. He had a seperate apartment that he maintained to do his cheating, so me having the home number, going to his home, etc. didn't tip me off. I didn't find out until his wife called me on my cell phone calling me all kinds of bitch, asking where her husband was (as in what city, state). I was like wait a minute u dumb fuck, I didnt know ya man was married, so don't call me a bitch. You are the dumb fuck for not knowing your husband maintains a completely seperate home for his affairs. Didn't she wonder where he went those times? What wife lets her man travel out of state without knowing where he is going and what he is doing?
4. Any phone call received from the "wife" "wifey" "girlfriend" or "babymama" that I never knew existed.
5. Finding out that one of the most popular brothas on the football team, and in school, was a two-minute brotha.

Top Five Recording Artists of All Time
1. Prince [the king of all that is music]
2. Stevie Wonder [one of the best songwriters]
3. Michael Jackson [can't deny his musical success and influence]
4. Whitney Houston [hard to think of a more pure voice being recorded]
5. Mariah Carey [over 150 million records sold, 4.5 octave range, give credit when it is due]

Top Five Records to Play on A Monday Morning
1. "Count The Days"- Prince
2. "Fight The Power"- Public Enemy
3. "Payback"- James Brown
4. "Manic Monday"- Bangles [written by Prince]
5. "Lovely Day"- Bill Withers

Top Five Favortie Books of All Time
1. Go Tell It On The Mountain- James Baldwin
2. Go Down, Moses- William Faulkner
3. Black Noise- Tricia Rose [hip hop Bible]
4. The Color Purple- Alice Walker
5. Black Macho and The Myth of the Superwoman- Michelle Wallace

Top Five Musical Crimes Perpetrated By Stevie Wonder In the 80s and 90s
1. "I Just Called To Say I Love You"
2. "I Ain't Gonna Stand For It" [from Hotter Than July]
3. "Go Home" [from In A Square Circle]
4. "Skeletons" [from Characters]
5. "Jungle Fever" [from Jungle Fever Sdtk.]

Top Five Side Ones, Track Ones
1. "1999"- Prince, "1999"
2. "Break On Through"-The Doors, "The Doors"
3. "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"- Michael Jackson, "Off The Wall"
4. "Please Don't Go"-Boyz II Men, "Cooleyhighharmony"
5. "Like A Prayer"- Madonna, "Like A Prayer"

Top Five Original Songs From a Movie Soundtrack [made for, or inspired by the movie, excluding musicals made into movies i.e. Jesus Christ Superstar]
1. "Purple Rain"-Prince [Purple Rain]
1. "The Beautiful Ones"- Prince [Purple Rain]
2. "Open"-Brandy [Osmosis Jones]
3. "Freedom"- Various Artists [Panther]
4. "When You Believe"- as performed by Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston [Prince of Egypt]
5. "Fame"- Irene Cara [Fame]

Top Five Dream Jobs
1. World-famous author
2. Elementary school teacher
3. Homemaker
4. Plus-sized super model
5. President/Queen of a small country

Top Five Things I Miss About My Ex
1. Nothing
2. Nothing
3. Nothing
4. Nothing
5. His parents

Top Five Songs About Death
1. "Another Lonely Christmas"- Prince
2. "The Death of Emmett Till"- Bob Dylan
3. "Tears In Heaven"-Eric Clapton
4. "Behind The Wall"- Tracey Chapman
5. "Death Wish"- Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo

Top Five Songs To Be Played At My Funeral
1. "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"- Prince
2. "Troubles Of The World"- Mahalia Jackson
3. "One Sweet Day"-Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
4. "Another One Bites The Dust"- Queen
5. "Electric Relaxtion"- A Tribe Called Quest

All Time Top Five Favorite Records
1. "Adore"-Prince
2. "Visions"- Stevie Wonder
3. "Love Takes Time"-Mariah Carey
4. "Buddy (Remix)"- Native Tongues
5. "Live To Tell"- Madonna