There's a new kind of dedication, maybe you'll find it down the tunnel
This scene from High Fidelity keeps wandering through my head. He's gone into a lunch date terribly prepared to ask the women who walked out to marry him. She points out that last week he was making mixed tapes for another girl.
That other girl, or other women, whatever, I was thinking that they're just fantasies, you know, and they always seem really great because they're never any problems, and if there are they're cute problems like we bought each other the same Christmas present or she wants to go see a movie I've already seen, you know? And then I come home and you and I have real problems and you don't want to see the movie I wanna see, period. There's no lingerie...
-- I have lingerie!
Yes you do. You have great lingerie but you also have cotton underwear that's been washed a thousand times and its hanging on the thing and ... and they have it too just I don't have to see it because it's not the fantasy ... do you understand? I'm tired of the fantasy because it doesn't really exist and there are never really any surprises and it never really...
-- Delivers?
Delivers. Right. And I'm tired of it and I'm tired of everything else for that matter but you'll never see me get tired of you... So...
That other girl, or other women, whatever, I was thinking that they're just fantasies, you know, and they always seem really great because they're never any problems, and if there are they're cute problems like we bought each other the same Christmas present or she wants to go see a movie I've already seen, you know? And then I come home and you and I have real problems and you don't want to see the movie I wanna see, period. There's no lingerie...
-- I have lingerie!
Yes you do. You have great lingerie but you also have cotton underwear that's been washed a thousand times and its hanging on the thing and ... and they have it too just I don't have to see it because it's not the fantasy ... do you understand? I'm tired of the fantasy because it doesn't really exist and there are never really any surprises and it never really...
-- Delivers?
Delivers. Right. And I'm tired of it and I'm tired of everything else for that matter but you'll never see me get tired of you... So...