For list makers everywhere, Nick Hornby's cheeky novel High Fidelity is the Bible.
Lists disregard the unknown and tabulate the known, comfortably familiar and domestic.
John Cusack cries in the rain. No one turns standard Everyman characters into nuanced and complex beings like John Cusack does. Few can look as cool while feeling depressed. And nobody cries like Cusack. Gordon's one of those smart guys lacking drive who overdoses on romantic fantasies that he's too self-absorbed to fulfill.