Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is a high-functioning pothead and private investigator. Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel is an impossibility-a sunny neo-noir set principally in 1970’s Manhattan Beach (fictionalized here as “Gordita Beach”). Something has changed, and it sure as heck ain’t you. There is a reason for this, and I realized the reason why while watching Inherent Vice. It would follow then that you would wait eagerly for the next album to come out, so you could play both albums back to back to double your pleasure-and it’s fraternal twin, the fun-commanding late night listening sessions and accompanying aimless car trips to nowhere in particular. But frequently, something happens with that next album, and it causes confusion and emotional dissonance. It’s different. You and the album-you might change, but it never does. You can listen again and again and while you may change how often you listen to it, every time is like the first time. That one album that neatly cleaved your life in two: Before and After. The one piece of musical bliss complete strangers created solely for you to commune with them. That experience is the closest thing I can think of to a real-life fruition of having your cake and eating it too. That one album that you would listen to over and over, memorizing every beat, bridge and bassline. You probably have a favorite album that made a singer or band yours.
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