When I lived in an apartment a couple years ago I was lucky that the neighbours downstairs and me had a good understanding. It meant we both could play music/watch movies at considerable volume without this resulting in problems. When those neighbours left I had to wait and see what type of people would move in. Luckily the arrangement remained the same. But after a while I started having an issue with them as they would play the same song everyday for hours and continued to do so for weeks. The bassline of the song started to get on my nerves and I started wondering how to address this, because of course you run the risk of upsetting the “natural balance”, which could result in escalation. I decided to go in friendly and luckily they understood and we could both continue the way we always did. For Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) Radner it turns out differently. Continue reading →