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Valentine’s Day
2007
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Published: Jan 01, 2007
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Beyond Classification
“What are you rebelling against?” Marlon Brando is asked in the 1954 motorcycle classic, “The Wild One.”
“Whaddya got?” he snaps.
Now there’s a guy I can relate to. Especially on Valentine’s Day, when we are invited to march in lockstep to the drumbeat of romance. Well, not me. The thought of all those restaurants swollen with tables for two on February 14th makes me want to spend the evening thinking outside the bun at Taco Bell.
I’m a 365/24 guy; I believe that a key ingredient in love is constant attention. If you tune her out on a daily basis, I don’t see how champagne-and-roses will win her heart on Valentine’s Day. Candy? Lingerie? Perfume? Just gag me.
And yet it says in the web site owner’s guide that I must induce you to make an offering to Valentine, a saint allegedly beheaded by the Emperor Claudius in the year 280. Any excuse to push a little culture works for me — let’s put lipstick on this pig and go to it.
The Guy
Entourage — how he’d live if he were a young star in LA
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — they have dope, they lack burgers
Johnny U — the legendary Baltimore Colts quarterback
The Foreign Correspondent — no one makes pre-war Paris so thrilling
The Hopeless Romantic
Endless Love — he’s so crazy for her that he burns her house down
Love in the Time of Cholera — he’s been waiting for her for 51 years, 9 months and 4 days
Sky Burial — her husband dies in Tibet; she spends 3 decades looking for him
Cesaria Evora — silken-voiced passion from Cape Verde
Love Me Tonight — unlikely love conquers all in this 1932 musical
Local Hero — unlikely love conquers all in Scotland
The Francophile
A Sport and a Pastime — James Salter’s "dirty" novel
Provence A-Z — Peter Mayle’s miscellany
Artists in Residence — French homes of the great Impressionists
My Life in France — Julia Child reinvents French cooking.
The Cook
At Blanchard’s Table — restaurant quality home cooking
Trattoria — robust Italian
The Travel Freak
Educating Alice — and where she stops, nobody knows
Wallpaper City Guides — slide a ticket in one of these….
Down and Dirty
Etta James — The blues is her business, and business is good
Avalon — silky, but not high class
C.C. Adcock — Y’all think she’d be good t’ me
Aretha Franklin — She’s got the spirit, the spirit in the dark
Goes Down Easy
J.J. Cale — quiet Okie blues that makes you tap your feet
John Prine — he makes it look simple
Vittorio — the new Bocelli
Old-Fashioned Romance
Corinne Bailey Rae — everyone’s favorite new chanteuse
The Very Best of Burt Bacharach — What the world needs now…
The Attitude Case
John Waters — songs for lovers? Maybe.
Mitch Hedberg — stoner-funny
Enough? Hope so. It is, after all, the little, personal things….
