Outlandos d’Amour
By “Big Rick” Cahall
Ah , St Valentines Day . Hello old friend . How many holidays of yours have I endured and sometimes enjoyed greatly. Some VERY Greatly !! That waitress in Newport Beach … But I digress.
For you historians out there , early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. To an Agnostic this means SQUAT. Again I digress …
This holiday means as much to us men as to the ladies . But Rick how can you say this ??? Easy , I say a lot of stupid things but this isn’t one of them. Listen and learn kiddies.
Anything that is INCREDIBLY important to our women , BETTER be the same to us guys or we will be spending time with our PS3 or playing with our WII ! ( not that you silly people !! ) So this month I want to let you in on some of the best Films & Songs for this day of Amore. Some of these are my favorites and some ARE just a consensus. They are not ranked nor in any order .
FILMS: Forgetting Sarah Marshall , Titantic , P.S. I Love You , He’s Just Not That Into You , As Good As It Gets , Chasing Amy , Tin Cup , Love Actually , What Women Want , Ghost , Notting Hill , 50 First Dates , Groundhog Day , When Harry Met Sally , Juno , Knocked Up.
Maybe not your conventional TITLES mind you but a list none the less.
If you haven’t seen any of these , do check them out . Great or cute , touching love stories in each one.
Some that didn’t make the cut : Fatal Attraction , My Bloody Valentine , Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer , Seven , Basic Instinct , Indecent Proposal , Natural Born Killers … Not all can make list…
SONGS:
Possession-Sarah McLachlin , Against All Odds-Phil Collins , Torn-Natalie Imbruglia , My Heart Will Go On-Celine Dion , Everything I Do-Bryan Adams , Purple Rain-Prince , Take My Breath Away-Berlin , Faithfully-Journey , Wicked Game-Chris Issac , Wonderful Tonight-Eric Clapton , And I Love Her - Beatles , First Time Ever I saw Your Face-Roberta Flack , A Woman’s Worth-Alicia Keys , Maybe I’m Amazed-Paul McCartney , Aint No Sunshine-Bill Withers , Nuthin Compares 2 U-Prince/Sinead O’Connor , I’ll Stand by You-Chrissy Hynde.
Once again a list , but not THE LIST. If you havent heard any of these , give them a try and you will appreciate them. Or not.
Some that didn’t make the cut : I Too Sexy - Right Said Fred , Darling Nikki-Prince , Before He Cheats-Carrie Underwood , She Hates Me-Puddle Of Mudd , Can I Get A - Jay Z , Lady Is A Tramp-Frank Sinatra , Justify My Love-Madonna , You Oughta Know-Alanis Morrisette , If I Didn’t Love-Squeeze , Blame It-Jamie Foxx , Love The One You’re With-Stephen Stills … Cant please everyone.
Its time for a new feature .
Big Rick’s Picks
New Band: Them Crooked Vultures. Sort of a SuperGroup if you will. Josh Hommes ( Queens of the Stone Age ) , Dave Grohl ( Foo Fighters , Nirvana ) & John Paul Jones ( Oh just a little band known as Led Zeppelin ). First single “ New Fang “ is screaming on your Modern / AOR Rock stations.
New Film : Sherlock Holmes , well worth the admission price in these economic times. Robert Downey Jr : a modern day master thespian. ( Thespian people , geez … ).
New DVD Rental: Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarrantino . Please , its Tarrantino .
New Tour: Soundgarden Reunites . Awesome grunge GODS …
New Series: Fringe ( FOX ) & Bored to Death ( HBO )
New Car: Dodge Challenger , HOLY …. !
New Comedy Star : Zach Galifianakis ( The Hangover )
Best Local Bar: The Rail ( Richland NJ ) and also The Watering Hole ( Mays Landing )
Best Local Blog: TheAngryReporter.Blogspot.com (LousGazetteBlog.blogspot.com, of course)
Best New Independent Film: Sorrow Hill ( GrindHouse Pictures ) Makes you forget Paranormal Activity …
Biggest Jerk: Pat Robertson , Rush Limbaugh & his little sister Glenn Beck
Greatest Writer : Sarah Palin , best since Christopher Marlowe … ugh …She sounds even dumber in print …Its not a woman thing at all; she’s just an idiot.
Well , I’ll see you next month . Thanks for spending time with me.
Any thoughts , questions etc… ?
P.S. I promised Lou I wouldn’t mention Brokeback Mountain and I won’t …
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