Pajiba

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Knocked Up

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: Carouselambra by Led Zepplin.

3) Worst Dating Experience: If I had to pick just one...blind date with friend's boyfriend's cousin. We went to the drive-in and he had me hide in the back so he didn't have to pay for me. Seriously.

1) LOVE ACTUALLY...I am definitely in the minority on this one - everyone I know adores this piece of maudlin, unrealistic, overwritten crap (complete with the cliched airport declaration of love scene)...

2) anything by MILES DAVIS during his "Electrofunk" period (Bitches Brew, On The Corner, etc)...Dark, funky, sweaty music with sexy BPMs...

3) A girl and I went to a party together where we both got drunk...Long story short - I puked on her, which caused her to puke on me...We ended up dating seriously for about 2 years, though...I guess it couldn't get any worse after that first date, and our split was fairly amicable...

1. For romantic movie on the annoying meter: When Harry Met Sally. Ohhhh, how I love to hate that movie, and hate to love it. And I do love it, don't get me wrong.

2. Whatever Lola Wants. Because I always get what I caaaaaaaaame for.... (love. that. song.)

3. Worst dating experience: Freshman year of high school; I agree to go on a date with a fellow teammate from my soccer team (I played boys soccer). First, we aren't old enough to buy tickets to the rated R movie we wanted to see, so his bright idea is to buy tickets to freaking Jumanji (???) and sneak in.
Well, long story short, that plan was foiled and we had to sit through Juman....buuh. AND he tried to do the ol' stretch and put his arm around me, and only succeeded in slamming his arm down hard on the top of my head.
I excused myself to go to the bathroom, called a friend to pick me up, and never went back.
For all I know, he could still be there, stuck in the freaking Jumanji game...

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Pretty Woman

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: Bush - Mouth.

3) Worst Dating Experience: Hmm there was the first date who took me to Wendys, he paid but he didn't get anything to eat because it was too expensive. Then there was my 3 month anniversary dinner where my boyfriend bought a steak and told me to order on the cheap side because all he was $20. Ohh and the guy who told me I was a waste of his time and his money because I wouldn't put out on the first date. I Know I'm such a prude.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: "Sleepless in Seattle." *hurk*

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: "Can't Get Next to You," Al Green

3) Worst Dating Experience: One that involved a guy who drove an old Opal and bought me opal earrings. Clever, huh? Except the car broke down, and we ended up pushing it several miserable blocks in the summer. In Florida. At night. So, 90 degree weather with mosquitoes the size of watermelons. Good times . . . good times.

I just have to give a big FUCK YES to all the jazz love for best song to freaky to. Yes yes yes.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Bridget Jones Diary

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: Destiny, Zero 7

3) Worst Dating Experience: Well that's easy - Junior year of high school. The Dead Milkmen concert. Her car broke down. We made out like monkeys. She was embarrassed and told all her friends the next day that I'd taken advantage of her. Thanks for making me completely terrified of women for the next three years, beyotch.

Aw Dustin. Ouch.

1. Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Pretty Woman. Edward's condescending attitude makes me stabby.

2. Best Song to Get Your Freak On: Can't think of a single song off the top of my head, but I've been re-listening to Beck's Guero lately and that's a pretty hot album.

3. Worst Dating Experience: Going to see The Patriot with the most boring individual in the history of ever. He offered no infomation about himself and didn't ask me a single question-it was like interviewing someone for a job. He made Ben Stine look manic.

[putting on her flak jacket before answering number one]
1)"Say Anything" Lloyd Dobler was an idiot. Diane Courts are a dime a dozen in this world.

2)"Supermassive Black Hole", Muse or "Riot Poof", Tori Amos.

3) I don't really have any worst date stories. But the night before Mr. Pink proposed to me, he got piss-drunk with a friend. That morning he was hungover something fierce, but still insisted on driving us an hour (so he could surprise me on this romantical footbridge on our college campus). After about fifteen minutes on the highway, he went ghostly pale and whipped the car over to the shoulder. He rushed out to squat by the side of the highway for a while, and I sat in the car thinking that this was going to be a weird day. And in a way, it was. Because eventually Mr. Pink pulled his shit back together, and we ended up on that bridge.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Pretty Woman. I loathe that movie, everything about it offends me on so many levels

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: "Avalon" Roxy Music

3) Worst Dating Experience: all of them, with the exception of each excellent 'date' with my fiance

1) Least "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: When That Annoying Fucker Harry Met That Godawful Bitch Sally

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: "Tell Me More and More", Nina Simone

3) Worst Dating Experience: "Reindeer Games" (He LOVED it), IHOP, dry-humping on the living room floor.

RomCom and songs to naked dance to escape me at the moment, but I DO have a worst dating experience:

First date with a guy, we were supposed to go to prom together. He picks me up to go to a movie. No asking what I wanted to see, he had already decided on Passion of the Christ. We get there and the show he was shooting for is sold out. I suggest we see any other movie. He decides to wait for the next showing. Not a word was spoken on the way home. We did not end up going to prom together.

1) Music & Lyrics...dreck, dreck, dreck (& I have a very high tolerance for dreck)

2) Whitey Ford Sings the Blues by Everlast (I know...it really doesn't make any sense.)

3) Not long after I moved to the city, I met a sweet boy at a club. Our first official date - he shows up at my apt. (because he couldn't afford to take me out) with a bootleg copy of The Crow & a single rose. He also offers to give me the picture of his hero, which he carries in his wallet. Who is in that picture, you ask? Mike Tyson. Could not get him out of my apartment fast enough. Sadly, he kept showing up in the middle of the night for a few weeks after. Thanks God for doormen.

"That's NOT mine." I meant to type. Why do people insist on talking to me at my desk when I obviously have interest in their impending divorce?

Movie: Perfect Holiday. I knew it was going to suck before I watched it and I think it made my hangover worse.

Song to Freak to: Rolling Stones "Wild Horses"

Worst Date: sophomore high school, my first ever datey-date and all I did was watch the Labor Day fireworks in his backyard (i.e. we watched his little brother throw around those gunpowder packets) and then played Uno with his deaf uncle. At least *try* to be entertaining, people!

Smello: Bwa!! I hope you had your rape whistle. :)

1. I'm not a big fan of most rom-coms, so nothing specifically comes to mind, besides those that have been named.

2. Seconds of Pleasure, by Van Hunt. Yum.

3. One bad date that comes to mind was when my date was 25 minutes late because he assumed that I would be late. It was downhill from there. In an interesting twist, he randomly met a friend of mine and she almost went out on a date with him...until we figured out it was the same guy.

2.) What can I say? Soundgarden gets me hot. I think I'm in love

1. Wedding Crashers and others like it (conceptually - I actually liked this movie) The Romatic Comedy ending ruined the beginning of the movie. Happened with Knocked Up and to some extent Superbad. The he figures it out and becomes a better man feels like a tacked on ending to these movies, as if the origianl test audience was all women who said "It's funny, but can he get the girl at the end"

2. My default selection for all songs when choosing only one - I'm Through With White Girls by The Dirtbombs

3. The time I went to a Knicks game (when they were worth watching) and the tickets I bought from a friend were no good. Turned out the season ticket plan they were from was cancelled and he ahdn't thrown out all the tickets.

Worst romcom- pretty much all of them

best song- Turn off the lights- Teddy Pendergrass

worst date- i was at dinner with this girl i had met in the dorms, things were ok at that point nothing great no major problems when i asked what her dad did for a living and she yelled out "being a bastard" and started to cry.

1) Love Actually. As if a romantic comedy isn't lame enough without adding the Christmas Factor.


2) Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix.


3) For two years, I dated a man who lived with his bachelor father in a house smelling of mold. He "didn't believe" in putting sheets on his bed. He also "didn't believe" in paying bills, or, as it turned out, being faithful to his girlfriend. Ugh.

no sheets on the bed?

that sucks

1.Sleepless in Seattle.:Seriously I have never been able to finish this one. Its so sad it drags one of the best romances, An Affair to Remember, into one of the blandest romantic comedies.
2.Criminal-Fiona Apple: Because I'm feeling like a criminal....
3. Worst date ever would be the time when my friend set me up with this "great guy". GG bought his best friend with him and we went to see....The Scorpion King. It burns! Even worse than the movie was the fact that the guy turned out to be a hardcore WWE fan and by the end of the "date" he and his friend were demonstrating their favorite wrestling moves...in public. Luckily they were so distracted I was able to slip away.

Least Favorite Romantic Comedy: Pretty Woman, I hate Julia Roberts. She annoys me to no end and I don't find her all that attractive. The premise of the movie is just ridiculous and the fact that its such a beloved movie makes me hate it more.

Best Song to get your freak on to: Love Gun, KISS

Worst Dating Experience: I think it was freshman year of HS, maybe sophomore year, and my best friend really wanted to go to some school dance. And for some reason the only way he could go was if I would go with the friend of the girl he was going with. I had never met her before so needless to say it was awkward. To top off the weirdness she lost her purse and was crying about it. I felt bad but there wasn't anything I could do.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: I hate the genre as a whole so it's hard for me to say because I rarely go see them. But I'd have to say that Ghost sucked like a sucking thing.

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: "Pretty When You Cry" by Vast. Um...yeah.

3) Worst Dating Experience: The time my gay BFF decided he should give women a try and I was stupid enough to volunteer. We actually went out on a date and everything and it was a disaster that almost killed the friendship.

1) Least favorite "Beloved" RomCom- "Brigit Jones", because those books were so GOOD! And Renée Zellwegger was SO bad. Although, the bitch-fights between Hugh Grant and Colin Firth were awesome.

2) Best song to get your freak on to: I'm going to have to go with the jazz as well

3) Worst dating experience: I've not ever had any truely horrendous dates, just some REALLY boring guys I've bailed on mid-date.

Worst movie that tries to make you want to laugh at someone being an ass in a relationship:
I think I love my Wife

Song to Freak to: Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Phenomena"

Worst Date: First date, watching "Knocked Up" on her couch... didn't really set the right mood per say.

melina, that's priceless! Unfortunately, there are so many women who have had embarrassing period stories--it's the bane of our existence. One of mine was similar to yours . . . falling asleep in a guy's bed after going at it like bunnies all night, and us waking up in the morning to what looked like a murder scene. The sheets were white, natch.

1) I hate the romantic comedy genre so much in general that it's hard to choose just one. For me it's anything with Sandra Bullock. I can't stand that woman. It's a good thing she partially redeemed herself by marrying the guy with all the tattoos.

2) Stripped - Depeche Mode

3) A guy took me to lunch at McDonalds in high school (we could go off campus). He was eating a big mac, something I have always hated anyways, and he spilled a big old glop of big mac goo on his shirt. Instead of wiping it off with a napkin like a civilized human being, he slurped it off with his mouth. I knew that was the last time I would even be able to look at him.

Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Pretty Woman (I mean, I like it, but it is techinically my least favorite)

Song to freak by: Well, I love Al Green, but I lost my virginity to "Brown Sugar" by D'Angelo.

Worst Date: This doesn't really count as much as a date as it does a one night stand, but really, who's keeping track? Anyway, I was living alone in Orlando, working at a new job, and I sort of had my eye on one of my co-workers. One night at a party, when things had begun to die down, he approached me and asked me if I wanted to give him a ride home (to his frat house, I know). So, we left, and off we drove to the house. At that last minute I had second thoughts, but then I was all, "What the hell - I'm lonely and he's hot & tangible." So, we had a one-nighter. It was awful. He was drunk as shit (you ladies know what I mean), we woke up the entire frat house, and I had to do the walk of shame in broad daylight. Yeah, so, it wasn't really a date, because there was no dinner, no foreplay, and no sense involved, but it still sucked.

1) "What Women Want" Hate the premise, hate the movie, hate the lead. But, mostly, HATE the premise
2) To Turn You On - Roxy Music..
3) I was a sophomore in college, he was a med student. Driving down Lake Shore Drive he decides to tell me the plot of the opera we're going to see. He begins with "Well, the plot is very convoluted." Stops, looks at me and says "Um, that means like a soap opera." I felt so special..

1. My Best Friend's Wedding - No. Just no.

2. Al Green, anything.

3. Oh jeez, worst date? Probably the guy I met in a bar, and realized when I got him into decent lighting that he had hair on his nose. On his nose.

And Dingles I second the Massive Attack lovin as well. Album: Mezzanine - hit 'repeat all' and go to town.

Smokin - eeeewwww. I've seen that, on my 86 year old grandfather. But I think it is normal for old people to grow hair in weird places - and they can't see it anyway. A young guy? Who can see? No excuse. Pluck that shit!

1)Any Rom-com with Meg Ryan are usually cringe-worthy, if not outright vomit.

2)"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by the ageless *snicker* Meat Loaf. It is just a personal favorite of the wife's and myself. The memories are kinda fun.

3)My first prom. Lucky for me, I had a beautiful woman at my side and we danced for a bit and I lost track of her. Come to find out she went home with some other guy. It bummed me out, but with her gone I did find Laura. On an interesting side note, I found out later through some friends that she had complained about me during a radio show later that week. I certainly wasn't going to win any bodybuilding competitions, but some of the things she said were ridiculous. And then she died...not really...no, she did...and I'm sure you know how this one turns out.

Brie is right, Melina. You are not alone.

And tt_marie, the kicker is that not only did I not realize until I was kissing him, I had to have my best friend call to get me out of there.

Not a pleasant scene.

1)Pretty much and Jane Austen adaptation. *SNOOORE*

2)Tough call. Close tie between "Angel" by Massive Attack, or "Abbaon Fat Tracks" by Tricky.

3)The blind date I went on with the militant vegetarian who complained about the restaurant I had picked specifically for her, lectured me about the fact that I had gone to the circus the week prior ("I spent a week picketing one of those once."), and scared the shit out of me when she screamed that one of the two bums we saw fighting had a gun. Seriously, the bum fight was the best part of the whole night.

1. Everything with Hugh Grant

2. Anything from Enigmatic: Section String Quartet Tribute to Radiohead

3. Took a girl who I had just met while working at the State Fair (should have been first clue) to "The Cell." Turns out she was a home school religious extremist. Needless to say it was terrible.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Addicted to Love. In keeping with the Meg Ryan hate...but with an added twist - they're sabotaging someone else's romance, while getting their freak on. Yay?

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: Honestly, never been into mood music. I like my music to entertain myself to, but when the time for loving comes...I like hearing her sounds.

3) Worst Dating Experience: Hmmm...don't actually have many. I rarely go on dates, and I try to make each one kinda memorable.

Oh, Kolby, I feel your pain. I've been on that "date". I tried to get out before the sun arose, but my inability to find a shoe lead to a during daylight escape. And, I'd like to note that he never moved - not a twitch - while I rummaged through his disaster of a room in search of said shoe.

1. I have to admit I usually enjoy romantic comedies (I know, I know) but I hate any romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez. She bothers me, so just..no.

2. Be Here Now, Ray Lamontagne

3. My boyfriends parents got in a big fight and started yelling at each other and throwing things over dinner the first time I met them.

Least Favorite "beloved" RomCom: Pretty Woman

I can't find Richard Gere sympathetic. And the Jason Alexander attempted rape scene is horribly uncomfortable and really out of place in a generally nice movie.

Favorite "Down and Dirty" song: "Teach You a Lesson" by Robin Thicke

Holy hell can Alan Thicke's son write a freaky sweaty get down song.

Worst Dating Experience: I was on a date with a girl when I saw a ring on her left ring finger. I was 22 at the time so I never thought to check for that kind of thing in the first place. But, I asked "What is that?" to which she responded "Don't freak out." She then went on to explain that she was FREAKING MARRIED to a WAR HERO over in Iraq. But it was a marriage of convenience because he gets more benefits if he is married. "Oh so you are married to a war hero who is trying to stick it to the government by having a sham marriage? I think I'm gonna skip the movie."

Pajibans-
You're killing me. Do you know how hard it is to stifle a guffaw? I do it to myself, I guess, 'cause I'm reading this at work. And I really, really should be working.

As for the diversion itself, I don't have much to add.

Oh, though for the worst-date example: Senior year HS, homecoming dance. A group of us go, but I had specifically asked this boy (who did not attend our school). He then turned around and got the number of another girl while at the dance! Didn't realize it at the time, or else I would not have made out with him later..

1) 13 Going on 30 - So bland I honestly can't remember anything about it except it was a huge Big rip-off.

2) Death Sex by The Distillers - You did say freaky right? Plus it is actually long enough to accomplish something.

3) Hmmm, can't say I've had one bad enough to mention... 'course now I've jinxed myself.

1) What Women Want. Ugh to the story line, actors, all of it.

2) Lately I've really enjoyed being with the BF while he plays Band of Horses.

3) Met a guy at a Christmas party - friend of a friend - lived in Chicago, worked in Boston. Because of these logistics, he claimed to have no friends (not home in Chicago enough, Boston coworkers were all married). I went out as friends, he thought it was a date. Either way, I found out why he had no friends. My younger sis is married with 2 kids. He actually asked "So, what's wrong with you?" as to why I am older & not yet married. These types of questions peppered the evening. And, we had to have cheap eats because I lost my wallet & he only had 40 bucks. (This despite probably a generous per diem & weekly stays at swanky Boston hotels.) Although I offered to reimburse him, I ended up feeling like I had to have permission to order my salad & glass of wine. Miserable evening, but my friends and I have laughed over this many times since.

Tanner...."Don't freak out" ? Wow...that's pretty bad.

God LORD! In comparison to some of ya'll's bad date stories, mine looks like a Kool-aid convention at a water park!!!

Conclusion: most people are crazy.

I love all romantic comedies, and I don't discriminate. So sue me.

Worst date? I'm going to sound a little more promiscuous than I actually am here, but I went out with this guy when I was 17 a couple times, and one thing led to another. And we're about to go to it, and he suddenly freaks out and asks me how old I am. And I confirm that I am in fact 17, to which he responds with wide-eyes, "omigoddddd this is illegal!! I'M 18!!!!" and I have to assure him that in fact the age of consent allows such acts between 18 and 17-year-olds. Because I felt like my integrity was at stake, I ended up pretty much talking him into it even though the mood was completely ruined, and walked out of there wondering if I had raped him?

1. All of them, really. I do really HATE Sweet Home Alabama and While You Were Sleeping.

2. Wild Is the Wind, Nina Simone

3. Do yourselves a favor, kids. The next time you see that quack Dr. Phil asking you "How about you change your life?", ask him how about he shut his pie-hole. Match.com is beyond horrible. Way, way, way beyond.

PissBoy - I'm dieing here, reading your revenge story while on a conference call listening to an argument with our business folks while trying not to burst out laughing.

1. If it's "beloved" I probably haven't seen it.
2. We're partial to Chet Baker. So sad, so yummy.
3. I certainly can't top your worst date experiences. The creepiest would have to be a date from an internet service. He talked about himself the entire time. Told me he gave great backrubs, showed me his hands and said "aren't they big?" Also insisted on getting the check. For my coffee. What he didn't know was I was a regular at the coffeehouse and knew our waitress really well. So when I saw her the next day, I found out he hadn't tipped on a $4 bill, that he paid with a credit card.

Pissboy, you could teach a class on mastering dirty metaphors.

Romantic comedy. Anything with Sandra Bullock. Lady Clevername wanted me to watch While You Were Sleeping. I threatened her with fire.

Song to Freak By: I saw a girl sing the song "Coin-Operated Boy" by the Dresden Dolls at Karaoke once. I wanted to do her on the spot. But the lighting, it was all wrong.

Worst Date: Hmm. Well, when I was in Boston, I met a young lady who lived in Maine. We started an online relationship. She asked me to come up and see her, which was a two hour train ride to Kennebunkport. We went to a family kegger in a basement, where I met her friends and family. We proceeded to leave early, so she could drive to her sister's car. Her sister proceeded to tell me that she could never date someone who didn't drive a big truck. I was supposed to spend the night. I got to sleep on a pull-out couch in her ex boyfriend's trailer, while she slept between her ex and his new lover, Reymondo. I shit you not, his name was Reymondo. I heard them wake up in the middle of the night and stand over me, ruminating if I would mind "an asshole wakeup". I don't know what it was, but I was pretty sure it didn't come with a complimentary continental breakfast. I made it home alive, with my anus mostly intact, and less one prospective girlfriend.

Oh, Kolby, I feel your pain. I've been on that "date". I tried to get out before the sun arose, but my inability to find a shoe lead to a during daylight escape.

I had a similar experience with the shoes, but I woke him up and asked him to help me find them. His reply? "I hid them." Me: "... why did you hide my shoes?" Him: "I didn't want my roomates to know you were here." Of course.

-Pretty Woman vs. My Best Friend's Wedding. Hard choice as to which one sucks more ass. On one hand I HATE everything that Pretty Woman is about, but on the other Best Friend's Wedding is so downright mean and manipulative. Plus the smarmy pigeon-holed gay as an add. No thanks very much.

--I second Otis Redding. I also like almost any sort of Jazz, but when I'm really getting my freak on, I pay very little attention to what is actually playing

--Wost date happened on my birthday. Ugh. So cliche it stinks. But I had been with my family and was ACTUALLY haveing a good time with them. This is leap year type shit. Anyway guy I've been seeing calls me up to 'take me out' so I leave the parents and brother's behind around 9pm. We go out...
Meet up with his 2 greasy friends for dollar beer night at some dead hole in the wall. Now I wouldn't have minded SO much (as I understand the need for cheap beer) but his friends talked about the following things: 1. Bitches 2. Work 3. Ho's.
He was my ride and I had no cab fare (and was stuck out in suburbia which gives me the heebie jeebies) and so I ended up spending the rest of the night on the phone with a friend in a booth in the back.
He drove me home about an hour or so later. When I told him not to bother calling me again he freaked "God, when did we get so serious, why are you trying to move so fast" To which I could only reply "I am not asking you to be my boyfriend, I'm cutting the cord, stupid."

1 silent and awkward car ride later....

Funny thing is the asshole kept trying to call. He just didnt get it. He thought I was being too 'stuck up'. Gag.

I went to a girls house (b/c I was too broke or cheap to take her out) and she made lasagna. Burnt lasagna at that. She then fell asleep as we were watching a movie. Meanwhile, I'm allergic to her 67 cats crawling all over me and doing my best not to drip snot on her.

Hmm...come to think of it...maybe I was the bad date? Hee hee. I'm kidding. She ruled. We were together long after and spent many of the nights with me threatening her cats while we fell asleep to movies. I'm a party animal...I know.

Oh my god, I have to comment about the shoe thing too. I ended up staying at a frat house (uggh) after a "date party". I had been all dressed up and so when I woke in the morning I had to slip my now ripped (in the heat of what he thought would be dramatic passion) dress back on and kinda just hold it up. I attempted to find my shoes but only could find one of them. So I started to leave, the boy who merely watched me try to pull myself together asked as I was leaving if I wanted him to call me if he found it. The night had been less than spectacular, he ripped a nice dress and I had a hangover that could kill an elephant--so I told him, "Nah, you can keep it."
When I left and was walking barefoot home, a police cruiser stopped next to me. The cop took a look at my sex hair, the mascara under my eyes and my attempts to hold up my dress as I walked and told me to get in the car because "he had daughters in college and he hoped that they weren't walking around town looking like I did." True story and true low point. Sorry for the diversion from the diversion...

1. I'm so averse to romantic comedies, it's hard to pick just one (and some of the worst, I've managed to avoid, thanks be). But I hate, hate, hate Pretty Woman in a ratio directly proportionate to the number of my fellow women who love it. I cannot connect to it at all.

2. Hawksley Workman, "Smoke Baby"

3. Post-movie coffee, two months after first date, the guy I'm with admits he had a girlfriend back home until the week prior to that night. Discovering you were the other girl? Romance-killer! There were no further dates. But it did explain why he never offered to foot the bill when he asked me out.

"She worked at a colonial museum, and enjoyed conditioning her leather couch..."

Well, what girl doesn't? I know I'm looking forward to getting home, pouring a glass of wine, and conditioning MY leather goods.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: You've Got Mail. I even first saw it on my honeymoon cruise, when you'd think I'd be most susceptible to rom coms, but mainly it just sucked even in that setting.

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: "Let's Get it On," Marvin Gaye--man, so many Marvin songs I could put here.

3) Worst Dating Experience: Saw The Net and went to Applebees (or some place similar) with a really really boring dude I'd just met. I could tell he really liked me so I kept trying to scare him off by acting outrageous (he was very conservative) but it didn't work.

This was her mother polishing the leather couch and various leather parts of her anatomy. For some reason, I'm not too in the mood for my roast beef club I ordered for dinner now...

Oh Pissboy...I may never be able to eat roast beef again.

1-sleepless in seattle

2-wandering star/portishead

3-was set up on a blind date with a gay dude. we ended up having a great time anyway, mostly talking about theater.

Gah! I'm writing on limited time, but I REALLY wanted to participate. So I have to come clean: I'm writing now and reading other comments after. Sorry; looking forward to it, though!

1- Least favorite Romantic Comedy: You've Got Mail. A bland, watered down version of an older, better film. Hell, even the musical version was better! That, and Meg Ryan overplaying the cutesy makes me want to vomit and kill people.

2-Best Song for Lovin': For straight up sex? For me, "I Feel You" by Depeche Mode. Closely followed by Portishead's Dummy album and anything by Otis Redding. Hey, I like to keep my options open.

3- Worst Dating Experience: A couple of weeks ago, actually. I agreed to a date with a casual acquaintance, who turned out to be a creepy jackass. To quote High Fidelity, he "talk[ed] shit all night and [didn't] listen to anybody." Then he started getting touchy-feely. And sullen when I didn't reciprocate. Creepy.

The cherry atop this Sundae of belligerent craptitude came when I asked to be taken back to my parking spot (in his neighborhood). So we go back, and he parks in his garage. I think, "Oh, he'll walk me to my car from here." Then he takes me to his elevator, and I think, "Oh, we must need the elevator to get to street level." Nope. He was taking me to his apartment. At which point, I was clinging desperately to the hope that he just needed to get something. But no. He suggested I take my coat off and "get comfortable."

Bear in mind, I'd been rejecting his advances all night. And I had clearly stated I wanted to go home. WTF?!? Just...UGH! *shudder*...I can't believe...just...UGH!!!

Sorry this turned out to be so long-winded. Just wanted to share. And sorry about the all italics. My work computer makes no sense. I'll be going now. But first, reading your stories- yippee!

Worst "date" on paper, which was in reality very sweet (warning: it involves death and puke) - The BF accompanied me to my grandfather's funeral in Bumble, Arkansas. I couldn't stop crying - I was a basketcase. He sat there and held my hand through it and funneled kleenex my way. He also had to put up with my extended family (they're slightly crazy in an endearing way) and my mom's non-stop questions about what she needed to do as my grandpa's executor(the BF is a lawyer). So he had already achieved saint status at this point. THEN, after that was done, we went to a restaraunt and I proceeded to get food poisoning. My entire family was icked out by my horrible vomiting and other nasty symptoms and wouldn't come near me. The BF sat with me and even rubbed my back as I was curled up by the toilet puking and cleaned up after me. He ran me a bath for me and called his mom (a nurse) several times to get advice. He even skipped work to stay with me in AK two extra days because I wasn't well enough to travel. Could've been embarassing and awful, but instead made me realize I am a lucky girl to be loved so much.

sarafrances- Same Brown Eyed girl incident. After spending a week with the guy (a lot of outdoors, natural sunlight and such), he tells me he misses my brown eyes and that should be our song.

My eyes are green.

Worst "Beloved" RomCom: Sleepless in Seattle. I actually recall very little of it, other than that I was really bored during the movie.

Song for Gettin' In The Mood: I actually made a whole mix of such tunes; hard to pick just one...In Limbo by Radiohead is kind of orgasmic, though.

Worst Dating Experience (actually post-wedding, but I have nothing from my dating days to even come close to topping this): a few years ago tomorrow, my beloved got me a little bottle of (sigh) lock de-icer as a Valentine's gift. And that is all. I don't even know why, as my car door locks had only frozen once, maybe twice before then.

Now, we don't tend to go all out for V's Day (our birthdays are both within 3 weeks, and it's kind of an unnecessary holiday to begin with), but that two bucks could have been spent WAY more romantically. I was pretty crushed at the time, but it's funny as hell now.

Wait,wait,wait--can I change my movie to Grease? I HATED Grease!

1) Least Favorite RomCom -- Romancing The Stone

2) Song to do the nasty -- "Smooth Operator" Sade
(that's just the 1st one that comes to mind)

3)Worst Dating Experience -- On 3rd date with a guy (we were later engaged, but I dumped his ass for being a slackard) we we went to the local fair/beer garden. Got home about 1am, parents were out of town. We walked in the door, I went to pee, he went to talk to my dog. When I came out, the dog had bit him in the eye and he required 12 very minute stitches. Then a week later when I meet his parents for the first time, his dad (oh yeah, another reason I dumped his ass) tells me that I need to "put my dog down because once they taste blood, they'll always want more." Fuck you buddy, that's why I have a dog. To bite strange men in my home at 1am.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Got to agree with Sleepless in Seattle. What dreck.

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: The entire Mezzanine album by Massive Attack, if you have the stamina.

3) Worst Dating Experience: If you work in a restaurant, never date a coworker. Just trust on that.

Worst "Beloved" RomCom - I have to agree with the "You've Got Mail" haters here. Just the title was bad enough. Does anyone know how much AOL paid them to title it as such?? On top of the whole crappy premise. Ugh!

Best Gettin' Your Swerve On Song: "Feelin' Love" by Paula Cole... "You make me feel like the Amazon's runnin' between my thighs." Yep. That's all. Done deal. Thanks for playin'.

Worst Dating Experience: I will not go into details here, but it started off with him yelling at me and it ended with me walking out and him stalking me for a month. CRAZY!

1. must love dogs (why, oh why, john. sigh)

2. come on closer - jem

3. got lectured on the FIRST (and only) date about being a capitalist drone because i had a job with a well known company by an ex peace-corp doctor who joined the navy to pay off his medical bills.

Least favorite romantic movie: jeez, picking a favorite would be so much easier. There is a much shorter collection what I like compared to what I don't like

Best Song to get your freak on: Just put on an Otis Redding CD and let it play. If I had to pick just one, probably These Arms of Mine (yes, totally influenced by Dirty Dancing)

Worst Date: I'll keep it movie related. Blind double date, I forgot his name within 20 minutes of meeting him, got food poisoning AND we saw Johnny Mnemonic (maybe it was the movie that made me sick and not dinner???)

Worst rom com: The Wedding Planner. I have no idea if it's "beloved" or no, but I hate it.

Sex music: I generally don't care about music, but if I were to pick it would probably be anything by Morphene.

Worst date: So many to choose from. Let's go with this one. I showed up at the pizza parlor we were supposed to meet at, this is a second date, we had met for coffee the week before. He's 45 minutes late. I figure I've been stood up and order a slice and start my solo lunch. He walks in, doesn't apologize for being late, and picks up my slice of pizza and takes a big ol' bite out of it. I was so shocked I didn't even know how to respond.

After lunch we're walking down the street and pass a street vendor selling jewelry. I comment on liking one of the rings to make conversation and he says, "You like that one? I'll buy it for you." I say, no thank you, I don't want it and he comes back with, "Why won't you let me buy you anything?" In the creepy, almost angry voice. It was weird. Anyway, got out of there as fast as I politely could and happened to "forget" to return his calls after that.

He was also a really, really bad kisser, which I found out on the coffee date but was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Needless to say, I never tried to see if practice would make perfect.

Yay, my suggestion made it. Whooo Hoooo! Moving on.

1. Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: "Pretty Woman".
My BOYFRIEND, at the time, wanted me to watch it because it was his favorite movie. WTF. I hated it and declared him, for now and evermore, to be a pussy.

2. Best Song to Get Your Freak On: "Love Will Follow" - Kenny Loggins. Who knew that KLo could write a song that oozes sex (that sounds kinda nasty - I like it). Props to those who included NIN's "Closer", Maxwell's "Till the Cops Come Knockin'", Zero 7's "Destiny" and anything by Zeppelin.

3. Worst Dating Experience: I was in high school, my sister's close friend had a cousin come and stay with her family for the summer who was my age. Of course, they set us up. It was not my idea but I played along. Our one and only date - he took me to see "Friday the 13th, Part 7" (I hadn't even seen 1-6) - with my sister's friend, her boyfriend, and his 10 year old brother. Yet I had the joy of driving just him and me to the theater. OMG. As if that wasn't bad enough, he proceeded to fall asleep and snore loudly throughout the entire movie. Sweet Mary Mother of God. Of course, little brother would wake him up each time and tell him he was snoring but he DENIED it although the others around us could hear it when they weren't laughing at how awful the movie was. Needless to say, I never wanted to see him again after that. Too bad for me though, because he spent the rest of the summer driving past my house with a borrowed car and would sometimes just park and sit outside in front. One time, I happened to be in the garage when the door was open and he just stared at me from the street. I quickly went inside and stayed there. This story is not as good as many of the ones above but it did teach me an important lesson - stay away from boys who snore in movies (and lie about it) and then drive past you house over the course of the summer and sometimes park outside of it giving you a death stare.

movie: 40 days and 40 nights

song: david grey's white ladder album

date: he took me to mcdonald's which we brought home where i was treated to a viewing of crocodile dundee 2...and he knew it word for word.

Wow, folks. My mind is reeling from all the dating nightmares. I definitely second the suggestion for a diversion detailing vengeance/vindication on crappy dates/boyfriends/girlfriends.

And kudos to the folks who named Closer! Can't believe I forgot about Closer. It seems I have grown woefully out of touch with my inner-freak. Well, time to polish my leather goods...

Least favorite rom-com:Amateur Encounters 4

Song to get freak-on: Phantom Lord by Metallica, or Nasty Girl by Vanity 6

Worst Dating exp: that hooker who took off with my HEY, I'M STILL LOOKING FOR YOU, YOU READ ME? Whore

1) You've Got Mail - no, you've got cross promotion and bloating.

2) Jem - Come On Closer

I love reading all the worst dates, and there's certainly been some horrors! Brenia, I can relate...

3) "Meet his friends"
TRANSLATION: World of Warcraft meetup,
then his Brother in law's Bachelor Party,
then, being pawed in the taxi before him falling asleep/unconscious and being stiffed with the cab fare.

Baby, welcome to dumpsville, population = You.

Shadows, Thanks for the love. I just realized we both chose the same movie. Here I thought I was the only one who had seen Addicted to Love and actually remembered it *shudders*

Julie, What can I say. I totally get a hard on for funky beats. Well, if I was a guy, so i'm just gonna stick with the moist panties.....no pun intended

Skittimus, I'm def gonna d/l that version of Closer. I forgot to mention in my post before. Good call on "Fuck The Pain Away". It may be a retarded song, but I don't know. Whenever it pops up on my Mp3 player, I just get this naughty smile. If only everyone around me knew what I was actually listening to.

Tannaqui - I love Jem and that song!

- Least favorite Rom Com - Pretty Woman. Reasons?
1) Julia Roberts
2) Richard Gere
3) She's a hooker
4) Julia Roberts' face.
5) Did I mention the hooker part?

- Music to get busy - Maxwell "Sumthin, Sumthin".

- Worst Date. Guy took me to a movie. He didn't like the movie, so he figured we were entitled to a free movie for compensation. Guy drags me into theater next door to watch second random movie for free without the consent or knowledge of the theater. Every time I saw an usher I thought we were going to be kicked out. Second movie as bad as first. Then after the lovely evening he has just orchestrated, the assclown wants compensation in the back seat of his stupid Ford Tempo. Good Times. Good Times.

And, as usual, I don't even see the comment diversion until it's practically over. Oh well.

1) Least "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: So many I COULD point a finger at (Kate and Leopold, She's All That, etc.), but it just seems too easy. Such movies were conceptually doomed to B-list status before they were even made. But LOVE ACTUALLY. Oh my God. Such incoherent, underdeveloped, overwraught dreck. There is no excuse for such criminal misuse of Emma Thompson and co.

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: Mm ... the boy and I are usually too psyched to have found a few spare minutes when his roommate isn't in the way to even bother putting music on. Sad?

3) Worst Dating Experience: I've never really dated ... but I suppose the one time I drove an hour (while in high school, this was adventurous) to meet up with a boy who shared a mutual crush with me. He spent most of the time I was there playing chess and talking trash with my friend, who had driven with me. Grr.

1. Bad Rom-com: You've got mail. The girl is stupid the guy's a dick, and yet I'm supposed to care?

2. Song for the freaky/naughties: Sugar water, by Cibo Matto, that song makes my hips go all twisty even when they shouldn't.

3. Worst date: Something I like to call "The relationship I didn't know I was in." I was hanging out with this guy I went to HS with in group type situations, and just by fluke circumstances we'd be the last to leave, or he'd drive me home or whatever. So then one night I'm out on a date and this guy shows up and starts freaking out. He's yelling, really publicly, calling me a whore and a bitch, and finally saying we're "over" before storming away. And I'm standing there, blinking, going huh? I later made some extremely awkward attempts to straighten him out regarding us never having dated, but he didn't seem to grasp the concept and I gave up on him pretty quick. We weren't even very good friends to begin with.

1. good sweet christ, do i hate rom-coms. worst ever: the notebook. if one more girl tells me i need to read some nick sparks or watch this drivel, somebody's gettin a black eye.

2. best sexy-time music? the entire 'on fire' album from galaxy 500. hot stuff.

3. and while i have a whole slew of bad dating stories from my early 20's, none quite compare to the following, which isn't really a bad-date story, but a great story none-the-less, so there. so shortly after i graduated high school, i went over to a former teacher's to 'hang out' (yeah, i know what you're thinking...but i actually went over there to get high, so there), and of course, i thought this made me hot shit. however, before going over to this guy's house, i had gone out to dinner with my family. for seafood. yeah. i had massive food poisoning and needed to vomit-badly- by the time i arrived at high school teacher's house. ugh. i had the worst stomach ache. so one of his friends asked me if i would like a glass of tea to help my stomach, to which i said 'yes.' so she comes back with a big black mug and says, 'here you go.' and i take a big old swig, thinking (silly me) that it was tea. my face must have turned five shades of green, and the girl looks at me, and says, 'oh, yeah, we were out of tea so i made i heated up a beef bullion cube.' !!! beef bullion! why, god, why, wouldn't you tell someone that? so yeah, i puked all over the place and went home in shame. see, i told you it was a good story.

Sorry, Skittimus Maximus, that $13 is now a treasured part of my collection of loser's wallets proudly stacked on my dresser. However, I will "hold you all night" to ease the pain.

1. Pretty in Pink. I irrationally love all other '80s teen movies, but bleurgh...




2. I'll second anything by Nina Simone.




3. Not a date exactly, but got home from my lonely virginal freshman year of college, went to a party and got sloppy drunk... and proceeded to hook up with this skinny punk boy. who, it turned out, had vomited repeatedly before making out with me, was on a large quantity of opiates, and was 16. and had to be walked home to his parents house after we came back out to the party.

Haven't read all the comments yet, but just want to say Dustin, you dirty dog!

Into temptation - glorious melody, but the lyrics are about infidelity.

Hmph. Colour me disillusioned.

Least Favorite Rom Com: 40 Days and 40 Nights. I mean come on, a rolling valley of breasts?

Freak On Song: I actually don't know... I'll come back to this one.

Worst Date: Last summer I went to my step-mother's work to bring her some coffee and catch up on a few things. She then began to page every single man in her workplace to her office, and introduce me. After I left, she gave my number to all of them. I must say that every single date that resulted from that was awkward, and consisted mainly of driving to random places and them trying to get me to hop into the back seat for a little "fun".

1) This will bring hate from all corners, but "Say Anything". Cusack and all that, but that movie makes me sick.

2) I can't believe almost all these comments list songs under 6 minutes. The correct answer to this question is "Bolero" by Ravel, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (1979) conducted by Gould which lasts just over 16 minutes.

3) One date with a girl named Cinnamon who felt guilty for leaving her mother at home. What a nightmare.

1) Least "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: pretty woman was just so fucking awful....i can't really say anything that hasn't been said

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: prick-animal, NIN-closer, A stroke of luck -garbage, shame -stabbing westward....

3) Worst Dating Experience: this past monday, i finally agreed to meet up with this guy i'd met on lavalife. there was zero chemistry. we met at a place in union square. he wasn't talking. i felt like i was interviewing him. there were awkward silences within the first few minutes of meeting. i didn't think he was a bad guy, but after being in class all day....i couldn't really help myself. i asked him if he smoked. he said no. so i excused myself from the table to go have a cigarette. i don't smoke....i just went outside, got back in my car and drove home. when i was safely in my car, i texted him an apology......i still feel awful about it....but at the same time...it had to be done

1. Rom-Com I hate: Moulin Rouge. I hate this movie with the white hot passion of a thousand firey suns.

2. Song for Getting Ya Freak On: Salt -N- Pepa's "Sexy Noises Turn Me On" and Led Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven"

3. Worst Dating Experience: will have to think about it

1. I wholeheartedly agree with the Love, Actually hate. However, I am forced to choose another movie based on its sheer and unrepentant shittiness: The Notebook. To sum up: "I'm a bird! I'm a bird! Say I'm a bird!"
2. Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone. I feel like I'm cheating because this was one of my picks for the last comment diversion, but I don't much care.
3. I think I've been unaccountably lucky thus far.

1. Sixteen Candles - yay date rape made funny!
2. Depeche Mode's "World in My Eyes"
3. Went on a date in Germany with this guy who thought he was too posh for words. Walked around for 3 hours listening to him brag and complain. I never got a word in and went home with blisters. Will never wear uncomfortable shoes to a first date again - who knows, I might need to run away.

Um, Transatlanticism that is!

1) Never been a fan of the old rom-com genre, so I can't think of any specific movie to nominate.

2) 'Frozen' by Celldweller. Sleazy bassline, smooth vocals, just enough cheesy synths.

3) Oh boy. Strap yourselves in, folks. A few years ago, a girl I'd been going out with for a couple of months and I went to go and see a local goth/industrial metal band called Tin Omen play at a club in Dudley. We jumped on a coach with a bunch of fellow gig-goers and set off. It didn't take me long to realise that my gf was completely ignoring me in favour of chatting animatedly with the guy sitting in front of us (a casual acquaintance of mine). When we actually got to the gig, however, she was pretty much all over me. Unfortunately, she was all over the double vodkas too.

A couple of hours later, she's throwing up on the pavement outside while I try to sort out a taxi for us both to get back to my place. After pouring her into the taxi and then subsequently carrying her out of it, I spent most of the night holding her hair back in my bathroom.

A week or two later, she dumps me. A week or two after that, she's going out with the guy who was sitting in front of us on the coach.

A couple of years later, I'm invited to their wedding (I've got a habit of staying friends with exes). So, I'm sat in the church, with the singer and guitarist from Tin Omen in the pew behind me, while the vicar is doing the whole 'how the bride and groom met' part of the service. It rapidly dawns on me from what the vicar is describing that the two of them got together while I was trying to sort out the taxi from the club. Cue the singer from Tin Omen leaning forward and whispering 'Isn't that our gig he's talking about?'

'Yes.'

'Wasn't she with you then?'

'Yes.'

Happy Valentine's Day!

Worst film - "Dirty Dancing"

Best Song - "Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz'

Worst date EVER!!! My tale of woe began like any normal date, we went out for dinner, had a great conversation and I was thinking "right, a second date is defintely on the cards"... then a scene out of a fucking horror movie (or comedy) comes alive:

I'm dropping her home when her half naked best friend comes screaming out of the house chased by her mom followed by her dad chasing after the two of them in only his underwear (think tighty whiteys), turns out her dad had been porking her best friend and had only just got caught with errr... his pants down I suppose... to her mom. My date sees this scene shits herself... I mean literally shits herself in my car and passes out... her dad catches her mom and starts wailing on her and I step in and wrestle him to the ground (she would have been seriously injured if I didn't step in and in any case I can't stand a man who hits women), the neighbours then show up and tie him to a tree in the garden, meanwhile best friend decides to jump into my car and take off with my date still in the car. So there I am looking after my dates mom who's bleeding from her head when I notice my car moving down the road. I take off after it when suddenly the car screeches to a halt and the two girls jump out, still half naked best friend of date takes off down the road and shit stained date after her. I decide to cut my losses and take off (after the ambulance came for the mom which was an agonizing 20 mins later).

I have neither called her nor inquired after her plus it cost me a bunch to get the car cleaned (I said my pet dog crapped in the car). To this day I am terrified to go down her road.

1. I avoid rom-coms. If I see them for the sake of my silly friends, I manually remove them from my memory by watching '300' immediately after.

2. I can't believe no one has said 'I Want to F*uck you' by that random European yet. Seriously. None of you get turned on by that? ...*gag*

I'll go with 'In My Prime' by Ekova. No one has heard of it? YES! My indie music cred is still valid whilst remaining sexually intriguing!

3. Just a message to all boys/men/guys/losers out there.

"Do NOT, under ANY circumstances, even ATTEMPT, let alone CONTINUE, to finger a girl when you are watching 'Happy Feet'. In the CINEMA. Where there are goddamn CHILDREN several seats away from you."

What a douchebag.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic Comedy: Amelie

2) Best Song to Get Your Freak On: 'Daddy's Speeding' by Suede

3) Worst Dating Experience: He played "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" by Poison every time we did it (I try not to think about it).

Columbo:

Serioiusly, dude, the punchline for that date is this --

Then they all jumped out in the center of the road as if they had just nailed a perfect score on the floor exercise in the olypics or something, arms all in the air, and they yelled, "The Aristocrats!"

1)Least fav "beloved" romcom: Bridget Jones's Diary
2)Song: The Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric
3)Worst dating experience: All preceding meeting my fiance.

Rom Coms - hate them all - trite, contrived and designed for one thing - male subjugation.

Song to get freaky too - hmm, don't usually bother with music actually.

Worst date - the one where we'd chatted online for a while, and then agreed to meet up - half way between our towns (it was quite a distance). Now - bearing in mind her online name was Seattle_Mouse, I had to wonder whether some kind of legal recourse was available to me when I saw her arrive. Sadly, she knew what I looked like, so escape was impossible! "Don't I get a hug?" she asked, as I stood open-mouthed as the approached, the earth groaning beneath her quivering mass. Yes, she's big - and not just big, but oddly shaped big (you know the type). But the worst part was the moustache...

But - what was I to do - the hotel room was booked, and she had me cornered, literally. Damned if she didn't give some of the best oral ever though.

Columbo--you win.

Yeah, I'd say Columbo's the winner.

1. Love Actually. Such a terrible, terrible movie on so many levels.

2. Portishead, "Roads"

3. I went on an internet date, and the guy started crying (in public) about his ex-girlfriend.

BBQ'd Cupid Wings tonight at my place. I caught that little motherfucker selling smack on the corner of 4th and Lincoln streets this morning.

So, we met at a writing conference. He was cute. He asked me if I'd like to have coffee somethime. I said sure.

We hook up a week later at a coffeeshop. After a few minutes of flirty chit-chat, he whips out a red folder. "Kate, I'd like to tell you about an exciting opportunity! It's called a PYRAMID SCHEME and it works like this..."

Yes, loverboy was trying to recruit me to sell Amway.

Worst dates (yeah, got too many stories) highlights (lowlights?)

1. "My house is so nice you'd think a couple of fags lived there."(First and last date)

2. "Is Chile in Africa?" (First and last date).

3. Guy who told me he'd seen a lamb skinned alive, AFTER I'd ordered the lamb stew. I left early and proceeded to get drunk at a bar right down the street.

4. The night my ex proposed. I should have known it was a bad idea since I got food poisoning from the romantic restaurant.

It is disturbingly reassuring to see that I'm not alone in this hell-hole of dating.

Seriously, after a super-crappy day at work, Columbo's story really put life in perspective for me. Wow, can we get that guy a medal?

1. So difficult to choose, but I'll go with You've Got Mail

2. I'll Shoot the Moon, Tom Waits?

3. At dinner, date said something I didn't quite hear. When I said, "I'm sorry?" he answered, "Never mind, we can talk about it later while we're having sex."

OK, very late to the party, obviously, but I have to chip in my two cents.

1. I took in a steady diet of crappy romcom's while courting my wife, and the worst ones that I can think of off the top of my head were America's Sweethearts and The Mexican.

2. "Goodbye Horses" by Q. Lazzarus. Yeah, it's the peni-tuck song from Silence of the Lambs. Try it sometime.

3. I remember being on a date and trying to pull the old yawn-and-then-sneak-the-arm-around-her-at-the-movies trick and I accidentally elbowed the poor girl in the side of the head. That's what I get for being tall, gangly and awkward.

Pudenda (fucking great name by the way, for that you are clearly awesome), I had the idea for "Songs to Get Your Freak On" after the diversion that included what song you would play at your wedding from a while back but just got the nerve to email my idea to Dustin last week as a Valentine's Day diversion. It is the best way to be heard - going straight to the source - so don't despair great minds think alike. You are not rejected as I am telepathically sending a strong, yet tender, warm embrace your way on this Hallmarkian Day of Love (thanks A.T.O.) and wishing you lots of joy, happiness, and sweaty, nasty, freakiness. I am "Strickly Dickly" but there is no shame in love between commenters, no.

P.S. Great choice of "Kashmir" as a freak song - it rocks in more ways than one.
Happy Tequilamas, everybody, may you be filled with the warm glow of alcohol intoxication .

tatsu By all means, enjoy this snack I have prepared for you on this lovely V-Day. It's my asshole. Smothered in chocolate. Please...eat it with a spoon. And when you finish, wrap your lips around my nutsack and hummmmmmmmmm.

i second the ban on julia roberts. if i wanted to see wooden figures perform, i'd rent Being John Malkovich.

1) Least Favorite "Beloved" Romantic shitastic whatever: Beaches/Notebook/A Walk to/Love Story....whatever....any kind of disease is gonna kill the man/woman I love before/after they know I love them so I won't be able the spend the rest of our shitastic life together crapfest.....shoot me I hope the Cloverfield monster steps on your fuckin' heads and ends it for all of us

2) Best Song to Get Freaky-Deaky: Love is a Stranger, Eurythmics.....(and I want you...UH...and I need you....UUUHHH....)

3) Worst Dating Experience: one of the 2 my brother set me up on.....both Air Force buddies of his.....one took me out to dinner and had to sit next to me because sitting across the table was "too far away," then he took me to an arcade and tried to hang on me while I played Battle Zone (DUDE!!! I CANNOT shoot the aliens while you are hanging on me! Bugger off! THEN, he took me to see "On Golden Pond" and finally back to his bachelor pad to, and, no, I am not kidding, look at his drawings. Luckily, my brother was his senior officer, so I scared him into thinking I had to be home at a certain time and he got me back pronto. No such luck with AF buddy #2. He was much hotter looking but he knew it, too. He took me to an amusement park on the beach and proceeded to, shall we say, make sure I got sand in places I really didn't want sand. Never heard from either guy again, and really didn't care.

Hee!! I wouldn't be me if Mel Brooks didn't get me hot.

Shadows-throw in some Audioslave while you're at it, Chris Cornell's voice has the same effect. For many ladies that I know.

Julie: Oh hell yea on Chris Cornell, any Chris Cornell. You don't really need anyone else in the room!

Worst rom-com: Knocked Up. And Pretty Woman. Doesn't anyone watch those documentaries about prostitution on HBO? Hookers do not look like Julia Roberts.

Freaky song: "Blow up the Outside World" Soundgarden

Worst date: The rocket scientist who thought a date consisted of him driving me around the freeway system in Milwaukee while drinking a six pack of beer. As soon as I escaped the car and got home I threw up.

Least beloved rom-com: I give one more vote for "Pretty Woman." There are many, many things in this movie that just TIGHTEN my COLON.

Music to freak by: I got nothin'. Sorry. Perhaps I am hormone deficient...

Story du jour: I have some bad date stories, but a lot of the fun here seems to be from the evil revenge genre, so here're two of my ways of getting very, very deliciously even.

1.) I was 15(16? don't remember) and working in a bio lab: I ordered a few things from the lab supply catalog for a suitor who proved unkind. Preserved things and smelly things, which I paid my most wonderfully understanding boss for.

2.) When I was older, I sent an anonymous card to an ex on Father's Day. I can just picture him frozen in terror, looking at the card and wondering where and who it came from, and how old his kid might be.

"hater from siloam springs" - Trust me this story has gotten my friends so many dates. They relate the entire thing and finish it off with the aristocrats punch line... except this one time when one of my guys unbeknownst to him related the story to the younger sister of the "best friend"... that was a fun date.. I'll steer him here to relate the facts on that particular dating fiasco... let's just say it involves a chipped tooth (him), uncontrollable sobbing (her) and a rabies injection (him)...

Seriously though I got chills just re-living the experience on this forum. It was the single most terrifying event of my life so far.. and I live in Sri Lanka where claymore mines and suicide bombers are a fact of life.

Kolby, wsapnin - Thanks but it's not really a contest you want to win

Shadows of Dakaron - I believe she's single now, I can ask around if you want.

Least fave RomCom: I'm going with a three way tie: My Fair Lady, Serendipity, City of Angels. There are others, many others, but these really get to me.
Sexy Song: Stevie Ray Vaughn's Little Wing. Although The Men are Called Horsemen There by Sunset Rubdown always gets me hot. I think it's the accordion.
Bad Date: tie
My boyfriend in high school and I were out late one night, and on the way home, he casually leaned over to kiss me while driving, lost control of the car, hit a curb and blew the right front tire. Fortunately I had just changed a tire on my car and was happy to help. I asked him if he had a jack. Or a spare. He was just kind of stunned and embarrassed, I guess and told me to go home and he would take care of it. I was like... "Go home? Walk?" Yeah... that was what he meant. So I walked home, by myself, through the seediest part of town. At three in the morning. I think the only reason nothing happened was because I was radiating such fury and adrenaline even the meth-heads didn't want to mess with me.
A few years after that I went on a "date" with a Marine that was a customer at the movie store where I worked. We rented To Have and Have Not, and were going to his house to watch it. This was also very late at night, after my shift. On the way, he stopped by where a row of mailboxes had been and boasted to me about how he and his buddies had gotten really drunk and drove over them in his truck. When we got to this house, he put in the movie and stripped down to his underwear and tanktop. Then he gave me his rifle and made me stand over him while he bench pressed weights. I'm not a gun person, at all, but was too freaked out to refuse. Instead I kept saying... "Don't you want to watch the movie? This is the first time Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall worked together!" It was a bizarre scene.
That one did end a little better, he did take me back home when I asked... though he did advise me that I needed to loosen up when I declined to kiss him goodnight.
I love this comment diversion.

Worst date for me was when I was a Senior in high school. I was supposed to go out to dinner with my gf's and her parents in a town 30 miles away. The afternoon before the date was a hot August day and I mowed the lawn and came in, showered and basked in air conditioning and a gallon of Mountain Dew. I fell asleep on the easy chair and was suddenly awoken by the doorbell. I had this raging rodney from some fantastic dream I was having while napping. I threw on a shirt and got into the backseat with my gf and her parents were in the front seat. About 30 seconds into the drive to the restaurant, I noticed a giant splortch of man goo stain where my rodney had been seeking a way out. Hilarity did not ensue. The rest of the evening was spent hoping my untucked shirt covered my shame. Still don't know if her parents noticed.

I'm way late, have nothing to contribute, and stopped reading after this: "Least Favorite Romantic Comedy: 2girls1cup."

That comment wins at commenting.

Ok, so this is a little late, but whatever.

1. Trick. (yes, I'm gay) I loathe this movie with everything in my being, although most gay guys I've known think it's one of the best movies ever. It's only redeeming quality is one line. "You ever get cum in your eye?! IT BURNS!!!!"

2. Depends on my mood. Back in college, it was. . .. the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Soundtrack. (I smoked a lot of pot then.)

3. Recently, I went on a date to go see Gone, Baby, Gone. The guy spent the entire time trying to get me to give him head. I really wish I had "gone to the bathroom" and never came back. Oh, and for a week afterwards, he still kept calling me to hook up.

P.S. I don't know if you're going to see this, but TK . . . the Dead Milkmen?!!! I LURV that band!! No one I know knows them!! (except my old voice and speech prof.)

Way, way late, but I had to chime in with my worst date. Lusted after this hot guy for a year, but had never talked to him. Came into my store where I worked and asked me out. Went on a date and his "interview process" went like this. Have you ever fucked a nigger and have you ever scraped a kid? Fucking Neanderthal.

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