Do lips count as a non sexual part?
Ah, scqueen! 'Somewhere In Time' is one of my fav romantic songs, love the movie, too. I play it on piano, used to know it by (heart). But that's back when it was an our song and it's not anymore. When I write for the piano it's kind of an anchor I guess to the style I move towards. Good choice for a favorite movie. Think I'll go rent it again.
i do thank everyone for their likeing of evening candle sorry i dont comment near as much as i would wish too but i do thank all of you for such nice comments
and here we go...
1. Favorite five romantic movies, in order or preference.
ah jeeze do i got ta? an afaire to remember cary grant and debra ker ; sleepless in seatle: lady hawk ; the way we were ; father goose
2. Favorite five love songs, with prefered artists. lol sorry far too many and not any prefs
3. Favorite meal to share with your honey.
crispy duck , mellon soup, deep fried fish, pepper beef, fried rice
4. Favorite meal to have alone. lol any doubt? pepperoni pizza !!!
5. Favorite NONSEXUAL part of your loved one. nose
6. Favorite five books, and authors .jrr tolkiens the hobit, jack l. chalkers web of souls, david eddings just about anything, michael morrcocks elric saga, the lamps of his mouth by zelazny, tiers seriries by philip jose farmer
7. Favorite five web sites to visit loveblender , http://pub26.ezboard.com/fdacaptnsdockonpoetsbayfrm3?page=1
http://www.xanga.com/home.asp?user=beforedawn
hotmail
lol and not too much else right now
8. Describe what would be a decadent day for you...what and whom, and where and why...sleep in late lol k boreing
9. We all have had our hearts broken---give the name of a heart breaker that got you so bad, if you meet a person with the same name, you cringe. (optional, but interesting)
her name was lee and she was korean and lol not gonna say too much more
10. You get a fantasy shot---a bit part in a movie where you can kiss anyone you like---(with tongue). What person would you choose? (Doesn't have to be a movie star, or celebrity)micheal phiefer er close
11. You get to give a dinner party---any 10 people you name will be magically delivered for food and conversation---who would you pick?einstien, froid, gangas kahn, helen of troy, cleopatra, robert frost, joan of arc, dante, nostradamus, edgar allen poe
12. Most romantic spot on the planet where you have ACTUALLY been. venice italy
13. Most romantic spot on planet where you would like to go, and when (season, occasion, etc) niagra falls
14. Most romantic gift you've ever been given.umm lol private warmer?
15. Most romantic gift you've given someone else. my love
16. Asti or champagne? (Which do you prefer?) lol dont drink
17. Secret thing that melts you on the spot---(extra points if the one in your life has ever figrued it out!) the simple word please, not quite melt in the way u mean but close
18. Favorite Painting or art work, and artist eho did it. (I vote for the Dancer, by Davena Aboye!)michalangaloes lol how ever ya spell it his last... mother and dying son sculpture, it is truly incredable and i have seen it up close
19. Most romantic poem ever---by someone else...lol sorry still too new to this poetry business
20. Longest phone call you've ever had with a lover...4hour?
ooh ooh Jack! 'An Affair to Remember' is another fanTAStic piano piece.
Favorite five romantic movies
1. City of Angels
2. Sence and Sencability
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Moulin Rouge
5.
Favorite five love songs
1 Love is Blindness, U2
2 Kissing You, Desree (I think)
3 The Consort, Rufus
4 I Do, 98
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3. Favorite meal to share with your honey. I make a great mushroom and cheese stuffed raviolli in a light sauce. Served with a glass of white wine it can't be beat
4. Favorite meal to have alone. Salad, just one big salad
5. Favorite NONSEXUAL part of your loved one. Her eyes
6. Favorite five books, and authors.
7. Favorite five web sites to visit. Hell I only go here, hotmail, and yahoo. So those are three
8. Describe what would be a decadent day for you...what and whom, and where and why... I never thought about it cause it is something I do not have a lot of times
9. We all have had our hearts broken---give the name of a heart breaker that got you so bad, if you meet a person with the same name, you cringe. (optional, but interesting)
Kayti but only if spelt that way. That always got on my nerves and was never able to understand why for three years. so a Katie doesn't bother me but a Kayti does.
10. You get a fantasy shot---a bit part in a movie where you can kiss anyone you like---(with tongue). What person would you choose? (Doesn't have to be a movie star, or celebrity) Patty, but she ended up marrying some guy. And I snoozed so I lost. But that is a different story
11. You get to give a dinner party---any 10 people you name will be magically delivered for food and conversation---who would you pick? Now I am going to answer this as a dead or alive one. And if they are dead they aren't dead when they are delivered. General George Smith Patton Jr., Shakespear, Ghandi, Bono, and And good old Blue Eyes himself
12. Most romantic spot on the planet where you have ACTUALLY been. Aruba
13. Most romantic spot on planet where you would like to go, and when (season, occasion, etc) Paris in the Fall
14. Most romantic gift you've ever been given. I card with a very lovely note in it.
15. Most romantic gift you've given someone else. my love
16. Asti or champagne? (Which do you prefer?) Champagne
17. Secret thing that melts you on the spot---(extra points if the one in your life has ever figrued it out!) The look she gets in her eyes and then bites her lower lip. But I just found out she was cheating on me so now it'll probably make me sick to my stomach.
18. Favorite Painting or art work, and artist eho did it. (I vote for the Dancer, by Davena Aboye!) Not sure of the artist but the painting is called Jupiter eats his baby
19. Most romantic poem ever---by someone else... It would have been something my soon to be ex wrote but now who knows
20. Longest phone call you've ever had with a lover...6 hours
Whew. I'm sure I've left out some important things but here's my contribution:
1. 5 movies: Room With a View, Pride and Prejudice, French Kiss, Four Weddings and a Funeral,
2. 5 songs: Talk To Me While I'm Listening (Nancy Griffith), Lay You Down (Conway Twitty), I Cross My Heart (George Strait), If Ever I Would Leave You (from Camelot), Annie's Song (John Denver)
3. Meal w/someone: Italian -- your basic wine, bread, cheese, but only the best of each: Rosemont Shiraz, fresh-baked Italian bread, fresh imported parmesan, top-quality olive oil w/fresh herbs, etc.
4. Meal alone: OK, this is going to scare you -- liverwurst, cream cheese, tomato and garlic sandwich (see why I only have it alone? And if I'm not alone when I start I'm DEFINITELY alone by the time I'm done, and probably for a long time afterwards!)
5. Non-sexual part: Based on past experience, I would say either shoulders or jawline. I'm a sucker for a good square jaw.
6. 5 books: As if I could pick only five... Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), Fionavar trilogy (Guy Gavriel Kay), Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Little Women (Louisa May Alcott), Hotel du Lac (Anita Brookner), Turn Not Pale, Beloved Snail (Jacqueline Jackson), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson). Oops, that's more than five...
7. 5 sites: Sith Academy (www.siubhan.com/sithacademy), Writer's Digest (www.writersdigest.com), Common Cause (www.commoncause.org), the Objectivist Center (www.objectivistcenter.org), Defenders of Wildlife (www.defenders.org)
8. Decadence alone: Lounging around reading favorite novels, drinking red wine, and eating Godiva chocolates in front of a roaring fire while it's snowing outside
Decadence with others: Lounging around with my best friends for an entire day doing nothing but watching old episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, drinking mimosas, and giggling like mad (nudge nudge wink wink)
9. Heartbreak name: An "Allen" might make me run screaming from the room, though that would be more due to disturbing experience than actual heartbreak. The rest of mine had such bizarre names that the chance of running into a duplicate is slim-to-none.
10. Movie kiss partner: If we're including fictional people, the Comte St Germaine (from the novels by C. Q. Yarbro) If we're including only real people, Liam Neeson.
11. 10 for dinner: Henry VIII, Thomas More, Socrates, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madeleine L'Engle, the Two Fat Ladies (do they count as one or two?), Dorothy Sayers, CS Lewis, Mircea Eliade, and Katherine Hepburn
12. Romantic place I: South Padre Island, on the beach at night in the spring
13. Romantic place II: ??? Still waiting to find it, I guess!
14. Romantic gift I: The Beanie Baby that has the same birthday as me (Nuts the Squirrel)
15. Romantic gift II: Jeez, no clue. You'd have to ask the recipients, I suppose.
16. Champagne, fer sure (Veuve Clicquot)
17. Meltdown moment: Bites on the neck (that whole vampire thing...)
18. Artwork: Dali's Crucifixion
19. Romantic poem: ee cummings - "if everything happens that can't be done", closely followed by "it may not always be so"
20. Phone call: No clue. Never had a long-distance relationship which is what seems to inspire the marathon phone calls.
Okay, I'm in. Here are my top-of-the-head/heart answers:
1. Romantic movies: Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Ladyhawke, It's a Wonderful Life, Calamity Jane (weird, I know)
2. Love songs & artists: Divas all: Natural Woman (Aretha), Why (Annie Lennox), Like the way I do (Melissa Etheridge), Bewitched (Ella), Don't Explain (Billy Holiday)
3. Favorite meal to share: bread, wine, cheese, chocolate fondue & fruit.
4. Favorite meal alone: sushi & an assortment of desserts
5. Favorite NONSEXUAL part: crooked grin
6. Favorite five books, and authors: based on how often I re-read them: David Edding's Belgariad series, Anne McCaffrey's Dragon series, Frank Herbert's Dune series, Orson Scott Card's Ender series, and the Harry Potter series (hmmm. . .I seem to prefer continuity . . .)
7. Web sites: Loveblender, AtomFilms, Merriam-Webster, Amazon, RedEnvelop
8. A decadent day for you: sleep in, wake-up sex, breakfast in bed, playful sex, jacuzzi for two, massages for two, picnic lunch, drinks by the pool, walk on the beach, watching the sunset, lingering caresses, revelations into the wee hours of the morning
9. a heart breaker: Colin. used, abused, then vanished.
10. kiss anyone: someone I'm crazy for who loves me with a passion (someday my prince will come)
11. any 10 people: assuming we could all understand each other: Michelangelo, Einstein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vincent Van Gogh, Benjamin Franklin, Mozart, Jesus, Sarah Bernhardt, Mother Theresa, Gandhi
12. Most romantic spot you have been: Paris in spring.
13. Most romantic spot you've never been: Into the arms of my own true love, now!
14. Most romantic gift you've received: a room full of roses and candles, a proposing man in his best suit
15. Most romantic gift you've given: 20 little love notes, hidden along his morning routine path
16. Asti or champagne? Asti
17. Secret thing that melts you: kisses on the palm of my hand
18. Favorite art work: winged victory of samothrace
19. Most romantic poem ever---by someone else: A Quiet Thing, Kander & Ebb (a song, but a poem too)
20. Longest phone call with a lover: 4 hours
Rhetoric - Thanks for the praise. It's lovely to hear ppl like what im writing. It's also comforting to know that feeling crap can result in something positive.
Holy Crapola!
A dozen brave souls! You guys are awesome...thanks! I am amazed at Princess Bride---and NO ONE had gone for The Titanic, or Gone WIth The Wind---but I'm loving the answers...thank you all for giving it a go---
KIRK! Your Kahuna-ness? The rest of the village is doing the dance...c'mon give it a whirl...pick five of the 20...
Gala
What a WONDERFUL place you have here,truely creative. I had to send some pages to my sweetie. I will return.
Thanks again,Lisa
Ok I’m in, but I’m going to cheat a bit (weenie) and pick questions that only need one answer -
3. Most romantic meal to share: Chinese food on the floor from a low candlelit table with oriental music playing in the background. Okay I have two: Any meal we put together to take along to the beach at sunset with white wine or chocolate martinis in chilled crystal stems.
5. Fav nonsexual part: his bellybutton.
12. Most romantic spot: Kauai was possibly the best, but any of them pale to compare with romance under your own roof, or wherever you might be, unless you’re there with someone you’re in love with (or fall in love with!)
14. Most romantic gift I’ve ever been given: He had the candy shop unwrap the box of chocolates, place white gold earrings under two of the chocolaty morsels and then reshrink-wrap the package. It was mailed to me for Valentine’s and he never let on about the hidden toy surprise.
15. Most romantic gift you’ve given: My boyfriend at the time was a construction superintendent working on a high-rise downtown. I had helium balloons (we’d had a tiff the night before) delivered to the top of the building where he was on the scaffolding. On the card were the words from “Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong” (Joe Cocker – Jennifer Warnes)
Time for the next 5...
6) Favorite books...I'm just picking from the last few years, I read too much to remember them all...'The Sound of Waves' Yukio Mishima, 'The Red Tent' Anita Diamant, Sandra Gulland's trilogy on th life of Josephine Bonaparte, 'Memoirs of a Geisha' Arthur Golden, all Harry Potter books, Wally Lamb, Rebecca Wells, ok, enough.
7) Websites: Loveblender, Xanga, Kisreal.com, Ebay and Yahoo.
8) Decadent day... alone with the ocean, a hammock, good book, nice breeze and time. Lots of time. (Although once I got a body exfoliation as a gift at a spa - and it was awesome!)
9) Heartbreakers? Probably a boy named Doug in the 6th grade.
10) Fantasy shot with a kiss? Aidan Quinn.
Shadowriter:
Shadow Rider is hauntingly beautiful! I loved it!
1. When a Man Loves a Woman, City of Angeles, When Harry Met Sally, Ghost, Hope Floats
2. These Arms of Mine (Otis Redding)
All My Life (kci and jo jo)
Back at One (Brian Mcknight)
Breathe (Faith Hill)
Anytime (Brian McKnight)
3. Filet Mignon, baked potatoe, garlic bread
4. Icecream
5. There is not one. I think everything is sexy about him.:)
6. A Knight in Shining Armor (Jude Deveroux)
7. Loveblender, Cnn, Ebay,Twisted Humor, http://www.fieler.com/terror/ < I LOVE THAT ONE!
9. "MIKE" although that is my Boyfriend's name, he and other "Mike's" have me really pissed off with the name!
10. I would just rather kiss Mike! :) I am sooo in love!
11. Martha Stuart, Bin Laden (so I will know where he is to storture his A**), Brian Mcknight, Mike my sweetpea, Gala, Kirk, TJ, BK, dee, kirk, Mickey Mouse!
12. My boyfriend's Eyes!! ;)
13. Paris, ANTIME!!!
14. True Love, a hand to hold!
15. the same
16. What the heck is Asti?
17.When he toches my lips with his fingertips.
18. Forget me Knot by dee
19. Across the Evening by Dale Schultz
20. 2 hours
Crystal!!! You picked 2 of my favorites that I'd forgotten!
I love that Otis song and also 'A Night In Shining Armor' was always one of my very favorites.
Good memories....
Scqueen-
I LOVE that book, I read it like 3 times, when I was a Senior in high school, so many years ago, but I have never forgotten it and I think I am going to buy another copy. I let someone borrow it and they never returned it!
:(
Fine... didn't quite get 5 for some of 'em... heh, if this is really popular maybe I should make up some scripts to deal with this stuff, like some kind of poll, huh?
1. Favorite five romantic movies, in order or preference.
Henry & June, Backbeat, Better Than Chocolate, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chasing Amy
2. Favorite five love songs, with prefered artists.
I've Just Seen A Face (Holly Cole, *not* Beatles), Fever (Peggy Lee), 'Round Midnight (Sarah Vaughn)
3. Favorite meal to share with your honey.
Mo grilling corn and asparagus on the back porch, maybe with her chicken kabobs as the main course
4. Favorite meal to have alone.
Pizza?
5. Favorite NONSEXUAL part of your loved one.
The little tan streak in the lower part of one or her blue irises
6. Favorite five books, and authors.
Yeesh! The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett), Hitchhiker's Guide Series (Douglas Adams)
7. Favorite five web sites to visit.
kisrael.com (errr...), slashdot.org , memepool.com , salon.com , theonion.com
8. Describe what would be a decadent day for you...what and whom, and where and why...
Video games all day with 3 friends, then a video and nookie with Mo.
9. We all have had our hearts broken---give the name of a heart breaker that got you so bad, if you meet a person with the same name, you cringe. (optional, but interesting)
Rebekah.
10. You get a fantasy shot---a bit part in a movie where you can kiss anyone you like---(with tongue). What person would you choose? (Doesn't have to be a movie star, or celebrity)
Madonna.
11. You get to give a dinner party---any 10 people you name will be magically delivered for food and conversation---who would you pick?
Mo, Dylan, Sarah, Kim, Daniel Dennet, Richard Dawkins, Marvin Minsky, Salmon Rushdie, Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton.
12. Most romantic spot on the planet where you have ACTUALLY been.
Empty train station at night in Portugal, talking about Veronika (who decided I shouldn't come visit her as well that trip) with Baptista, who was tragically in love with his french teacher. I spoke no portugese and he spoke very rough english but with the booze and the moonlight it was terrific.
13. Most romantic spot on planet where you would like to go, and when (season, occasion, etc)
Eiffel Tower, just for the cliche of it.
14. Most romantic gift you've ever been given.
A clay rose. Not clay, Femo, or some such stuff.
15. Most romantic gift you've given someone else.
A valentine to an unrequited love (see #9), with this one quote of Dulcinea in Don Quixote saying how she's not under an obligation to love just because she is loved.
16. Asti or champagne? (Which do you prefer?)
What's Asti?
17. Secret thing that melts you on the spot---(extra points if the one in your life has ever figrued it out!)
More sexual than romantic (maybe melts is the wrong word)-- women in tanktops. And yeah I think Mo's figured it out.
18. Favorite Painting or art work, and artist eho did it. (I vote for the Dancer, by Davena Aboye!)
The Cleveland Free Stamp, a giant giant public sculpture of a rubber stamp that would stamp the word "FREE"
19. Most romantic poem ever---by someone else...
Jack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart: http://www.loveblender.com/1997september/review.html
20. Longest phone call you've ever had with a lover...
Kind of an odd question...probably some of the blabberin on and on in highschool.,,
Here's an idea: let's put a quick stop to the 20 questions, let me build a tool that will organize the data in a much more readable fashion. Maybe every week or so we'll change the question... think we can get enough volunteers to come up with new questions on a regular basis? Does this sound like a good idea?
Works for me, Kahuna!
wow!!great site!!
lots to explore here!!
i used to write poetry at one time but gave up. Poetry isnt something that easily done, i guess.
cya
Great idea, Kirk. It's fun getting to know people through questions like these. By the way...I never pegged you for a Madonna kinda guy :-)
Heh, I dunno what it is, but yeah, Madonna. The way she keeps reinventing herself, her general kind of screw you attitude, her "Sex" book, her undeniable body...
Drew Barrymore is another favorite.
http://kisrael.com/viewblog.cgi?date=2001.08.15 to see how I feel about Madonna, especially the book.
btw, look for the "survey" thing really really soon. I'm not sure if I have the best name for it. I guess survey is ok. I'd call it Question of the Week but I don't know how often it will be updated for sure.
OK!
If you look at the top you should see the first board survey question. I think 20 at a time was just getting to be too much, so we'll dole them out slowly.
Please let me know if you find any bugs, or ways that it could be easier to use.
Also, as long as I'm up to my ankles in Blender coding muck, it should be pretty easy to add in another feature I've been thinking about: the "Current Workshop Poem"
All it will be is a poem link at the top of the blender board page, that people are invited to look at and then add constructive, building-not-destroying criticism and praise about it to the Board. I need to write up some guidelines for that. And from our previous discussion about the idea, it's going to be voluntary.... people will nominate preferably their own poems. (At some point there will probably be a system for that, for now just nominate one of your works here on the board)
Would some brave soul like to be first to offer up a poem for workshopping?
Hey Kirk! Grrreat idea... I have a few questions... :-) I'll volunteer one sometime! :-D
Yep, Kirk ~ I am in awe of Madonna and her reinventions...she is one hell of a self-marketer. I never really cared for Britany Spears until I saw her dance with that big ass snake on the MTV awards :-)She now has my respect. I think she'll be reinventing for years to come also! Thanks for the survey block.
isn't it "benny and June" or is this a different film I need to see?
Violet~
You're thinking of "Benny and Joon," which is another great romantic movie. "Henry and June" is the story of the love triangle comprised of Henry Miller, Anais Nin and June. I forget June's last name. Great movie, though.
Kirk!!! The Blender has grown again! I love the new survey thang! It is another dimension in the incredibleness of it all. Thanx! And Thanx Gala, for starting it all!!!!
oh...June was Henry's wife, beautifully played by Uma Thurman. Bye!
thanks misti! i'lll add it to my must see list. ;-)
"Henry and June" was the first film with an NC-17 rating. The idea was that producers should be able to make films with serious adult content without the porn-associated X rating. Well, this being the split personality puritan/sex maniac nation that it is, some theater chains refused to carry NC-17 films, so it basically became another X.
Anyway, it's a Phillip Kaufman film, who also made "Unbearable Lightness of Being", which is one of my favorite fims and books. It has some exquisitely shot erotic scenes, some lesbian as Anais Nin tries to work out her feelings for June and for Henry, but it does it all with a real sense of grace and balance. Uma Thurman plays June and is ethereally gorgeous, the actress who plays Anais (who has about the biggest doe eyes ever) also played Bruce Willis' girlfriend in "Pulp Fiction" (the "who's motorcycle is this?" "who's Zed?" woman from the soundtrack ;-) She's actually pretty acomplished. Henry is played by Fred Ward, don't know much about him, but he gives me delusions that I can look that good when I'm all bald.
They assembled parts of Anais Nin's diary in a volume with the same name as a film, it's worth checking out.
TJ: yeah, Run Lola Run, a favorite for Mo and Me. I mean isn't it the perfect film, nothing but romance and a great soundtrack and a woman running in a tanktop?
I think this survey thing can really add to the site.
How often should we change the question? One thing is that I made it so you can't go back and answer previous questions, I want things to have a sense of closure...
No volunteers yet for a film to workshop?
Keeper of the Juice ~
Great idea on the link...and Gala, hats off to you both for taking the Blender in a new direction. This is fun. Plus, I am a TV and music trivia buff, so many of your responses are guiding me to read and rent some of these titles.
Also - the poetry thing is good too - I think that putting a poem up to have 10 - 15 different ideas thown at it might take it someplace the author never intended. And with an open mind - that sounds like great fun. The piece could transform with each day.
As for Henry and June - I bought it for my boyfriend who told me he loved it and that I would too - and I can't bear to watch it. First, I am anti-Henry Miller. To me, he isn't sexual - he's is vulgar and unappreciative of women. It seemed as though both his wife and his lover were sexual conquests - rather than partners. Am I too jaded? And I love Uma - but her accent in this one make me ill. She is too stunning to be made up like she was in the movie. The eroticism was very well done, though. Violet - I am not trying to persuade you not to check it out - but I am just givin my 2 cents.
Ok - 'nuff said.
Rhet
I've really appreciated Henry Miller ever since I read this essay at the back of Time magazine, "An American Optimist". "I have no money, no resources,
no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." Bad French with a Brooklyn accent. Sex with gusto.
One of the interesting things about my first two choices for Movie, "Henry and June" and "Backbeat"... both have an "other man" (Anais' husband Hugo, and Astrid's old boyfriend Klaus) who are actually both accomplished artists in their own right, though because it's not "their" story, you had no idea 'til the ending "what happened to them after" crawl. Hugo has several films in the museum of modern art, and Klaus designed the cover for the Beatle's Revolver album and played bass in the Plastic Ono Band. For some reason I've always identified with them...
BTW, Backbeat is a great flick as well. It deserved more attention than it got, the story of the very early beatles, including Stuart Sutcliff. Or maybe I'm biased because the guy falls in love with a German chick and I had it so bad for Veronika...
Ok Kirk....
You can have one of mine for a workshop---but someone else will have to pick which! Or if I have to offer up one, lemme know. (anyone see Sophie's Choice? What a decision!)
Gala