(Yes, I have posted this previously, and I stand by it.)
What did you think of
HIMYM last night? Last week was...bad, but this week redeemed itself. (Yes, sometimes great relationships end because someone makes a choice about a notional future and not the reality of the now. Yes, sometimes, you love and support your friends when they think that they are not worth anyone's love and support. And yes, I have been on that last train and no, they were not really exaggerating.)
But on this day of awful chocolates, tacky jewelry, those tasteless yet cloying little candy hearts (which someone suggested would be my plan for the day), I give you a scene from the first season of HIMYM with one of my favorite songs, and if you have been paying attention, you know what song and what scene it is.
Here is a live version of
Bloc Party's "This Modern Love"
But that is a happy and hopeful song, and that was a happy and hopeful clip from HIMYM, and that is not what this day is about for a sizable percentage of my friends who are neither happy nor hopeful. Quite the opposite, honestly.
And for that, I give them another great song which is also a favorite:
"No Children" by the
Mountain Goats.
But that is not what I am feeling this year...I am feeling something else. Not necessarily sweet and content (I am still a complete douchebag, you know?) but something like that, so...I give you yet another old song with an amazing video.
(Come on, you loved that video even if you did not love the Gabriel cover of a Magnetic Fields song...you can tell me. I grok.)
Anyway, for some, today is Valentine's Day, for others, it is Toxic Tuesday. Have a wonderful day.
