The Day of Love
So Thursday is the lovely day of love. That spectacular day in which crushed red velvet and wide satin ribbons swaddling chocolates are still in vogue. And as the perfect outfit is made from the accessories that bring it all together, so is the perfect Valentines day. To help with that bit of inspiration you may be struggling to find, we’re posting a list of our picks for Valentines Day. If you’re single, there’s something for you as well.
- Capers Downtown is going to be open special for Valentine’s Day. Reservations required. For the dinner you wish you could make at home for your special somebody, Call 253.272.2240 for more information.
- The Harmon is doing a Steak and Prawns dinner for two at an affordable price of $49.95 that includes the beer and dessert. For reservations call 253.383.BREW.
- Stadium Bistro is open for a Lover’s Dinner. Call 253.683.4150.
- Speed dating at the Swiss! For all the singles out there this sounds like more fun that sitting at home with your cat, eating chocolate.
All of the dinners listed above require reservations. We have no idea if they still have reservations open.
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6 comments
S Sassy McButterpants February 11, 2008
Hmmm… you are quite right about my having committed to an evening with my cat involving Chocolate and Johnny Depp’s “Don Juan DeMarco”…
But Speed Dating sounds fun. So does curling into a ball while listening to “All by Myself” and chain smoking then sobbing myself to sleep…
hmmm.
E Erik S February 11, 2008
If there’s one thing I’m sure of at this most bitter time of the year, it’s that Eric Carmen will NOT be my valentine.
Even so, I think that you raise a good question, Sassy: what is the proper soundtrack to an evening spent sobbing, guzzling whiskey, and sifting through a battered shoebox full of Transformers and Rainbow Brite valentine cards from elementary school, trying to convince yourself that you are wanted?
How to Live Alone or Chicken Wire by Joe Pernice? Something on a crackly old Billie Holiday record? Or perhaps a little Elliott Smith? Nah, surely it’s the Smiths, overblown melodrama and all. I’m thinking Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me on a loop.
S Sassy McButterpants February 11, 2008
Sassy’s Soundtrack of Self Pity
Gloomy Sunday – Billie Holiday
Bought & Sold – Neko Case
All By Myself – Eric Carmen
Littlest Things- Lily Allen
Where Did I go Wrong? – Martin Sexton
Grey – Ani DiFranco
Wise Up – Amy Mann
Imitation of Love – Dr. John
Love is A Losing Game – Amy Winehouse
I don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance- Etta James
Shadowboxer – Fiona Apple
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
Blame it on my Youth – Jamie Cullum
Kissing A Fool – George Michael
Gone – NSync
Against All Odds – Phil Collins
I Never – Rilo Kiley
Miss You – Rolling Stones
Please Call Me, Baby – Tom Waits
Why – Annie Lennox
Pictures of You – The Cure
I can’t Make you Love Me- Bonnie Rait
Not that I’ve given it any thought.
P Patrick February 11, 2008
You wanna day to remember? Try this on for size…..Sabbath Bloody Sabbath at ear piercing volume, after a few whiskey shots of course, whilst atop the coffee table, feigning for my best Ozzie impersonation, cape and fake microphone in hand. Now that’s a V-day to remember, unless you wanna get all sorry for yourself and listen to that melodramatic B.S. which is E. Smith, seriously who stabs themselves in the chest, not Ozzie or pirates I’ll tell you that much!
C Christine February 12, 2008
J. Giles, “Love Stinks”.
E Erik S February 13, 2008
Wow, Sassy. I’m impressed that you had that just sitting in your back pocket. I was ashamed that I was not so well prepared and started right in on a comp when I got home, but I all I got in the end was too many tracks and not enough sleep.
To salvage something from the effort, a few suggestions:
Sea of Heartbreak – Don Gibson
Borrowed Bride – Old 97s
He Stopped Loving Her Today – George Jones
I Don’t Really Love You Anymore – Magnetic Fields
Only the Lonely – Roy Orbison
Tell You Brother – The Hookers
Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend – The Mr T Experience
Find Yourself Alone – Ken Stringfellow
Knock Loud – Sook-Yin Lee (or Neko Case for extra Tacoma-ness)
She’s Out There – The Fall-Outs
Baby Blue Sedan – Modest Mouse
Here Comes A Regular – The Replacements
Hooray for music!