Do you remember that movie ("Say Anything?") where John Cusak goes after beauty n brains Ione Skye? He held up a boombox and plays "In Your Eyes" outside her house. Well, I learned the hard way that kind of "romantic" move usually gets you labeled a stalker or worse.
Some magazine I was reading had a list of these kind of bold, heart-full-of-soul maneuvers in movies. The girl is invariably persuaded to love the seemingly hopeless, out-of-his league protagonist. The magazine (and me) have some advice,: the girl will not be won over; she'll run to the hills and maybe get a restraining order on your scary, addle-brained ass.
Nevertheless, Hollywood keeps pumping out this wish-fullfillment pablum, much to the detriment of suckers who believe it. If they're male, they'll think that red-hot passion and soulful devotion are the ticket to finally get their unrequited love. If they're female, they'll believe that most boys and men actually behave that way. Both are in for big dissapointments.
So what's the ticket? Patience, complete casualness, joking, and never letting on how much you like a woman until you've landed your personal big one (not quite the old the more you ignore them the more they want you, but close). For women, put your respective money where your mouth is. You don't want passion, you want the opposite: responsibility, dependability, respectability and emotional and financial security. Daddy will take care of it.
(See the Onion story on "World's Most Emotionally Strong Man" and how he knows exactly how and when to comfort his mate).
As Jimi H. said "Oh, well I've still got my guitar."
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