My Romantic Bucket List

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"No Morg, I can't believe that we're both still alive either. And yes, we're both tempting fate by making a movie called Bucket List. F*ck b*tches, get money."

While it seems that most reading ninjas worship at the throne of Love Jones, I don’t. Maybe it’s because I’m taller than Larenz Tate. Or maybe it’s because I enjoyed him more as O’Dog than Darius Lovehall. Or maybe it’s because my favorite scene in the whole movie is when Khalil Kain tells Nia Long that he’s about to “get some motherf*cking Cap’n Crunch”. Me no know. I don’t begrudge ninjas their Love Jones jones, but when it comes to romanticalness, there’s another movie that tickles my fancy.

Jason’s Lyric.

Yep. That one.

See while everyone  else was watching Love Jones and loving the deep artistry of the artists and lines like “physics the sh*t ain’t”, I was watching Jason’s Lyric and being mesmerized at how a woman with the body of a 6-year-old could have THAT pretty a face. Jada Pinkett’s face was on dime status in that movie, but her body was a penny with a hole in it. Plus, the movie just appealed to more of what I was used to. Bank robberies, southern ‘hoods, pickup trucks, ninjas with perms, shootouts, This Is It restaurants (I swear until that movie I thought they only existed in Atlanta), big booty hoochies, jail, Juneteenth festivals, and airplanes. No B.o.B.

Well Jason’s Lyric also gave me a bunch of items I hope to achieve in my dating life. I’ve actually randomly pulled off a few of these items, but not effectively. Yes, Jason’s Lyric has managed to hold all of my life’s goals on my romantic bucket list.

I see you looking at me, looking at you, looking at me. You want to know what items are on my list? Well shut my mouth wide open, I intended to share it!

1. “I ain’t neva really watched the sun set befo’”

I want to say this to a woman at just the right moment. Part of the reason why I love Jason’s Lyric is because this lowly brotha met a woman who changed his world. That’s what I need in my life. In Love Jones, Darius and Nina had a jones for eachother, but I don’t feel like any of them gained much aside from having their jones satisfied. Lyric though? She had this brotha OPEN. Had him watching the sunset. Do you know why that mattered? No? Well, it’s cuz he ain’t neva really watched it before. I need a woman to expose me to some sh*t I ain’t really watched before. If she tries to show me the sunset, I’m gonna be mad though. I can read. I ain’t a criminal.

2. “If you go to the grocery store, I want to be in the next aisle. If you go to church, I want to be in the last pew. I just want to see you again.”

You know how Lisa Nicole Carson’s character “Big T*tty Woman Dating Lyric’s BankRobbingBrothar”  would just DAH for a ni**a to wash her feet? I’d just DAH to have a woman who made me utter these words. But I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if I ain’t WAITING to say this sh*t out loud to some woman. Real talk though, I might just say that to a banging woman just to get it out of my system.

3. Jack a city bus

Some people aspire to go to college. Some people aspire to be happy. Me? I aspire to jack a Metro bus and use it as my personal vehicle to commit random shenanigans in the name of impressing a woman because I…jacked a city bus. Okay, it needs work. But men love crazy women, and crazy women appreciate criminal activity…especially misdemeanors or better. You take a bus, you take her heart. It was written. And it is so.

4. Picnic in a random arse abandoned, well maintained building with a beautiful artsy mural painted on the ceiling

Nevermind that we have no idea how Jason’s low budget arse even knew the place existed. Or maybe I just don’t remember. Point is, how dope would it be to have an indoor picnic with some Andre champagne and sandwiches from Subway (eat fresh…a personal motto. heheheheh) with our hijacked bus just parked….out motherf*cking front. That would be real dope.

5. “F*ck it, I’m Prince Charming”

Mostly because I’m so not. I’m not even Prince Rogers Nelson. But I’m all about the game. Blouses. I just want to say this to a woman who will actually get the reference.

6. Laying pipe in a mom & pop electronics store

Just seems fun.

7. Bayou booty

Can’t say I’m trying to roll around and have somebody tape the scenes with strawgrass danging from my derriere or anything, but heckynaw, gettin’ some of that good lovin’ down by the riverside seems like some romantic sh*t. It’s almost like that time…in Centennial Park…at midni…I’ve said too much.

8. Meet a woman who makes me want to wash her feet with creekwater

Mostly because…ew. I am not sucking toes. I’ll tell ya that sh*t.

That’s my Jason’s Lyric inspired romantic bucket list.

Do you have one? If so, what’s on it? Is it inspired by anything? If not, make one up. It’s Cinco De Mayo. Drank.

Shake something.

-VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka JULIO JULIO PONCHO PIMPIN’ PANNNAMA aka GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL HE A TRES

806 thoughts on “My Romantic Bucket List”

  2. Happy Cinco de Mayo to the VSF! Today’s my birthday so virtual Red Velvet Cupcakes all around. They taste delicious even in your virtual imagination.

    I made a list of 30 before 30 (last year) but didn’t get to everything on it and kept adding.

    I’d love to take a world trip. Like 30 countries on 6 continents doing service projects for 6 months…the slow version of Amazing Race.

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    • LMAO, I have opinions on lots of movies ive never actually seen.
      I’ve even had arguments about movies I’ve never actually seen with other people who havent seen the movie either.

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        • Well tyler perry movies its kind of like if youve seen a couple, i think you are qualified to talk about most of them.
          No but completely random movies. Someone I didn’t like told me her seven year old’s favorite movie was “baby mama” which I have never seen and dont intend on seeing, but I was really quick to tell her that it was an awful movie, and why would you take your kid to go see a movie with such a disrespectful name? If someone who wasnt a psycho b!tch had said that I wouldnt have said anything.

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          • BABY MAMA!!! That shyt was off the hook. It was a cinema masterpiece. You are just too intellegent to understand what it was trying to express to da peeps.

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  4. “I can read. I ain’t a criminal.”

    While there’s no evidence of either when taken in its entirety? He-fvckin-larious!!! LOL

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  5. I’ve never seen Jason’s Lyric….

    *navigates to Netflix* *navigates back*

    Does our romantic bucket list have to be inspired by a movie? You know this is gonna take a lot of thought and “Modern Family” is one… brb.

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    • LOL – Its only the best WORST black love story with the best WORST list of actors that were the Best at that time! i.e. Jada Pinkett, Allen Payne, Bokeem Woodbine, Lisa Nicole Carson, Treach, Eddie Griffin, and Forest Whitaker. Now one would think with all this star power this movie would be phenomenal ………… yeah no such luck!
      my favorite line ” Jason, I am TRYING to love you, but I don’t want my heart broken. But that’s exactly what you’re gonna do if you keep trying to save a brother that don’t want to be saved! ” In the worst fake southern accent you can think of!

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      • It was the worst. It wasn’t even unintentionally funny like Baby Boy was.

        That movie is HILARIOUS….JODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        Anyway, Jason’s Lyric did had a good plot, premise, cast and backdrop, but it failed nonetheless. Hate it.

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        • You’re my woman.
          Them other hos is tricks.
          I make love to you, I want to be with you,
          but I f**k other females occasionally.
          I don’t know why, I just do.
          That’s the situation…..

          You feel better now?
          That’s some honesty for you. Deal with it.

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          • YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

            That sh*t was all the way live. When I initally saw it I hated it. BET re-runs have turned it into a black pop culture thing and I love it now. Extremely funny!

            Snoop walks into the living room and sees Jody’s son
            S:Hey, you making yourself a little fort
            Jody’s son: Nods

            Snoop kicks the fort violently
            S: F*ck your little fort homie!

            DIED LAUGHING.

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            • Everytime I watch it i get killt at Rodney’s reaction when Jody came to get Joe Joe son.

              (paraphrasing)
              I can’t believe this ninja had the audacity to come here…after he talk sh!t to me
              when I was locked up…f**ked my woman and had a baby by her!… Mannnn!
              …Go get the heat, Cuz!

              Too many unintentional laughs in that movie. Then Tyrese trying to sing the title song.
              “You just a Baby Boy,
              You’re not the Real McCoy,
              Out here running the streets”.
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuCioJlgxfg&feature=player_detailpage#t=70s

              Dead for days

              And please tell me i wasn’t the only one wondering why this early 20′s ninja was rolling through the hood…on a bike, like it was was up. You too old for dat brah.

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              • That (the bike) and why were women hype about that “I want you to have my baby” line he was giving them. Uhm…you have no job, live at home and are stupid. Sooooo…no. LOL

                Makes me wanna watch that movie now.

                Paraphrasing…

                Jody’s friend, “I don’t wanna get to the gates and Jesus be like “turn yo ass around n*gga”

                I really had to pause when I heard that first…and then LMFAO that he said it.

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                • Jody’s friend, “I don’t wanna get to the gates and Jesus be like “turn yo ass around n*gga”

                  i swear this line makes me laugh for AT LEAST five minutes every time i watch Baby Boy. hilarious.

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                  • In keeping with the hilarity of Snoop quote from this movie, let’s not forget:

                    Lil Jody: “I hate chu!”
                    Snoop: “I hate chu lil n**ga.”

                    *DIES* every time.

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                  • John Singleton’s movies are crap. He attempts to deliver messages but fails miserably, only to end up reinforcing the same ignant @ss shyt. Great ideas. Horrible executions.
                    The coonamatography is unrivaled.

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            • That child was so scarred that it was to never build a fort again…why didn’t Snoop know that the child was building the fort so that he could reinforce a sense of safety?

              That’s why he was shot at the end…’eff yo’ couch fort little homie!

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        • your hate for jason’s lyric is pungent. i feel like you should revisit and view it from the same lense as Baby Boy, another classic terribly great movie. Baby Boy is actually one of my favorite movies period, whereas Jason’s Lyric just has Jada’s “and up top, huh, two beestings” in it.

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          • @My e-sis TheAnti-Cool

            i can see how you might be turned off by Baby Boy but trust me when i say its good… you might not personally know anyone like the characters in the film but somehow you can still relate. its real it shows that sometimes people have to just let go and let love… oh and its funny too

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            • I’m your e-sis?! Aww.
              (hugs)

              I don’t know…I’ll say this..I won’t go out of my way to see Baby Boy but if it comes on my small screen I won’t immediately turn. :)

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      • ” Jason, I am TRYING to love you, but I don’t want my heart broken. But that’s exactly what you’re gonna do if you keep trying to save a brother that don’t want to be saved! ”

        ….. really?

        And Forest Whitaker was in this too? smh.

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      • Look like it’s me and Panama against the world today man. Yall hating! (how dare you express a different opinion).

        The problem is yall don’t understand love in the south man. That sunset, the soul food restaurant, people having crazy daddies with cross eyes, those are the obstacles we have to overcome.

        Lyric made this dude who was content being a tv salesman and had never left the city, change his whole life. He went from being an enabler to his brother, and having his moms depend on him to being a man.

        NOT TO MENTION, the inner demons he had to conquer from the nightmares of shooting his own father to protect his family. Jason was a man who had never had anything or done anything for himself, Lyric was his ticket out.

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      • Everytime Love Jones was referenced I would think of Jason’s Lyric and I always wondered “why does VSB reference this movie so much?” I now see the error in my thinking and have realized I’ve never seen Love Jones. *adds Love Jones to my netflix queue*

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    • Ok so romantic bucketlist/favorite romance movies.

      1.) Being in the fight/sex scene in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, director’s cut. We wouldn’t have to burn down the house doe…

      2.) Being proposed to in front of my entire town like in “Love Actually.”

      3.) Being serenaded by the guy lip syncing to me in the stands like “Ten Things I Hate About You”

      4.) Dating the guy willing to fall make me fall in love with him everyday for the the rest of our lives like in “50 First Dates.”

      5.) Running around New York and engaging in all forms of silliness like in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”. Especially the Tiffany’s part ;)

      6.) Being pursued by the guy who never stops trying to find me like in “Slumdog Millionaire.” Though it actually sounds kind of stalkerish…

      7.) Dating the guy willing to fight time, destiny, and forces beyond his control to be with me ala “The Adjustment Bureau.”

      Alright, moment of girlish indulgence over.

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    • i think the soundtracks to these movies (LJ & JS) are better than the movies themselves..
      if you think your loooooonely noowwwwww….wait until tonight gurrrrrllll…. (remade by k-ci).
      *wishes i could do music notes like yoles.

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  6. LMAO @ the espanol version of the tre-piece slogan. Good. Night.

    “Maybe it’s because I’m taller than Larenz Tate. ”

    Who isn’t? Other than That Damn African. Larenz still fahn, doe.

    My romantic bucket list? Everything in “Love Actually.” Yeah, all the stories. I’mma be reincarnated, bish.

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  7. What a sacrilege!!,H-town was the first location for the This is it franchise and the rest is not a muhfuggin’ factor

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    • I can honestly say that I also love Jason’s Lyric and I have never been able to get into Love Jones. Meh, I think I need more action in my love flicks, plus it was shot in the Great city of the H.

      1. Jason (Payne) had a big ass thigh when they were rolling around in the woods, like it was on dinosaur status
      2. Lyric kinda reminded me of Prince, especially the hair
      3.No matter which movie I see Forrest Whitaker in, I see Mad dog and it scares me every.single.time.
      4. Favorite line of the movie for me was when Marti said ” The wards ain’t full of Jasons. What you found was quiet, in a world full of thunder. I ain’t got no choice but to listen to it. You do.”

      And Dagnabit I’m lookin’ for my quiet …or even some thunder.

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      • *Jason (Payne) had a big ass thigh when they were rolling around in the woods, like it was on dinosaur status*

        And I’m dead right about here

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      • THIS.WHOLE.LIST.

        she was totally prince with a bad fake southern accent. he was way too hairy. but he was quiet. one of my favorite lines is (paraphrasing bc ion feel like googling):

        jason: you told me if it was meant to be, i’d find you. and i did. you know that bus ain’t coming cause this is meant to be.

        *bus pulls up and lyric looks back slyly while stepping on*

        lyric: guess it wasn’t meant to be.

        lol. loved it.

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      • 3.No matter which movie I see Forrest Whitaker in, I see Mad dog and it scares me every.single.time.

        I thought that was just me!!!

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    • i dont care about no damn first This Is It. all i know is that our commercials in the A were priceless and b/c of that I figured no other city in its right mind would have a place called This Is It.

      y’all ain’t got no Abdullah Tha Butcher though…or JJ’s Rib Shack (was packed too).

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  8. Jason’s Lyric is one of my favorite movies…especially the picnic scene. Who knew Allen Payne was that hairy?

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  9. I’m horrible at remembering movie details. I can never remember who was in what movie and what they said, etc. But one of my favorites is a scene near the end of When Harry Met Sally. Harry says to Sally:

    I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

    His whole dialogue in this scene is on point, but this quote was the best. Just someone who remembers the details of your being, appreciates them, and knows the right time to say it (Sally was bout to read him his rights).

    Other than that my romance bucket list consists of a lot of normal simple things that have yet to happen to me like, flowers…a walk on the beach…candy….tickets to the opera. You know, the basics.

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  10. I always wanted to exhale (I remember I did it once when I was 16, but that was mainly because I watch too much tv) like Whitney did when she was dancing with dude to Faith’s “Kissing You” in Waiting to Exhale (minus him inviting her to a party that he was planning on bringing a date to).

    Elope in Vegas

    I’m sure there’s more I just can’t think of anything else at the moment.

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    • I know EXACTLY what you mean… i’d like to exhale too. Just thinking about it…that moment when you’ve found someone who makes you feel like your heart and soul can take a seat and relax… :)

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  11. It’s Toasted Oats. I only know that because Love Jones sucked, that is the only decent scene, and Khalil Kain is a cutie.

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    • Love Jones is fire….

      And yes the Toasted Oats scene is classic. When you get to that point in a relationship, just bounce.

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      • Mo, how you gon like LOVE JONES, and NOT like Jason’s Lyric!? Love Jones was cool, but some of it WAS kinda superficial. I related more to Jason’s Lyric. Maybe cuz I’m FROM Houston, but still.

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    • Khalil Kain plays the same character in every.single.movie and he always have the amazing talent of sucking up all the excitment from a scene. For some reason I always thought he and terrence J were the same person. In fact up until For Colored Girls came out, you couldn’t tell me that they weren’t the same person.

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    • First off, yes Panama… it was “muthaf*ckin Toasted Oats. You trippin.” :D Love that sh*t

      Secondly, Dom… you’ve spoken pure, unadulterated blasphemy but I will ask the Joneses of Love to forgive you, for you know not what you have said. :p

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    • Yeah, i know it’s Toasted Oats. I’m gonna change it. I was just too lazy to go back and verify. I went back and forth with myself about whether or not i was gonna put in the DVD to check…then ultimately decided to watch the Lakers game instead.

      LAKE SHOW IS ON THE WAY OUT.

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  12. 1. I want a man to chase me and stop me from boarding a plane by buying a ticket just to get him past the gate, all to stand on a chair and holler my name and scream “Marry me”
    Too much?

    2. Ok so I actually already accomplished this, but I re-added it cuz it was with the wrong person. But I had the best date ever. Drinks at a roof top bar on a clear August night. Then we laid a blanket in the grass in a park, looked up and discussed the constellations and life. And here’s the best part, I took of my shoes and danced in the grass with my head thrown back and y eyes closed and he told me I was beautiful. it was great, but I want a redo cuz he’s only 5’5″. LOL

    Well that’s all I got for now.

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    • Oh yeah and I want someone to realize after a decade that they’re in love with me show up with their daughter and stand outside my apartment until I let them in and listen to the story of him dating me and 2 other girls at the same time years ago. Definitely….Maybe

      Also, I’d like someone to have me at hello. Usually it takes too much convincing.

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      • Yeah he’s a great guy. Known him since high school. Smart, sexy, even staring (ok not staring) in a new TV show on NBC…..but he’;s short and I”m not soooo yeah, I need a redo with one of my ball playing friends…lol

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  13. I want a blue collar light skind-ed-ed-ed brother with lacefront cornrows to pursue my hateful angry black woman self until I give in and fall deeply in love. Then we go to church together and meet my cross dressing grandmother. *end scene* -_-

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  14. i would just love to have a picnic, sans ‘the well maintained building with a beautiful artsy mural painted on the ceiling’. a lake, great convo, and some food will suffice.
    and maybe some haute secs. *giggles*

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    • i aint been on a picnic…i think ever. not like a real one. i been to cookouts where dirty little kids ate on towels on the ground. but i dont think thats what you mean.

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    • One thing I’ll give Tallahassee is that its park game is above-average for a place of its size. Speaking more generally, I can’t figure out why more men don’t do the picnic thing…well, if they don’t want conversation it’s a bad idea. It has definite advantages, though.

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  15. I remember talking to my ex about Jason’s Lyric. She was amazed that I had never seen it all the way through. Whoever I was dating/messing with at the time would get lost in the movie while were watching it. Im guessing that after awhile I’d start looking like Allen Payne to them and I wouldn’t get to see the rest of the movie. Lol. Same thing with Love Jones. Fortunately, I finally got a chance to see Jason’s Lyric all the way through the other day. Panama is right, that was damn good flick. It also makes me wonder about the kind of woman that would bring that out of me. My ex wasn’t that woman.

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  16. My bucket list consists of really trivial moments that would mean the world to someone with my sensabilites…let’s see…

    1) Lift instead of fetch: I’m a short girl. I decorate and organize things high. I don’t want a dude to just come, see me struggling, and get what I want for me. No. I want him to lift me up a tiny bit to get it myself. That’s me accomplishing something, even something so tiny, on my own, but with his support.

    2) The “Hmm.” Moment: I’m thinking this moment comes when he and I are just chilling. He’s watching something, I’m reading something, and he’s just twirling my hair and I’m just rubbing his forearm and I look up and think “Hmm…I’ve never been this comfortable with a person before.”

    3) A Night at the Zoo: When the police come knocking the next morning to a disarrayed couple and house asking if there are any exotic animals on the premises, as they’ve been receiving a lot of calls.

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    • lol, this list is too cute pres.

      My 5ft10 self wouldn’t know about needing lifting, but I totally dig the night at the zoo ;)

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      • Hmm. A 5’10″ VSS? You missed the height topic debate we had on here like a month ago. Adjectives can’t describe how crazy/epic/insane/accurate/ridiculous/fun it was all at one time.

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        • Actually, I read almost all of those comments a day or two later. I was in the midst of finishing grad school, so a self imposed VSB exile was necessary ;)

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      • Thanks :) I’m all about the cuteness.

        And I’m pretty sure everyone who’s not a VSV can attest to the power of “A Night at the Zoo.” ;)

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  18. 8. Meet a woman who makes me want to wash her feet with creekwater

    pj, please don’t tell her this. this is … on some Dexter type stalker scary ish. also, i will be that person on 20/20 with the hazy face and electronic voice taking about how i knew you were going to kill her.

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    • She went crazy in real life.

      Not kidding. She had a nervous breakdown and her career never recovered. I think she’s bipoloar in real life. (not joking, on some real…remember hearing that back in the day)

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    • Thing i,s she was the common thread in Jason’s Lyric and Love Jones. She was in both and one of the best actresses who could have played Phyllis Hyman :( I hope she is healing.

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  21. Here’s my bucket list:

    1. I want to surf……Just once. I don’t have a good reason it just looks cool

    2. Learn to play the Guitar and Piano. I’m already taking classes to the play Piano, smh. It’s harder than I thought lol

    3. MUST learn second language. Just don’t know which one yet…

    4. Learn a Marital Art. Y’know for the Revolution *Raises Black Fist*

    5. Make Large enough Residual Income that me and my SO can quit our jobs.

    Yeahhhhh, Cinco De Mayo! Half n’ hour in and I already got a ticket. Ugh, my birthday already on a good start. Well, atleast I’m off

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  22. My bucket list:

    A man riding in on a white horse to show his “undying” love for me and my selfish-hateful @ss–Deliver Us from Eva

    A ex coming to my wedding to bust it up and as he is lead away down the aisle (after professing his undying love for me) by some semi weak dudes, he shouts “BABY, PLEASE….PLEEEEEEEEAAASE!”–A Diff’rent World

    My husband and kids singing “Night and Day” for my birthday, anniversary, because it’s Sunday and I deserve it–Cosby Show

    The s.ex scene in Set it Off…yeah, that one

    The s.ex scene in Original Sin with Banderas and Jolie…yeah, that one too

    LOL, some of these I’m just joking with, others I’m not. I’m not romantic in that traditional way. I’m more if you do for me, I’ll do for you. Case and point, if I come home and the house is cleaned, vacuumed and smelling good…you can expect some good-good. It’s just that simple.

    But, I have always wanted to do a hot-air balloon ride. Other than that, practical sh*t is sexy to me.

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    • “Case and point, if I come home and the house is cleaned, vacuumed and smelling good…you can expect some good-good. It’s just that simple”

      Easy to please, I see…

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      • It shouldn’t be complicated though…men (at least the ones I date) rarely do things like that, so when they do it’s a major turn on. Saves me the trouble and frees up time…so I like to reward accordingly. LOL

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      • Yea to what she said…and it is just that simple. Why don’t men get it (IT) being the little things in life………SIGH!!!!!!!
        Who needs a bucket list, when all you have to do is put the toilet seat down. Now that’s romantic. lol

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    • “The s.ex scene in Set it Off…yeah, that one” complete with the initial massage and Envogue’s “what’s it gonna be” playing in the background!

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    • True Story:

      My parents took us to see Set it Off on a school night. I was in 3rd grade at the time, mind you. That scene, along with all of the gratuitous shooting, led for some interesting recess talk from young confused Beez the next day.

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    • LOL, some of these I’m just joking with, others I’m not. I’m not romantic in that traditional way. I’m more if you do for me, I’ll do for you. Case and point, if I come home and the house is cleaned, vacuumed and smelling good…you can expect some good-good. It’s just that simple.

      real talk…you’d be amazed at how some women don’t really have any appreciation for this.

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  23. I’d love to have a night like Carrie and Aleksander. He buys her a ridiculously expensive dress she was fawning over in Vogue and takes her to the Opera. Eventually she passes out from all the romance, they skip the show, and go to McDonalds instead. Romantic and Real. Perfect!

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      • Even the comic book stoner guy who she found out still lived with his parents on the upper east/west side???
        Granted, Carrie had plenty of romantic moments but some…ungh ungh ungh…SMH!

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        • I love that episode! “I’m scooting in heels”.

          I mean hell I wanna get high on a NY balcony with a bad azz view and eat bucket chicken. Hell ya mama can come home too and I’ll leave with the party favors and commence kicking it with my girls. Lol

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    • Yeah, then he slaps her ass.

      I never liked that communist summabish. He shut her out from his career and life, took her to a strange city where she didnt know anyone then abandons/ignores her, and every once in a while he showers her wit over the top romance

      Classic abuser.

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      • I always thought the same thing. Loved that Big flew to France to get her!
        Can I add that to my list?? I want a guy that would fly across continents to be with me!

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  24. 1) Don’t know what it says about me that I’m jacking this romantic gesture from a prostitute, but um, the scene in Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts hops up on the counter and handles her business (tying her man’s tie for him–get your mind right)…for some reason, I think it would be romantic/hot to take care of my man like that

    2) Of course I have a moment from The Notebook, when they’re in the rain (spare me the precip though) and she rolls up on him about why he didn’t fight to stay with her and he shuts that a** down and lets her know “it wasn’t over for me…it’s STILL not over!” and then he grabs her and um…*shiver*

    3) Since I’m nerdy and unassuming, I love how the chick came out of her shell in Dirty Dancing (yelling at Patrick Swayze and eventually pouncing on him for wild monkey sex) and showed how passionate she could be for the right person

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    • Yeah, I ? that The Notebook scene. It’s a lot of scenes from that one I like.

      Props on the Dirty Dancing scene, as well. ;)

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    • That scene from the Notebook is greatness. I also really enjoy when they lie down in the middle of the road to look at the sky, mainly b/c I’ve always wanted to do that. No cars clearly.

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    • Dirty Dancing? *swoons* There’s something about that movie that just makes a feeling come over me.

      I wanna recreate that dance scene at my wedding.

      “Nobody puts baby in a corner”.

      You gotta respect a man willing to check your daddy…..even if he’s the cop from Law & Order.

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      • You gotta respect a man willing to check your daddy…..even if he’s the cop from Law & Order.

        LOVE!

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  25. *“I ain’t neva really watched the sun set befo’”*

    The only line from the movie I remember…

    …because the accent was so utterly ridiculous I couldn’t focus on anything else. That line by itself ruined it for one of my boys from Houston. He hated everything in the movie right after that line. It wasn’t a southern accent, it was a runaway slave accent.

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      • If he had gone into a Baritone version of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” you would have sworn it was a part of “Glory” that got left on the cutting room floor.

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      • The accents were WAY off IMO. When I lived there NO ONE sounded like that ever. That ninja was channeling “Roots” in that scene. I’m not saying they don’t have a country drawl, but Allen Payne was damn near composing an old negro spiritual with how he pronounced those words.

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        • Well I am a born and raised Houstonian and I tell you it is not that far off in some parts, maybe you were in the nice parts DQ with the Starbucks and overpriced ties, go to certain hoods and there you will see the light …or the auction block.

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          • If either Sugarland or Missouri City had a gang sign I would be throwing it up right about now… :)

            Now how you love dat? *Adjusts tie and sips some of that vintage Starbucks Coffee*

            p.s. They didn’t talk that way in 3rd Ward either, at least not any places where I was. 5th ward *hunches shoulders* I’d have to hear it to believe it

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            • Let me find out folks are gang banging in Sugar Land…there goes the neighborhood…time to move again.

              You want country? Gon’ down there over off Scott. Trust me, you’ll get an ear full…or shot.

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              • LOL, you know I’m clowning. That was Tom Delay’s district, ain’t nobody banging nothing down there except a gavel. Y’all got a lovely city (3rd Ward stand up again). One time for all my peoples riding out on OST. If I ever become rich I will have a house somewhere in Houston.

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                • More like ain’t nothing banging in Sugar Land but the police at your door when the alarm accidentally goes off.

                  “Excuse me officer, but stop side-eye’ing me, I live here.”

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          • I’m from Houston born and raised too! I’m trying to leave, but somehow I keep coming back! Those accents were a little slave-ish, but I can say I’ve been called country on an occasion or too. I can’t help it, I have roots in deep East Texas (read: the country) and down in Bay City (read: still socially segregated).

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    • I thought the accents were exaggerrated until I went to college and realized that was how I sounded to everyone. People kept asking me to repeat certain words so they could laugh. Had to step my phonetics game up. Every word with an “O” or “u” sounded like “AW”

      Closet= clawset
      off= awff
      hungry = hawngry

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  26. That one half of the s.ex scene from Belly. You know what I mean

    “Ion’t know no f**kin Keisha!!!”
    *jungle drums*

    No one really cared about Nas tryna get to love Tboz’s heart and soul on the other side of town.

    Other than that, I dont know that I’ve watched enough romantic comedies to have a bucket list yet. I’m gonna work on that and get back to ya’ll.

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    • WHAT?!?! I know my DVD was tired of me rewinding and slow-moing that scene right there. I may mess around and watch it before i leave for work.

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  27. I want an actual prince of a wealthy country to run after me on the MARTA and denounce his throne in front of all the people on the train to prove his love for me! But then of course he will actually have to and I’ll get married in a big pink ball gown.

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  28. Once again, PJ… you did with the caption AND but her body was a penny with a hole in it. I didn’t know what to do w/ myself after reading that so, I just decided to finish crying laughing and continue on with the post.

    I feel you w/ no. 1 though. I want to be exposed to…. snail mating or…. levitating. SN: I often have dreams where I levitate and that’s how I transport myself instead of walking. Then, I’ll wake up and be looking forward to doing that sh*t and be highly disappointed to find out I can’t. It be so real in my dreams and I’ve dreamed of it since I was a little bitty island. :|

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    • Okie dokie then.

      I got sidetracked by my own side note up there but anyways, w/ my romantic bucket list, I would have to start off with my most favoritest <<(I know) & the best movie of ALL TIME! ¯\_(?)_/¯ …Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). They instantly captured one another. There's not a scene in particular… it's just the way he loved that girl. Then… when Eurydice died ??!! That sh*t had that negro spent! He went plum crazy. Turnt inside out w/ all hope gone. I ? this movie. So much to dig about this one.

      My mind has gone blank as to what else. Ah well.

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    • OH! (LOL) Now I remembered.

      They aren’t movies but books.

      •There Eyes Were Watching God (well, there is a movie to this one). The way Janie loved her some Tea Cake. MAN! This book and the actual copy I have is very special to me. I relate to Janie in so many ways. My high school Lit teacher told me when she first met me she gave my face (& my hair) to Janie and then as she got to know me, I was officially her “Janie”.

      • Vivid, Through the Storm, Before the Dawn… almost any one of Beverly Jenkins historical black romance novels. Whatever she’s written- that my romantic bucket list.

      Sorry for all these post.

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      • You’re my new best friend. I own and re-read on a consistent basis all of those books and generally stalk Beverly Jenkins on amazon…I’m reading Vivid for the 3rd time right now

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          • Me, too!!! I have read all of her historical fiction. I am so glad to know their are others like me:) That ma ma makes me happy!

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  29. Romantic bucket list… could include a man saying this:

    From For Love of the Game (1999): “I used to believe, I still do, that if you give something your all it doesn’t matter if you win or lose, as long as you’ve risked everything put everything out there. And I’ve done that. I did it my entire life. I did it with the game. But I never did it with you, I never gave you that. And I’m sorry. I know I’m on really thin ice but, when you said I didn’t need you… well last night should’ve been the biggest night of my life, and it wasn’t. It wasn’t because you weren’t there. So I just wanted to tell you, not to change your mind or keep you from going, but just so you know, that I know, that I do need you.”

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    • OOoooohhhh! Just reading this made me…
      Yea.
      I had one of those peppermint patty, old spice transportation type daydreams only it’s night so it should be a night dream, but not a nightmare and WOW!
      If a gut actually said that to me?
      He’s getting the biz every day of the week and three times on sunday!

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  30. I’m sure I have more,

    But I want to be able to fall in love and tell a man how I REALLY feel, not on some “I love you” level, but on a real “You are the one, you make me…, You were created for me…” level. I have never done that before, maybe I haven’t experienced that before, but I have never been really OPEN with a man. There must be a lot of freedom in that. I will have to meet the right man though.

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  31. Joel: Is there any risk of brain damage?
    Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but it’s on a par with a night of heavy drinking…nothing you’ll miss.

    ESOTSM was that fo’real romanticism…it wasn’t cute or sexy–but that harsh, hasty “i wish i never met yo’ a$$!” moment were you take everything for granted is so very relatable.

    ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’
    http://youtu.be/WIVh8Mu1a4Q

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  32. I’m not really into romantic films (action and comedies are more of my thing) and I’m a very simple person, so things like holding hands and enjoying a day @ the park would please me. Although, I do wish to be: 1) tied up, 2) spanked, and 3) have chex in park mentioned above after dark sometime in the near future. Whoa, I think I’ve gotten a little too comfortable on this site *backs away slowly from this comment*.

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    • chex in the park… not as much fun in reality.
      You get like all scraped up by sticks and stuff, leaves and grass ands sht in your hair. Actually if you were on top HE would have all those problems and it might be fun

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    • A blanket will help… But in the end, the mosquitoes will get you… don’t ask me how I know i just do…

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  33. Jason’s Lyric and Love Jones are easily my top two favorite romances!

    Besides getting married…
    I want to watch the sun rise. I think the sun is so poetic. And I’ve seen the sun set 50-11 times. I know where to catch it, at what time. But I want a guy that wants to watch the sunrise with me. A guy who doesn’t mind the effort required to find a good spot to watch the sun rise and doesn’t mind wakin up real early to make me smile.

    I want to make a meal together.

    I want to go dancing. Not Cupid Shufflin in some crowded club. But to Coltrane in the park, where he leads and we are so in sync it seems like we’ve been dancin together forever

    I want to make snow angels and sand castles. I want a guy that will encourage my inner child. She’s 5. She giggles a lot. She isn’t concerned with the ill effects of the weather on her hair…that’s why she’s inside. But I want a guy that makes me forget how perfect I wanna be and reminds me to just be

    I want to sing a duet at karaoke. Cause nothin says love like a badly sung love song

    Two words. Disappearing Acts. Two more. Refrigerator sex. I want to find somebody that can get me to have sex in my fridge without thinkin about how disgustingly unsanitary it is…at least until the next meal

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    • Making a meal together is so fun. Especially enjoying something you both created together, like a baby but better and cheaper.

      I really want a dude to grab my hand and just start dancing with me when no one else is dancing. Everyone else fades away and it’s just you two in that moment. Then when you stop and rest your head on his chest, people start applauding or you inspire them to start dancing too. Pure perfection.

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    • “I want to find somebody that can get me to have s.ex in my fridge”

      I need you to stop this. What’s the purpose!? LOL

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    • I want to make snow angels and sand castles. I want a guy that will encourage my inner child. She’s 5. She giggles a lot. She isn’t concerned with the ill effects of the weather on her hair…that’s why she’s inside. But I want a guy that makes me forget how perfect I wanna be and reminds me to just be

      ^^THIS^^
      (sighs)

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    • Every once in a while I have to de-lurk and say something. eh-ehem…THIS —> “I want a guy that will encourage my inner child. She’s 5. She giggles a lot. She isn’t concerned with the ill effects of the weather on her hair…that’s why she’s inside. But I want a guy that makes me forget how perfect I wanna be and reminds me to just be” might be the single most realest thing I have ever read.

      Let me know if he has a brother girl!!!!!!

      **goes back into hiding**

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  34. ok, so mine isn’t exactly movie….

    but lets examine Jill Scott’s “The Way”…woke up with a smile on her face…ok..jumped out of bed took a shower dressed….cleaned up her place…ok….made some breakfast, toast 2 scrambled eggs..got it…..griiiittsss…..thats right GRITS…yall know how hard it is to make some d*mn grits?? its like 15 minutes!!…then you got to keep stirring so they don’t stick to the pot…
    brotha got u feelin so good u get up on a Wednesday and make a Sunday breakfast…for real??

    So thats one of the things on my bucket list…i need someone who makes me actually want to make homemade buttermilk biscuits, ham, pancakes, eggs, hash browns and some d *mn grits

    on a Tuesday morning
    for no good reason

    …now i’m hungry

    *grabs keys and heads to waffle house, decides she’s not drunk enough then heads to Ihop instead*

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    • Girl if we’re going with songs, then Jill’s THE WAY is the one!!!!!

      Another one…Lyzel in E Flat…..I.just.can’t w/that. I have a man who I feel that way about now and dammit if it ain’t good!

      Ooh, Ooh….and Jill’s “Easy Conversation”

      “I like that you don’t
      look at me that confused kinda way when
      the thoughts
      are running through my mind
      and I can’t find
      the right words to say

      Oooooh, this feels nice
      The easy conversation

      This has me feeling some kinda way…I gotta go. LOL

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      • Oh my, if we talking Prince, I must add the acapella version of Scandalous! If that gets played, somebody better have some vacation or sick time on the books, cuz it’s gonna be a LONG and beautiful night. *doing the cabbage patch*

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  35. 1. Me, the future man, and a claw-foot bathtub filled with rose petals.

    2. A corny message of love on the jumbo-tron at a Bulls or White Sox game.

    3. Dining al fresco on a random day of the week; summertime Chi.

    4. Breakfast in bed turning into breakfast and *ahem*

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  36. Can’t say I have a romantic bucket list based in cinema, but there a few scenes I wouldn’t mind reenacting:

    1) Recipient of a striptease/dance: Ideally, it would be a combination of the routines performed by Diamond (LisaRaye in Player’s Club) and Jennifer Beals character in Flashdance, with the water and all (I’m not sure if I can convince a semi-naked sister to pull a chain and drop a couple gallons of water on her, tho…may have to cross over to make this one come true)

    2) A Gangsta Departure scene: I don’t anticipate having to go fight off 20,000 Persian soldiers, but that scene from 300 where King Leoinydas and his wife say goodbye was ill….narration and all:

    Woman (her name is actually ‘Woman’): “Return to me with your shield, or upon it!!!” (removes her Yakki ponytail, fastens it into a talisman, and places around DG’s neck)

    DG: “Yes, my queen….” (holds her hand fondly, then obama-walks off into the sunset)

    *you can’t tell me that isht ain’t gangsta

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  37. I’ve never attempted to rewatch either Love Jones or Jason’s Lyric after I saw them (multiple times) in college at good ol’ Phipps Plaza. I’m pretty sure if I tried to watch them now I’d laugh at all of the dialogue. But if I had to add anything to my bucket list from either of these films it would be these two things:
    1. Having my the girls ____ by homeboy in the grass. (JL)
    2. Experiencing a nearly frustrated sleepover followed by intensely passionate all night s*x. Oh, and pancakes in the morning. (LJ)
    *interesting, both movies’ initials are the same, but the reverse of each other…C.O.N.spiracy!

    As far as moments from movies with superior dialogue, it would be When Harry Met Sally. [see Liz's answer]
    Outside of films, I have a very active imagination, and a very long bucket list which will likely only be shared with God, my best friends, and the man I marry.

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  38. A guy who gives me a cassette with a song he made for me, and one of the lyrics is “I’ll feed you bon bons all night.” Not because I like bon bons, but because I have an obsession with Bring it On. I have to watch it every time it’s on TV (like now on USA) even though I own the DVD. I also dance and cheer along. I just want to jump around on my bed and dance. SN: Kirsten Dunst stayed not wearing a bra in that movie.

    A re-enactment of Baby’s talent show dance from Dirty Dancing.

    A choreographed dance with my SO a la Save the Last Dance, but with much better rhythm. Julia Stiles tried tho. Or the dance can be sensual like a SYTYCD performance as an outward expression of our passion.

    A cooking show on the Food Network like the Neely’s. There’s so much love there. I’ll settle for cooking together.

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  40. I’m so going to read everybody’s comments as soon as I stop washing my eyeballs and ear canals after the Lauryn Hill traveshamockery (thanks VSB!) I just sat through.
    Oh, and Jason’s Lyric…ick, meh…fooey on the freakin’ accents and location shots. Shart don’t exist within one neighborhood in the H. Antyways…these are mine (for the moment):

    I want a radio playing as a trenchcoated nerd stands on top of my gremlin with a boombox playing Peter Gabriel’s In Your Eyes. ~Say Anything

    I want a guy to come out of a coma from my kiss and tell me he had a terrible dream that I wasn’t there…but upon seeing me sighs, “I’m much better now…can we go home?” as he gets over his PTSD transformed by my love n stuff. ~The Fisher King

    I want him to sample my pastry delights and bring me flours. ~Stranger Than Fiction

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    • I’m so going to read everybody’s comments as soon as I stop washing my eyeballs and ear canals after the Lauryn Hill traveshamockery (thanks VSB!) I just sat through.

      Lmao. I heard she showed up on stage at The House of Blues in Houston like 4hrs late or something!!! And then gave a sh*tty performance..

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      • Four hours late…MAD raspy…directing the band like she was the choir director at St. John’s 1st Baptist. Rushed…
        Houston audiences are notoriously apathetic, at best. Add to that, everybody all done up in their glitzy wonderfulness in the HOT freakin’ venue…
        #bourgieanarchyensues

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        • *Shakin head* When yall gon learn about Lauryn? My homeboy was CRAZY pissed cause it was goin on 1am on a Wed night and she hadn’t come on stage yet! lmao

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    • lboogie did the same thing in toronto. about 3.5 hrs.
      but she was good.
      not worth the 3.5 hrs standing though.
      #calvesofsteel

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  41. 1. I want to be Un self-conscious and get a piggy ride on my boyfriends back..every time he wants to to, i hold off ….but i really want to

    2. I want to ride through the cobble streets of Italy on a scouter with my guy hair blowing……. even the simplest things are romantic..getting me apples from the grocery store cause he knew i would appreciate them still gets me…

    one of my favorite romantic movies is As good as it gets Jack Nicholson..like when he said
    I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you’re the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, “Spence,” and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that’s all about being straight and good. I think most people miss that about you, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me.

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    • LOL @ #1- so I’ve sure I’ve indicated I’m a larger woman and I frequently have had boyfriends enjoy picking me up and carrying me as a feat of strength. I know that sounds bad but at the time it was enjoyable.

      AGAIG is a great movie.

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  42. What is it with Larenz Tate? Was he in every black romantic movie of the late 90s? Wait, there were only three of them any way.

    I actually got engaged while we were watching Why Do Fools Fall in Love? I do not lie. It was freezing cold inside and we were bundled up in bed, with socks on no less, watching Larenz Tate on the VHS when my husband popped the question out of the blue. The most UNromantic proposal you can imagine.

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    • Isn’t unromantic proposal an oxymoron? Isn’t the proposal itself a romantic gesture? LOL. (It sounds pretty sweet.)

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    • Do you remember what part of the movie was playing when he proposed? Because if it was when Little Richard was on the stand, then that is TOO dope.

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      • To this day I wish I’d have told that ninja to get down on his knee and propose. We’d been dating for two years that I was so happy that he’d FINALLY proposed that I was like, “YESSSSS!!!!”

        And, no, I don’t remember which part it was in the movie, but pretty far along. I can’t even remember the movie. I hope it wasn’t the Little Richard part.

        I’m glad I entertained you PJ.

        A word to men: Put some thought into your proposal. Your fiancée will be telling the story for years to come. Don’t embarrass her!

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  43. Romantic Bucket list

    1. A woman that would give her life for me like I would give mine for her

    2. To walk deeper in love everyday that we are blessed with each other

    3. going in @ 150mph on the back of a motorcycle in the salt flats of Utah

    4. get caught in a compromising position in the Oval office

    5. take some kind of mood altering substance and go half on a baby 10 1/2 times

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  45. Romantic bucket list….hmmm

    I would want someone to tell me “I have loved you from the moment I met you, and I love you still” in the same tone of voice as Taye Diggs in Brown Sugar

    To frolic (and other things ) on the beach like 50-11 movies/ music videos

    But the highest on the list would be for me SO to trade cars with me one random Saturday, and bring mine back with an oil change and detail…super romantic I know :) But I’m horrible at that kind of stuff and having someone pick up where I slack would be so nice….*sigh*

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      • Yeah, I think this is true. My car has never looked the same since my brother moved half way across the country.

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    • Whenever I tried to do that, every time (without fail) I always got “Why do you want my car?” and was still rebuffed after I told them. To this day, I’ve never actually done it.

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      • Shoot, you can come get mine! My oil needs to be changed and it needs to be washed…andddd if you could swing by and get a tune-up that’d be great, but don’t worry about the tires my daddy got tired of looking at them raggedy things and replaced them (DADDY FOR THE WIN! a sista was not trying to drop 400 dollars on new tires)

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        • I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that. On the other hand, I’m sure there are plenty of VSBs who would be willing to do so.

          With you on the tires. I think my last set was somewhere in the 420 range.

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      • well those were some silly heffas I’ve got nothing for that, lol…you do enough things yourself, you appreciate when someone wants to do it for you

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  46. 1. To have a bump n grind dance date @ a reggae club like Darius n Nina did on Love Jones (technically this was my Thurs night every week jr year, but I want to actually go wit someone I like)

    2.Keep randomly bumping into a cutie in random places around the city. It was cute when Darius did it, but if he followed me home then it crosses into an episode of First 48.

    3. The scene from Carmen when Dorothy Dandrige is painting her toes and tells ol boy to “Blow on em’ sugar, makes em’ dry faster” is classic sex appeal! I’ve been dying to say this to a ninja!

    4. Rain kisses- as everyone knows, water is kryptonite for a Black woman w/ relaxed hair. But once, just once, I want to get a rain kiss in the middle of the summer when its hot n steamy outside.

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    • The drenched rain kiss is definitely on my bucket list. In fact, I’d prefer for it to lead to my ceremonious de-flowering while the M*A*S*H theme song plays in the background.

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    • hate to bust your bubble but hte rain kiss is kind of nasty… or maybe its just the NYC acid rain.. but as you are kissing the run drips down your nose onto his lips and into your mouth and vice versa especially if it’s raining hard

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      • ok strike that from the record i don’t wanna mess with anyone’s dreams
        i think i just hate rain in america

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    • my desire for a romantic rain kiss was like #3 on the Reasons I Went Natural list. no joke. lmbo. number two had something to do with a shower, and naughty things. lol

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      • Me too! Funny thing is, I can’t seem to find a guy who wants to stand in the rain and kiss me…

        Added to the list!

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  48. I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen Jason’s Lyric. I always meant to, but I just never got around to it.

    Do you have one? If so, what’s on it? Is it inspired by anything?

    I only have 1. I want a man to tell me “I want to show you something.”

    Now if you take your minds out the gutter, I’m pretty sure approximately 89% of the romantic comedies I’ve ever seen have the man saying “I want to show you something” to the woman, she hestitantly agrees and he takes her to some secret place of special thing that he loves. They share some special moment and she finally starts liking him.

    The one that comes to mind at the moment is Step It Up 3. Dude took old girl to a huge roof-top vent and watched liquid float when the air blew out of the vent. Ya, I know, I don’t ask for much.

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  49. Panama, this is officially my fave post from you – I LOVE this movie!! Always thought it was underrated. “I’WUH JOSHUA, MAYNE! HE SHOT LYRIC THEN HE DID HIS’SEFF!” lolol

    As for my romantic bucket list, I’ll go for an oldie but goodie – Purple Rain, Lil’man standing behind Apples. That’s the best angle to be fondled from – GIMME

    Also, the kiss w/ Taraji & Terrence in Hustle & Flow was pretty good…

    Based on my choices, I think I’ve given up on the truly romantic stuff being possible (for me) – woowoowoo…

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  50. I know this might put my black card on suspend around these parts but I’ve never seen Love Jones. Honestly I was never interested but I might have to go pick it up over the weekend just to get my card out of suspension.

    On the other hand I have seen Jason’s Lyric…I was going through a lite skint phase that evaporated faster than activator. Anyway I always thought Jason’s character seemed a little tardish…could have just been Allen Payne’s acting.

    But to my bucket list – I’d love to have a man write a song about me like John Mayer did for Jennifer Love Hewitt. During that whole neo soul everyone’s a poet phase I got a poem but that hashish was mad corny…I wants me a song!

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    • Neither have I. I never had any interest in seeing it. Still don’t.

      Be careful about that song thing…especially if the man who writes it can’t sing.

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    • “I know this might put my black card on suspend around these parts but I’ve never seen Love Jones. Honestly I was never interested but I might have to go pick it up over the weekend just to get my card out of suspension”

      You’re not missing much. Trust me. Just pick up the soundtrack, that’s the best part. :)

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    • i would love for a man to write a song for me.. and sing it while he is playing the guitar or piano… or it could be instrumental and he can play the sax or any stringed instrument… oh that would just make my ? swell until almost bursting!!!!!

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      • I know right I’m all emotional just thinking about a possible song and then if he could strum a guitar or play the piano I might melt away….side note I used to date a sax player but he was short and I was too immature to deal with his height. That was as close as I ever got to my song. Damn my shallowness.

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        • Ha.
          I can’t sing but I be tryin to sing…women stay frownin’, I stay singin like nobody around. #winning on my- I love me ish

          Inception…get on it…the women who hint that they would love a song, even if it were bad, just because its for them got a song, er’rytime. stay winning
          #adviseinception

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  51. I just started my romantic bucket list right now, but so far I have:

    1. Fall in love. It’s something I think I’d like to try before I die.

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  52. Romantic bucket list: now I have to think. We’ll see where it goes…

    1. Watching the sun rise on Fort Lauderdale Beach (right on the strip, by Las Olas for those familiar with the area)

    I know Panama said watching the sun set, but I’d rather go this direction. Not to mention if she (or he, for VSSs) is really the one, you can easily tie it in with some words about starting a new day, life, etc. with that person. The scene basically writes itself.

    2. To follow along with the movie thing, the upside-down kiss from Spider-Man 2

    I’ll forget the fact that she tried to re-create the kiss with Jameson’s son (and then had the nerve to get mad at him for kissing Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3, but that’s another matter that really could have gone into yesterday’s post) and just focus on the original.

    3. Robin of Locksley’s love for Marian intensifying throughout Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    Okay, so this is more in here because it’s one of my favorite movies and the Bryan Adams song at the end just does it for me. At the beginning of the movie, though, he laughed at the thought that Azeem would die for a woman. By the middle of the movie, all that changed. I can’t say my feelings for anyone have grown in this fashion as time passed, so that’s on my list.

    4. An “I love this woman!” moment like the one in this commercial

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDhjpqIQS84

    (Actually, I’ve had one of these. I gave a speech at a banquet a few years ago but somehow got into how much I loved the woman I was dating at the time. Everyone thought a proposal was coming. It wasn’t.)

    5. The scene in the car (yeah, that one) and Jack’s freezing in Titanic

    They wore each other out in the car, which pretty much speaks for itself. As far as his freezing, I’ll block the question of why he didn’t just climb on top of something and focus on the fact that he spent his last moments repaying her for giving him a new life by comforting her and saving hers.

    All I can think of for now (I’ve done some variation of most everything else I can think of). That said, watch ten more come to mind throughout the day. Actually, one more.

    6. A romance in which she loves me as much as I love her

    Self-explanatory.

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      • the Spidey upside-down kiss is also on my bucket-list (which i’m formulating right now)… that scene alone made me want to watch the whole series (i didn’t).

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          • That was actually my favorite of the three…actually, most people I know prefer 3 to the first two. I will say that there was one central part of the movie I didn’t dig, but the fight in the sewer was great.

            Funny story…well, at least I think it is: so the woman I went to see it with went to the bathroom a few minutes before that scene. The scene started and I started wondering where she was. Scene got good so I kept watching. After it was over, she still wasn’t back. Ten minutes later she returned. I asked what happened, and she said she went into the wrong showing and didn’t realize it (maybe it’s just me, but I’d have thought she’d have realized it after seeing a different part of the movie or maybe not seeing someone other than me sitting next to her). Due to her often-oblivious nature I let it go, chuckled a bit, and watched the rest of the movie.

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            • The emo performance scene ruined the entire movie for me. And I usually don’t let one scene ruin an entire movie, but that was horrible. I cringed the entire way through. It felt like they realized they had a few of blank frames in the film and didn’t know how to fill it so they included that scene.

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              • No doubt. As big a Spidey fan as I am, it hurts to admit that the third was the worst of the three. It’s only redeeming quailities was the banter in the Daily Bugle where Betty Brandt keeps ringing the loud alarm to mess with JJ and the scene where Tobery Maguire is acting like a “bad boy”.

                Other than that, the touchy-feely segments were over-the-top and they totally shouldn’t have revisited Uncle Ben’s death. And they made MJ look like a hooker. And Topher Grace (aka “Eric” from That 70s Show) was probably the worst-cast villain next to the dude who played Bane in Batman & Robin.

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                • I think 3 had a few more positives than that. The fighting was better (esp. the Spidey/Sandman fight in the sewer), I actually liked the 2-on-2 aspect (although it could have been written much better than it was), and I dug the church scene. I even thought the celebration was well-done, other than MJ getting mad.

                  That said, I totally agree that Uncle Ben’s death shouldn’t have been revisited. I also agree that the emotional stuff was too much. The Peter/MJ story got way too much screen time, particularly at the expense of the Gwen story. It seems like they just threw Uncle Ben and Gwen in to create a story between Spidey and the bad guys. Good characters always seem to have unnecessary evil aspects given to them in third editions. The Karate Kid series, while not in the comic realm, was the worst with this (I wanted Mike Barnes to whoop Daniel until Silver gave that speech during the tournament).

                  I rank it above the first two because…well, the first one was already half-evident to anyone who’s ever heard of the comic book. Actually, this is a common problem I have with initial parts of series. The second one…well, the alliance between Harry and Doc Ock just seemed contrived. Didn’t appreciate the inclusion of Uncle Ben in that one either. All three endings were bad. I understand trying to avoid the obvious, but sometimes obvious is good. All that said, it’ll remain my favorite trilogy until The Dark Knight Rises is released.

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            • Two was my favorite.

              Three was just so…Can I say stupid without offending anybody?

              Especially Tobey trying be the anti-Spidey just by slicking his hair down. I cringed through about 80% of this movie cause I was embarrassed for everyone involved.

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                  • Not offended at all. I thought Human Spider did a great job pointing out the minuses of 3. There are movies that I couldn’t care less about that many people seem to love, including what would probably be #1 on a hypothetical “VSB’s Favorite Movies” list.

                    Peter becoming Spidey Urquelle was funny to me, although it was quite difficult to buy after the first two. But offended? Nah…unless you talk about TDK (kidding, even though I’ve never heard anyone say it was less than good).

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                    • I would never bad mouth TDK. The ONLY thing I didn’t like about it was Christian Bale’s voice. It got worse and worse as the movie progressed and it made my throat hurt just listening to it.

                      I’m still really looking forward to the next installment.

      • In terms of feelings alone, yes. It was the compatibility aspect that I had questions about. She didn’t show the same level of passion for our relationship that she did for other aspects of her life (to say nothing of the difference between her exhibited passion and mine), and I knew that wouldn’t work for me. As much as I hoped it would change, it never did over the next year and a half (we were almost a year in at the time of the speech).

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    • 3. Robin of Locksley’s love for Marian intensifying throughout Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

      love this and the reference. def a thumbs up on that!

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  53. Panama,

    This entire paragraph:
    See while everyone else was watching Love Jones and loving the deep artistry of the artists and lines like “physics the sh*t ain’t”, I was watching Jason’s Lyric and being mesmerized at how a woman with the body of a 6-year-old could have THAT pretty a face. Jada Pinkett’s face was on dime status in that movie, but her body was a penny with a hole in it. Plus, the movie just appealed to more of what I was used to. Bank robberies, southern ‘hoods, pickup trucks, ninjas with perms, shootouts, This Is It restaurants (I swear until that movie I thought they only existed in Atlanta), big booty hoochies, jail, Juneteenth festivals, and airplanes. No B.o.B.
    killed me dead… and it made me realize for you and I to both be from the A.T. of L we should have a much better e-relationship (Cheekie put the knife down I’m talkin friendship)… what gives?

    My addition(s):
    1. Get married… #womp

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  54. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie!! I used to wish I was Lyric getting it in on the grass with Lance, I mean Jason. However, as a true southerner, the one thing that I HATE about this movie is the fake southern accents (I’m also looking at you, Hustle & Flow. And YOU Elise Neal is from Memphis and you made your drawl EXTRA HEAVY! SMH, but I digress. Back to JL.) I was waiting for someone to say “fiddle dee dee” or some sh*t. Other than that, it is a hood classic!!

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  55. I love this post.

    As for my romantic bucket list, I don’t have one. Shocking. I know.

    I don’t watch these types of movies but of the few that I’ve seen my favorite romantic movie is City of Angels. Do with that what you will.

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    • As I thought about it, I realized I didn’t have a romantic bucket list either…

      …now a Smut Bucket List… that I have, but the CDC agreed that it was best that I just pour the contents of that down an abandoned missle silo, and not look back. So my fantasy of 2 straight model chicks, coming over to my house (for no apparent reason) and exploring “the love that dare not speak it’s name” (also for no apparent reason) and making a love sandwich with me as the meat, will just have to wait for another lifetime.

      p.s. There’s also a joke in there about me providing the Miracle Whip, for the love sandwich but I’ll drive past that caust it’s just too early in the morning for that kind of thing right? And Kraft would definitely never sign off on it anyway – so let’s just move on.

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    • Going through the comments I’ve realized that I am much more romantically moved by music than I am by movies.

      There are plenty of songs that I would like to play out over my romantic lifetime but I find most movies about love too pandering and predictable to be inspiring.

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      • “Going through the comments I’ve realized that I am much more romantically moved by music than I am by movies.”

        Same here.

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    • *cries just reading the title “City of Angels”* Ya know, Nic Cage generally annoys me like a gnat doing the two-step on my eyelash, but I LOVE this movie.

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  56. My cousin is in the choir at the festival scene. My parents wanted to be good, so they never let me watch. Freshman year of college, I bought it from the $5 rack at Walmart. Those “Houston” accents still make my ears bleed, but I still love it. Hearing my Madd Hatta on air. Allen Payne on mute. The railroad trestle. I put on for my city.

    My movie is Public Enemies. I watch it at least once a week. Up until Billie gets arrested and I cry with Johnny. But seriously. Everything about that movie makes me want to be Billie. “I like baseball, fast cars… and you.” *swoon*

    I love how he looks at her when she gets mad at him. “You ain’t goin nowhere, you hear me? Imma die an old man in your arms. I ain’t goin nowhere and you ain’t either. Now what you got to say about that.” Then she kisses him. Lmao. #winning

    I recently accepted the fact that despite my protests, I might require a thug in my life. Sigh.

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  57. I want a man to approach me like John Dilinger approached Billie Frechette (sp) in “Public Enemies”. Actually, I like that whole romance, except for the fact that she went to jail for him and he carried on with other women…I’d change the ending.

    I’d want to have that “teenage, reckless love” like Noah and Allie in “The Notebook”.

    Being the ‘ride or die’ like in “300″, “Running Scared (2006)”, oh and “Public Enemies”…

    “When my Johnny finds out how you slapped around his girl…do you know what’s going to happen to you, “Fat Boy”?”

    Because I’m a woman who welcomes submission in a relationship…sue me, I’m in control of EVERY other aspect of my life, sometimes it feels good to just let someone else take the wheel…I’m more Liv than Emma from “Bride Wars” (except I’m nice like Emma), and this is what I want to say to my husband as we’re dancing at our wedding reception and he tells me to just let “it” (my bestie and brother starting a romance) happen,

    “Uh oh, did I just make the mistake of marrying someone smarter than me?”
    With all the love, adoration and confidence in the world because I know he has things under control.

    I want us to be able to teach each other things, like Lyric to Jason (I own this movie…I love it) and expand our horizons like in “Something New”.

    …I need love. lol

    Any SINGLE VSB’s out there in the DMV waiting for a woman like this? Tweet me @KStandsforKAY
    (Don’t judge me…this is the perfect arena to find “the one” lol)

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  58. I have to agree with you. I remember seeing it wayyy back in the day – and left feeling Verklempt! Great choice.

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  59. First off, I am trying to recover from Panama’s use of the word, “heckynaw!” That took me way back like penny candy and pickles in a ziploc bag from the corner store. *I’m rhyming, “back in the day when I was young, I’m not a kid anymore…” Okay, I digress…

    1. I want a man to recite a classic love poem for me and then promise to give me copy a soon as he can steal one like Preach did for Brenda in Cooley High. (I love that movie like Evelyn from Basketball Wives loves digging for gold!)
    2. I want a booty up session like the one Shadow and Clarke had in Mo’ Better Blues. (Whew, I’m shifting in my seat at the airport! Good Lawd, from heaven)
    3. I want to get it in on top of a baby grand piano…while it’s being played. (Don’t judge me unless you walk on water….let the church say, “amen.”

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    • What if they’re playing “I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired” on the piano while you’re on top of it? Does that kill the mood…

      …or does it establish the theme? These are questions that people (the VSB community) want to know.

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      • “What if they’re playing “I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired” on the piano while you’re on top of it?”

        LMAO! then I’d be thinking about the man in church that walways sang that song. Not.s.exy.

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      • Um, yeah, getting it in to pseudo-negro spirituals is NOT what’s up! However, there might be some runaway slave sweatin’ going on. Again, don’t judge me :)

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  60. Mint Condition’s cover of “If Trouble Were Money” is still my JAM!!!!

    And sorry, but I was all for the sex-in-the-park scene until they showed the hairy behind. Yep. Fantasy deaded.

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  61. Jason’s Lyric touched my whole everything & was ULTRA romantic in all it’s back woods hood boogatry. & I was dating a dude whose life reminded me so much of Alan Payne’s at the time. It spoke to me. Is anybody crying for how sad that truth is? The movie is terrible. Treach-terrible. Eddie Griffin-terrible. Larenz Tate’s lesser known brother-terrible. Bokeem Woodbine as Bokeem Woodbine-terrible. But I still love that hot trash mess of a movie.

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    • “Bokeem Woodbine as Bokeem Woodbine-terrible.”

      LMMFAO 4evuhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG, your whole post is HILARIOUS!!! lololololololol

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  62. It is terrible that so many people absolutely LOVE these entitlement inducing flix. Real life is NOT a movie.

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  63. i chortled at “her body was a penny with a hole in it.” don’t know why, but that was my laugh for the day. bbl.

    *scrolls back up to finish reading*

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  64. I didn’t exactly cut for Jason’s Lyric. Their janky azz supposed Texan accents bothered me greatly. I was offended. I did love the soundtrack though. K-Ci’s remake of “If You Think You’re Lonely Now” was the junk.
    You reminded me that I definitely need to hit up This Is It next time I’m down that way. Mmmm smothered steak and cabbage. Happy happy joy joy.
    Romantic bucket list items? Hmm I don’t think I have one. If I think of anything I’ll be back.

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    • yes @ “If You think you’re lonely now” I generally think it is very difficult to remake a classic but to me it was better than the original, I love singing that song in mirror with my neck veins bulging in everything (cuz you ain’t singing it right if you don’t see the veins)

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  65. 1) To uh…do grown up stuff in the “Gone with the Wind” suite @ the Magnolia Mansion in New Orleans

    2) To go down to Savannah w/ the boo and watch the sun rise on the river.

    3) Spend the day in bed reading to each other (don’t judge me, I’m a closet nerd)

    4) To spend Christmas in London

    5)For Babyface to sing “You Are So Beautiful” as I walk down the aisle….just like Martin and GIna *sigh*

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    • I messed up the first time I posted this

      1. Actually get laid on my birthday. Today marks my 35th complete year of existence on this earth, and in that time I’ve yet to have gotten any on my birthday. I know I’m a nerd but c’mon.

      2. Go on a service call and have some MILF ask me about a “problem” in her bedroom. That cliche about the plumber, electrician, etc. and the lonely house wife is pure yang. It just doesn’t happen.

      3. Actually meet and fall in love with a fellow nerd(chick). I have no success in meeting women with similar nerdy interest. Most of my former girlfriends would just nod and say “yes dear” when I would go on one of my geek rants.

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          • I often wonder why guys who complain about this….never seem to be with nerdy girls. They’re always with the non-nerds. no judgement or anything, but if it were that important, then you’d find one of us. I know plenty. We ain’t hiding. Well, I hide, but it’s for different reasons lolol.

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              • Oh, I’m not hiding my nerdy ways at all. But I do just kinda hide from men or prospective men for some reason. i don’t make eye contact, I am not outgoing with them, i dress like a bum, I am not very feminine on purpose. I think that’s why I am single at the end of the day.

                But I inquired with DHK about this point because he’s the second guy I know of who has complained about former girlfriends not being quite nerdy enough or intelligent enough to have nerdy conversations. And as a female nerd….not once has a guy said somethin to me along the lines of, ‘I appreciate your nerdy ways.’ or how they love that they can talk about nerdy things with me. I’ve either had a guy be super competitive with me over my nerdy ways (constantly trying to prove he’s smarter than me) or just flat out ignore it (which is fine). So. i kinda think this is false info. you need more people. i don’t think men appreciate or desire nerdy women in the romantic sense. especially black men (that’s right, i said it). it sounds like a good idea in theory…but…yeah no.

                EDIT: i take part of this back. I did have one guy who sincerely told me he really adored my intellect and he thought it was awesome that he learned so much just from talking to me (he was referring to my nerdly things). I was taken aback, thought it was sweet, and perhaps this is the reason why I fell so hard for him. Ironically, in the end he rejected me because he claimed I was too much of his intellectual equal. WHATTTTT?!?!?!?! LOL. So, maybe I don’t take it back. Ya’ll don’t want a nerdy chick!

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                • Ehhh, I would like to meet a nerdy chick, who is hot.

                  That may be the catch with nerds, in general, I believe.

                  I usually get a side eye or a swft disregard when I release my inner nerd. So I learned to conceal it, and cook crack in front of her instead. Whatever works.

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                  • I just think you want to meet a hot chick, as most men do. nobody wants an unhot chick.

                    i still think nerdiness is an undesirable trait or one that doesn’t matter to men.

                    I like nerdy men a lot. Usually it’s because I like that they can solve problems easily as opposed to having to pay someone to do it or remain frustrated. I enjoy my own nerdiness because it makes me feel uninhibited. But i don’t think men really care about a nerdy woman. Intelligent? Sure, within reason. But a real nerd? Meh. They’d pass. I don’t even think non-nerdy men think twice about wanting a nerdy woman either. our pool is so limited.

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                    • I do want a hot, nerdy chick. But nerdy in ways similar to me.

                      Examples:

                      1. We can debate insect life. Come up with theories to explain the dramatic reduction of the bee population.

                      2. We can read Lord of the Rings/Dune together.

                      3. We can go to various parks in NYC and spot animals. I’ve seen a Great Horned Owl in central park before. And I believe there are coyotes in the Bronx.

      • ??????????????? HAPPY? BIRTHDAY ? DANCEHALLKING ???????????????
        & in honor of Cinco de Mayo
        ??????????????? FELIZ ? CUMPLEAÑOS ???????????????

        enjoy your very special day… hope you get some of that much anticipated birfday secs

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      • **********Happy Birthday e-Twin***************

        Since you are my e-Twin, i’m a semi nerdy engineer who really does need her garbage disposal fixed. Can you help me DHK?

        Grabs your wrench and leads you to the …ahh shoot, I don’t have kids! I tried.

        I do hope you get everything on this list…today.

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  66. i want a man to bathe me and wash my hair and dominate me while loving me to pieces like in “Secretary”
    i want to have a man build me my dream house like in “The Notebook”
    i want a man to take my wishes and dreams and make them true like “A Walk To Remember”
    i want a man to know me, truly know me and love me more as i age, possibly get fatter and become less attractive like “The Mirror Has Two Faces”
    a hot all encompassing orgy like in “Shortbus” its a fantasy don’t judge
    hot, rough & nasty in the staircase like in “History of Violence”
    for every man that ever loved me, to love me until he dies like in “Bridges of Madison County” its selfish i know
    to fall in love with a regular guy that turns out to be SUPER rich like in “How To Marry a Millionaire”

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  67. My Romantic Bucket List (what I have so far…)

    1) Make beautiful, blissful love in a totally ridiculous and partially dangerous place, then proceed to make veiled references to it for the rest of our lives together.

    2) Meet all his closest homeboys, find out they are awesome and I love them, and they love me!

    3) Be inspired to write something that expresses my love for him, which is later made famous by it’s sheer linguistic beauty, then, when invited to recite it at some function or the other, I will tell the story of how our love came about. Tears will follow.

    4) Catch him looking at me in that way that says “Damn woman, you sweet sticky thing, I am drenched in your wetness, so this kool-aid smile contains the attitude of gratitude that you would even let this happen…”

    5) Make it up to him the moment he says, “Yes honey, you may pick out my tux…as long as that sh*t ain’t purple.”

    6) Watch him grow serious with intent and deep soul love the moment my ridiculously overprotective dad hands me over to him in front of a pastor.

    …will come up with more as life goes on…

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  68. Yall trippin.

    -Jason was simpin. Heavy. And trying to pull 99% of the tricks he did in the movie would only result in you being served a restraining order.

    -Women nowadays will black out if you chew with your mouth open or leave the toilet seat up. So I have a really hard time believing one would be so understanding after being NEARLY SHOT IN THE FACE BY YOUR BROTHER. Let alone being actually shot in the chest by him.

    Chicks tend to hold grudges over that type stuff.

    -$20 is entirely too much to pay for roses.

    I’m done.

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  69. I didn’t really like Jason’s Lyric, nor do I have a romantic bucket list, however I must say that the National Arboretum ,off of Bladensburg Rd and New York Ave NE, is a beautiful location for dates, nature lovers, fam outings etc, although most of the offical tours/events have been booked solid by 2520′s, it’s still a lovely enchanting place for long walks and talks.

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  70. Wait it’s your birthday too? Happy Birthday!!! Here’s to hoping some randomness falls in, or about your lap this evening. *cheers*

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  71. Never seen Jason’s Lyric and right now have no plans on seeing it (the right man can change that though *see below*)

    There are a lot of “Black” movies I’ve never seen (for whatever reason) and I think it would be romantic to have a guy I’m exclusively dating invite me to his place and have a movie marathon of some of the “Black” movies I’ve never seen (Belly, Paid in Full, Menace to Society, etc). With popcorn, fruit and bottled water. No peaches though (I’m allergic)

    I’m not that hard to please. I’m a sucker for days where he and I can just “be” with each other. Meaning, both of us on the couch with him playing video games and me reading (or writing) with my legs crossed over his. Just enjoying each others company. that is romance to me

    I want a date night out with my guy where he “marks his territory” (not exactly sex though) when he sees another guy approaching me thinking I’m single

    I want a guy to have me ask for a Monday off from work, scoop me up that Friday and take me away for the weekend. Just he and I. No computers, no cell phones. I want it to be a surprise though, where he’s packed for both of us and tells me that where he’s taking me is a surprise

    I can’t think of any movies with a romantic scene I’d want to re-enact

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    • I want a guy to have me ask for a Monday off from work, scoop me up that Friday and take me away for the weekend. Just he and I. No computers, no cell phones. I want it to be a surprise though, where he’s packed for both of us and tells me that where he’s taking me is a surprise

      i dont konw that i’d EVER try to pack for a woman. that just seems like too risky a proposition. you’re GUARANTEED to forget something she needs. lol.

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    • Your surprise trip idea reminds me of the time my friend surprised his girlfriend with a trip to Paris for the weekend (then made a video about said surprise): http://vimeo.com/1080095

      The beginning of the video gets me every time! *i just cried all over again*

      (they’re one of my favorite couples ever)

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      • liz… that was beautiful… tell your friends i love them too now… and the song just took the video over the top…

        #reevaluatingmylovelifeyetagain

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        • LOL! RIGHT??

          The song sent me all the way over, just because I LOVE LOVE LOVE Etta James!

          But yeah. They’re the best couple. They actually got engaged recently. Everytime I see them I wanna give them both giant bear hugs.

          They def make me reevaluate my love life.

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      • The way she was smiling just made me feel… so happy!!! I’d be smiling just as hard if my future SO surprised me like that. *Sighs*, makes me believe real love actually exists….

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        • YES. The expressions she goes through are the best! The last one in the opening scene looks like this is the moment she knew she’d be in love with him for forever. *tear*

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    • I like that last one. I want him to call my boss for me and request the time so I don’t have to do anything but go.

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      • @Panama

        this would be the kind of trip where if he packed it for himself and I use the same thing or something similar (toothbrush, underwear, things like that) he’d pack it for me too. Or he can ask a female friend what she would pack for a weekend trip and go from there. Anything else he might forget we can just buy.

        @ Liz about to watch that video

        @WIP, that would be even better but I think I’d get a bit suspicious if my boss just came to me on a Friday and told me I had Monday off

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    • Can I just say I LOVE watchin a guy play video games! Of course I’ll protest it out loud, but I just think it is so sexy! Maybe it’s just the idea that he doesn’t feel like he needs to “entertain” me for us to enjoy one another…maybe it’s just him being in his element eith me…but it gets me every time

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      • Can I just say I LOVE watchin a guy play video games!

        This is very suspicious of you. I’ve never seen a woman say this before. This is major league compensation for something.

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        • peeps out of shadows…

          SO glad 2 hear i’m not the only one diggin this! i can watch him play madden 4 hours!

          crawls back n…

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          • I can sit and watch a guy play video games too. I can thank my homeboys for that. they’ll play Madden or Call of Duty and their commentary makes it fun.the way they act when their team doesn’t score, gets a flag or foul called on them or when they die in one of the games.
            One of them taught me how to play Fight Night 2

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        • Lol.

          No…I mean…I’d never tell him that. But unless it starts to interfere with our relationship, I’m all for it.

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      • I cosign…I love this too. But I’m a bit geeky. I used to watch the ex play Call of Duty for hours. Back in the day it was Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Final Fantasy.

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    • “I’m not that hard to please. I’m a sucker for days where he and I can just “be” with each other. Meaning, both of us on the couch with him playing video games and me reading (or writing) with my legs crossed over his. Just enjoying each others company. that is romance to me ”

      If brothas were allowed to swoon, this would do it. But we aint so…good ish. *daps*

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  72. I apologize in advance for repeats. My romantic bucket list:

    1. A serenade. It doesn’t matter if my guy sings it, or he hires a mariachi band to do the honors. I just want a beautiful song in a beautiful place.

    2. A romantic slow dance. No bumping or grinding. I just want to dance with somebody who loves me.

    3. Watching a romantic sunset together in Paris.

    4. Dancing in the rain in Spain — just because.

    5. Receiving flowers at work on a random day.

    6. A soulful declaration of love.

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  73. I always wanted to get into shenanigans at this one particular spot in college. It was Stankowski Field where alot of the rec league sports were played, and there was a huge decal of the school logo right in the middle.

    I may go to CoMO sometime this summer and get that taken care of….

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  74. After all the movies that start with LOVE. Am I the only one who thought the train scene in Risky Business was a “I gotta do that shyt” moment.

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  75. Oh my. A romantic bucket list….lets see:

    I want to have a man that will love, fight for and protect me like Timothy Olyphant in The Get Away
    I want to be accepted “just as I am” like Bridget Jones
    I want to have the same fiery passion for my man/he for I as exhibited by Noah and Allie in The Notebook
    I want to have wholesome love like The Huxtables
    I want to go to exotic locales like in Turistas and Hostel (but I’m black so getting killed by the locals is definitely not happening)
    I want to have s.ex that makes me cook and clean a la Baby Boy, have erotic adventures a la 9 1/2 Weeks and stand up in bed and get served with my hand on a green wall a la Jade
    I want to get married and while walking down the aisle know that my man only has eyes for me a la 27 Dresses

    I wish I could extend my list but boss man keeps walking behind me so I gotta go. Don’t want to eff up my bonus!

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    • I was just going to say when Mark Darcy says he likes Bridget “just as she is” after listing all the little slightly looney things about her.

      I am so marrying the man that says this to me. I need to rewatch.

      Although it didn’t end happily, I love Chasing Amy. So much truth about love in a Kevin Smith movie. I heart it so.

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  76. I just saw Jason’s Lyric for the first time this summer. I felt like Keenan Ivory Wayans shoulda been popping up at any given moment…#message!!

    As far as romantic bucket list I’ve done it all except fully love someone and be committed enough to get married. Close but not quite. That’s kinda serious for this lighthearted post lol. Eh, c’est la vie.

    I saw someone said “50 first dates”…that is very romantic!

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    • I loved “50 First Dates” too…….it was funny, cute, and sweet, he cared THAT much that he put forth that kind of thought and effort daily even after they were married, just to cheer and comfort her.

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  77. Most of my bucket list things are for the guy to do.

    Like I’ve never had a dude cook a whole meal especially for me.

    Or serve me breakfast in bed.

    Or come over and take care of me when I’m sick.

    Or take me away for a surprise tropical weekend, like in “The Thomas Crown Affair”. Man, Crown had serious mack appeal, LOL.

    As for me, I do plan on getting an ill-advised marriage followed by a heavily-suggested annulment in Vegas.

    I plan on making out with a foreign man while abroad, maybe on a beach. Just generally having an uber-romantic weekend with a foreign guy unexpectedly, like “Under the Tuscan Sun”, although I don’t think I want to sleep with them, LOL.

    I plan on posing for a nude portrait for an artist, LOL. That’s kinda romantic, right?

    I want to serve a dude food in nothing but an apron, like Christina Applegate in “Anchorman”. LOL.

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  78. My ninja Panama killin this ish right now. U on a roll bruh.

    Anyway, I never thought to compare the two movies but now I realize the similarities in the stories. Except I gotta agree with Panama and I never thought I’d say that about this topic. The thing that makes Jason’s Lyric top Love Jones, aside from the clever title, is that this brutha did not do what most brothas do when they got a good woman. Push her away. Now granted, Nia Long was on that bull for runnin back to dude in New York, but still that ninja Darius shoulda been on some “Hell Naw i aint cool with you goin back.”

    Lyric changed Jason’s life. Nina and Darius still didn’t convince me REALLY that they was gon last. Even though I like the subtle changes in both of them, they relationship seemed like a phase. Like they had separated themselves from the entire world to kick it with each other. Plus some of the ish she pulled, i.e., dating his homeboy and runnin off to NY, that don’t fly.

    Jason and Lyric on the other hand, had to grow their love 1)in secret cuz that ninja Treach was a killa and 2) in the midst of everyday Bayou life. Wasn’t no special clubs and jazz and all that. Just straight up passion, problems, and each other was all they had. This cat fought his own brotha for that love. Thas deep.

    btw, HTOWN, AKA HUESTON, AKA THE HUE STAND UP!!!

    Now back to read the comments.

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  79. My romantic bucket list…

    That silly love- I wanna be playful, and want someone to be playful back.. I wouldn’t mind being chased around a tree (like in Love Jones..).. that scene has always stayed with me..

    The “wait til I get you home” stare.. This is usually seen in random movies (I can’t remember) but I want to be the recipient of one of these stares.. I’ll know it when I see it.. Usually done at dinner parties..

    The “Attack me at the door” greeting- This is also done in a myriad of movies.. but I would like the type of greeting that is parallel to a lion mauling it’s prey.. No hello, No “how was your day..” on some “don’t say nuthin” type of thing.. There’s a atame version of this in the S*x and the City Movie.. I would like it to be rougher please and thanks..

    The “got caught in the rain” kiss.. This is very Love Jones too.. but I’ve always known that I wanted this to happen.. Because after everyone is all cold and wet… we have to warm up.. and the thoughts of how we can get warm is quite lovely..

    The “laying in the grass, watching the stars” momeny.. as seen in various Mandy Moore and Leelee Sobieski movies.. (you know, those types of movies..) mostly because I love nature.. and being enveloped by nature seems like it would feel great…
    That’s just me tho…

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    • I like the attacked at the door one. After a long work day, that would be just the greeting i need. To bad we got kids now.

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      • The “Attack me at the door” greeting- This is also done in a myriad of movies.. but I would like the type of greeting that is parallel to a lion mauling it’s prey.. No hello, No “how was your day..” on some “don’t say nuthin” type of thing.. There’s a atame version of this in the S*x and the City Movie.. I would like it to be rougher please and thanks..

        Nice. I usually call that “How was your day?”

        TMI? sorry.

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    • Your first three are some things I want to happen to me as well

      I also want him to say to me at least once “I want to f*ck the sh*t out of you” and then proceed to do just that

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  80. Ok- Jason’s Lyric was the troubled cinematic offspring of a union between “Set it Off” and “Boyz N tha Hood”. That two rights (two pretty decent movies) can and do make a wrong. The whole movie was redeemed by that chex scene between Treach (during the brief height of his powers) and the eternally sexy Lisa Nicole Carson. According to legend, that “blending” session could’ve contributed to LNC taking the “A train” to Crazy Station” with a transfer at institutionalized.

    I completely unrelated news–go forth and partake of the Cinco De Mayo libations. May I suggest lime, Cuervo Especial, rocks, salt? Repeat as needed.

    (oh yeah, I’m new up in this piece–forgive me, for I have lurked)

    TQ

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  81. I’d like a little high fidelity, love and basketball, and goodness gracious that scene in baby boy with ving rhames and jody’s mama… whew lawd!

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  82. “If you go to the grocery store, I want to be in the next aisle. If you go to church, I want to be in the last pew. I just want to see you again.”

    Y’know, Mr. Panama Jackson, that line looks an awful lot like stalking. Which is punishable by law. And makes you look crazy.

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  83. *I wanna whup a ninja arse in the bathroom in the name of love

    *I wanna save a brother who don’t wanna be saved (oh wait already tried that)

    *I wanna moved to Dallas, TX for “TWENTAY THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR” (everytime I watch that movie that part cracks me up the most)

    *Not sayin I wanna shoot my sperm donor, but I wanna shoot my sperm donor (ok, just kiddin)

    *I wanna witness a bum reciting the “Ish Monologue (sp???)”

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  85. As far as my romantic fantasies go…

    1.) Meeting and being subsequently kidnapped by a Killer Kung-Fu Wolf B!t¢h like Luna did to Granddad in The Boondocks. Don’t judge me.

    2.) I want my first time to be like Carlton’s in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

    “I don’t want this night to end.”

    “It doesn’t have to.”

    “Can I at leat give you a kiss goodnight?”

    “You can give me one tommorrow morning.”

    *long pause*

    “So what time should I come back for it?”

    3.) The upside-down kiss from Spider-Man. Again, I’m a Spider-Man fan. I don’t judge you.

    4.) The entire love-making scene from Bruce Almighty. From the pulling of the moon to the aftermath where Jennifer Aniston’s breasts get bigger. (A dude can dream, right?)

    5.) First kiss on a beach… wait, I already did that…

    6.) Walkie-Talkies to plan your first date. Hitch.

    7.) “If you go to the grocery store, I want to be in the next aisle. If you go to church, I want to be in the last pew. I just want to see you again.”

    Okay, I wanna have that happen too.

    8.) Propose at Yankee Stadium. Because I like the Yankees. Anger Management.

    9.) Any plot-line from a pr0n scene. I dunno how HALF the situations the actors are in lead to love-making, but… That ain’t exactly what those movies are about, are they?

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  86. Romantic Bucket List:

    1. Mile High Club – not particularly excited about it, but I want to be able to say I did it.

    2. Steal a gondola in Venice, then proceed to hook up with attractive accomplice

    3. Take a cooking class. I suck at cooking, and I think it would be nice to learn with somebody I like.

    4. Hooking up on a public bus that will explode if it decelerates below 60mph.

    5. Enrolling in a radical program where I control an 8ft tall blue humanoid through a neural link and hook up with one of the members of the indigenous population. Praise Eywa!

    6. Become a pharoah. This way when I ask women if they’ve ever had secs with a pharaoh, I can have a credible follow up answer.

    7. I really want to do a pub crawl in Ireland with a cool chick. Hook up in random bathrooms along the way.

    One of these is a lie. Guess which one…

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  87. Jason’s Lyric is one of my faves as well. I had it on VHS and I just recently got the DVD. my favorite quote “ooooh I just LOVE for a n*gga to wash these feet!” tickles me so! Lisa Nicole Carson was so endearing.

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    • **I wish we could edit comments on here; jacked my quote up**

      oh and Forrest Whitaker as Mad Dog was classic. I love that movie SO MUCH! I really thought I was alone in this…I might watch it tonight. I actually saw Jason’s Lyric at the movies when it came out.

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    • Funny thing is, and no one has mentioned this yet. But she was in both movies. That was her as Nia Long’s best friend.

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      • yep, my favorite quote of hers from Love Jones was “…what it say?” while riding in the cab when Nina said Darius’ pen1s spoke to her. lol

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    • She had/has such a unique delivery on the most basic lines – I miss her as an actress, she was always interesting & had/has great timing!

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  88. (hello, long time lurker, first time commenter)
    My romantic bucket list w/soundtrack music:
    1.Walking hand in hand on the beach as the sun is setting while Burt Bacharach ft. Ron Isley ‘Here I am’ plays in the background.

    2.Making love in the rain while Walter Beasley ‘Nice and Easy’ is playing

    3.Slow dancing to Average White Band ‘Love of my own’

    *Just typing this list makes me smile Love is such a beautiful thing*

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  89. 1. I love how Omar looks across the homecoming dance floor at Sanaa in her freakum’ dress in “Love & Basketball”. Even holding Gabrielle Union he was looking over her shoulder at Sanaa. Plus, that school is my alma mater :)

    2. A man washing your hair and taking bowls of water to rinse your hair like a waterfall. I think I saw this in a non-romantic movie, but it was hot nonetheless.

    3. Jesus Shuttlesworth painting LaLa’s toenails. It was odd, but intriguing. It seems very intimate and endearing and I would atleast try it.

    4. Wesley Snipes banging out Cynda Williams in “Mo’ Betta Blues”. Okay, maybe that was just lustful and not really romantic…It’s ya’ll fault fro bringing up that scene in “Belly”.

    5. The magnetism, chemistry and the beauty of “what could have been” in Black Orpheus. DEFINITELY, not the tragic elements.

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  90. A romantic bucket list inspired by movie(s)…hhhmmm because I hate romance movies. Yes, I said hate & I mean HATE. Spending $30 for a movie or wasting space in my Netflix list to watch the standard opposites meet, mishaps ensue & happily everafter ending makes me cringe. Why not DO something romantic then WATCH something romantic?

    There are 3 married couples in my peer group that ooze romance so much, you’ll choke to death on the volumes of fuzzy warm, heart & flowers, googlely eyes awww shucks they defecate. Anytime I want to see something romantic, I just log on to Facebook & read their status because they always do something romantic for their spouses, daily.

    The 2 romantic movies I willingly saw was Love Actually 2 & Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Jason’s Lyric & Love Jones I saw many moons ago & thankfully the evening meds, Barcardi & Coke, kicked in just as the movies started so I don’t have much animosity for either movie.

    My romatic bucket list-

    The man I love to willing take me shoe shopping at my fav shoe store. I know most men would rather wrestle radioactive hoodrats than go shoe shopping for their boo or with their boo. But to me, that’s love.

    A hot breakfast in bed, made by his own 2 hands, when I’m not sick or PMSing.

    A candle light picnic dinner from Dmitri’s in the grotto of the Philadelphia Musuem of Art.

    Football tickets to a NY Giants home game complete with hot food basket & thick blankets to cuddle under, especially if he’s not a Giants fan.

    A surprise trip to someplace hot & steamy with a beach so he can rock a man sarong. And by man sarong I mean those little sarongs Indigenous men wear from time to time in New Zealand or Hawaii. Easy access all day!!!!

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    • The man I love to willing take me shoe shopping at my fav shoe store. I know most men would rather wrestle radioactive hoodrats than go shoe shopping for their boo or with their boo. But to me, that’s love.

      This is another thing I had to drag a then-girlfriend kicking and screaming to do for her. She loved Nine West and didn’t know there was a store in the mall we were in. I asked her to walk with me across the mall (the store was about halfway). She refused for 15 minutes and I finally had to tell her the purpose of the walk. Of course, she was willing to go then.

      You’d think maybe she learned her lesson, but no…Valentine’s Day weekend the next year, I drove 500 miles to surprise her (even though we were already scheduled to see each other the next weekend to celebrate our anniversary). I had to cover up the drive somehow, so I said I was at the mall with my mom. She started asking all types of questions and then I told her I wasn’t at the mall. She absolutely flipped – even after I told her I was in Tallahassee (where I was spending the night) and would be at her house in the morning. Swore I was lying, cussed me out, threatened to break up with me, and so on. Anyone want to imagine how she felt when she saw me walk through her bedroom door at 8 AM?

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  92. I’m gon need yall to watch Jason’s Lyric at the next shindig. This don’t make no sense, but maybe it’s cuz I’m from Houston I’ve seen it a billion times. Now I want some soul food.

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  93. I always wanted to see a beautiful sista who walks down the street or waits at the bus stop everyday and offer her a ride. Break down her wall with a few witty remarks and set up a date for later that night.

    Always wanted to meet a sista in a bookstore on the same aisle reachin for the same book, prolly Sonia Sanchez or The Dead Emcee scrolls. Break down her wall with a few witty remarks and set up a date for later that night.

    Always wanted to meet a sista at a music store while reachin for the last Foreign Exchange album. Break down her wall with a few witty remarks and set up a date for later that night. OH and we’ll discuss the merits of both Phonte as a rapper vs phonte as a singer.

    A woman who would make D’Angelo’s “Lady” play in my head when I was around her. And R. Kellys “The greatest s.ex” after u kno what. And when im drinkin a cup of kool-aid she’d take a sip like it was hers. And if i was watching the game she’d stay in the room and chill even if she doesnt like sports. And she laughs to herself when she reads.

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  94. Honestly, I was expecting to see a few more votes for the Mile High Club… yes I know the bathroom is small and cramped… but where there’s a will there’s a way

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  95. Running to catch a girl right before she gets on the plane and after she gets out of line (loosing her place) and runs to me (in slow motion) with a smile on her face, wind blowing in her hair and thinking (he came to stop me from leaving!). She will say “What are you doing here?” and I will say “Do you remember where the remote is….you know what. never mind, I just realized where I put it. Have a great flight.” Then I will walk away.

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    • This comment wins at typing. *SLAYED*

      In fact, I want to book a flight for every day of the year going to every possible airport so that I get a chance to witness this.

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    • *Lmmfao*, just gone set her up for the okie doke like that, you were cold as ice *in my Rick James/Dave Chappelle voice*.

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      • @ LUKE,

        ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFLLLLL!!!

        I promise to slap the living daylights out of you, before I catch that plane!

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  96. my romantic movie inspiration and bucket list…
    i dont know, its probably rhett butler in gone with the wind. I need a rogue ninja with a handlebar mustache to snatch me up and kiss me? ya know? that shyt was hawt!!!

    but overall my two inspirations are love and basketball and boomerang.
    that maxwell “this woman’s work” still gets the party started!!! I want a ninja to play me for my heart! I aint got no skills but its thought ninja, its the thought

    and boomerang… I love the scene where he and halle first make it happen, That moment where you look up and realize.. shyt it could go down.. and then it does?? lol all night.. yes i love it. especially because they were friends and comfortable..

    and lastly that scene in higher learning, where Omar and Tyra are stretching on the track.. shyyyyytttttt….Im trying to start running just for some of that action.

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    • and boomerang… I love the scene where he and halle first make it happen, That moment where you look up and realize.. shyt it could go down.. and then it does?? lol all night.. yes i love it. especially because they were friends and comfortable..

      They got down to the barest essence of the Trek…

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    • please calm down. it’s not personal.

      i think a server issue is intermittently moderating comments because it can’t verify if it’s spam or not.

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  98. My romantic bucketlist is quite simple….

    I would LOVE to grab my babygurl by tha waist, look lovingly into her eyes and sincerely whisper “You’re the best thing I never knew I needed”

    Tha woman that can get me to say and mean that, will be my everything…

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  99. I always wanted to meet a woman like I was James Bond. White dinner jacket, a few well-placed double entendres, and there you go.

    I could never figure out how to get theme music piped into real life though. Peter Griffin

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  100. Funny no one has mentioned that Lisa Nicole Carson was in BOTH movies. She was the best friend in both roles.

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  101. Peej,

    i absolutely adore this list!!!! partially because i favored Jason’s Lyric over Love Jones also. and though this “bucket list” is quite ridiculous, but also ridiculously funny (#4 esp), it just seems like some sh*t yo crazy a$s would actually aspire to do. and i can totally dig it!!!

    FELIZ CINCO DE MAYO!!!!!! and for those of you who think today is Mexico’s independence day (o_O)…. you know the drill….. \_ #SYAD

    also: while i’m too busy today to add my invaluable 2cents to the commentary today, i encourage you all to drink some Margaritas (heavy on the sald & tequila) and hug the nearest Mexican you can find. if you are Mexican-less (how unfortunate for you), please feel free to give ME an e-hug. afterall, i am the resident VSB Mexican and sh*t ;-)

    LOVE YA!!!!! *besos y abrazos*

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  102. Best line in Jason’s Lyric BY FAR, so lemme set tha scene:

    Eddie Griffin and Jason are in tha soul food restuarant tryin to get something to eat. Jada and her best friend work there. Jada walks out and Jason runs out after her. Eddie’s standin there permed up with rollers and a bandana in his head, Jada’s volumptous best friend is standing behind tha counter and this convo ensues:

    Her: Now, what can I get for you sir?

    Eddie: Lemme get one of dem titties to go, a side of ass, and a cup of dem lips…

    Her: Well, I’m sorry sir, but they don’t have none of THAT on the menu!

    Eddie: Well, it look like they need to be on this tray!

    Her: Excuse me?! *yells* is there anybody else in here that can serve this FOOL? I’m on my break!

    Lmao, everytime I see it…..

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  103. A few more things :)

    1.The whole “Summer Rain” video from Carl Thomas *minus Carl thomas* its just oozes sex and romance…
    2. us..in our draws…with Robert Glasper and Dead Prez on the Itunes..playing a deep game of scrabble..MOST ROMANTIC NIGHT EVER
    3. slow dancing in a room by ourselves

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  104. My Romantic Bucket List:

    Because you never know how someone true self feels until you know what’s said behind you back…..City of Angels – “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.”

    I want to be able to say…..from Dirty Dancing – “Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.”

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  105. Mannnnnnn the Jason’s Lyric Hate is stifling in here! STIFLING! I am not even from the south but I’ve seen the movie a couple of times. I mean Bokeem Woodbine was in it! I thought it was damn near impossible to see a black movie in the mid 90′s that didn’t contain Bookeem and/or Mekhi Phiefer. It’s not my fave. but def not the worst.
    ANNNNNDDDD I think Love Jones is OVERRATED….yeah I said it!

    Moving on, since I hate romantic comedies and the such, I will reference other film genres.Not so much a bucket list, but the depicted relationships that appealed to me.

    1. I want to leave town and everything I know to runaway with my “beloved” . Like Thora Burch in American Beauty, “or Tboz and Nas in “Belly” sans the tragic events with the parent’s and all, and preferably not with a drug dealer. I ain’t bout that life.
    “Lets just do it, lets just go to Africa”…..had to do it.

    2. I want to be able to introduce “joy”, literacy, and happiness, in what was otherwise a grim, solemn existence .Kinda like Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in ” The Professional”. When she taught him how to read, love, and laugh, and he taught her how to “clean” and then Gary Oldman ruins EVERYTHING! I luv that movie.

    3. I would like a man to build me a unbelievable walk in shoe closet. Ala “Big” in Sex & The City …..and then fill them with shoes.

    4. I want to have fun and cause ruckus in the mall after hours, do amazing window displays, and hang out with a flamboyant gay man named “Hollywood” like Kim Catrall and that one dude in “The Mannequin”….Hey I loved that movie! don’ t look at me like that.

    5. I want that unspoken, cerebral , deeper than sex, love connection ala Moulder & Scully. The series, not that damn movie.

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    • I like your list. I loved Mannequin too esp when I was a youngin.

      How about a dude building your dream closet period, the size of my current condo LOL, complete with cascading crystal chandelier and a lux red lambskin leather quilted chaste lounge.

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  108. - That scene in West Side Story where Tony and Maria meet and everything else fades into the background. But without the corny dialogue.

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  109. Absolutely adore this post. Jason’s Lyric was on repeat in the DVD player before it broke. Simple romantic stuff. A bit of reprieve for the brotha and sistah who just wants some peace in an otherwise hoodish life. Something about simplicity seems so romantic to me. I’ll marry you if you really a prince….

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  111. I know I’m soooo late. So I’ll just pick one thing.

    He would give me a copy of “The Giving Tree” and replace my name for “The Boy” and his for “The Tree”

    the.end.

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  112. Oh wait…. that scene in “Step Mom” where he proposes by tying the string around her finger and then slides the ring down the string….. awwwww

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  113. I dont really know how to say this without being grimey…but here’goes

    I’ve always been a big fan of the ol’ dry hump…

    and Patra.

    If someway…

    anyway possible…

    I could get Patra would re-shoot the “Pull it up to my Bumper” video with me on my moms couch (while she aint home..obviously!) , I could get my Osama Under Da Sea on and be a happy man. Talking to Luther Vandross like, “Yo, you remember Patra!? Yeah…I kinda hit dat!”

    Oh…but she gotta definitely have the 1992 dookie-weave braids. Thats a must. No dookie-weave…no deal.

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  114. I haven’t seen Jason’s Lyric in a long time, but I love the soundtrack. Especially by Black Men United “You will Know” where are the r n b bruhs’ got together and did it on em

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  116. my romantic bucket list…I’ve pretty much done a lot of stuf with my dude, but here are some others that have not been accomplished:

    Sex on the Beach- We almost went there, but he didn’t want to get sand in his a$$
    An outdoor picnic with a red plaid blanket and a basket of fried chicken and strawberry shortcake
    That scene in True Blood where Eric screws this dancer for 6 hours…mmm vampire sex :)

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  117. *SMH* at Panama saying that Jada has a body of a 6-year-old. o__O

    I know, it was a joke, but damn…