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The Daily OrangeForget Hollywood's perfect romances: plan the perfect Valentine's Day at SU
By Nathan Mattise
Posted: 2/11/08, 11:23 PM EST Section: Feature
Love it or hate it, the most heart-pounding event of the year is two days away. The anxiety associated with it runs more rampant than the holiday puns in that last sentence.
Depending on whom you ask, there's good reason to be anxious. Chuck Klosterman famously argued society has an unattainable idea of what real love is because of the "love" we see in popular culture. He was looking specifically at you, Coldplay.
But let me clue you in…Klosterman isn't right. Instead of crying about the unrealistic expectations movies and television have created, it's time to embrace the romance. The following cheat sheet of pop-culture inspired date ideas is a good start. These can even be pulled off in the romantic confines of SU. Eat that Chuck.
(Note: Yes, I realize all of these are from Disney movies, hipster date films or over-the-top romances)
The "I'm-spontaneously-starting-the-most-romantic-situation-on-earth" date
Description: This date is cost-effective for starters. The basic premise is you two enjoy each others' company so much but don't necessarily get a lot of alone time to be romantic. To rectify the situation, a brief walk is suggested, and it suddenly turns into the cutest damn moment of your college years.
Where you may have seen it: Variations of the spontaneous date show up in "The Notebook," (Gosling and Adams laying in the middle of the street), "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," (Carrey and Winslet lay on the ice and immortalize the moment in those weird potato figurines) or even "Aladdin" (Al saves a costumed Jasmine from palace guards, gives her an apple and reveals the sweetest view of the Agrabah skyline).
How to do it at SU: Getting it rolling isn't tough. The key to pulling off a spontaneous date at SU is to think real estate - it's all location, location, location. Walk that lucky date around for 15 to 20 minutes before ending up at either ESF's Illick Hall (which my single friend Renkas says has multiple walk-through greenhouses open during the day) or the top of the College of Law steps (complete with surprisingly beautiful Syracuse skyline at night).
Depending on whom you ask, there's good reason to be anxious. Chuck Klosterman famously argued society has an unattainable idea of what real love is because of the "love" we see in popular culture. He was looking specifically at you, Coldplay.
But let me clue you in…Klosterman isn't right. Instead of crying about the unrealistic expectations movies and television have created, it's time to embrace the romance. The following cheat sheet of pop-culture inspired date ideas is a good start. These can even be pulled off in the romantic confines of SU. Eat that Chuck.
(Note: Yes, I realize all of these are from Disney movies, hipster date films or over-the-top romances)
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