Single? Drown yourself in ice cream, gin & tonics, & these movies Feb 14

February 11, 2015 4:45 PM

Here Is Your Glorious Hour-By-Hour Guide to Netflix on Valentine’s Day [SLMic] by Kinsey Lane Sullivan.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (29 comments total)

Kill is Kiss, alternate Valentine's Day movies
posted by The Whelk at 4:49 PM on February 11, 2015 [2 favorites]

Screw that- I'm doing what I do every Valentines Day: watching The Longest Day, and taking a drink every time someone says, "Was? Normandie?"
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:50 PM on February 11, 2015 [9 favorites]

Screw romance, I'm watching John Waters movies.
posted by naju at 5:03 PM on February 11, 2015 [4 favorites]

This feel like a well-curated playlist. It isn't going to be a perfect set for everyone but it doesn't have to be and it's an interesting way of putting a collection of films together.

Though Heathers is old enough to be Mean Girls' parent. "If Clueless and Mean Girls had a twisted love child with a penchant for murder" I'd suggest it might be Jennifer's Body. Though I suppose that would necessitate a rental.
posted by mountmccabe at 5:15 PM on February 11, 2015 [2 favorites]

The writer director of Heathers is the brother of the guy who directed Mean Girls so I assume they're expressedly related
posted by The Whelk at 5:30 PM on February 11, 2015 [2 favorites]

The writer director of Heathers is the brother of the guy who directed Mean Girls

making this a more twisted love child than we previously imagined.
posted by louche mustachio at 5:41 PM on February 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

Shit, I'm not even gonna be home. It's not just Valentine's day, it's a 3-day weekend and I'm taking myself on a trip to Philadelphia and will be spending the whole day exploring funky museums and gorging on cheesesteaks.

Y'all can do the Netflix-and-self-pity thing instead if you want, I guess.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:56 PM on February 11, 2015 [6 favorites]

The writer of Heathers is the brother of the guy who directed Mean Girls. The director of Heathers was somebody else. (Because I used to work with that director, Michael Lehmann, and I practically fell all over myself with my fangirling about Heathers.)
posted by BlahLaLa at 6:07 PM on February 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

Uh, I think you'll find it's "gins & tonic" if you're making a proper effort.
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:58 PM on February 11, 2015 [3 favorites]

If you're making a proper effort at drinking while being lonely and sad on Valentine's Day, you'll be drinking Bailey's straight from the bottle.
posted by Aizkolari at 7:00 PM on February 11, 2015

Y'all can do the Netflix-and-self-pity thing instead if you want, I guess.

Title was pure hyperbole, and a bit facile, I guess. Your V-day weekend plans sound fantastic! Hope you swing by the Reading Terminal Market, it's a blast.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:12 PM on February 11, 2015

Uh, I think you'll find it's "gins & tonic" if you're making a proper effort.
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:58 AM

Uh, I think you'll find it is a "tonic and gin" if you're going to put your wang in it.
posted by Trivia Newton John at 8:24 PM on February 11, 2015 [2 favorites]

I haven't tried that. Is that anything like when you drink booze with a straw you get drunker quicker because it's so concentrated? Except...reversed? So you sober up?
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:31 PM on February 11, 2015

As an aside, asking me if I want to see more articles like this before you even give me a chance to read your fucking article automatically makes me never want to revisit your fucking website.
posted by Fizz at 9:13 PM on February 11, 2015 [5 favorites]

Godzilla
Rodan
Mothra
Godzilla vs Mothra
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Destroy all Monsters
Godzilla vs Destroya
Godzilla 2000

Fuck your romances.
posted by happyroach at 10:44 PM on February 11, 2015 [8 favorites]

The first ten minutes of UP on repeat and a handle of Jack. I've got this.
posted by mcrandello at 3:44 AM on February 12, 2015 [6 favorites]

I don't know about these movies, but the post title reminds me of blissful single dude days where I could walk downstairs from my 4th floor apartment in DC to the Korean cornershop below, pick up a Ben & Jerry Cookie Dough ice cream and a six-pack of Anchor Steam, light a fire in the fireplace, let the snow fall, and call it a balanced meal and a full life.
posted by C.A.S. at 4:56 AM on February 12, 2015 [2 favorites]

No Harold and Maude?
posted by BYiro at 5:19 AM on February 12, 2015 [1 favorite]

The Whelk: The writer director of Heathers is the brother of the guy who directed Mean Girls...

…who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
posted by wenestvedt at 6:30 AM on February 12, 2015 [4 favorites]

Title was pure hyperbole, and a bit facile, I guess.

Yeah, I apologize in retrospect for the snark. And to be fair I also have had my share of "hide inside and watch movies and gorge on ice cream" single V-days (I have somehow had the bad luck to be single for most of my Februarys), and I honestly was focusing more on "woo three day weekend" when I planned this trip rather than "woo Valentine's Day".

But "single person hides at home on Valentine's Day" is a trope that recently I'm kind of getting sick of. It's not like we're, like, an isolated class that doesn't have cause to celebrate the day by going out ourselves, and it feels like articles like this are sort of encouraging single people to "just stay home because we don't want to see you" coupled with "what reason do you have to go out anyway, when you're alooooone." And fuck that.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:49 AM on February 12, 2015 [3 favorites]

I don't think anyone should ever sweat Valentine's Day, single or coupled. This and New Year's Eve fall into the "when someone tells you that you are supposed to be having fun, that never works" category.

Both are a bit amateur night anyway. The wrong time to party, and the wrong time to force romance.

I say zig when they zag
posted by C.A.S. at 7:04 AM on February 12, 2015 [3 favorites]

Drown yourself in ice cream, gin & tonics, & these movies

AKA all my weekends. I care not a whit what the calendar says.
posted by billiebee at 10:08 AM on February 12, 2015 [4 favorites]

Our local movie theater always shows Shawn of the Dead on Valentine's Day. Sadly, I'm not at home, so my boyfriend and I will have a Shawn of the Dead via Skype Valentine's Day party.
posted by ChuraChura at 10:11 AM on February 12, 2015

To me, it's merely a holiday that I personally don't observe, just as I don't observe Hanukkah, or the Queen's Birthday, or Chinese New Year, or Talk Like a Pirate Day. (I know, admitting I don't observe that last one may get me kicked off the internet.) I have nothing against those who do observe those holidays, and I feel no need to have some kind of anti- or counter-celebration on those days.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 10:17 AM on February 12, 2015 [2 favorites]

Godzilla
Rodan
Mothra
Godzilla vs Mothra
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Destroy all Monsters
Godzilla vs Destroya
Godzilla 2000

YOU FORGOT GODZILLA v THE SMOG MONSTER.

YOU FORGOT TO SAVE THE EARTH GROOVY STYLE.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:02 AM on February 12, 2015 [2 favorites]

I just bought my ticket for Northwest Horrorfest, which will be at the Ark Lodge Cinemas in Seattle on February 14th.

I had my heart broken pretty thoroughly recently-ish, so my Valentine's Day plans *had* been of the stay-home-and-drink-until-I-can't-feel-feelings-anymore variety, but now I'm doing this instead.

Over four hours of short horror films. Fuck. Yes.
posted by webmutant at 4:03 PM on February 12, 2015 [1 favorite]

Just finished watching 'His Girl Friday'. I love screwball comedy. If not for this list then I wouldn't have known it was on Netflix. Thank you.
posted by sciencegeek at 5:10 PM on February 12, 2015 [2 favorites]

I used to really hate VD and sulk and shit when I was alone, and the few times I had a boyfriend on VD or was seeing somebody, all but a few times I got ditched on the day. But I have finally stopped caring. I will go out to things on the day and then go home and do what the fuck ever and not give a shit, especially since it is on a Saturday and not a workday where I might have to hear about the coworkers' husbands. (One awful year a BARBERSHOP QUARTET was sent in while we were on deadline.)

I recently saw a business where they were encouraging everyone to make grade school Valentines for everyone. Now that's a VD activity.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:37 PM on February 12, 2015

sciencegeek: "Just finished watching 'His Girl Friday'. I love screwball comedy. If not for this list then I wouldn't have known it was on Netflix. Thank you."

I was so excited the first time I saw that, and Ralph Bellamy walked in. "Oh my God, it's Randolph Duke!"
posted by Chrysostom at 10:54 AM on February 16, 2015