call me an old softie, but last month, near valentine's day anna and i were doing a bit of shopping and compiling lists of the best love movies, love songs and love poems. totally subjective of course, and probably influenced heavily by what our generation watched, read and listened to. now, i'm not big on generational differences, which i consider mostly minor pop cultural matters. but because i listened to spandau ballet as a teen impacted what i might consider a love song.

perhaps it was a negative impact, or a fiery crash. nevertheless, the next few days, as time and inclination permit, i want to list a few, at the very least one, love songs, movies and poems that i consider important works of love. love, if we are lucky to find it, is of many meanings, which include desire, sex, lust, romance, companionship, friendship etc etc. each one of us are amateur experts in possession of absolute shitty knowledge about love. we know, and we don't. those works of love are most successful when they enact such lovely contradictions.