The Alternative Valentine's Day

There are things to do on Valentine's Day besides go out to dinner, eat chocolate, and put on new lingerie.

For example, you could take your date to the 80's Power Ballad Sing-A-Long at the Alamo Drafthouse, a sure-to-be-hilarious night presented by Mr. Sinus' Owen Egerton and Henri Mazza (the program director at the Alamo). From the Alamo site:

This February Owen and Henri will present the definitive sing-along for the Valentine’s season, featuring Guns ‘n Roses, Def Leppard, Poison, White Snake, Journey, Foreigner, and so, so much more. We’ll have a singing while crying contest before the movie, props for audience interaction throughout the whole show, and we guarantee you that by the time you leave the theater, you’ll know what love is, because we will have shown you.

Our sources tell us that Owen will be bringing along his high school yearbook, remembering all the girls who stomped on his poor, teenaged heart. Love hurts, man. V Day is a week from today so buy now, sweeties.

Or you could buy a brown bag romantic dinner for two from Central Market. Included in your Valentine's package (no, not that package, dirty!) will be your choice of three fancy meals, a starter salad, chocolate dipped strawberries, creme brulee, tapered candles, and a dvd of Chocolat, Sabrina, or Roman Holiday. One has Johnny Depp. The other two have really old guys (Humphry Bogart, Gregory Peck) courting young waif Audrey Hepburn.

More Ideas---

You could make-out among the interesting sculptures at Laguna Gloria.

You could ride your bike back and forth in front of newly-single Lance Armstrong's house and hope he gets inspired to join you.

You could eat a lot of spicy food. Alone. Or with a very, very good friend.

You could invite your single pals over and have a "high school party," complete with wine coolers and drinks made with Purple Passion--the pre-made kind you buy at the liquor store. The first person to down a bottle of Boone's Hill gets a prize. Take polaroids and make "yearbooks". Invite us over, we do great impressions when we are drunk. Okay, maybe there are mostly watered-down rip-offs of SNL characters, but everything is funny after a few wine coolers! Are we right?

All good ideas, but we are going with the 80's sing-a-long. Because we just love Poison that much. Hit it C.C.!

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