Home, Home on the Range

I am very happy to be home and be able to calm down my poor cat who really just missed me because I was gone five days out of the last seven. I was going to write something about the people I observed on a recent trip for business but it's too hot so I really don't care. I will say that Victor/Victoria was on tonight (brilliant) and I realized that I keep picturing Jonathan Rhys-Davies when people mention Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.

Someone I care about told me that they loved me today, and as I am not someone that happens to very regularly, I have decided to be happy about that. Not that I didn't already know that they did, but it was nice to hear, anyway.

Plot and Romance! Not in opposition!

( A brief self-indulgent passage about EWFS and plot. )

Now the thing about romance and adventure is, if you're going to have both you really have to start out that way, OR, you have to have the adventure as something that horribly interrupts the romance. But you can't plonck the adventure down just before the end of the romance because you forgot to include it from the beginning. I have said this before and I'll say it again: If the romance is good, it is actually enough.

Of course, as you'll see from the list below, the way I conceive of romance is not just, two people meet and fall in love, but more, two people meet and could fall in love, but they are fallible and get distracted by things that may or may not be important and may be internal or external, all things that have to get resolved before the romance can conclude. That's really what's lacking in post-1965 romantic comedies; they think they have to invent artificial devices to keep the characters apart. But if you look at the classics, what keeps them apart, most of the time, is themselves.

( With all of that in mind, my top ten romantic couples. )