Oasis member for a night

I overheard a guy at work today talking about an online dating site (Oasis) and figured I would give it a go. It actually didn’t support Safari and so I installed Firefox to test it out.

My profile hadn’t even been accepted in full (the picture was still pending), and I had only really spent a couple hours browsing profiles and chatting with one quirky girl and sarted to read a little about online dating. I have attempted it in the past to no success, and rather than waste more time on it, I figured it was smart to nip it in the but and cancelled my account.

I am so glad I did it right this minute. It hopefully will mean I waste less time, when what I really want to do is be more outgoing. And to be more outgoing doing something introverted like having the internet to communicate with people you may or may not want a relationship with isn’t going to help.

My profile really was just telling the story of when I went to New York with Lucas and Doug. How we walked all over downtown and over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Doing something like that is what I want to do again on this 10 weeks of holidays I have comming up just after my birthday (next week).

Romantic Comedies

It isn’t really that weird when you think about it, that I a single mid twenty something guy, who is seeking (very unsuccessfully in the seeking) a relationship. Is drawn in by Romantic Comedies like “Numb” and “Elizabethtown”.

I must admit I like both of them, and maybe it is because I emphasize with the protagonist. Maybe its because I dream to one day (soon) find a woman who is almost magically in love with me, Like the Sara or Clare in “Numb” or “Elizabethtown”?

Thinking about it, the two stories lean heavily on that “magic”, it seems the girl falls in love with guy is the key to both movies. It is a sort of magic like explained in fairy tails about stealing clothes of Nymphs to make them good wives. Maybe the magic of the movie is what draws me in, wondering how it works? Maybe I am subconsciously trying to take notes, so I can cast a similar magic : )

But what every it is, I like these two romantic comedies and how they encapsulate a comical slice of life. How the characters have fun, and go through trials on the screen in minutes that can take heart wrenching days and weeks in real life. Another movie (though it has been a while since I’ve seen it so maybe my memory is playing tricks) is “Wedding Daze”.

The magic in  ”Wedding Daze” comes from a waitress asking (or was it the customer) off handedly to marry. And the answer being “Yes”, both characters only just having seen each other for the first time minutes ago. That click, like the long phone call in “Elizabethtown” (after all the ground work Clare put in to get Drew her number). It makes me wonder if that magic, of first impressions, of love, really is that binding. Honestly I haven’t been in a relationship to find that out.

I wonder if the producers knew there was a dynamic of single men who actually wouldn’t mind watching a movie like these?