Day 3 The Uninformed Valentine

Moving on to media a bit....some great films (or not...) for you and your Valentine ;)

My Bloody Valentine 1981 CANADA

"HARRY'S OUT TO STEAL YOUR HEART"

My Bloody Valentine 3D 2009 USA

"ON JANUARY 16TH GET YOUR HEART BROKEN"

Lovers Lane 1999 USA

"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SAFE SEX"

Valentine 2001 USA

"Love Hurts"

My Boyfriend is Back 1993 USA

"JOHNNY WOULD GIVE A LEG AND AN ARM TO DATE MISSY .WELL MAYBE JUST AN ARM"

Pontypool 2008 CANADA

"SHUT UP OR DIE"

Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 AUSTRALIA

"ON ST.VALENTINE'S DAY IN 1900 A PARTY OF SCHOOLGIRLS SET OUT TO PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK....SOME TO NEVER RETURN"

Hospital Massacre 1982 USA

"A YOUNG NURSE IS STALKED MY A MANIAC OUT TO AVENGE A LONG-AGO VALENTINE'S DAY HUMILIATION"

and there ya go...most purely horror but some comedy. A couple of these are viewed as cult classics...Enjoy muahahaaa x

Day 2 The Uninformed Valentine

Lupercalia...the origin of Valentine's Day............

In pre-Christian Rome, people celebrated "Valentine's day" as Lupercalia, a Roman holiday that took place during the ides of February (the 15th). They believed that the goddess Juno Februata (where the name February comes from) inflicted her "love fever" on the young and unwary. The fertility festival of Lupercalia (in honor of the pastoral god Lupercus) involved an orgy and sexual excesses. Young men drew small "love notes" from a container composed by eligible young women. The men socialized with the women and attempted to guess who composed the note they had drawn. In this way, the festival brought young men and women together as sexual partners.

For years the Christian church tried to suppress the festival of Lupercalia. Interestingly, the Church did not object to the festival for its love celebrations but for the pagan beliefs that rejected the Christian god. In 496 C.E., Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia from the 15th to the 14th and renamed it after the legendary St. Valentine in an attempt to stop the pagan celebration. Gelasius had hoped people would emulate the lives of saints. Even after the Church replaced Lupercus with St. Valentine and recast Cupid into a cherub, the Lupercalia festival continues much as it had before, but without the sexual excesses. The change of the name and the day of celebration serves as the only "contribution" that Christians brought to Valentine's day.

To this day, men and women send love notes to each other. And in elementary schools across the country, children still put concealed notes or gifts in a box much as the ancient Romans did. So the idea of Valentine's Day did not come from Christianity, but from the "heretic" Romans. Praise Juno!

Day 1 The Uninformed Valentine

Most holidays we celebrate today usually have sort of an unknown history, a hushed secrecy often anti Christian and very pagan beginnings.

Valentines day among them.... see this article about a traditional Valentines offering...The Irish Independent notes that in another time and place, a human head was the most thoughtfulof amorous presents. Archivists have unearthed evidence that a less than savoury romantic gesture was pratised historically-bestowing a severed head on a loved one....

This left field approach to love-making, practised by 19th century Taiwanese aborigines was discovered in the 150 yr old letters of botanical explorers. Taking someones head after killing them was a ritualistic part of life in the culture until the 1930s. Suitors would present the severed heads to potential partners to woo them or to brides to celebrate their marriage according to the archival material in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. --Taken from disinfo.com

Happy Valentine's Day!!