Andrea

Favourite songs:

I guess it's extremely hard to say what my favourite love song is. There are so many wonderful love songs, which make this decision pretty hard. I think that among my many favourite love songs, are some songs by Shakira on my top 10. All the songs are from the albums "Pies Descalzos" (1996), "Magia"(1991) and "Dónde están los ladrones"(1998). In the beginning of her career, she composed really good songs, mostly about love. Shakira's songs were with me my whole childhood. They somehow explained me what love could mean, they made me dream about love, dream to find that special one.. Those songs said beautiful love stories, and I always dreamt to be the main character of them, I got to admit that I still do want to be the main character of them. The embarrassing part might have been when I got a crush for the first time, my imagination flew far away, and the kid I was "in love" with found out about my crush and I just couldn't stop myself telling him all the stories that came to my mind through this songs. I guess that scared him away. "Fly me to the moon”, the version of Frank Sinatra, belongs also to my top 10 love songs. It isn't just the way Howard, the composer, speaks about love, but also the melody of the music. That combination is very romantic for me. But if I have to choose a Nr. 1, it'd be definitely "More than words" by Extreme.   I was 15 years old, and my boyfriend at the time, dedicated it to me.. I didn’t knew the song, he said that there was no song which could express what he exactly felt for me, but that this song approach much more than the others.... He told me afterwards that it had cost him a lot of time to find this song, although it's very popular, because he didn't really use to hear that kind of music… and when I heard the song… listened to the lyrics… I just felt as if I was falling for him again…

Favourite movie:

I'm a cinema girl, I a lot of films, my favourites are the romantic comedies, and all are about love. So it is hard to pick only one as the favourite one. The films I watch have to fulfil three characteristics so that I like it:

1.it must be funny. Not just a drama or tragedy.

2.It must be also sweet, but not too sweet. I mean, it doesn't have to be every minute like the characters always saying "oh I love you" and "oh I love you too babe" and that kind of stuff.

3.And I love it when it has a happy ending.

Love films that I remember I liked a lot above others could be Grease (1986), How to lose a guy in ten days (2003), First 50 dates (2004), , What happens in Vegas (2006), A Cinderella Story (2002) and  A lot like love (2005) . I also like sometimes a bit more than romantic comedies, such as  Love Letters (2009), Kites (2009), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Pocahontas (1996) and most of the Nicholas-Spark-based-on movies.

But my favourite among every love film will always be "A walk to remember", just as the book. I actually think it's my most favourite love film just because of the book.

Favourite book:

There are some people that say that after you read Romeo and Juliet, there won't other love story more beautiful as that one. Well, I don't say they're wrong, because not everyone like the same things... But my favourite one isn't other than "A walk to remember" by Nicholas Spark. It might be a sad story at the end, because of the death of Jamie. But it's so beautiful how she changed Landon's life and what he did afterwards for her. I sadly believe that in real life might not exist such a loving and giving man as Landon, and if there is… I'd love to get to know him.  This story has been also the only one with the power enough to make me cry every time I read it.

There is another love story that I love, well more than a story it's a tale. The name is "Craziness and Love". It tells the story when all the feelings of the humans gathered and played hide-and-seek. Craziness had to count, and when he was done counting and seeking the other feelings, he realized that he hadn't found love yet, and when he was almost losing interest at the game he went to a beautiful rosebush nearby to play with the roses. Then he heard a painful scream from the roses. It was love, who was hiding there. He got rose thorns in his eyes. Craziness didn't find enough words to say how sorry he was, so he made a deal with love: to be his servant for the rest of the eternity in trade of his forgiveness. Since then the love is blind and the craziness follows it. I love this tale because I couldn't agree more with it. When you really love someone, appearances and common sense are the last things you think about.

Favourite TV-Series:

As for TV-Series, I have two favourites, both Telenovelas:

1. Venezuelan Telenovel. It's name was "Mi gorda bella", it means "my beautiful fat lady". It was about a forbidden love between two cousins, which at the end weren't cousins at all. She was very fat, but she also was very sweet and loving. He was a sportsman, who at the beginning just saw in her a great friend, but with the time felt in love with her. But they got as much obstacles as Ulysses in the Odyssey.  I saw this telenovela, when I was 13 years old. At that time I had big crush on someone that was totally forbidden to me. I also thought that he didn't even know that I existed. Just like it was for the main character from this series. I reflected me in her.

2.The other one was a Mexican telenovela. The name was Rebelde, means rebel. It was about a pop band with 4 members, two girls and two men. The girls felt in love with the men, and the men in the girls. The problem was that they hated each other; the music was their only connection, beside the love they felt for each other, and didn't want to recognize.  My first boyfriend, whom I was with back then when Rebelde was at the TV, and I hated each other, we had a gift to get to the nerves of each other very quick, we'd find every time the minimum reason to fight before we got together. Just as one of the pairs of this telenovela. I was reminded of ourselves a few years back then. It was really funny to see a story just as ours at the TV, I showed it to him, and he laughed out loud, he asked me joking when we got filmed…  I guess one sees, or tries to see himself in every love story. And the more the story reminded ourselves, the more we like it, and the more we wish that the story has a happy ending, so that we may get one as well.

 

Rosa (65 years) (Andrea’s grandmother)

The novel "Love Story" (1970) by Erich Segal is a story about a fateful romance between a wealthy young man and a middle-class young woman. I read novel and saw the movie directed by Arthur Hiller when I was young. I loved both of them, although the film cut out a great part of the drama of the novel, but turned the film into a hit of its genre.  The young man goes to the college, where he meets a girl, who studies music and is sort of the opposite of him. He falls in love with her, and wants to marry hey. But the young man's family disagrees on this decision. When they get married he loses his inheritance and the help of the family. Despite the fact that they have no money, the live happily ever after. But just until they receive the news of the young woman's grave sickness.

This story impacted me strongly because of the sad end and the romanticism that the story develops.

Another book I like very much, and its theme is love, Doctor Zhivago (1957). It is about a Russian doctor and poet, who lived at the time of the Russian Revolutions. He had spouse, but also a lover. When the time of war came, his lives turned upside down. It affected not only his own life, but also his spouse's and lover's lives. The curiosity about this novel is the fact that he loved both of his women and that neither of them new about the existences of the other.  What I couldn't believe and most liked about the novel was the romanticism involved around the story despite of the war and the true love he felt for each of his women. There is also a film about this book, also great.

A Woman and a Man (1996) is a French film about a young widow, who works as an actress and has also a young daughter. The main character is also a widower and has a child. These similarities bring them together.

I liked it so much because of the beauty of the music on the background, the romance in the scenes. At that time the pornography wasn't relevant, important and they left much to the imagination about the story between them.

When I was 12 years old I read a book named Sinuhe the Egyptian. It tells also some of the Egyptian customs: make-up, dresses, etc. It described the love, and you must comprehend that I was just 12 years old in 1953; I didn't understand a lot of things, because I simply didn't know the meaning of them, and when I read it, it shocked me. It marked me, because I didn't trust anyone to tell what I just read about love.

There are so many love songs that I like, but among of them I got my favourite ones:

- Bonita, by Jose Macías

- Amor se escribe con llanto, by Alvaro Dalmar

- El Camino de la Vida, by Hector Ochoa

- Espumas, by Pedro Leon Daniels

The reason I think this are my favorite love songs are because of the lyrics. Those songs are "boleros", old music you could say, but for you, because when I was young, this was the newest music. Those songs talk about love to life, to another, to you and also about what involve love, sometimes suffer, sometimes joy.

Astrid

Movie: “My sisters keeper” talks about unconditional love to a family member. For that reason it is not a usual love story, but it undoubtedly had a very strong impact on me, being the most stirring movie I have ever seen. It talks about a girl having leukemia and the way the family tries to do anything to keep her alive. The parents even have a second child who is basically supposed to provide organs for her sick sister. The whole family spends all their time trying to make live as easy as possible for her. In the end however, the family has to accept that she does not want to live with all those surgeries anymore and wants to die. Having a sister who I love a lot myself, I could not imagine having to accept such a decision. The movie showed me how glad I am to have a healthy family around me. Every time I watch that movie I learn again to appreciate what I’ve got.

Book/Movie: “P.S. I love you” is my favourite book. It talks about a woman receiving letters written by her dead husband. Knowing that he will die pretty soon, he wrote them to make sure she will keep on living, helping her to say good-bye and starting over again.  All that counts for him is that she is happy and full of the joys of life. I really like this book, as well as the filming to it, because it shows how selfless love can be. Love is not about yourself, but about another person. While reading the book I noticed what the saying: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it was such a wonderful time, “really means.

Song: It was very difficult for me to think of my favourite love song. A song is much more connected to a memory than a book or a movie. Most of the time what really matters is the melody and not the actual text. You start connecting a song with an emotion. This is the case when I am listening to the song: “Use somebody” by Kings of Leon. I have been listening to this song with my best friend so often that is reminds me of the great times we had together. We usually just sat there and talked while listening to this song and I knew she would always be there for me.

My Mom:

Movie/Book: When asking my mom for her favourite book, she didn’t have to think a long time. “Gone with the wind” is the first real novel she read when she was young. Although she wasn’t a big reader she read this book very quickly, because the love stories combined with the American Civil War really magnetized her.  For her it was an intense story that made her keep on looking for similar books, but she never found one like it. When the movie to the book came out, her expectations were fulfilled again. She thought the actors fit the characters very well.

Song:  My mom’s favourite love song is written in German from Herbert Grönemeyer (“Der Weg”). For her it is one of the most emotional songs. It also has a very dramatic touch since it talks about a love that passed away. For her it shows how strong love can be and it always makes her pensively.

Corinna

My favourite love movies:

The Notebook

This has been my favourite movie since a sleepover when I was a teenager. It is just a totally different atmosphere when you watch a movie at home with your friends.

The Bucket List

Maybe not a movie you might think of when searching for a movie about love. Anyways, I think that this is a movie showing how deep a friendship can be, how to love yourself and how to - egoistically - not love yourself. It’s somehow about altruism and about loving life and being alive.

P.S. I Love You

I watched this movie on my flight back to Germany after my high school year in the US. I had a boyfriend there and the movie made me sad and hopeful at the same time. Unfortunately, watching movies in an airplane often feels weird as you are in a room with so many strangers. Anyways, it felt a little bit like being in a cinema with a lot of imagination.

My favourite love songs:

“Ein Kompliment” by Sportfreunde Stiller

A former boyfriend sang this song to me and I knew at that time that he really meant the words. I definitely think that love songs in your own language are more personal and in a different way emotional than songs written in foreign languages. This song still means a lot to me, because it describes love in a way that is comprehensible – with many comparisons.

“Wake me up when September ends” by Green Day

This song always remembers me of the first time I was lovesick. I heard it maybe a fifty times a day at that time.

“If ye love me” by Tallis

A classic song I sang many times in choir. For me the text is not important, but the harmony and the memories I connect with this song. Sitting at a bonfire with people you are secure with, singing and playing music.

Favourite –List Part2: other generation - Christine’s favourites:

Favourite Love Song: Love Me Do by the Beatles

Christine’s favourite Love song is “Love Me Do” by the Beatles. When she hears is she thinks of the honeymoon with her husband in England. The feeling to be safe as you know that your partner loves you and you love him and nothing else matters.

Favourite Love Movie: Sleepless in Seattle

Christine’s favourite romantic movie is “Sleepless in Seattle, because it is the only romantic movie she knows. She watched it with her family which makes her think of the love in her life.

Favourite Love TV- Show: “Das Traumschiff”

Christine’s favourite TV-show is “Das Traumschiff”, a series where people travelling on a boat. The problems of the travellers get obvious throughout the voyage. Fortunately, with the help of others and time to think all problems get solved and there is a happy end. This embodies love for Christine. It is an endless journey. Moreover, in her opinion marriage is a lot easier when you can sometimes escape the everyday life.

Egor

When people fall in love, all the world around becomes romantic and magnificent. To seize and appreciate these moments a huge quantity of songs, poems, films and books is created.

What about love songs,  my favourite ones are “I've got you under my skin” by Frank  Sinatra, “Beautiful” by  Moby and “Space monkey” by Placebo. 

Frank Sinatra is known for his strong and at the same time heartfelt voice. This song casts a bloom over me and makes me think about my first love. When she left me heartbroken, it called up the memories of the time when we were happy together. Wonderful lyrics overflowing with melancholy and love still touch me.

I like the inimitable style of Moby. His music carries me away, brings a mood, a kind of a particular energy.  This song, “Beautiful”, was the soundtrack of the summer that I spent with my friends some years ago. It always reminds me our crazy parties and especially the feeling of youth and freedom that I shared with the people I loved.

I clearly remember the moment associated with “Space monkey” by Placebo – it was a warm summer night, we climbed on the roof with my girlfriend. Sitting next to each other under a blanket, drinking wine, we were listening to this song and looking at stars. “We’re sown together, she’s born to mesmerize” - that words of the refrain were real at that moment.

What about love themed movies, “Love Actually” directed by Richard Curtis is one of my favourite ones. We follow some the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London. All of these stories are touching and real, that’s why I can watch it again and again.

I adore the TV series called “Californication” that is full of humour. There we see an American writer, his career, his relationships with his daughter and his ex-girlfriend as well as his love to them. His story proves that love is not only warmth, happiness and trust, but also suffering of impossibility to be with the people we love.

As for books, I always prefer classical writers and their ambiguous novels. “The Painted Veil” by Somerset Maugham is a sorrowful and wonderful story telling about honour, courage, infidelity and unexpected tender love. I like this novel for its inconsistency, profundity and the marvelous language of the author.

I also asked my cousin who is 19 years old to name her favourite songs, movies and books telling a story of love. She said that the love song she adored was “Corner of the Earth” by Jamiroquai. The image that this song creates is really wonderful: ‘’Little darling, don’t you see the sunny shining just for you, only today’’. She mentioned “I want you” by Moloko and “Happy Ending” by Mika. Her favourite film is “Angel-A” directed by Luc Besson, the story of an angel who felt in love of the unlucky man she saved. The action takes place in Paris, the city of love. Its landscapes are a splendid background for that extraordinary history. As for books, she likes a lot the novel of Lev Tolstoy “Anna Karenina”, a brilliant work of the classical Russian literature.

As for the older generation,  I asked my parents about their favourite songs, movies and books about love. The results were a little amusing for me. Actually in music the theme of love is being associated with classic music such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky.  As for the movies, they prefer family comedies such as “Home Alone”, where the idea of love is represented as family values, and the whole movie says that the family is the most precious that we have.  In books they like also classic literature for example Tolstoy “War and Peace”, Goethe “Faust” and others.

Erika

Favourite love movie:

My favourite love movies is  “The little mermaid”  (1989, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures). It reminds me of my early childhood. Every summer, we used to go to the beach. I have a very big and close family, and we always had a great time together on the beach house, playing board games, having breakfast together- that’s how it remember it. At nights, before going to bed, I used to watch “The little mermaid” with my mother. She always told me, that I was, like the little mermaid, a princess, and that one day I would also find my true love, and live happily ever after. Therefore, every time I watch “The little mermaid” I associate it with the happy summers on the beach, the warm sensation of home and family and the memory of a little girl hopping on true love.

“Valentine’s day” is also a love movie I really like. I went to watch it to the cinema with me boyfriend. There, in the dark, we shared a very special moment. We had eye contact for like ten seconds and I really felt connected with him. I really don’t have the words to explain this moment. To put it simple, I felt as if our souls were connected. That’s how I realized how much we meant to each other.

Favourite love song:

One of my favourite love songs is “Angel”, by Jack Johnson. On the 25th of each month, my first boyfriend and I used to do something special; for it was the day we came together.  One 25th,he surprised me with a love letter and this song. The lyrics from this song are really sweet, and I felt beloved and special when I first heard it. There is a part where it says “She wears a heart that can melt my own”. At that moment, he gave me a necklace with a little heart.  It was a very meaningful and romantic moment, which I still remember with affection.

Favourite love themed TV show:

My favourite love themed TV show is “How I met your mother”. It is a really funny show about a young man searching for his soul mate. Before leaving to Germany, I watched occasionally this show with my best friends. Sometimes, we laughed till crying. That is why I enjoy this show so much. It reminds me of the great times I used to have with my friends.

Favourite book:

My favourite love book is “The little Prince” written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Its really difficult to associate a book with a memory, for when you read you are mostly alone and focused on the story.

My grandmother gave this book to me. Therefore, it has a special meaning. Furthermore, in this book, there are important lessons to find, like for example "One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." That is why I can read this book over and over again. It reminds me of what is really important in this life. And I think that is what my grandmother wanted me to know.

I asked my father to answered the questions we where given. He answered (and I quote):

My father’s favourites list

Favourite love movie

“Back to the future” is my all time favourite movie, because it combines elements of a love story, family story, science fiction, humour, and action with out being violent.  The movie happens during the early 80's, I had just finished high school, and was starting University, so it was easy to identify with the character.

Favourite love song:

My favourite song is “Ballade pour Adeline”. This is the song I danced with my wife on my wedding.  It was of course, a very romantic moment, the song was played live by the band hired to play that night.  It is very special because it recalls the first moments of my life as a husband, and the beginning of my family.  The dance floor was empty, just the two of us, the room was decorated with flowers, white and salmon, and all the guests, friends and relatives, were sharing our happiness and wishing the best for us.

Favourite TV show:

Again, it is a show with a mixture of adventure, science fiction, a family that gets lost in space, love and care taking for each other.   I was also a young boy, and I liked the situation, I felt identified with Bill, the young boy of the family.  Although the "difficult circumstances", the family was well integrated and unified, and together they faced different life threatening situations, and survived working altogether and helping each other.  We also watched this show with the rest of my family, and shared all the excitement.

Favourite love book:

My favourite Book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I was a little boy when I read this book, and I was amazed by the technology described in the book, especially why it was written at the end of the 19th century.  It described environmental problems and clean technologies, combined with the adventure a young boy likes.  We liked to play with my brothers and cousins we were the different characters of the book.  Especially the figure of Captain Nemo, with all the decisions and dilemmas he faced, has fascinated me and somehow influenced me.

Feyzan

Song: My favourite love song is one of Turkish folk song, namely ‘it’s obvious from your…- in Turkish ‘bakişlerunden belli’. This is folk song of north of Turkey. I have known this song for years, but it became my favourite three years ago when I listened it in folk festival. During the concert, an old villager woman told his love story and then sang the song with a famous band. Translation of lyrics like that: I can read your eyes telling that you love me. And your eyes charm me. I want to love you so much and that would never break us up. For me, it tells eternal and strong love.

Movie:  My favourite love movie is also a Turkish one namely, Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım, a tall man and woman with a red scarf. This is one of the classical love movies in Turkey. Most probably it is favourite movie of many people like me. I’ve watched the movie many many times so far. However, I became my favourite just two years ago, after I broke up my boyfriend that made the movie more meaningful. Because in the film, woman has to decide about two man, one of which she has loved passionately until man leaves her and their baby. She meets the other when after leaving of her first husband. Then, they build a fellowship and love. He makes effort for the goodness of her and her baby. However, she couldn’t forget her first love. At the end of the film, her first husband comes to apologize. Nevertheless, she decides to second man, because of her child, and his efforts. She wouldn’t keep her passion and wouldn’t trust the first man anymore. Then, this film describes love to me; love is goodness, fellowship, and giving an effort. This sentence is really common in many of people’s minds in Turkey. After breaking up my boyfriend and watch the movie, I thought love is not passion, it is more than passion, it should be sort of good fellowship.

Video: My favourite video is a music video of Turkish singer. Actually, it is from one of her concert. She sang a love song whose name is ‘Love’ with her boyfriend who is also famous singer and guitarist. They perform a duet, and man plays a guitar in front of woman by kneeling. It totally tells love both visual and audial with lyrics, music, red costume of woman, dark background, and view of just two lovers. At the end, both of introduce each other and then they kiss. This concert was about one and half year ago. Since then, since the first time I’ve seen the video with my girlfriends, it has been my favourite video and theirs as well. When we watch the video, we were on study-break in the library. After first view, we repeated and then we talked about love by leaving our study.

Book: actually it is a booklet, not a book. It is a booklet of love in animal’s world. I got it with National Geographic magazine a year ago. It contains many pictures of lover-animals and short descriptions. Seeing that love is not special to human make me happy. I often look the booklet, to see and think about the nature of animals and love.

I also asked my close friend about her favourites. Her favourite movie is also ‘Selvi boylum Al Yazmalım’, like me. But her story is different. She said when she watched the movie, she compared it with love story of her grandparents and found very similar. Thus she feels like watching her grandparents love story which makes her excited. This movie is originally adaptation from a book with same name from Cengiz Aytmatov. The book is also favorite love book of her, because of same reason. Her favourite video is also same with me; she is the one who I watch movie with. We are close friends and we share almost same ideas on many topic. 

Janick

The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain

The movie is about a young woman (Amelie Poulain),trying to give the people around her a better life, while struggling with her own. In her childhood she never got love from her father. Her father was a doctor and only touching her during medical check-ups. In addition to that she was isolated from other kids, because the parents thought she was suffered from a hypertension. Later in the movie she is fallen in love with a complete stranger (Nino Quincampoix). But Amelie  is to shy to approach him. Just right to the end of the movie she is able to start a relationship with him. I saw the movie the first time in "French Class" grade 7. One or two years later I bought this movie for my mother as a birthday present.

Johnny Cash - Walk the line

I don’t remember the first time I heard of Johnny Cash. A couple of years ago I saw the movie "Walk the line" (also a good "Love-movie") which is about the life of Johnny Cash. Afterwards I bought the soundtrack. Since then I am hearing his music once in a while. Johnny Cash wrote this song when he was newly married. His wife was worried that Johnny Cash could have an affair with one of the manny women after show. To assure her the he wont betray her ("walk the line") he wrote this song.

My favourite book which is connected to love is “Perfume: The story of a murderer” by Patrick Süskind. The protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is a perfume apprentice in 18th century Paris. He has the ability to smell really good. His dream is to create the perfect scent. Because of this he stalks young virgins and murder them.

The favourite list of my father:

Movie: Love Story

Song: “Nothing compares to you” by Sinead O'Connor

Book: “Ein Strand für meine Träume” (A Beach of my Dreams) by Sergio Bambaren

The favourite list of my mother:

Movie: As it is in heaven

Song: Somebody to Love by Queen

Book: The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

Jasmin

Film:

Soloalbum ( A German movie, I really liked the way they put this theme quite cool and realistic,
it somehow reminded me of the way my boyfriend was when I was sixteen)

Love actually ( I watched this movie with my whole family in the Christmas time, a warm and cheerful memory)

The eternal sunshine of a spotless mind (I watched it in England with my friends and I found the idea of the movie very sad but impressive)

song:

Florence the machine, lungs (It is actually a positive love song, but I somehow felt it expressed my relief after a breaking up situation)
Kate Nash, the nicest thing (This song describes me pretty well how I am in a relationship, I listened to it the first time on a journey in France. I was absolutely in love with my boyfriend  
who had stayed at home.

TV-show:

sex and the city (I do not have certain memory; I just always enjoyed the honest and funny ways they present modern women searching for "right one".)

Lydia, 20

Film: Meet Joe Black (The favourite film of her and her mum)
Song: Lenny Kravitz, I'll be waiting (It is song she listened to when she met her boyfriend)
show: gossip girl (In former times she met up with her best friend every Saturday to watch this show, actually she doesn't really like it that much but it reminds her of the friend)

Beate, 51

Song: Gotta tell someone by Ub40

She had a crush on the singer of the band.

Movie: 10 things I hate about you.

She found the scenes about the father trying to handle his daughters in puberty quite funny because she has been in the same situations at home.

Book: Together you are less alone.

She fell in love with the story and the characters and felt often like being a part of it.

Tv-show: Melrose place

It was easy to relate to the characters because they were her age and successful in their jobs.

Lea

Favourite love songs

1.“Das ist wie fliegen” by Lotto King Karl

We’ve heard the song when my boyfriend and I were kissing for the first time!

2.“Bellas Lullaby”

I was at home and my boyfriend was in Düsseldorf over just one day an one night. Normally we are together every day, because we are living together and we are dating over 4 years now. So it was strange to be at home without him. Then my sister send me a link from youtube with the song “Bellas Lullaby” and when I started hearing it, I automatically started to cry. On the one time I was said at this moment, because he wasn’t with me at this moment, but on the other hand I cried because of happiness! It was a strange feeling, but I will never forget this situation.

3.“3 words” by Cheryl Cole and Will.I.am

I’ve heard the song for the first time, when I was sitting in the car to visit a friend. The radio started playing the song and I was a bit shocked, because this song is describing my situation pretty well, especially in the beginning.

Favourite love movie

1.Titanic

2.Pearl Harbour

3.Love actually

4.The holiday

Favourite love books

1.The Twilight Saga (especially the first one)

When I started reading the first book I just could not stop. It was amazing, romantic, fascinating. While reading I cried and laughed out loud. Unfortunately it took me just two days to finish reading the first book.

2.PS: I love you

It is quite a long time ago that I’ve read this book, but I can still remember it very well! It as pretty hard reading this book, I was crying nearly the whole time. It was so tragic, but at the same time it was beautiful!

Leonie

Movie: Harold and Maude

I watched this movie with some really good friends and we had a lot of fun. Although it´s a pretty uncommon love, that is represented in the movie, I was somehow astonished by the intensity.

Song: Freundeskreis-Mit Dir (Translation: Circle of friends: With You)

That´s a song that is rather old (it´s from the 90´s), but I´ve always liked it and it somehow remembers me of my boyfriend because he likes this band really much in he was on their last concert in  Stuttgart. It´s one of my favourite songs, that I can listen to every time over and over again.

Book: "Die Mitte der Welt" by Andreas Steinhöfel (Translation: The Middle of the World) This book is a about a gay boy that falls in love with a friend from school. It´s pretty dramatic. I read it when I was about 13 years old and a really good friend of mine read it as well so we talked a lot about it. It´s not a common love book, it´s rather about the devastated life of a young guy and how he deals with that. It always remembers of my this friend I used to talk with about this book. She studies in Berlin so we don´t see each other a lot.

Love themed TV Show: Gilmore Girls

I don’t have a lot personal memories concerning this show. I somehow just like the characters and since a lot of other girls do as well, we can all watch it together, which is always fun.

Person from an older generation:

Movie: Pretty Woman

There’s no special memories that goes with that film, but it is the one film about love, that I remember. It’s a bit cheesy and unrealistic but it’s love after all.

Song: Herbert Grönemeyer-Der Weg (Translation: The Way)

That’s a song, which the singer wrote to his wife who died a few years before. It´s really dramatic and it touches me deeply, whenever I´m listening to it, I think how happy I am that my family and my husband are alive and healthy.

Book: "Paula" by Isabel Allende

This book is biography and it is about the daughter of Isabel Allende who became severely ill and was nursed at home until she died. That book really impressed me, because the mother was so strong and saw her daughter dying but still stood at her side. It is not a common love story but it also shows how strong the bond between mothers and children can be. Since I have a daughter myself, I´ll always think about her when I read this favourite book of mine.

Linda

Movie: “Little Lord Fauntleroy“ when I was younger, this movie was always shown on TV around Christmas time and I watched it each time with my mother. We were delighted by the loving Cederic over and over again.

Song: “A Compliment“(it is a German song, translation attached)  while spending my summer vacations with my Canadian host family, my boyfriend sent a letter with a CD to me. It was a mix of music and the first song on it was “A Compliment”

TV Show: “7th Heaven“ I used to watch it after school and I loved to see how this big family deals with daily problems and still loves each other. It always reminded me at how lucky I am to have a wonderful loving family myself and how great my parents are treating my brothers and me.

Book: “The Little Prince”  The chapter when the Little Prince meets and tames a fox is my favourite. For my 15th birthday my two best friends put the text of this chapter handwritten on a pillow case so that I could read it before going to bed.

Favourits list of an other generation: my Canadian host dad

Song: My favourite love song is Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart.  It was 1972 and I had just broken up with a girlfriend in Antigonish Nova Scotia.  I was heartbroken and used to go to a local hangout and put coins in the jukebox and play this song over and over again.  

Movie: My favourite love movie was "Love Story" with Ryan O'Neil and Ali McGraw.  I can remember that it was 1970 and I was in my early university days.   The movie was about a hockey player in Boston who falls in love with a young girl and the quote that I will always remember from this movie is "Love is never having to say you're sorry".   It was a wonderful movie and made you feel good inside and you could go through the emotions that were being felt by the actors because I was that age.

TV show: My favourite TV show that was loosely based on a love story was called "I Love Lucy".   I was a little boy and it was the kind of TV show that all the family could watch and enjoy.  There was no swearing and it was a real funny show.   It ran from the early 1950s to the early 1960s but had reruns for many decades following that.    We watched it on a black and white TV set and I can remember seeing the show, laughing and having fun with my sisters as we shared this program together.   My mother too loved watching it.   So for me it was the love of a family watching another family who loved and cared for one another.

Video: My favourite video is much later in my life - 1994.   My sons became interested in a band by the name of Bon Jovi.   I too loved their music and began listening to them.   The song taken from their album  "Keep the Faith" in November of 92 had a love song called "Lay me Down on a Bed or Roses".   This song and video appealed to me.   It showed scenes from atop a mountain, in a hotel room and on stage.  The tune really was catchy and although I don't have any personal experience with the words, I like them.

Lisa

Text:

“I carried your heart in mine” …:

When a classmate of me died in 2009 her best friend presented this poem on her memorial service. She started to cry while doing so and everyone could feel the love she was feeling for her friend that was gone now. It was the moment I realized that S. left behind so much love and so many people that were missing her and the thought was beautiful and somehow comforting at that time. Suddenly there was a glimpse of hope in this overall very sad time. Everyone was crying a lot, but at the same time it brought us all closer together than we ever were before. This poem reminds me of the positive strength that grew out of the togetherness and the love we were all feeling for each other and for S. Even though she’s gone, she gave us so much.

“Many who devote their whole life to love can tell us less about it than a child that lost its dog yesterday.” (Anonymous):

I think this quotation expresses that love is unpredictable and even though we might think we understand it, we don’t and probably never will. And I just needed this little reminder that love is this huge and mysterious thing, while now I’m expected to talk and think about it in this scientific kind of way.

Song: (really there are too many to list, this was really hard…) 

„I hope you dance“ by Lee Ann Womack:

I go with this one, because I received it from a friend and I feel like this is one of the best expressions of love. The things the singer is wishing for are things I’d like to wish for the people I love, because they are important to me. The thought of someone singing this song to another person is making me happy. In addition I truly believe that dancing is the perfect way of moving through this world. :)

“Hurt” by Christina Aguilera:

This song was playing on the radio when I realized that my grandparents know so much more than I thought. I don’t know why, but sometimes you tend to think they’re ‘just’ old people and don’t get what is going on in your life. But at this one evening my granddad came to me and just held my hand after I had another fight with my mom. He felt that inside of me there was a storm going on even though I was even calmer on the outside. Suddenly I realized that he knew what was going on and just didn’t know how to communicate it. It gave me a whole new perspective on my grandparents and listening to this song in the background made me feel so much love for him that it almost hurt.

Movie:

„Little Miss Sunshine“(Jonathan Dayton/ Valerie Faris): Family-love is never easy, it’s even painful sometimes. But it’s there. The road is the goal.

“Rent” (Chris Columbus): Do I need to say more than “measure your life in love”?

“New York, I love you” (Jiang Wen/ Mira Nair/ Shunji Iwai/…): The thing about short movies is that they often leave so much space for your imagination. And imagination is important when it’s about love in its different shapes. Since love is touching everyone all the little stories make a big one in the end.

Favorites List- older generation (grandparents):

Grandma:

Book:

“Reading books makes me tired now that’s why I’m mostly reading magazines these days.”

Movie:

“I like movies that are based upon the books by Utta Danella or Rosamunde Pilcher a lot right now.”

Song:

“Since I’m singing in the choir and we do a lot of beautiful songs, I don’t have one favorite song, but I like mostly folk music!”

Granddad:

Book:

“It’s been quite some time, since I’ve been reading books but I go with novels by Johannes Mario Simmel”

Movie:

“Heimatfilme”

Song:

“I really like opera arias as they appear in Aida for example.”

        Well the difference is pretty obvious. For example I can’t stand movies after Rosamunde Pilcher because they express a different image of love life than I have. And I don’t like the Heimatfilme either. They are just stupid and invented by the Nazis to distract people from the war going on. That’s why I hate the idea behind them but I guess you can’t blame my granddad for liking them. He was a child when the war was going on, these movies were part of his childhood and he grew up with them. I can only assume that they remind him of the life when he still had his mum. Well how sad that my grandma isn’t into books anymore these days and I don’t even know who the author is my granddad mentioned. The only thing where I’m agreeing with them is about the opera arias. This kind of “classical” music survives through time and I like it still today.

Madlen

Movies:

1.“Love Vegas“

2.“The Holiday“

3.“Twilight“

Songs:

1.Bruno Mars: “Just the way you are“

2.Coldplay: “The Scientist“

Books:

1.Stephenie Meyer: “Twilight“

2.Marc Levy: “Solange du da bist“ (“As long as you are there“)

3.Jane Austen: “Pride and Prejudice“

The reasons why I picked those movies, songs and books:

My favourite movie is “Love Vegas“ which I already saw a lot of times and I will never get sick of it. I remember watching it with my best friend and we laughed a lot. It made us happy to see that different personalities with different expectations of life could still find each other in the end.

I liked the movie “The Holiday“ because of the actors and the fact that the movie is about two love stories.  I can’t really remember the time when I watched it for the first time but it belongs to one of my favorite movies.

The last movie “Twilight“ has to be on my list because it’s such an amazing love story but also different. I watched the movie because I read the books before and I love all of them. The movie isn’t as good as the books are but I really like the story about a normal average girl and a vampire.

When I think about my favourite love songs Bruno Mars’s “Just the way you are” song pops up in my head. As every evening I logged myself into facebook and I was just looking at my friends pages as I saw a video my friend called: for my girlfriend. So I watched it and it was Bruno Mars’s song. Since then I heard it a lot of times in the radio but I get never sick of listening to it.

The song “The Scientist“ by Coldplay is a really old song and it reminds me of my year abroad in grade eleven. My best friend and me were listening to it all the time when we didn’t have anything to do. Every time I hear it I get a chill and old memories of good times come back up.

My favourite book is definitely  “Twilight“ by Stephenie Meyer. As I already mentioned I just love the story and Meyer is a great writer. My best friend recommended the book to me before it got so famous because we both had been in Phoenix and the girl,

Bella, lived there in the beginning.

My probably second favourite book is “Solange du da bist“ by Marc Levy. I read it a long time ago but I remember that I had to cry because I felt for the couple, a man and a comatose woman.

The book “Pride and Prejudice“ by Jane Austen is a famous old book and I really liked the story about an arrogant, rich guy who falls for an indigent girl. I read the book in English and because of the old language it was a bit hard to understand at times but the story is really good.

List of my mom:

Movies:

1. “Pretty Woman”

2. “Sissi”

3. “Dirty Dancing”

Books:

1.Kathleen E. Woodiwiss:  “Auf den Wogen der Sehnsucht” (The waves of longing)

My mom’s favourite movie is “Pretty Woman” because it’s a love-story between a rich guy and a poor prostitute. There are a lot of those kind of stories where a poor girl falls for a rich or famous boy.  She told me that she saw the movie a lot of times already and she never gets sick of it.

Her second choice is a famous movie here in Germany. “Sissi” became the empress of Austria when she married Franz. She loved him but she always had a hard time adjusting to such a privileged life. My mom likes that movie because it’s a true story and it’s romantic.

“Dirty Dancing” is one of her favourite movies because she definitely loves Patrick Swayze as an actor and here its similar to “Pretty Woman” but this time a rich girl falls for the poor dancer. My mom likes those stories.

My mom likes a lot of songs but she doesn’t have a favourite song because most of the songs are in English and she understands some but not all of it.

My mom reads a lot of romantic books but her favourite one is “Auf den Wogen der Sehnsucht”. The young girl loves this guy since her childhood. When she’s older he is helping her out of a misery but refuses to marry her and give up his freedom until he finally realizes that he loves her as well.  Woodiwiss is a good writer and while reading the book a different world opens up to us and it ropes someone in.

Michael

Song: One of my favourite songs is Nine Million Bicycles from Katie Melua. I have known that song for a long time but I never paid attention to its lyrics. From August 2009 till August 2010 I lived in Lima Peru and I got to know my partner on New Year’s Eve. I really fell in love and when I traveled trough Peru just with my friends I thought a lot about us and everything. On one of our long rides by bus I asked a friend of mine whether I could listen to the music on her iPod and I clicked on that song without knowing that it was Nine Million Bicycles. In this moment it just expressed perfectly what I felt and still fell for my partner.

Book: I really like the book Eleven Minutes from Paulo Coelho. It tells the story of a young Brazilian woman who first went to Rio de Janeiro searching for true love. Finally she meets a man who wants to take her to Europe so that she can make big money with her talent: dancing but instead of dancing she finds herself in prostitution… I like the story a lot because it shows how unpredictable life can be but I even more appreciate Paulo Coelho’s quotations in there: One of them is “Wenn ich alleine klarkomme, komme ich überallhin” (If I get along with myself I can go everywhere). This one helped and helps me a lot in moments when I felt small and just one of millions of people. This year after having spent twelve months in Lima I decided to also travel to Brazil. It was my first journey all alone. I didn't speak the language and I was very insecure whether it was a good idea to kind of “couch surf” there. But I landed in a warm hearted and lovely family. I spent one of the best holidays I ever had there and when I was at the top of the Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açucar) I had the feeling I really get along with myself…

Movie: I love the movie pride and prejudice. Conflicts belong to a relationship and I think they are also important to move on. But last time I had a fight with my partner and I knew that I was wrong I realized how hard it was to get over my pride and apologize myself for my mistakes.

I would like to do this with a person from an older generation. I was very interesting searching for some songs, books and movies that matters to me because I some many experiences I made come to my mind... but truth is that I don´t live with my family and I don´t have grandparents anymore. My mum just is one holidays till Sunday and I´m really occupied with math and statistics because of the exam on Saturday. So I you want I can phone my Mom on Sundays to ask her…

Philipp

Love song:

Actually most of the songs we listen to are about love. But are they all love songs? So I choose 2 songs:

The first one is by Robyn, it’s: “Dancing on my own”. I think in this song she describes in a perfectly simple way how you feel when you broke up with your partner and now find out that he or she found a new lover after a short time. So this song reminds me of situations when I was in a relationship and something went wrong and in the first moment you feel shocked and lonely.

The second one is “All is full of love” by Björk. She is my favourite female singer and this song was on one of my first CD’s I ever bought. I think she is just gorgeous and out of this world. This song represents a part of my love to music.

Movie:

I really don’t like this cheesy, said to be romantic, movies with Julia Roberts or whoever. So I can’t really remember “THE Love movie” (or what most people think a love movie should be).  Maybe I should take “Dancer in the dark”. The story is about a mother who has an eye disease that will lead to the fact that she will be blind one day. Her son suffers the same so she safes every dollar to afford an operation for him. Because of some miserable coincidences she is accused of murdered her neighbour and in the end executed. She was afraid of telling the truth and someone taking the money for her son. So that’s real unconditional love.

Movie/Musical:

When I was about 5 or 6 years old “The Lion King” was really popular and I watched it a several times. This story is a lot about love in general: love for your father, for your country and friends. But sometimes in the evening when I was lonely in my bed I had to cry because I had to think about the situation when the small lion Simba had to leave his country because Scar said it was his fault that his father died. This really scared me. Maybe this was the fear everyone has, the fear of not being loved.

“Love List” for a person from the generation of my parents

Song:

For this generation there were only existing “The Beatles” or the “Rolling Stones” and not much besides. So their love songs might have been “Can’t buy me love” or “Satisfaction”. I think at the end of the 60's there was a much going on in the society, young people want to change and liberate their lives. And that includes also love. These two bands might have been the Soundtrack of their love revolution.

Movie:

“Angst essen Seele auf” is a movie shot by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a famous German director. It’s about an older woman who falls in love with a much younger Arabic man. They have to fight against a lot of prejudices in their surrounding field and finally broke up. This movie is not only a movie with a sad love story it also mirrors the situation of the society in Germany in the 70's. 

Pia

My favourites

“Notting Hill” by Roger Mitchell (1999) is my favourite film. The first time I have watched it in the cinema. I was so enthusiastic about the film, that I watched it several times on video and DVD. I think it is a great love story which lets the viewer dream of love beyond rank or money. I liked especially Julia Roberts as famous actress Anna Scott, but the other actors might be as important for the charm of the film. Next to the main plot there exist several smaller love stories. They convey the message that everybody finds a partner. Though the film is very romantic it is a comedy. That is why this film means love and happiness to me.

Sonnet XY “My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun….” by William Shakespeare is my favourite love poem. I came across it in a Latin class. We were discussing Petrarchan-sonnets. Petrarch idolizes the beloved women. The woman is usually compared with nature and even considered to be more beautiful. For me that did not seem to be realistic and I was relieved when we got Shakespeare’s sonnet as contrast. In this poem the woman is not absolutely not perfect, but beloved nevertheless. I believe that is the way it is if you really love someone.

The play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is the most beautiful and tragic love story. I think it contains everything about love. I might not be the only one of that opinion. Because of that I heard about Romeo and Juliet’s story long before I actually read the play. But I did not only read it, I have an audio play, have watched the film and have seen it on stage. Whatever it was the plot casts a spell on me, because on the one hand it is sad, but on the other hand it strengthens the idea of love.

My father’s favourites

If I hear music from the album “X&Y” by Coldplay (2005), I remember a holiday with my girlfriend. We travelled by car, had fantastic weather and listened to this music.

One special song which means love to me is “Angie“by the Rolling Stones (1973). When I was about 16 years old I was in love with a girl from my class. During a school trip we were sitting together at a barn and from somewhere we could hear that song.

10 years ago we (my partner, my daughter) went to a concert by Klaus Hoffmann in the Cologne philharmonic hall. The atmosphere, the performance, the sound: everything was great and we were really excited. The music by Klaus Hoffmann always reminds me of this concert and a situation, where we were happy as a family.

Severin

Songs:

Lass sie reden – Rosenstolz (I sang this song on a birthday video my sister and me made for a good friend- it was kinda like a live concert of this band only we sang the songs)

Hey (I love you) – Michael Franti (Roadtrip through the US with my sister, without my girlfriend)

Movies:

Keinohrhase (because I love my girl)

Once (just a good memory)

Love Actually (my better half)

Life of Brian (Something I really share with my family)

Notebook (because I love my girl very much)

TV Shows:

Friends (I always liked it but I really just started watching it with my girlfriend)

How I met your Mother (Also a show I watched with my girlfriend)

Married with Children (Family tradition)

List of somebody’s favourite love things :

Songs:

Apologize  – Timberland featuring One Republic

Ich bin Ich –  Adoro

Movies:

Love story

TV Shows:

Verliebt in Berlin ()

Simon

Movie: “Bella Martha” (Mostly Martha)

Martha has no Kids of her own. She is a headstrong chef, who seems to have no time for love. From one day to the other, because of the death of her sister, Martha has to take care of her niece Lina. Her sister died in a car accident, on their way to visit Martha. Lina survived. This movie is about a woman who nearly forgot what love is and about how she reacquires the ability to love by raising her niece. It is about a complicated relationship between two stubborn individuals dealing with a tragic loss. The auntie-nice-relationship faces a lot of difficulties but finally both share their love for cooking and Mario. Lina likes the new sous chef and he makes it possible for her to spend a lot of time at the restaurant kitchen. Martha and Mario learn Lina to love cooking and Lina teaches Martha to love Mario.

This movie had been recommended to me by the cook of the kindergarten I did my voluntary service at. But it happened to be another two years before I watched “Bella Martha” for the first time. I was half way through my apprenticeship as a hotel-specialist and especially fascinated by the restaurant business. One of my teachers at vocational school brought the movie on our last day of the block. Everyone ells were like, “it is time to go home” but I would have been willing to stay even longer to finish the movie. I just love German Movies especially from Hamburg. Further food is one of my favourite topics and the story of “Bella Martha” is just great.

In 2007 there is a Hollywood adaption of “Bella Martha” starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.  “No reservations” has exactly the same plot and the same dialogs. Just the actors and the setting are different but it is not half as good as “Bella Martha”.

Book: “Kinderkriegen ist soooo schön“

The title, like the book itself is hard to translate into English. But I try. “Receiving a child is sooo wonderful” by Jan Kuhl and his pupils explains love out of the perspective of children. The authors of the book are part of a class of love, like we are. For me it is the primary school of thinking and feeling. Every pupil painted one drawing and wrote a sentence on it. It is about love, sex, being pregnant and having a baby.  There are sentences like: “if a man meets a beautiful woman they are kissing” or “if people have a lot of sex they will have twins”. But actually it is all about the illustrations. Just try to imagine how a child illustrates a sentence like “If the baby is screaming, Papa says it is getting a teeth. But that’s a lie, because so many teeth aren’t possible”. There is another clever sentence in this book that has nothing to do with love: “Babies are lucky they do not have to do homework.”

Music: Patrice

The artist who I learned most about love from is Patrice. I can’t tell what my favourite song is because there is a Patrice-Love-Song for every situation. It depends on my mood which song to pick. However long or short it needs finishing this homework and whichever song I would pick, when finished I will probably have changed my mind and pick another song as my favourite.

The first song of Patrice that I got to know was called “love”.  The chorus is “I need you like the moon needs the sun to shine” and that was about all I could understand, because even if Patrice is from Hamburg, he sings in English with an accent, difficult for me to understand.  The first time I went to a life show of Patrice was when I was 16. It wasn’t the last one I saw. I went there with 3 guys, who are some of my best friends since then.  For me Patrice’s music is about friendship as well as about love. I didn’t know too much English and I didn’t know too much about love at that point. All I needed were some nice and easy to understand messages like “You always you my sweet dream” for example or “When I am up in my room and I am thinking of you”. It took a while until I could understand what some of these songs where really about. Up in my room for example continues like “Emancipating my heart from Hollywood love too many people got caught. Emancipating my mind from a system designed to limit mankind but I leave that behind, when I am up in my room”.

Patrice has messages not only about romantic love but he has also ideas how to make the world a brighter place. “Here again” is one of these songs that combine both messages. Patrice says that love happens all the time: “I mean the love between girls and boys. Love between me and my friends and family it won’t end so real I can’t pretend.” and further “every day you gotta change your ways. Love has its way, so don’t loose your way. Make sure there`s something left now for those on the way, for a brighter day.” I agree with Patrice’s idea of “love for life”. The song “Be Your Man” says “all the way by your side and when the road gets ruff I will try. I’m tellin’ you as plain and as simple as I can that I care ‘bout you”. It is actually the same thing that you learn about love and marriages by watching Hollywood movies. Somehow I see myself more reflected in Patrice’s songs than in these movies, because I do not think that it is necessary to get married to make a commitment to each other. The lyrics: “As I denied myself I denied you as well, but here I am not to run but to be your man” are about to decide for oneself to be willing loving somebody for life.

Ildika Koppen lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia with her partner Geoff who is blind. She is the daughter of the brother of my girlfriends’ grandmother. I don’t know if there is one word for that in English. Instead of getting married, Ildika and Geoff had a commitment ceremony at a lighthouse in Fingal at the Gold Coast. She thinks love for nature is an aspect that should be part of our discussion about love as well. When we came to visit her and Geoff last year, they took us to Fingal to show us the place. It is like Byron bay, one of the hippy places at the Gold Coast but there are hardly any tourists. It is not a mainstream place and Ildika and Geoff don’t live a mainstream love at all.  Ildika has no children of her own but a dog called Schatzi, who she loves as well. She met Geoff doing a play, which they both were compelled to act in, even if they thought it was a stupid script.

An evolved love to Ildika is just finding the person with whom it 'feels right' to be with and where love is an easy and natural thing to feel.

Her favourite love poem is Emily Dickinson "Wild Nights-Wild Nights"

Wild nights-wild nights

Were I with thee

Wild nights should be

Our luxury!

Futile-the Winds

to a Heart in port

done with the compass

Done with the chart!

Rowing in Eden-

Ah, the Sea!

Might I but moor-tonight

In Thee!

Her friend Samantha read this at their commitment ceremony at Fingal.

Her favourite sad love movie is actually an animal documentary called "The March of the Emperor Penguins" because the male penguin fought with every bit of it instinct to keep its partner's egg warm in blizzards and when the egg died, the male and female penguin actually cried in mourning...

For Ildika “it was the MOST heartbreaking illustration of love” she ever saw on a movie screen. She says “Geoff was with me and I cried, cried and cried at the cinema!!!!!!!”  

Her favourite love song is not just one. For her there are many.

Ildika wrote: “I LOVE the B52's and their songs like: 'Summer of Love'“- the lyrics say:

"It's the Summer of love,love,love

I'm in love with the love, love,love 

Everything transcends here..I'm thinking of you...Love energy!

“At the moment I am singing "It's crazy, but I'm in love" by Natalie Cole 

I chose this song to sing because it is how I feel about when you are first in love and when you feel 'love drunk' eg.

"I jump up and down, 

Shake out the Sun

Laugh like a loon

Everything’s fun

It's crazy but I'm in love.

It's crazy but I'm in love.

Thea

My favourite love songs:

1) Bruno Mars- Grenade

- It’s a quite tragic song as the interpret loves a person but the other one just takes advantaged of him.  However there is no specific context why I chose this song, I just feel for the person being in this tragic situation of loving somebody, but not receiving it from her. 

2) I will always love you- Whitney Houston

- This is also a very tragic song of saying to someone goodbye, but still incredibly loving this person.

3) My heart will go on- Celine Dion-

- This is probably the greatest love song ever written.

I don’t have specific connotations with any of these songs. I just like them, they represent this what I understand of love. Although all of them are pretty tragic and telling the sad sites of love, they show how endless love can be. For example, in the first song, the person knows that she doesn’t love him and is being rude to him, he still cannot stop loving the girl.

Movies:

1) Pride and Prejudices:

- I love this film and I had to see it as I read the book.

2) Titanic:

-I always watched this film with my best (girls) friends, no boys allowed, just us. It was fabulous!

3) Pretty Woman:

- is probably one of the first love movies I saw. I always loved to see this movie with my sister, we saw it hundred times together.

Books:

1) Pride Prejudice

- I just love the story of two people falling in love, although they seemed to be completely different.

2) P.S. I love you

-this great and also funny book taught me that love is still present beyond death.

TV Show:

1) Greys Anatomy:

I have no other favourite love TV show, as I like to watch crime series. However Greys Anatomy is so great to watch, it’s funny but also tragic. It shows all sites of love: people breaking up, couples coming together, love in times of pain/death, love between a mother and a child etc….

My Mother:

Song: Jackie DeShannon- What the world needs now is Love

she just likes the song and she has no connotations with it, just the idea that the world need love and nothing else

Movie: Titanic

very dramatic movie and she just though of it immediately as the love story ever told. However she doesn’t really watch a lot of movies and she cannot remember with whom she watched this film.

TV-Show- Rosamunde Pilcher (it’s more a movie, every Sunday a new story) Rosamunde Pilcher is an author and every movie is based on one of her books

she loves to watch this series as it’s so surreal and she likes the landscapes shown. The story is always very simple and easy to watch.She usually watch it with my father or they watch “Tatort” a crime series, but again she has no memories of this show why she watch it.

Book:

my mother doesn’t read a lot, if she reads something then a thriller or a crime book, such as Donna Leon, in the holidays.