It's Valentine's Day again, but I don't want to write a typical rant about how February 14th is a manufactured "Hallmark Holiday," how florists might as well bend you over the counter as they hand over your flowers or how the service sucks at all restaurants and their price-fixed choices should be flushed down the toilet (if I'm forking over hundreds of dollars I'll order ANYTHING I want off the menu).
No. That line of thought would be too easy, too traditional. Instead, I want to talk about Fred Durst.
To the casual observer it might seem that the concept of romance AND Fred Durst could never exist together under any circumstances. But they do.
Just ask several Playboy Playmates, Britney Spears, Halle Berry and numerous other extremely attractive women who have been rumored to have taken a roll in the hay with Durst before they kept a "Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'" themselves.
Many of these women will barely admit to even knowing Durst after their supposed interactions, but who can really blame them? The important thing to me is that something might have happened in the first place.
I mean what kind of hidden depths does Durst posses that I cannot find?
From my perspective he's a man who enjoys shouting, writing mediocre to embarassing lyrics, prone to excessively using a backwards baseball hat to hide his receding hairline, doesn't appear to care for personal hygiene, and has been accused by several people (including former band members) of being a giant asshole.
Romantic indeed. But, the guy has to have something going for him and maybe it's his spiritual side.
"The spirit inside of me is a predator of energy and balance," - Fred Durst (taken from his blog)
That must be it.
I've always felt the spirit inside of me was like a tornado of karma, fusion and lunch meat. That sorry package, however, is nothing compared to Mr. Fred Durst, a man who knows no bounds or limits when it comes to romance or keeping his spiritual side in balance.
I think we all could learn something from him on Valentine's Day 2005.
-BDS
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