I would take it easy and enjoy your engagement for now. This is such a special time in your relationship, that you might just take a few weeks or a month to savor it.

I like Frank better, by the way, but “Tears Dry On Their Own” is on my Top 25 most played on iTunes right now.

Kirk’s final sentiments are right on. I am in the middle of planning my wedding. And the amount of people that want to but it grows. I had a huge family. I know everybody says that but I have 137 first cousins. And the amazing thing I found is the problem is not the family butting in (I mean you’ve known these people forever and they are pains in the ass but you can get through them) but the outside people. People you work with, people at church, etc etc. Take your time on the date. There is no rush and with the costs of weddings now you might need some time to put stuff together. Besides if you want to have your wedding at a specific church the church availability may decide the date for you.

Amy Winehouse = Good album, but seems like she might be a one-hit (album) wonder. Agreed that the production is a big part of it.

Pop = Absolute trash. You’re better than that. Stop pretending it doesn’t suck. If there’s something about that album you didn’t hear in the first 5-10 years, then it isn’t there to be heard.

Jill Scott = Sure…I guess so. All I can remember about her is that there’s no way that bike she rode in that video of hers was standard issue. Someone…NASA, Army Corps of Engineers, someone…had reinforced that baby with something indestructible. It looked just like an elephant riding a tiny tricycle in the circus.

Last but not least, speaking from painfully recent experience, they ask if you’ve set a date because it gives them an idea of how much time they have to interefere with the plans and generally be an unwelcome pain in the ass.

As for Amy Winehouse, I liked her when she was around the first time. When she was called “P.J. Harvey.” (read as David Spade saying this like he did on SNL).

The only people I know who had the date set when they got engaged had a little bundle of joy on the way, and the engagement wasn’t a surprise to anyone.

From what I’ve seen, if the girl is truely surprised by the asking, she’s gonna need at least 2 weeks to show off that ring and make her girlfriends jealous before any planning comes off–including setting the date.

i actually liked the “idlewild” soundtrack. it was pretty good.

i haven’t heard this album. i don’t buy too much rap and i don’t listen to the radio.

amy winehouse is pretty good. i went back and found her first album. i’m enjoying them both.

2. Its an evolutionary album. In some ways its trapped by being a soundtrack to a period movie so musically it has to be things that are kinda UN hiphopish at first blush, but ultimately come off quite well over time.

3. Im still bothered that the two personas ARENT that far apart. If you gonna do the alter ego thing…I want Jeckell and Hyde…Shock G and Humpty Hump.

That said…dude is still something else.

4. Sadly, for all the hype…Im not that familiar with Amy Winehouse. I think the notion of putting her in the same category as Jill Scott have slowed me even bothering to see how appropriate the comparison is.

4.) I like the Winehouse album. The music may not be original, but it burns. She tries a little too hard, but it’s not enough to derail the overall experience. I can’t see people listening to it in 5 years, though.