I dare you to find me a more emo day than Valentine's Day. We can either celebrate love and be all romantic and cheesy, or mourn love and spit in the general directions of all the Hallmark stores that invented the damned holiday to begin with. I kind of prefer a combination -- I like to celebrate love, but at the same time, shun the odd -looking heart bears, over-priced flowers, and whatever else you're supposed to like and give people on this day. Anyway, it's Thursday, and that's a wrestling night in my house.

Anyway, I asked a bunch of punk and emo bands what came to mind when they thought of their first loves. As expected... some cute, some sad, some completely hilarious.

Brien Worsham- Vocals, Secret Lives! Of The Freemasons:
I was in 4th grade when this girl Jenn* moved to my school. I was instantly in love with this girl. From her permed hair right down to her big ass teeth… I was in love. Until the day we kissed, that is. This girl’s spit was out-of-control. It was like kissing a water fountain! You can imagine how bummed I was. Didn’t even have time to cop my first feel or anything. Nothing but instant gross out. Thanks for letting me vent about this, Shoutmouth.

Chris - Vocals, Vanna

I would say my first love was one of my best friends. I had a problem with falling in love with all my girl best friends, and that was a theme with me. I was afraid to branch out on girls I didn't know. The nice thing is, I'm still really good friends with all my first loves.

Daniel Hunter - Vocals, Everything Else, PlayRadioPlay:

When I was in 7th grade I think... I dated my first love for 8 months and we never kissed...

Brian Nagan- Vocals, Four Letter Lie:

"I remember I was in first grade, and it was about half way through the school year when a new girl joined our grade. She had moved here from another state and of course whenever there is a new student at your school, everyone knows about it. Her name was Jennifer* and she was so cute. I had a crush on her for sure, but the problem was, my two other best friends did too. Everyday at recess we would spend all of our time trying to impress this girl and out do the other. One day I brought her flowers, and even went so far as to stealing a pair of my mothers earrings and giving them to this girl, remember...she was in first grade and could obviously never wear any sort of fine jewelry.

The day I finally got the chance to hang out with this girl outside of class when I got to her house, one of my friends was already there and he told me to leave and that he "had her first". I felt pretty devastated. Every day after that I no longer talked to her or tried to entertain her at recess. And that was the beginning of my endless losing streak with girls.

Jared - Drums, Innerpartysystem:

The only thing I remember about my first love was that it was painfully blinded by 13 year old teenage hormones. No one knows what the fuck love really is the first time around, and like anything else, you make a lot of mistakes when you're learning

Doug Robinson- Vocals, The Sleeping:

My first love married my best friend about five months ago which is funny because he started seeing her after he told me she was cheating on me with one of our other friends.... haha. We are all still close to this day.

Oh and my second love would smash her own head against the steering wheel every time we got into an argument basically scaring the shit out of me and forcing me to fear for my life... haha.

Alida Marroni- Vocals, 1997

I'd have to say that I was incredibly lucky to have fallen in love and stayed with that person for the years that I did. I barely have any regrets when it comes to the situation, which is fairly unusual for such a long relationship. There is nothing like being in love throughout all of high school. In a lot of ways it's as typical and adorable as it sounds. However, I neglected a lot of friends and experiences during this time because I was so caught up and dependent on another person. That's probably the only downside of it all. I haven't been in love since, but I hear that the first one will always have a big part of you.

So... what do you remember about your first love?

And... Happy Valentine's Day!

I've had this song in my head since I woke up, so it's my gift to you guys: