Vincent,
You have no idea how correct you are....
Mark
What Makes You Cry
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FrankChurch
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Vincent, you didn't see comments by Harlan, where he agrees with me that Forest Gump is not only a bad movie, but evil in almost every way. The film is lice on the eyes, rat turds on the American Dream. The movie basically implies that life without a clue is the utmost in being there. The movie is morally below even Kiddie porn. I am completely serious. A stinker.
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For some reason the whole berserker scene in the cave under Koom Valley (from Terry Pratchett's Thud!) gets me leakin' every time. Like now, for example (I just finished that bit here at my desk). And god DAMN what an excellent movie that book would make.
I'm sappy for a well-played cello, and those high, passionato, one-note caesuras on fiddle or clarinet in certain bits of klezmer music absolutely arrest me; I freeze, I weep, and eventually I regather myself and move on, but for those moments, nothing exists but the music.
I'm sappy for a well-played cello, and those high, passionato, one-note caesuras on fiddle or clarinet in certain bits of klezmer music absolutely arrest me; I freeze, I weep, and eventually I regather myself and move on, but for those moments, nothing exists but the music.
aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!! My nipples!
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Dog stories. Every fuckin' time. I can't read Lassie to save my life, and Albert Payson Terhune reduces me to a blubbering idiot every time.
Let's not even mention Old Yeller, 'k? And Abhu goes without saying. I'm pretty sure this has to do with the closest, most loyal people I've ever known being dogs. Some of James Herriot's stories get to me that way too.
Also, Tuesdays With Morrie and The Notebook both get to me because my grandfather (who was pretty much my father for most of my life) died of ALS. My 8th grade teacher made us watch Tuesdays With Morrie about two months after he died, and I broke down like a whipped puppy. Not much fun.
What else? Musically, there are a few pieces that make me cry. Debussy's La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin and the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem are two pieces that really always get me.
Let's not even mention Old Yeller, 'k? And Abhu goes without saying. I'm pretty sure this has to do with the closest, most loyal people I've ever known being dogs. Some of James Herriot's stories get to me that way too.
Also, Tuesdays With Morrie and The Notebook both get to me because my grandfather (who was pretty much my father for most of my life) died of ALS. My 8th grade teacher made us watch Tuesdays With Morrie about two months after he died, and I broke down like a whipped puppy. Not much fun.
What else? Musically, there are a few pieces that make me cry. Debussy's La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin and the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem are two pieces that really always get me.
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OK, I will admit something that makes me cry:
game 6 of the 1993 World Series where Mitch Williams is pitching to Joe Carter and he... and he..... I am sorry I cannot go on.
game 6 of the 1993 World Series where Mitch Williams is pitching to Joe Carter and he... and he..... I am sorry I cannot go on.
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As far as tear-inducing music is concerned, there's Pathetique by Tchikovsky (a connection with a talk I had with my Dad some years ago), also Adagio for Strings by Barber. Strangely enough, there's a variation done for the computer game Homeworld, done with vocalizations that is at least as poignant as the strings version.
Then there's the Alagretto from Symphony 7 in A Major, Op. 92. Gets me every time.
Chuck
Then there's the Alagretto from Symphony 7 in A Major, Op. 92. Gets me every time.
Chuck
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markabaddon
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Cold? nah, I just gots a reputation I needs to protect.
Actually, here is a book that made me cry uncontrollably,
Noah's Rainbow: A Father's Emotional Journey from the Death of His Son to the Birth of His Daughter
http://www.amazon.com/Noahs-Rainbow-Fat ... 276&sr=1-1
Reading this on the bus into work in the morning was not the brightest decision I have ever made
Interesting side note, the author is a contributor to ESPN Page 2 and, I sent him a note after reading an excerpt published on that website and got a very nice response from him a few weeks later.
Actually, here is a book that made me cry uncontrollably,
Noah's Rainbow: A Father's Emotional Journey from the Death of His Son to the Birth of His Daughter
http://www.amazon.com/Noahs-Rainbow-Fat ... 276&sr=1-1
Reading this on the bus into work in the morning was not the brightest decision I have ever made
Interesting side note, the author is a contributor to ESPN Page 2 and, I sent him a note after reading an excerpt published on that website and got a very nice response from him a few weeks later.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristrocratic forms. No gov't in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, gov't tends more and mroe to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class
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Even for someone who does not like kids, you could imagine that the death of a child would be the most traumatic loss one could suffer.
Jeez, and you said I was cold......
Jeez, and you said I was cold......
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