buzzsaw wrote:eternal sunshine for the spotless mind.
my fiancee and i were both taken by the highs and lows of love in that movie. leaving the theatre, I was welling up with joy for having someone that means so much to me, that I got in the car and lost it. my girlfriend was right there sobbing with me. it was quite a sight.
I cried before that when i saw adaptation. reminded me of how much my brother and I have grown apart. made me really cry hard.
something about that writers movies strike a chord with me. they make me face something that I dont realize is bothering me I guess.
being john malkovich failed to break my heart, though.
I cannot think of that writers name off the top of my head. you know who i am talking about, probably.
crying rules.

charlie kaufman.

aside from that, i don't know when the last time i cried was. there's a lot i have to cry about quite literally, but there's a lot that i don't. so i generally strike a numb balance.

i didn't cry when i heard my sister was pregnant.

i almost cried at the end of big fish.

...spotless mind didn't make me near lose it as i just escaped my own shit relationship. and at the end when they decided not to do it again, i was just like, "good call."

the ghost story page, though, that really almost makes me cry. ghosts make me cry. i don't know why.

that damned fly wrote:...spotless mind <snip!> at the end when they decided not to do it again

Erp? I thought they got back together at the end.

i thought they didn't. could it be left open ended for our own interpretations or did i just see/hear what i wanted. which was "get the fuck away from that crazy woman!"

which i can say. if all the memories of the relationship are lost, then all that was learned from it was lost. which means they're doomed to repeat the shit that drove them apart.

at least, that's how i see it.

i spent the last week of april this year at my grandparents house watching my grandmother starve to death bacause of an inoperable tumor blocking her intestines. i cried during that week more than i'd cried in the past 4 years put together.

sometimes i get a little glassy eyed to music. especially albums that remind me of past girlfriends. neil young, palace, the dirty three, and galaxie 500 all come to mind here.

bumble wrote:

that damned fly wrote:...spotless mind <snip!> at the end when they decided not to do it again

Erp? I thought they got back together at the end.

The song "phonecall" from that movie's soundtrack will always make me cry.

everytime I hear it it brings out that very-childlike part of me.

once again that movie and everything tied with it never fails to move me.

-Jeremy

Right now, it seems I cry TOO much.

My grandfather...an amazing MAN who has battled cancer for the last 25+ years is dying. He lied during WWII so that he could go and fight...he said that he was 18. He was 16. He went to France and saw things that I can't even imagine. He came back and was Chief of Police for almost 20 years. He has battled against imaginable odds his whole life.

I only wish that I can be half the man that he is.

I cried like a fucking baby the first time I saw "Dancer in the Dark".

Usually, music is the only thing that'll bring me to tears.

I agree with Dragon about "The Big Ship" by Eno. That song is just....fuck. I don't know if the song makes me sad or if I'm upset that I didn't write it first.

Songs: Ohia's "The Lioness" used to do it to me pretty bad.

Wilco - "Summerteeth" every now and then.

Radiohead's "OK Computer"....it reminds me of a shitty period of my life. During this shitty period, this album always seemed to be on in the background. I've left record stores that started playing it....

The last time I cried? Probably a week ago.

Why? Why not.

A few months ago in France. Staying with wife's elderly relatives in big nearly-empty house in Arzon (Brittany, Atlantic Coast.) Outside is bleak and cold and dark. It's very late, everyone is asleep. Too uncomfortable to wander through stranger's house at 2 am. Can't sleep. Lie awake next to sleeping wife. I'm listening to music on the headphones. Find new record purchased at fnac in Paris a day before. The Blackened Air. Never heard it before. Only heard Nina Nastasia mentioned on this board. Play CD. Soon, I'm inexpressibly lonely. The quietness and spaciousness of the record matched the quietness and emptiness of the house and the country and the bleakness of my mood. That's All There Is finally plays and I'm thinking, of course, about my wife and how long we've been together and how long we've known each other and how many tiny failures and dissapointments we've endured from each other and the malaise and boredom and ennui we occasionally trudge through and goddamn I wish I were home and all I can think is "I'm sorry, honey, I'm sorry." And before the song is even over I'm weeping copiously and stiffling great sobs. The wife wakes up and without even asking what the hell is wrong says, "It's okay, honey. It's okay." And I fall asleep, just like that, with the wife stroking my hair and saying "it's okay, it's okay, it's okay . . ."

So that's may favorite song. And never again will I reveal this much to a bunch of strangers on the internet. I haven't even hit the SUBMIT button, and I'm already embarassed.

i just got divorced recently, and even though it has been like 6 months it sucks. she just left me without a word, so i'm clueless as to what the real story is. that hurts, and every tiny little lyrics from even the stupidest songs makes me cringe. i'll be at my 2nd job and see someone... like the fucking pastor who married us and it always takes me right to the edge.

and right now i'm all emotional because i just read fmajcinek's post... that's just beautiful. hold onto that, man. cuz it sucks to have then and then have it stripped away for god only knows what reason.

whew.

My future father in law had open heart surgery on Monday. The night before the surgery my fiancee and I left the hospital to run our stuff over to the hotel before coming back to tell him goodnight. When we came back in, he and his wife (the future mother-in-law) had obviously just finished a good cry. Seeing that choked me up. It's weird, dads are supposed to be superheroes. It almost kind of sucks to realize once in awhile that they're human.

Musically:

Ferocious Love by Aloha

multiple Bedhead and The New Year songs

That scene in Twin Peaks where Donna and James are at the Roadhouse and Julee Cruise is singing Rockin' Back Inside My Heart.