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A cheery ditty that always makes me feel like the loneliest person in the entire world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcmaGpIwsJQ
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Nameless Pete posted:A cheery ditty that always makes me feel like the loneliest person in the entire world: oh god, me too. i love the later seasons with the harmonizing on the chorus a lot
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Oct 7, 2023 06:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXpVbBqE7xc
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some tracks that sometimes get me verklempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWCyvojUO6A adieu foulard, adieu madras, a lullaby-ish folk song as sung by some martiniquais group in the 50s or 60s. song is DOG poo poo in every other context but this version gets me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0KwNXN-ElI some swedish jazz organ guy doing something that no swedish jazz organ should be able to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKkHRlrFu_8 labi siffre "remember my song" kind of a more obvious choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kDd6yBQZ4 likewise "les fleur". I guess it's been used in some big movies and shows but I hope somebody comes to this cold as I first did. her insane voice overcomes the hippy-dippyness of the lyrics and bring them back around to profundity again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq5x9O_Hx20 stevie "heaven help us all". kind of insane that the stevie gospel-soul belting that gets me is a song he didn't even write.
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Oct 8, 2023 00:21
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A random stranger saying verklempt out in the wild <3
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I have always loved octopuses. As a kid, I think it was their unique shape that first attracted me. They truly don't look like they're even from this planet. Now after a lifetime of reading and documentary-watching, my love for these weird aquatic aliens has only grown. They're just so cool and interesting on every level, with a host of distinctive abilities: shapeshifting, jet-propulsion, biological smoke bombs, neurally-controlled optical camouflage, and a distributed intelligence we can't begin to comprehend. I mean - what's it like to have neurons all over your body? To have nine networked brains controlling eight individual appendages, each with hundreds of self-directed, smelling, tasting, grasping "fingers." Their sensory experience of the world must be overwhelming. These are a few of my favorite youtube clips, some of which don't necessarily fall under the heading of the thread, but all of which contribute to the picture of a special, beautiful animal that deserves our utmost respect: Here's a wild octopus who befriended a woman, and at one point appears to be asking her to move a log for him so he can reach the clams underneath. Here's an octopus hiding itself in a fragile plastic cup, while divers try to coax it into a series of much safer shells. (Ok, this one actually does make me cry - with joy and relief.) Here's a little guy approaching a diver out in the open, and seems to be just as interested in his visitor as we are in him. Now, sadly, on to the point of the thread. One of the cruelest ironies in nature is that the octopus is gifted with a sentience comparable to cats or dogs, but with just a tiny fraction of the latter's lifespan. Most species only live a year or two, with the largest (the Giant Pacific) capping out at around five. Nearly all intelligent animals are social creatures, but not the octopus. They spend most of their lives alone, and only mate once - at the very end. The male dies shortly afterward, either from a sort of hormonally-triggered senescence, or because the female eats him. The female, on the other hand, suffers even more. Once laid, it takes about six months for her eggs to mature. During that time, she will eat almost nothing - devoting all her remaining strength to the task of cleaning, aerating, and protecting her unborn young. This mother octopus laid her eggs in a loose pipe that washed up on the beach. Watching her work with grim determination to roll her babies back into the water makes my heart ache. (Luckily, the woman filmed for only a short time before tying a brick to the pipe and helping the mother get past the surf. Her eggs survived!  )In light of everything just written, I submit the gutpunch of all gutpunches: the end of My Octopus Teacher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPCj9y3848 This scene comes after we've watched an hour of highlights in her incredible life; all the difficulties she's adapted to face, narrowly surviving multiple shark attacks through sheer will and wits, and gradually building a close bond with the man documenting her time on Earth. In an existence as harsh as hers, it's hard to imagine any experience of joy, but here she is - dancing amongst a school of fish like a child chasing pigeons. She tops it off by rushing into the arms of her friend, and curling up on his chest to be stroked like a cat. It's a moment of connection that transcends hundreds of millions of years of divergent evolution, and gives me a kind of spiritual optimism I can only partially describe. If two beings so impossibly different from one another can learn mutual love and respect, then maybe there's hope for humanity after all. Maybe that's too naïve, but for a minute of this beautiful film, I can truly believe in a better future. Then comes the crushing blow: "...and that was the last time we had physical contact."  For the rest of the movie's runtime I can't help but sob uncontrollably. Even though It's technically a happy ending for her (she lived a full octopus life and gets to bear children), her "goodbye hug" destroys me. If you wanna cry even harder, here's a diver who documented a mama Giant Pacific's final weeks and put heartbreaking Sad Piano Music over the footage. The bastard ends the video with the bleakest statistic I am cursed to know forever: of an octopus's tens of thousands of babies, only 1 or 2 will survive to adulthood. So if you ever encounter an octopus, please be kind. You've just met a miracle.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI When Reznor was asked if Cash could cover his song, Reznor said he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." He became a fan of Cash's version, however, once he saw the music video. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on Zack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more. Then it all made sense to me. It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. Some-loving-how that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning – different, but every bit as pure. Things felt even stranger when he passed away. The song's purpose shifted again. It's incredibly flattering as a writer to have your song chosen by someone who's a great writer and a great artist. — Geoff Rickly interviews Trent Reznor, Alternative Press ------------ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_zKBJBSa4&t=441s Timestamped to where the floodgates open but you should watch it from start. Still need to watch the tv show since I heard great praises.
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Oct 8, 2023 17:46
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Three years ago to the day I escaped a 13-year long abusive relationship / marriage (I was married for 7 years). It was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done and I spent easily a solid month afterwards going through “fear detox” because I thought my ex-wife was basically around every corner waiting to do terrible things to me. I ended up in a hastily-rented one bedroom apartment in the middle of nowhere in Methuen, MA, and started putting my life back together slowly but surely. Since I was still working remotely, I found that it was way too quiet all the time so I ended up putting on YouTube in the background on my TV more or less constantly. Eventually I bumped into the Philosophy Tube channel and this video in particular: https://youtu.be/AeGEv0YVLtw?si=edC5Shh7sXQuwRjX (if the embedding is all hosed up it’s called “Men. Abuse. Trauma.”) The first time I watched it all the way through I was absolutely bawling at the end of it. Now that I’m three years removed from the situation, it doesn’t hit as hard but still makes me quite misty. Talking about it with non-therapist people is also pretty hard to do without welling up. But I do still watch the video every now and then because it made me feel much less lonely, especially in that lovely little apartment by myself.
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Oct 8, 2023 23:02
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'39, by Queen. The plight and longing of the perspective character in the song really get to me, specially the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8kGMfXaFU I thoroughly recommend listening to it and figuring out what the song is about! Whether you took a go, or just want to find out now: it's a song about time dialation and space explorers coming back home, only to find that everyone they left behind is long gone and their children are far older now. It's Interstellar in a short, amazing form. I love that Queen got in such a great sci-fi story into that album
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Necronomicon posted:Three years ago to the day I escaped a 13-year long abusive relationship / marriage (I was married for 7 years). It was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done and I spent easily a solid month afterwards going through “fear detox” because I thought my ex-wife was basically around every corner waiting to do terrible things to me. I ended up in a hastily-rented one bedroom apartment in the middle of nowhere in Methuen, MA, and started putting my life back together slowly but surely. Since I was still working remotely, I found that it was way too quiet all the time so I ended up putting on YouTube in the background on my TV more or less constantly. Eventually I bumped into the Philosophy Tube channel and this video in particular: https://youtu.be/AeGEv0YVLtw?si=edC5Shh7sXQuwRjX (if the embedding is all hosed up it’s called “Men. Abuse. Trauma.”) Absolutely love that video and come back to it all the time, it's taken on an even deeper meaning since Abigail came out as trans. From one Cosmonaut to another, I hope you're doing okay now
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Oct 9, 2023 08:49
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This thread now, a little Some great heartfelt posts, thanks goons.
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The scenes in Groundhog Day when Phil keeps trying to save the old man.
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I know they are just cartoon dogs, but there have been several Bluey episodes that well me up. That show is good at tugging the heart strings.
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Oct 10, 2023 04:06
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“The Last Of Us” episode three loving wrecked me.
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Autechresaint posted:I know they are just cartoon dogs, but there have been several Bluey episodes that well me up. That show is good at tugging the heart strings.  I swear I weep as much as I laugh hard watching that show.
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Oct 10, 2023 12:59
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Autechresaint posted:I know they are just cartoon dogs, but there have been several Bluey episodes that well me up. That show is good at tugging the heart strings. the cricket episode aaaaaaa
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Oct 11, 2023 07:03
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I just remembered A Boy and His Frog by Tom Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9kT1xIpZ4E Written the day Jim Henson died, about Henson's death from Kermit the Frog's point of view. One of the most poignant and universal songs about death, grief, love and finding a way to move on that I've ever heard. I listen to it every time a loved one in my life passes on.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Also, one time when I was PMSing I started sobbing thinking about the DIY ethic of the punk music scene One time coming home from a particularly lovely day at work I had a nice quiet cry on the streetcar because I was listening to an Against Me! live record and Laura gave a speech about how 'Do it yourself never meant do it alone' Edit: In that same vein, this cover of Silver and Gold was one of the last things Joe Strummer ever recorded and it always makes me mist up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2asJfNd28Y Crystal Lake Witch has a new favorite as of 23:47 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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Haha, you clowns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSNdmSEg_qQ
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Autechresaint posted:I know they are just cartoon dogs, but there have been several Bluey episodes that well me up. That show is good at tugging the heart strings. Absolutely. I am the father of a 3 1/2 year old girl, who is about the same age as Bingo in this, and this episode makes me sob every time. It has also conditioned me to love “Jupiter” by Mahler, and sob every time I hear it. Someone on NPR rightly described this as “if you put the Pixar lamp up front and put the short at the beginning of the next Toy Story, it would win Oscar’s instantly.” It’s only seven minutes long - if you have kids or not, check this out, I’m also curious if it has the same effect on non-kid-havers. If you’ve also constantly heard “Bluey is great but I don’t have a kid so no need to watch”, try this one. https://youtu.be/TxoqJ0Pmux0
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SgtScruffy posted:It’s only seven minutes long - if you have kids or not, check this out, I’m also curious if it has the same effect on non-kid-havers. Eh, it was pretty cute. Really nice animation for a TV show, although I haven't watched an animated TV show in years so maybe the standard of quality is just higher now.
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Compared to what I had as a kid it's high art. I teared up, no kids but I'm a sucker for big swelling emotional music
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Remembering that there was a time when I had friends
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Ariong posted:Eh, it was pretty cute. Really nice animation for a TV show, although I haven't watched an animated TV show in years so maybe the standard of quality is just higher now. As a parent of a 3.5 year old, it’s great to have something we both can watch together and not get sick of it. Like, have you seen peppa pig and cocomelon? Trash. It’s also refreshing to see positive dad figures in a kids show, rather than the butt of the joke dimwit who never does anything right, again peppa pig for example.
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Oct 16, 2023 16:50
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These lyrics make me want to pay attention to incoming calls and texts for about a day, every time I listen to this song. I miss my dad a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJW8f3qYPz4
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anytime I sing along with Chicago's "Feelin Stronger Every Day" I can't get through the "oh yeah"s in the verses without being interrupted by a sob. WHY. I have no earthly idea. I don't even listen to much Chicago, I have no particular attachment to them or that song
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Man's inhumanity to man also the scene in barbie where she talks to the older lady at the bus stop
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Ending to the 99 film iron giant. Honestly when i watched it in cinema I didnt get the subtext of the cold war but it made me cry then and it makes me cry now. War is still poo poo. https://youtu.be/CNvxCDSSVfo?si=Z3m68Kl9qKJXdcv-
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Oct 21, 2023 14:46
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Crowds reaching a consensus to be a force of benevolence in a small way over something utterly trivial. https://twitter.com/AlanEnokian/status/926558786827030528 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm9tvzRDTS0 Etc etc No moral duty, just a completely voluntary show of collective empathy.
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Just discovered Fanny, and this song haunts me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRgb-tBEyYw
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Leaves from the vine Falling so slow...
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This drat song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_nc1IVoMxc It might seem weird for this thread at first. Bear with it.
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The dolphins make me cry.
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Almost all of Lilo& stitch. Disney. You didn't have to go that hard, but you went that hard, you left bruises. You went so hard. There's maybe one or two scenes in that movie where I'm not crying. Same thing with treasure planet. It's one of the forgotten Disney animations, but pretty much every scene with silver and the kid rips at your heart so bad.
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Kiki's Delivery Service. Basically the entire movie, start to finish, every time. Turns out a movie about burnout hits even harder as an adult than it did as a kid
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I've been ill this past week so I've been lying on the couch feeling lovely, coughing my lungs up and decided that even though normally it's not my kind of show, I'd give This is Us a try. I heard a lot of good things, and I like the actors and so far it hasn't disappointed. But goddamn does it make me cry, me being a physical and emotional mess right now. It hits all the stuff that tears me up. Familial relationships, especially father son and dealing with grief over a lost parent. End of season one Randall saying goodbye to his father in the hospital was exactly like I had to say goodbye to my dad a couple of years ago. Just tears silently rolling down my cheeks the whole time I was watching that. Started season two today and whoo boy, it's going to be another rough one. Aside from Jack's death that's coming, as someone that works with kids in the foster system I can already tell this is going to hit me. Deja is just like the kids I work with, and I've often taken care of kids in that exact situation where they've just been taken from their family and brought to a stranger's place. The ending of The Florida Project always makes me tear up for the same reason.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Kiki's Delivery Service. Basically the entire movie, start to finish, every time. Turns out a movie about burnout hits even harder as an adult than it did as a kid This post made me think about how inspiring Kiki's and that was enough to make me tear up. Have a cool music vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYUvI5Njbbk
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Killingyouguy! posted:Kiki's Delivery Service. Basically the entire movie, start to finish, every time. Turns out a movie about burnout hits even harder as an adult than it did as a kid
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For me it's the songs that were only used in the original version of the dub 😅 I wish Disney could re-release it tbh. Jiji is so much more chatty in that version. If I want to watch that movie I watch a VHS rip bc it's the version I love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXm65STTDA Killingyouguy! has a new favorite as of 17:31 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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