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That Clara Jane sure does have moxie.

(Also: the Hallelujah song makes me weep, too.)

(And, hey, all of this stuff just means you're interesting, something that many folks are never quite able to pull off.)

Hallelujah makes everyone cry. Although John Cale's version is better, hmmmph.

I'm considering some medication myself. Seriously. My jaw hurts from all the teeth clenching I've been doing the past month.

have your heard the k.d. lang version? we played it at my aunt's memorial. it brutalizes me everytime. that and Cold Play's Fix You. oh lord. it is late and i can't sleep and YOU KNOW i am going to have to listen to them now.

xoxoxo to you my dear.

John Cale's version of "Hallelujah" is my favorite; it makes me weepy every time I hear it. His voice has such depth and loss.

I've never heard Rufus Wainwraight's or k.d. lang's version. I'm not the biggest fan of Cohen's version (although I will always love him for writing it in the first place), and Jeff Buckley's version just puts me to sleep.

I am very much with you on the public crying spectacle. It's not so much music that gets to me - though I will kill the person who puts on country or Christmas music because they are like tear gas. Music behind movies and tv kills me. You can take any semi-heartfelt scene add some sentimental music behind it and I am bawling. This past weekend the movie that had tears pouring down my face was....wait for it.... Cool Runnings. What the hell is wrong with me? Hormones on parade. I am always the one that friends turn to during movies to see when I am crying only to heckle. Glad I can share in my pain with someone else.

P.S. Love the site. Found you on JenB

Sorry to double comment you, but after commenting on this entry I noticed your list of books read in 2006 that is something I do on my site also mainly to keep myself focused and make sure I don't push of doing the things I love most (reading). Anyway, I loved your list set-up. I will have to keep checking back to get your take on books. I already copied down some title to look into.

Also I checked out your Myspace and I love that song playing by Gossip. I don't listen to them currently, but they have a style I really enjoy. I also love Sleater-Kinney, Ben Folds, New Pornographers, Rufus Wainwright, and Gilmore Girls. So I was happy to see that.

You know I get the music weepiness, and U2 does it for me the best. Well, U2, Wilco, Neil Young, Boss, Beatles, even Simon and Garfunkel. Shit.

I remember the first time I saw Bruce (you know, when he sweat all over April and I), the tears errupted immediately after hearing the first few notes of Thunder Road. I think that song really does me in the most.

I just got home from my weekend and I'll be out the door in a few to traipse about Little Italy with Lisa. I owe you an email, and hopefully you'll hear from me tonight or tomorrow. Take care and do not the reaper...I mean the music weepiness. It can be embarrassing, but I think it's good for us.

I like that music makes you cry. I like that it gives you an emotional release. I guess it is embarrassing in public but feeling music so deeply must mean something. Having it touch your core has got to be what the composer and performer had in mind all along.

Clara Jane seems to have the same sort of thing...she just expresses it differently. Let's hope her music-fueled-passion-dance thing doesn't translate later into a successful career as a pole dancer.

I can't imagine that was a fun outing but, man, it was fun to read. There have been entire four month blocks where Hallelujah had to remain permanently off the record rotation lest there be major scenes.

I wonder when Alan Jackson is going to record his own version of "Hallelujah"...

I thought Hallelujah made everybody cry. I cried during the Wilco documentary, I'm Trying to Break Your Heart.

Summer, we have moxie by the truckload over here.

Mary, take the drugs. They're good. And also send me your new URL when it's up.

Jen, I bought k.d. lang's version from iTunes today. I hold you personally responsible for the weeping that occured. My God! Beautiful.

Whitters, I admit I'm a little bored by Jeff Buckley's version. It's beautiful, but doesn't have quite the whallop of the others.

SparklieSunshine, I also get the TV and movie weepies. Badly. We're talking really bad shit, like there are episodes of "Designing Women" I can't watch without sobbing. Oh, and you have excellent taste in everything!

Ho, Simon & Garfunkel have produced some of the most gut-wrenching shit out there. "America"? "Bridge Over Troubled Water"? Oh, man.

Dixie, B. subscribes to Chris Rock's theory of parenting daughters: his primary goal is to keep her off the pole.

Moose, it was actually pretty fun. We all get a sick little kick out of my emotional displays. Never a dull moment!

Holley, there was a public crying incident last week involving Target playing a video of Alan singing "I'll Fly Away". Fucking bastards.

Katya, did you catch the documentary on the Sundance channel? It was on this morning.

I have to look for something under my seat when they play the national anthem at ball games. One of my best memories was standing, slightly drunk, at the Boston Pops 4th of July extravaganza with my pals. We watched the synchronized fireworks display and held hands with strange foreign tourists and yes, I cried, but it wasn't because of the Cider Jack.

No, I didn't see it on Sundance. I rented it from Netflix. I love that song the doc is named after.

What is the drug and is it helping more as time goes on? I'm supposed to be tough, but I can't get through a song at church, listen to the national anthem, let alone sing it. At times, thoughts of every sad thing that I've known about (not bad things that happened to me, but to others) engulf me and I begin tearing, unable to speak. I began weeping in the shower the other day, remembering some how grateful some poor children were when I gave them a patch from my sleeve. I can't even figure out what the emotion is, except to say it is sadness. Can someone tell me what I'm feeling, why, what to do about it and if there is medication to help. The doc had me on amitriptyline a while back and that helped some. Maybe resuming at a higher dosage would be a good thing to try. But I'd also like to understand exactly what I'm sad about. Why cry during the national anthem or a wedding?

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