raybear | Guilty Pathos

Taken from

thirdreel. Like for real -- this is an original entry of his that I snipped up and stole.

"Sometimes people ask me about my "guilty pleasures" in entertainment, and I'm always a little unsure how to answer. I mean, I have pleasures highbrow and lowbrow, and I don't really feel embarrassed about any of them. .... However, I have realized the opposite side: I am sometimes embarrassed to admit when I get a little choked up. Some things make me inexplicably misty-eyed, and it's hard to come out in the open with it. It's guilty pathos, is what it is.

That's why I ask for some solidarity. If you click the cut, please share at least one guilty pathos of your own. Hopefully yours will be more cringeworthy or bizarre than mine."

I have no problem admitting to many things that make me cry -- The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, even Medium. Movies get me a lot too. But I still have maybe 10% of things that I am embarassed about. I revealed this first one in Drew's journal, but I've added a few new ones too. And like him, if you're reading this list, I would like you comment and tell me what your "guilty pathos" is. And don't say some isht like "Terms of Endearment" or whatever that millions of people have cried to and its totally acceptable. I want the awkward, deep, uncool, real stuff!!

Guilty Pathos

- The Prince of Tides (the movie) (in contrast, I also cry during movies like Yentl or The Way We Were, but those are good movies. The Prince of Tides is kinda painful, but I will dig out my used vhs copy on occasion and pop it in and sob away.)

- the episode of Oprah last month where she reunited all these organ donor recipients with the family members of the dead organ donors. oh man, that killed me. tears were streaming down.

- Cher's "Song for the Lonely" (and yes, when I sang this at karaoke recently, there was a moment where my voice broke and it was not my lack of singing capabilities)

- the episode of Lost this season that was all about Juliet. I watched it alone on the computer at home and I can't tell you a damn thing about it now, but I remember I cried a lot. [This is a borderline answer, because Lost isn't a bad show, but its also not one that usually has people weeping either.]

- the Oscars. (that was for you,

anjibobanji!)

- any Wimbledon montage

....and perhaps the deepest, wrongest, and my most embarassing of them all:
"An American Trilogy" by Elvis Presley.