Like a schoolgirl with a skinned knee 'n shit

Oh and maybe ET and Bambi, I can't remember. No music or book could ever move me to tears. I am a rock.

Books - Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov.

Films - Schindler's List, Hana-Bi.

Music - Anything by Westlife.

I shed a quiet tear annually at the first hearing of Last Christmas (wham, of course), usually around the 2nd of December in Miss Selfridge/Topshop/New Look. This can be embarrassing but normally no- one notices as they're busy sobbing themselves at whatever hideously overpriced trend they are contemplating. Something about this song makes me feel incredibly sad, probably the faded memories of unsuccessful christmas disco snogs. Oh, and watching Fiddler on the Roof never fails to make me sob, for some bizarre hormonal reason.

Julie Burchill has some thing in her autobiography where she lists the things women are allowed to cry at (about a million) and the things men are (its something like VE day, and the dog dying). But I laugh in the face of Julie Burchill. Men crying are attractive, as long as it isn't about the football results, or the fact that you've just stepped on their foot.

when i was young i cried at an episode of Thundercats. Lion-O had met this woman and falen in love, but had to leave her to keep on saving the world or whatever.

I think they were tears of joy, though. Does that count? I seem to remember an edition of 'QED' years ago running a chemical analysis of tears-from-being-poked-in-the-eye vs tears-from-emotional-response, and the latter contained all manner of, er, enzymes. Or something. Different enzymes for Honey Monster and for E.T., though? - urgent and key doctoral research project for any new Biochemistry graduates wondering what to do with the next three years.

Music: Christmas hymns.

Books: The Last Unicorn, The Narnia Books, The Big Red Fairy Book

Like a schoolboy with a paper cut. Truly pathetic.

embarassment: she went to see "titanic" about 6 times and cried every time. ultra embarassment: she finally dragged me along to see it against my better judgement and I CRIED TOO.

(All the pokémon were fighting their evil clones APART FROM PIKACHU who refused to fight, and then Ash jumped in the middle of Mew and Mewto and GOT TURNED INTO STONE EEEEK and then Pikachu was trying to shock him back into life as the whole arena went quiet and then he started to cry then ALL the pokémon cried and their tears bought Ash back to life (cheers cheers!)....)

I also cried at a LOW song once when I heard the lyric "I remember graduation". Cos I never will. I was drunk and maudlin. However, I was perfectly sober and not even PMT w/ pokémon incident. I think that makes me ultimate Pokémon mistress.

Um, I also cried at "Drop Dead Fred". I've probably cried at books, but none spring to mind right now. I don't think I've ever wept gently to poetrie though.

When even younger, the Lassie theme tune provoked apoplectic sobbing. When there were people over at Lassie time my mum would bring them in to laugh at me. Tortured for my sensitivity.

Films: Heidi, Its a Wonderful Life,

Only time I ever, ever, saw my hard-as-nails Gran cry, was when the credits rolled-up on the very last episode of MASH.

Loads of records (in the last few days: 'Stan', 'I Can't Go To Sleep', 'Coffee & TV', 'Reel Around The Fountain', 'Age of Consent', 'Help! I'm A Fish!') Books, rarely - it makes them hard to read.

I've experienced tears of euphoria from Acen records. The Cure, Prince, Orbital, The Prodigy, New Order, The Smiths, Mr. Bungle, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Skinny Puppy, and Renegade Soundwave have affected me in similar ways. As well as *gulp* Mariah Carey's "Vision Of Love" (eep).

Last movie I remember getting teary at was Gladiator.

Is she talking about what society allows or what she allows?

I cry all the time at movies and TV. Last TV was a clip of Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics, and I don't even like gymnastics or the Olympics. The last movie was Nashville. It was made in 1976 and so was I!

so much so that i can't even breathe.

You have the video on minidisc? Nick is right - you are the Gadget King.

'The Humming Song' - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

'How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart' - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Records by other people too.

To answer original question - of late, the cumulative effect of everything after "Student Demonstration Garbage" on Surf's Up.

Okay, I nearly cried during Marley and Me, I was fighting back the tears, that film just hits with you an emotional bomb...and took me back to when my last two dogs died (RIP Toby and Dougal). Also, it's doubly tragic because you kinda get the feeling that the films stars will never have the life of contended domesticity they portray in the film.

i'm watching marley and me now, just started, will report back in a bit.

I don't literally cry, but this always brings me to the verge:

I almost cried about this episode of Amazing Race where the deaf kid was crying about the conditions in India.

I've cried at books like the end of Scanner Darkly and Til We Have Faces

One time I was at the orthodontist and I had been arrested the night before and I didn't know what was going to happen in my life, and I cried at "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper from the waiting room TV.

list of shit i have cried at, herbish and non

-"what's new" as performed by frank sinatra on Only the Lonely
-"til kingdom come" as performed by coldplay (oh my god this actually happened in the year of our lord 2005)
-"rhapsody in blue" as performed by the weirdly incredible small-town organist at my grandfather's funeral
-"flowers for algernon" (what i was in 6th grade f u)
-"i'm just a girl" as performed by no doubt--yes there's a story, no you won't hear it
-this one soaring part in "anarcho-syndicalism: theory and practice" by rudolf rocker

Dunno about Marley & Me & I'd hate to meet the soulless bastard that didn't get the warm fuzzies from that Looney Tunes clip upthread (total classic btw), but sad dog stories are the worst. Total waterworks every time.

Closest I ever came: Forrest Gump when I was 14 and Wall-E when I was 29.

i have a childhood memory of weeping copiously on a sunny sunday afternoon as i watched little shirley temple being informed she had just become an orphan with bouncy curls.

well i won't be the first to say forrest gump, then. and mufasa in the lion king.

My eyes watered up at the end of Spiderwick Chronicles.

Marley & Me seemed to work.

The Truman Show

:-/

Mad Men - Duck putting his dog outside so he could get drunk nearly had me.

my friend told me he used to cry his eyes out at the bit in the teddy bears' picnic where it says, 'at six o'clock their mommies and daddies will take them home to bed, because they're tired little teddy bears,' and he said the adults thought he was crying because he had been adopted but it was because he hated having to go to bed early and so he felt devastated for the teddy bears.

i cried when we rewatched toy story 2 with my son during Jessie's "when she loved me" montage. now he cries every time he sees it too.

'girls just wanna have fun' in an autonomic kind of way. i don't understand it really

haha wow. i used to get worked up to the point of corny joy tears after a few cups of coffee, then biking to school listening to Call Me.

the worst is walking around with your earbuds in and catching yourself at the crosswalk just before you lose your shit in front of everyone.

I had a conversation with a friend and he thought it was weird that I was more likely to cry over a dog dying in a movie than a person. I would thought have thought it'd be obvious if you've ever owned a dog...

Did your friend own people???

I'll be sure to ask!

midnight cowboy.