What was the last thing you saw heard or thought about that was so perfectly wonderful that it made you ache?

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You know, like in your heart and stuff.

(Perhaps consider not answering if you don't know what I'm talking about.)

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 31 July 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(Perhaps consider not answering if you don't know what I'm talking about.)

― Huck, Saturday, 31 July 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn you - tweeness ONLY. This is Saturday.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 31 July 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I was being sincere...I wish all threads opened with such candor.

― Huck, Saturday, 31 July 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Stacie Orrico, "I Could Be the One." Today.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn me. I wish all sincere posts were more scrutable.

My last "thing" was a song too. Not telling which one though because I'm feeling as delicate as I am twee, and my ache will deepen into sadness if it is disparaged. Delicate aside from the damning, that is.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Distance"

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I get kinda puddly every time I walk between the house and the office and the hummingbirds are darting around the feeders. They're perfect and fearless.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That Van Basten lob from the 88 European Championships.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night i heard Issac Hayes' version of By The Time I Get To Phoenix...

...what took me so frikkin' long???

― Phil Dokes (sunny), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Child among the weeds" by Mike and Lal Waterson

― de, Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This 'calypso' from Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle':

Fish got to swim
Bird got to fly
Man got to ask himelf, why, why, why?

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Lycia's "Pray" puts me in this mood every time I listen to it.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've consulted my inner geek - it's the first five minutes of 'Fellowship of the Ring.'

I know, I know.

In a desparate attempt to save face: 'Dreamy Days' by Roots Manuva.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been listening to an Aretha Franklin collection, and no shit, I feel like a natural woman. I wasn't expecting to, but I'm all like, I don't know, y'know, not gonna let no man push me around anymore.

― Huck, Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, my real answer to this is the ending of Chrono Trigger. It brings a tear to my eye with its awesomeness.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

the sky over new york city one night in june while driving into the city from long island...

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I was playing badminton with my father today, and we were perfectly tied and at the match point of a very intense game. The sky had been rumbling, a little grey, and at the exact moment I executed a perfect (and unreturnable) game-winner, a bolt of lightening blew apart the clouds apart and illuminated everything overhead. I sort of grinned, and rain began to fall.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

phil dokes: a man after my own heart. what DID take you so long?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

At Caspian Lake in Greensboro, VT yesterday on a perfect summer day. I was one of maybe a hundred people enjoying sun and water, and not thinking too much of anything else.

The kind of afternoon that will too soon fade from memory until I pass by there again in another season.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ABBA, "The Name of the Game"

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Clumsy

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Deep," Funkadelic, 6:15 a.m. today.
Picnic lunch in the park with my kids (peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, apples, cold water), 12:15 p.m. today.
"Satelite Bar," Celso Fonseca & Ronaldo Bastos, 10:46 p.m. today.
The way my wife looked in the other room typing away at her lap-top just now to check on the name of this song.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Not the last one, but many moments in movies cause this in me. Esp. the perfectly directed slow motion shots.

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 1 August 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

B2D, I like your answer a lot.

― Huc k, Sunday, 1 August 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

My boyfriend's new haircut, and how utterly adorable and young and mod it makes him look.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 1 August 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

a girlie

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 August 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

my wife in her undies.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

This song.

(will be gone as soon as I wake up tomorrow.)

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 1 August 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

oops and gaz say the things i no longer need to.

― purple patch (electricsound), Sunday, 1 August 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

gareths photos

― anthony, Sunday, 1 August 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Bent Double by Insides. Actually, pretty much all of Euphoria and Under My Skin I Am Laughing have been tautening my heartstrings this last week.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 1 August 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgiven again. How deservedly I dunno.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 1 August 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

This passage:

"'It is remarkable,' I'd remark to Philonoe in the royal boudoir, as she kindly tried to rouse me, 'what a toll pregnancy takes on teeth and muscle tone.' Her hand would pause - Melanippe's does, too - for just a moment. Then she'd agree, cheerfully adding varicosity, slacked breast and vaginal sphincter, striation of buttock and thigh, and loss of hair-sheen to the list of her biological expenses in the childbearing way - all which she counted as nothing, since for three such princelets she'd've died thrive over. But as I was at it I should add, she'd add, the psychological cost of parentage, to ourselves individually and to the marital relationship: fatigue, loss of spontaneity, diminishment of ardor, general heaviness - a kind of accelerated aging, the join effect of passing years, increased responsibility, and accumulated familiarity - never altogether compensated for by deeper intimacy. For her part (she would go on - what a wife this was!), she took what she was pleased to term the Tragic View of Mariage and Parenthood: reckoning together their joys and griefs must inevitably show a net loss, if only because like life itself their attrition was constant and their term mortal. But one had only different ways of losing, and to eschew matrimony and childrearing for the delights of less serious relations was in her judgment to sustain a net loss even more considerable. Nor, mind, did she regard this perspective (which she applied as well to everything from vacation trips to historical movements) as spiritually negative or bleak: to affirm it was to affirm the antinomy of the cosmos, which antinomy she took to be not absurd contradiction but rich paradox, the pity and terror of the affirmation whereof effected in the human soul an ennobling catharsis." (from Chimera by John Barth...I've never thought of things quite that way.)

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 1 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Blue Nile "Hats"

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 1 August 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm loaded or dying or something

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 1 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 1 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously andrew are you okay?

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 1 August 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Um yeah I'm (fairly) Ok, that was a Simpsons quote. Thanks for asking, tho. Really.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 1 August 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to worry you unduly

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 1 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Making me ache with laughter and delight, I guess, but surely that counts -- seeing The Apple last night. I am in awe of its perfection.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

On Friday night I was in a room full of happy dancing people listening to Party Fears Two. That was pretty close to perfect.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 1 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This one little story in "Bannock, Beans & Black Tea", about Seth's dad when he was young when he thought his grandpa's horse had died.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 1 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ABBA, "On and On and On"

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The sonogram of the 5-month-old wee tigger in my wife's lower belly. It gots hands and feets and fingers and toes.

― spittle (spittle), Sunday, 1 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome!

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 August 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't remember the last time, but certain things stand out in my memory:

-hearing the guitar solo from "Good Times, Bad Times" when i was 16
-the ending shot in _Heat_, with swelling Moby soundtrack
-ending sequence of _Apocalypse Now_
-hearing the solos from Slowdive's "Machine Gun"(i think-- whatever the 3rd track is on _Souvlaki_) for the first time
-Dave Chappelle's "Black Bush" sketch

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 1 August 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend's flatmate, whom I've gotten to know during the last year or so. I know human beings are flawed, and therefore she must be too, but still, sometimes I just can't believe such a person exists...

(I'm not in love with her or anything. Or maybe just a little bit, but in a platonic way.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

shania twain, "what a way to wanna be"

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to be a poohead, but isnt that end piece from Heat a Michael Nyman tune?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

is it? i thought it was "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters"...

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Knowing that in 60 years I'll be dead, but Nedrick Ragget will have visited the reaper before me, and probably have been screwed in the ass by him

― Ned's mom... fuck it you know the drill, Monday, 2 August 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

nedsmomisamunt@hotmail.com

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Spooky!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Amunt?" what an odd name

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Monday, 2 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

People are strange, when you're a stranger, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

this;
I'm 35 and I only learned how to give good head three days ago. The trick is to alternate between smacking the clitoris around and ignoring it for long stretches - like a cop breaking the spirit of a prisoner who's just killed his best mate. -- colin s barrow
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u&k re technique finesse: has the prisoner killed the cop's best mate or his own best mate?
-- mark s

― Nellie (nellskies), Monday, 2 August 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

new order - temptation

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 2 August 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

this:

i like spiders. they're a pretty important part of the ecosystem too. i have a pet one that lives in the back of the sidemirror of my car and makes a new cobweb every day, i have chats with him when i'm stuck in traffic.
-- gem (gemily7...), August 2nd, 2004.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 2 August 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Watched American Movie again last night. It's all ache.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, my real answer to this is the ending of Chrono Trigger. It brings a tear to my eye with its awesomeness.
-- Curt1sss (sevenxvii...), August 1st, 2004.

But which one man?

― Dan I., Monday, 2 August 2004 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The view over a fjord in Denmark, with the moon and distant rock festival lights in one direction, and the sun and the water in the other. It was 1.30am and the sun still hadn't set properly.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The book "Baby Plays Around" by Helene (I'm not even going to try to spell her surname.)

Her description of the music/gigging scene of the Lower East Side in the last 90s was so spot-on it actually made my heart ache with beautiful nostalgia. If *anything* can make me go "Oh... Tasty Fish! I miss Tasty Fish! Wait... Ultra Sound! Oh wow, good times... NIGHT OWLS, OHMIGOD, WHAT WAS THAT SMELL?!?!??!" then it is a thing of beauty.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The last 62 seconds of Surf's Up by The Beach Boys. I just melt, every time. Their song is love, and the children know the way.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 2 August 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiger roams New York suburb

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Most recently:
-Nellie McKay's performance of "The Dog Song" on that douchebag Ryan Seacrest's show
-teeter-tottering with my son on a teeter-totter that was totally wet from the rain and us both falling off in the sand laughing
-a girl named Niah

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

JimD OTM

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Seeing my best mate get married on Saturday. OMG.

Oh, and seeing his sister being a bridesmaid. Funny how if you've known someone since they were 13, you always think of them as a little girl, then they get to 19 and all dolled up and you go "My my, she HAS grown up!"

― Johnney B, Monday, 2 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the film "last life in the universe" by pen ak ratanaraung

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

At this very moment, getting off the phone with a person that means way too much to me to be healthy and then The Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize?" coming on winAMP random play.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Riding horses all my life. I was always flirting with death."

I mean that too, not joking.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

JimD OTM (although the song that precedes it on the LP, "'Til I Die," is pretty ache-worthy too)

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, this isn't quite making me ache, but as a relative newb around here, I'm feeling kinda warm and fuzzy about getting my first two OTMs... :)

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, that's cute.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

watching and listening to my 2 year old son as he ran in our yard, laughing and squealing with the joy of being alive.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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