Am I the only one who crys watching tv or a movie?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I cry reading, watching tv, and watching movies, probably more than I do crying about things in my own life. Sometimes it’s cathartic, like I’m crying about something in a film that could easily be applied to my own life, etc. But usually that’s why I’ll cry listening to song that moves me.

But if I’m really affected by what I’m reading or watching, I will sob. I mean, SOB. I have to be left alone. I can’t keep it in. This has happened:

1. Movies: The very end of The Fox and the Hound. (My brother lost it in Top Gun, when Goose died.), Edward Scissorhands (I can watch that without crying now, but I’ve seen it a billion times), The Elephant Man (sobbed for three hours after watching that one, but in my defense, I was raggin’ it big time), Awakenings, The Professional, and probably many more.

2. TV Shows: The Wonder Years, at least once during every single effin’ episode, I cried hard (but contained it in front of Heidi as best I could) at the end of LOST last night (mostly because of poor Jack and Shannon), many a Buffy episode had me on my knees with grief, and probably many more.

3. Books: The Lovely Bones, The Secret History, The Rats of Nihm all had me in hysterics. Fetal position hysterics.

4. Songs: Don't usually make me sob, but Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat gets me teary eyed sometimes, and Bowie's "tell my life I love her very much..." DAMMIT BOWIE!