My main memory of seeing Titanic is of sitting alone in the TV studio at school the next day, editing some footage (I must have had an independent study or something that period), when That Song came on the radio, and I suddenly found myself tearing up copiously. And I was so mad, because I thought it was a terrible song! I felt so manipulated. And very glad that nobody else was there to see me crying.
I got stabbed, you know, right here.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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Kate P. - Apr 13, 2012 7:39:17 am PDT #19429 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jesse - Apr 13, 2012 7:49:04 am PDT #19430 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't know why, but now when I get that song in my head, I almost immediately go to Grover ("near....far"), so it makes me laugh.
JZ - Apr 13, 2012 7:52:23 am PDT #19431 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My main memories of seeing Titanic are:
Kate Winslet is a motherfucking toe-dancing, beer-swilling, orgasm-having, axe-wielding Gilded Age goddess; Leo DiCaprio is a perfectly adequate acolyte to her divinity; Victor Garber breaks my heart; old couple hugging and crying on their tiny bed in steerage break my heart again; Celine Dion is making sounds, but why?
Hil R. - Apr 13, 2012 8:01:17 am PDT #19432 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
old couple hugging and crying on their tiny bed in steerage break my heart again;
That's not in steerage. That's Isidor and Ida Strauss, in first class. They owned (or partially owned) Macy's. Isidor refused to get into a lifeboat while there were still women and children and younger men on board, and Ida refused to leave the ship without her husband.
JZ - Apr 13, 2012 8:04:48 am PDT #19433 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
And now they're breaking my heart *again* again. Curse you, Hil, and your soul-crushing facts!
Hil R. - Apr 13, 2012 8:10:15 am PDT #19434 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
There are a few articles about them here [link] . A Yiddish newspaper from NYC is reprinting a bunch of their original reporting about the Titanic. It includes an article about a planned public memorial service for them, but so many people showed up that they had to cancel it because a crowd that big could get dangerous. [link]
Sophia Brooks - Apr 13, 2012 8:23:19 am PDT #19435 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I don't know why, but now when I get that song in my head, I almost immediately go to Grover ("near....far"), so it makes me laugh.
ME TOO!
Jesse - Apr 13, 2012 8:24:51 am PDT #19436 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
::makes two-finger pointing from my eyes to Sophia's::
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2012 8:26:01 am PDT #19437 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So has anyone seen Titanic in 3-D? Anyone know how good the 3-D is?
Titanic really benefits from the big screen. Scenes of the ship sinking shows how insignificant people appear in relation to the disaster, if that makes sense.
Liese S. - Apr 13, 2012 8:37:44 am PDT #19438 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
None of you hates that song as much as I hate that song! That song is one of the demos available on cheap electronic keyboards, the only such that kids recognize, and therefore I have heard it tinnily reproduced, generally more than one at a time, off time from each other, at least six times EVERY DAY SINCE THE MOVIE CAME OUT.
Your hate is a mere pale simmering indifference next to the searing incandescence of my hate.