That crying meme

Let me stipulate that for me, crying invoked through fiction means tearing up. Maybe a little sniffling. Almost never are tissues involved or actual tears flowing down the face. I don't know why, but that's just how I do it (as opposed to my mom, who literally sobs at some things)

1. What scene in which movie is guaranteed to make you cry?

Right now, probably Sam's don't go where I can't follow Mr. Frodo scene. And the scene when Frodo sets sail.

2. What scene in which television show makes you tear up no matter how many times you've seen it?

Buffy, in Dead Things, begging Tara not to forgive her. And Buffy, in The Prom, crying in Willow's lap, saying, "I can't breathe, Will."
Anya's speech in The Body.
Giles finding Jenny's body in Passion. Passions? Huh.
Xander and Willow at the end of Grave.
Probably a lot more. I tear up a lot on Buffy.

3. Is there any famous tear jerker of a scene that leaves you cold? Or worse, makes you laugh?

Titanic. This is probably heresy, but "Close your eyes" in Becoming 2. It doesn't make me laugh, just.. I don't feel the punch. Anytime in Alias when they have cheesy music and Syd crying or being Extremely Earnest. This invokes giggling or yelling at the TV.

4. Do you cry when a character on screen cries, or is it something else that gets the tears flowing?

Um. I don't know... it depends on the character and how much I like them. Usually it's when one of them is taken beyond what they can stand and the breakdown (or numbness).

5. One fic that makes you cry?

Hard Candy. *sniffs*

And for my own fun:

( Re-memeing, with books )

The endless food meme

It's about food! ^_^

( I like food )

(no subject)

I'm having so much fun reading other people's food memes ^_^. Partly because I adore food, and partly because I find the cultural background really interesting. I've always had this fascination with "American" food. I mean, what did they eat at home? Did they really have spaghetti and meatloaf and mac and cheese a lot? It's weird, but it was so completely foreign to me, because I eat rice and stir fry and that stuff all the time.

The first time I ate dinner in America with an American family was when I visited my roommate sophomore year of college. It was weird. They did not have a wok in their kitchen or soy sauce. And they did things like make salad and had interesting pots and different spices and everything! Now I want to go see other kitchens. My aunt's kitchen is very American as well (she is married to one) and it completely freaked me out when I was visiting because nothing was familiar! They had tons of knives (on that fancy magnetic knife strip) and one of those salad dryer things and they cooked steaks and tuna melts. But they didn't have a rice cooker.

Up till then, I don't think I could actually imagine a kitchen without a rice cooker. It's just one of those things. Like a wok.

Eating home cooked food with my Japanese host family was incredibly fun too -- mostly from eating out here, you get the impression that they eat lots of sushi and raw fish and stuff, but really, my host family at least didn't. Lots and lots of miso soup though. And lots of little dishes and okra and fish and things that were kind of like Chinese food and yet not. And their staple was the tea machine (just tea steeping in a hot water heater thing, I suspect). But basically, they drank barley tea all the time -- with ice or hot, depending on the weather. I actually got really addicted to it, but I can't seem to find it that much here. Too much of it is sweetened, and I like that slightly malty barley taste.

It's just really fun seeing how home cooked food intersects or doesn't with restaurant food.

And it's fun reading different people's ideas of essential stuff. Me, for instance, I completely do not get pasta as comfort food... usually I can't eat too much pasta or I feel kind of bloated. But almost all of my roommates and my friends at college loved it! And of course, the boy gets tired if he eats too much Chinese food, but I really have to have Chinese food fairly often. Or if not, at least some sort of Asian food. And Chinese, especially the very non-fancy Chinese, is the best if I'm feeling homesick.

The utterly frivolous yet completely fun:

Wilson's Leather in Valley Fair is closing and they are having a giant, giant sale!

So I got myself a leather skirt. I wanted a spiffy leather jacket -- either very long and Spike-like or a cool blazer type or a motorcycle jacket, but I already have a leather jacket. Sigh. But they were about 60 dollars! And while that is still expensive, it is so cheap for leather!

But I got my very spiffy leather skirt, crocodile print, black, very pencil, and they make my legs look good. Plus, leather skirt! The only thing possibly better would be the leather pants of moral ambiguity (tm). Mmmmm.

I just wanted to gloat.