The traitor in my pocket

[dorinda]

I think my iphone was trying to kill me tonight. When I went down to the building's laundry room to get my clothes out of the dryer, the music shuffle played, one after the other--

Dante's Prayer...

"Dante's Prayer" (Watch on YouTube)

And then The Mary Ellen Carter.

"Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter" (Watch on YouTube)

EXCUSE ME, MY SOCKS JUST GOT DRY, I CANNOT HAVE THEM BESLOBBERED WITH MY TEARS.

Comments

[ride_4ever]

*nods in extreme understanding*

[dorinda]

Right?? Seems to be hitting below the belt, if you ask me. :D

[klia]

Ever since I saw that vid, Dante's Prayer has always made me cry.

I've been super-weepy ever since VVC, and I hate it. I heard Chris Cornell on the radio while I was out today and started bawling in the car. Ugggghhh.

[dorinda]

**big hug**

I'm not sure if my increased tendency to weepiness is an aftereffect of the surgery, which left me in sudden menopause--that's my guess. I mean, along with just the general increased weepiness-causing of current events.

**more hug!**

Although I never needed menopause to cry at Dante's Prayer, so that one's just a given.

[torch]

I admore you, I do, but I CANNOT HANDLE THE MARY ELLEN CARTER.

*sobs on you*

[dorinda]

*offers you a sock*

[killabeez]

I owe you dry socks! ♥

[dorinda]

A whooooole basketful!

And how about a hand massage, since my knuckles cramp up with all the clutching of my heart? :D

[killabeez]

Any time! And also, any time you're in Seattle, please don't hesitate to crash with us. {{{{}}}}

[gwyn]

Oh man, yeah. Big mood, as the kids these days say.

[dorinda]

Hmm, now that you mention it--my phone is not all that old, so maybe it itself is one of the kids today. I'll call it "bae" and see what it says.

...although bae must be over by now, right? Pardon that creaking, it's just my rocking chair.

[lynndyre]

*raises hand* add me to the list of people who picture that vid on hearing that song!

[dorinda]

High five! :D

By now, the two are entwined in my heart and cannot be unwound. Whenever I'm listening to the song, at the end my brain inserts the "Jim." "Yes." ♥______♥

[halotolerant]

Oh god Oh god Oh god, Dante's Prayer is just... *meeps hard* I love it though. That vid brought me back to TOS after having FOOLISHLY ignored it as a 14 year old due to my first encountering ST as TNG and then DS9. Only later did I discover the love story that is Kirk and Spock *meeps more*

[dorinda]

Allow me to join you in the meeping!! It is amazing... the way the editing uses the motion inside shots (e.g. the fluid motion of the ships) in concert with the swooping fluidity of the music-- or the way the closeup of Kirk's tearful eye dissolves into the sun over the Genesis planet as it says "cast your eyes on the ocean..."-- or, so many things. And OMG that last sequence where the memories are superimposed over Spock as Kirk waits, and the music is pleading "Please remember me", which adds another layer to the words... And THANK GOODNESS he does, and they do, and. Meep! It plunges down into my heart where the Kirk/Spock love story lives, grabs it, and hauls it to the surface.

Right out of both of my eyes, in fact. *weeps*