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Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven"

That show list includes a ton of things I've never friggin heard of, and leaves off Buffy, Friends and Downton (which EVERYONE is saying is more popular than anything else out of Britain, ever). That makes that list INVALID. To me. Which is all I care.

Wait, Kat, are you really making the case for Downton being "cool"? Fun, yes. "Cool," no.

I think anything that gets that kind of following can be listed as cool, yes. I wouldn't put the "cool" label on the vast majority of the shows on that list. Fun, quirky, popular in some cases - but I'm not sure "cool" is really a good word for that list in general.

17/50 shows of which I've watched either entirely or significant portions. They put Spaced on there...which was awesome. It also feels pretty good to see "2003- " next to Arrested Development.

The Wrong Child by R.E.M. is the most depressing song I've ever heard.

I'm not supposed to be like this, but it's ok!

My vote for saddest song: Tom Waits' "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw

Watch how the end of the song destroys and giggles left in the audience.

"Magic" by Ben Folds makes me bawl every time I hear it. Same with "Say Goodnight" by Beth Nielsen Chapman.

Thank you for the dance porn. It made my day.

Life is Sweet - Natalie Merchant

Full of Grace by Sarah McLachlan is a lovely song to kill yourself by.

I'm with Laura on The Lighthouse's Tale. I'm getting weepy just thinking about it.

As a musical theatre nerd, I feel the need to nominate "The I Love You Song" from 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. So beautiful, so haunting, so sad.

For the love of everything holy, please stop linking to Big Hollywood. You know you're just giving them more pageviews? And just making yourself angry and miserable?

Let it goooooo.

And eesh, Gwyneth looks awful in that photo. Completely dead-eyed, and it's all because of the shitty lighting. I can't wait for that asshole Richardson to go away forever.

Vincent - Don McLean (sappy, yes, but I can't help myself)
Painted Desert - 10000 Maniacs

I have a burning need to leave Florida as fast as my little feet will carry me. Not only did we just have that ridiculous primary, but we're the owners of the donkey semen drinkers (their parents must be so proud) and we'll be hosting the Republican Convention this summer. Yes, Florida is truly America's wang.

Bear Grylls is just a watersports enthusiast. Any excuse to drink his own urine ...

Hard to narrow the song down, but "Smoke" by Ben Folds Five is pretty sad.

Also, who is a Tea Party comic-book writer? There are plenty of other things we can harp on Alan Moore for, guys.

I don't listen to sad songs. They make me feel feelings.

What you guys are missing in the no-Tayler-Swift-in-LesMiz news.. is that she is going to be in a movie version of The Lorax?! As what, a thneed?

btw - I'm giving some extra love to this comment on the Movieline Les Miz post:
NICNAC13C SAYS: FEBRUARY 1, 2012 AT 8:30 AM
Awwwww, man. I was looking forward to Taylor Swift's death scene when Kanye steps out and goes "Yo, Eponine. I'm gonna let you finish but Tosca had one of the best death scenes of all time."

Dammit mswas! That's one of the sad songs I don't listen to! Now it will be in my head...

Gary Jules' version of "Mad World"

Bear Grylls once 'stranded' himself in a field on the west coast of Ireland and slept in the carcass of a sheep or something.

Which is to say that this is a man that recommended sleeping in a sheep rather than walking a few miles to the nearest hotel and sleeping there, clearly not a person whose advice for survival should be followed.

Ray Mears however.....

Nothing against OK GO or Sesame Street, but those three primary colors ARE A LIE. You cannot take Red, Blue, and Yellow and mix them and get all the other colors. Ever try to mix red and blue and get a nice pretty purple? You can't. You get a dark eggplant color. I can't believe people are still teaching children that these are the primary colors.

The printer's primaries (Magenta, Cyan, and Yellow) are better for mixing color. At least you can mix Magenta and Cyan and get a pretty purple. But what the heck do you mix to get Red? Even these primaries don't get you everything you need. Printers still use a 4th color, black, because you can't mix the three primaries together to get black.

And then there's the additive color wheel where the primary colors are Orange-red, Blue-violet, and Green. These are the primaries of light. You see them in the theater. You see them as the pixels on your screen. You see them in the paintings of George Serratt. You see them when you mix yarns together in weaving or knitting. I have more luck with these primaries than Red, Blue and Yellow.

Usually they play "Angel" for those ads.

I have to leave the room when those commercials come on.

Saddest song, or at least the song most likely to make you want to kill yourself? Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan.Now on to the rant.

From someone who has actually lived in a survival situation for a week, studied wilderness survival and primitive skills intensively for going on 5 years now, and runs a group for primitive skills enthusiasts (Austin Tracking and Primitive Skills Meetup, Meetup dot com) - survival living is HARD FREAKING WORK.

Our bodies are basically leaky calorie and water bags. A survival situation increases the rate at which both are consumed, and if you aren't able to replenish what you are leaking, death is a certainty.

Unfortunately, shows like "Man vs. Wild" and the McCandless movie, have created a LOT of interest in these skills. And most of those becoming interested are very similar to McCandless - sensitive, sincere idealists who are wholly unprepared for the realities of full survival living.

The fact that Mr. Austin went into a full survival scenario after "taking a few courses over the last two years" and chose to begin his survival in November in Scotland, indicates to me he was most likely one of those idealists. I feel sorrow for his family, of course. But I also feel a HUGE amount of frustration because this situation didn't need to happen.

So here are Nate's survival tips:

1. Stop watching survival shows. Bear Grylls is a fucking idiot. No one can survive for long doing the things he does. Les "Survivorman" Stroud is a little better. He looks like he has some bona fide skills, but he's got to carry all that damn camera equipment around. And he really needs to work on his shelter building skills. If you insist on a survival show, check out Man, Woman, Wild. I've got major respect for Myke and Ruth.


2. Get some training. No. A LOT of trainingYou can't watch this stuff on TV, read about it in some books, then expect that you can do it for real. They EDIT those TV shows. You don't ever get to see how long it actually takes someone to get a fire started with a fire plow or a hand drill.


3. Practice, practice, practice.Unless you were raised by your Native American grandfather in the old ways, you don't know enough from taking a couple weeks' worth of classes. You need to practice these skills until they're second nature. You need to practice them under all conditions. You need to test yourself frequently under controlled conditions. And then, if you choose to do a full survival test, you need to have a backup plan.

To anyone still reading. Thanks for taking the time. /End Rant

I have to agree with NateS1973 on two things:

1. Alone Again, Naturally is the saddest song in the world

2. If you want to test your survival skills, the highlands of Scotland heading into winter...when it's bloody cold and you only have about 6 hours of daylight a day, and everything that might be combustible is wet...is not the place to start

"In the Ghetto" by Elvis Presley

Aw, Don Cornelius. That sucks. I loved that guy.

"Wonderful," by Everclear, also pretty sad. Gotta listen to the words.

And "Born in the USA," (Springsteen). Again, have to listen to the words. It's not a patriotic anthem.

'dumb i sound' by sufjan stevens.

"Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits always works when I'm depressed.

I definitely want to see someone from the tea party pit there comic Tiger-Crane Kung Fu against Moore's Eagle-Claw Kung Fu.

I cried when my Dad first sang The River (Bruce Springsteen) to me. I was just a kid then and I felt so sad that life could be like that. I agree with River (Joni Mitchell) and would like to add Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate (Jackson Browne). No I'm didn't grow up in the 70's.

What do you got, folks? Saddest song?
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Easy.

"He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Now to scroll up and see who, like me, has impeccable taste.

Full of Grace is the song that can be found breaking my heart on the season 2 finale of Buffy

The typically very mild-mannered Peter Sciretta provided this Pajiba-worthy headline today: “Red Box To Warner Bros: Shove That 56-Day Rental Delay Up Your Ass!”

Nah, Pajiba would have written "Up Your *ss".

Sad songs, they say so much.