I’m very much against crying—particularly young/old men crying—but this is very interesting indeed:
(CNN) — Calvino Inman had just stepped out of the shower one evening in May when a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror caused him to panic. “I looked up and saw myself, and I thought I was going to die,” says the 15-year-old from Rockwood, Tennessee. His eyes were streaming tears of blood.
My conclusion: Tears of blood are better than tears of tears. Why is this so? Because blood tears expose the truth about crying: we see without a doubt that is an awful, awful thing to do. With regular tears, we accept crying; with blood tears, we find it unacceptable. If there were more blood tears, crying would be less popular and more despised.
The only good thing about tears of tears? Tears for Fears:
I also love “The Working Hour”:
“This is the working hour/We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes.” What kind of exploitation is this? Our bosses exploit not us but our mistakes. The 80s in a state of perfection.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry after reading this post.
Tears of joy.
Go home and have a nap, Charles. You’ve had a long day.
I’ll take Woman in Chains.
Yeah crying is totally unnecessary. Just hold it in, like your shit and piss and oxygen. That’s why Charles is such an insightful, understanding person.
Whatever you’re taking, I respectfully request as much as, if not more than, the amount of which you were in the taking of.
Crying, and laughing, are one of the few expressions we are all born with as humans. And probably farting.
Exactly how much wine does Charles imbibe while blogging…
i’m with charles. i am, in fact, against all forms of liquid excretion. if people peed and sweated blood more often, there’d be a lot less unnecessary saltwater around.
fucking saltwater.
Ever watched someone exert pressure on a liquid contained in a glass bottle? You can only compress it so far – and then the bottle explodes in a mess of flying shards and liquid. Pretty messy ….. Repressing one’s emotions has a similar result.
charles, i would like to know what you self-medicate with and in what proportions
“Head Over Heels” is the jam of a lifetime. I love when the keyboard flies out of nowhere–these are hits. Hits.
I find every member of this band, particularly the singer and the guitarist, incredibly attractive, in a way I never did in the 80s when I was actively listening to this group. HOT. Even with their goofy haircuts.
What in the fuck is this man ever talking about?
You went for the tears angle.
“Simply Red” might have worked as well.
I’ve been mudeded.
Don’t you realize that happiness makes you cry.
There are times when my feelings for Charles Mudede border very close to hatred, and then he posts something like this, and I realize that he is actually suffering from some kind of mental illness and not being given treatment. Then I feel bad.
It is not a mental illness. It is the result of learned behavior, probably from a parent who also constantly spouted pretentious intellectual bullshit that ultimately was only to bolster their ironically backwards, small-minded, culturally warped point of view on humanity. This is something therapy, or some kind of life-altering personal experience, can change. That being said, a person only needs therapy if they want it. Charles practices self-therapy, I think; perhaps with posts like this.
Crying rules, and so does Charles Mudede. But he is confused about crying and has mistaken it for driving.
I am so fucking tired of your posts.
Dude, you took way too many philosophy classes in college. Tell me again why it’s important that people hold in their emotions even more than they currently do? That seems healthy. You’re the only person on SLOG, or possibly anywhere, that can post a story about someone CRYING FUCKING BLOOD, completely ignore the CRYING BLOOD part and make it into some philosophical rant about the benefits of suppressing your emotion.
This is the first time I ever heard anyone mention the Working Hour …and I’m so glad. I loved this song. Still do, though I don’t play it nearly as often as I did. Brightened up my hour….at work.
I don’t know about tears of blood, but that saxophone solo is making my ears bleed.
Oh, I’m sorry, were you saying something?
please don’t ever procreate. i can only imagine what this kind of attitude would do to a child.
You have already covered this territory a few years back and now you want to start again. This is one of the few times I read a post by you in a long time because you repeat yourself over and over. It just seems like you want to piss people off with posts, not actually change or develop. The fact that you are bringing this topic up again just to press buttons makes me realize how right I am in not reading your posts anymore. You don’t change because you seem to post to annoy people, so I learn nothing from them.
Thanks for the gender enforcement Charles.
Giving men only two emotions – anger and apathy works great!
I actually like the sax on this song, and automatically think of playing Joan Armatrading “Cool Blue Stole My Heart” (the live version) right after because the songs and sax solos complement each other.
I’d forgotten how particularly aggressive many of the Slog commenters are … is it Seattle in particular or is it that Slog pulls out such people from all over the globe?
Charles Mudede is a robot.