Chunky Rice
Last time I cried was a month ago, after my girlfriend lent me "Good-bye, Chunky Rice", a graphic novel about (warning, spoilerage from now on...) Chunky Rice, a turtle who leaves his life and his love behind to go on a trip to find himself, and he throws away most of his life's possessions. Then the sea captain who he hitches a ride with swindles him out of the rest...when the captain throws his beloved jazz records overboard because he doesn't approve of "music by coloured folk", the expression on the turtle's face just made me start bawling.

Book's really good though, I recommend it.

Time before that was at Christmas and watching the video for "Stop The Cavalry" (the glum Xmas song with the soldiers in the trenches), and I just burst into tears at the thought of all those young men spending Christmas dead in a cold field somewhere.

Gaah, I'm off to bed in a miserable mood now. No apologies for length.
(qwghlm, Fri 15 Apr 2005, 0:03, Reply)