That’s how it is with us drooling fanatics.Ģ. I realize this makes me sound like a total sap, but I can’t help it. Nearly every song I love has, at one time or another, made me cry. When I hear those cheesy orchestral synths, I’m instantly transported back to the morning I was dumped by a woman I was almost sure I loved. I’m probably one of the few human beings on Earth who would admit to weeping when he hears the song “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS. It’s not that I was some little saint – I was a pretty typical suburban brat – but the music made me feel this crushing sense of the world’s deprivation, which no doubt lived inside me. I can remember listening to the Stevie Wonder song “Village Ghettoland” at age ten and bawling my head off at the line about families buying dog food. Because for me – and those of my ilk – songs are what allow us to reach the feelings we can’t access by other means. This is why I have 3,000 CDs in my basement and why I fall in love with a new album about once a week and why I wind up calling my favorite singers by their first names, as if we’re friends. Honestly, it’s almost always a song that gets me choked up. The latest book or movie that made you cry? He talks with PopMatters 20 Questions about the best that literature can hope to achieve – and how sexy William Shatner is.ġ. His most recent book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, which comes with a ‘Bitchin soundtrack’ ( that can be heard here), published 13 April. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction books Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked). Steve Almond is the author of the short story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B.
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