Happy Tears

It's spooky season! As October comes to a close, we reflect on some of Brandon's favorite spooky movies, and Nick's (a scared boy) favorite anti-spooky movies. Newton's first law of spookiness: for every spooky movie, there will be an equal and opposite anti-spooky movie. For every bloody slasher, there's a wholesome musical. For every ghosty, there's an adorable animated fish girl. All is fair and balanced in this spooky season recap. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happytears/message

A Chinese & Taiwanese fusion episode. An anniversary episode. A great, great movie episode. In The Mood For Love from director Wong Kar-Wai is a seductive visual masterpiece about the painful beauty of longing and heartbreak. Edward Yang's Yi Yi is a generational family story about the under-appreciated beauty of our ordinary, messy lives. Both are visionary works of art released 20 years ago and they are two of cinema's greatest achievements from master filmmakers. Through some technical difficulties on this episode, we have some fun discussion and Nick achieves possibly the ultimate happy tear? What does that even mean? In the Mood For Love starts at 6:45 Yi Yi starts at 32:15 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happytears/message

Taylor Swift! SAULT! Fleet Foxes! Other musicians! Our favorite albums of the months of July, August, and September in the year of Corona: 2020. Despite an absolute dumpster fire of a year, there has been some wonderful and uplifting music to help us cling desperately to our collective humanity. If you're looking for hope and levity, there's some here. It's not much, but it's something. <3 Catch the playlist of our highlight tracks here! [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/76bCalMpH0CQVejGog7Ra3?si=ljJZ943SSvefXM7KU0-ONg] Full list of artists covered: Taylor Swift, Dinner Party, Kamaal Williams, Kacy Hill, Madeline Kenney, The Beths, Colter Wall, All Them Witches, Mildlife, Gregory Porter, Spillage Village, Mirror Gazer, Samia, Misha Panfilov Sound Combo, IDLES, SAULT, Bobby Sessions, Garrett Owen, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Sylvan Esso, and Lianne La Havas. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happytears/message

This week on the pod we revisit Stillwater and the Band-aids for the 20th anniversary of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. Come sing "Tiny Dancer" with us as we cry happy tears and remain uncool. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happytears/message

We finish our deep dive of the career of the incomparable Fiona Apple with an exploration of her albums Extraordinary Machine, The Idler Wheel, and Fetch The Bolt Cutters. Drinking game: take a shot any time you hear the words: genius, stunning, striking, or "she's just SO GOOD!" Extraordinary Machine starts at 1:55 The Idler Wheel starts at 27:40 Fetch The Bolt Cutters starts at 51:30 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happytears/message