"I get emotionally... Erect."

[only_more_so]

The above quote from LA Story runs through my mind on occasion, mostly when I am emotionally erect. It's that flush of excitement when you see/hear/experience something so much that it almost feels like physical arousal.

Anyway, I'm kind of sad because it happened to me when I saw a trailer for the new Jet Li/Jason Statham movie War.

Does that sort of thing happen to other people?

 

[Guest]

The above quote from LA Story runs through my mind on occasion, mostly when I am emotionally erect. It's that flush of excitement when you see/hear/experience something so much that it almost feels like physical arousal.

Anyway, I'm kind of sad because it happened to me when I saw a trailer for the new Jet Li/Jason Statham movie War.

Does that sort of thing happen to other people?

Yes.

It happens to my husband often.

He came home yesterday from varsity football practice (he's a defensive coach) and was so pumped up he could barely talk.

Big 'nads, baby.

(And I love that line from Steve Martin, too.)

 

[john-the-author]

Some pieces of music will do that for me, particularly big choral pieces. Want a major classic music thrill? Get the King Singers "Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium" CD.

Yes, I'm a geek. But I'm a really cultured geek.

But sure, I also get emotionally erect for movies, too. Go see the new Die Hard film if you haven't already. It's really good.

John

 

[Guest]

Some pieces of music will do that for me, particularly big choral pieces. Want a major classic music thrill? Get the King Singers "Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium" CD.

Yes, I'm a geek. But I'm a really cultured geek.

But sure, I also get emotionally erect for movies, too. Go see the new Die Hard film if you haven't already. It's really good.

John

I'm a musician.

There are many musical selections that make my heart pound.

I tend towards the instrumental, as that was my first major, and generally composers from the Romantic era.

Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Liszt, Verdi and Wagner.

 

[The_Fool]

Not hard to think of some occasions. Surprisingly, with different stimuli.

*smirk*

 

[only_more_so]

I'm a musician.

There are many musical selections that make my heart pound.

I tend towards the instrumental, as that was my first major, and generally composers from the Romantic era.

Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Liszt, Verdi and Wagner.

Music doesn't get me in the emotionally erect kind of way, although it can get to me. The first time I heard Beethoven's 9th all the way through I almost cried. Which, since the 5th grade when I read bridge to Terabithia and actually did cry, puts it in a very select company. But while it might pull at my head and mind, music has yet tugged at my loins, emotionally speaking.

 

[john-the-author]

I'm a musician.

There are many musical selections that make my heart pound.

I tend towards the instrumental, as that was my first major, and generally composers from the Romantic era.

Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Liszt, Verdi and Wagner.

I'm a musician, too, but the stuff that I play (banjo, guitar, singing novelty tunes) isn't the stuff that does it for me emotionally when I listen to it... although I certainly enjoy listening to music the likes of which I play.