Pieces of (and Moments In) Media That Evokes Emotion 
from early 2021 - late 2024
(includes non-media related things too)
after yang trailer
why can't i by liz phair (specifically used in the movie 13 going on 30)
this photo ↓ of pj harvey

george harrison photographed by pattie boyd

âin the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices. we are here on this island in the middle of the pacific in lieu of filing for divorceâ -Joan Didion The White Album
the dedication page of Just Kids by Patti Smith:

'amour fou'
âsein und zeitâ (being and time)
the idea of magnum opus
that scene in Almost Famous where Sapphire talks abt how important it is to be a fan and to love smthg so much: âTo truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.â
that scene in A Christmas Tale where faunia is basically overflowing with emotion and happiness
the whole of Just Kids by Patti Smith
the feeling of being almost done with a book - one that brings so much joy and easy to read because itâs so good
the ending of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf:

âthe hugâ painted by egon schiele:

this excerpt from Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion: âonce in a dry season, i wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends with when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. although now, some years later, i marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, i recall with embarrassing clarity the flavour of those particular ashes. it was a matter of misplaced self respectâ
the whole chapter âon keeping a notebookâ in Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
~another~ quote from Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion:

you know what - all of Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, my favorite of her books so far
Gilmore Girls - especially the beginning and when lorelai says âi smell snowâ on first snow episodes
the film Asako 1 & 2 (japanese title: ćŻăŠăèŠăăŠă 'whether asleep or awake'):

this quote from My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante: âI was satisfied with these thoughts. I was pleased with everything, in those days, with my love for Nino, with my sadness, with the affection that I felt surrounded by, with my own capacity to read, think, reflect in solitude.â
baker 4 baker 4 BAKER FOUR (one of my favorite skate videos that holds so much nostalgia and comfort for me)
quote from The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir: âlittle star that i see, drawn by the moonâ
limerence
the film Before Sunset - the scene in the car specifically when cĂ©line is about to touch jesse but then doesnât and the ending âbaby youâre gonna miss that planeâ âi knowâ:

âI canât fall apart because iâve never fallen togetherâ -Andy Warhol (quoted in Things I Donât Want to Know by Deborah Levy)
oneiric
quote from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: âOnly God knows how much I loved youâ
FML by Seventeen - 'i don't understand but i luv u' specifically
from Actress by Anne Enright: âwhat did i ever do, to deserve something as beautiful as you?â
watching Ryusuke Hamaguchis Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - reminiscing in the feeling of watching something good and utterly moving
excerpt from Patti Smiths' Devotion:

my acquisition of the Sofia Coppola Archive, signed!, most prized possession:


the entirety of the anime NANA- being emotionally attached and intertwined with something as this show is a blessing of life

the Gregg Araki film Doom Generation restoration and uncut - had an indescribable emotional reaction to finishing this masterpiece, started tearing up just thinking about it - movies truly are what makes the gears in me turn especially this one
Black Swans by Eve Babitz - the book and the short story where the loss of her great love coincided with the beginning of her very great writing career
'I Know' by Fiona Apple from the album When the PawnâŠ
One Hundred Years of Solitude series teaser (my fave book ever adapted)
the teaser trailer for The Brutalist