:: I have an intimate and exclusive relationship with Cinema Paradiso's soundtrack. It was during my depressive days that I listen to it before I go to bed and cried my stomach out. And as I sat at my desk this hot afternoon, I put the disc in the player. And as it played, after all these years, it still has the power to grip me and make me freeze to my bones. The only things that seems very much alive is the wrenching of my heart as the music seeps through, and there I was staring at this stupid screen and blinking away. I can even cry along with it now...funny how some things don't seem to change. ::