I've been waiting, in vain, to hear reporting back from the Chickfactor shows, L'age d'or de pop. I guess people learned their lesson after last year, or maybe they were all wearing mascara and false lashes to live up to the glamour of the occasion. It's too self-revealing to cry, unless you're innocent. Or adults are supposed to shed silent tears. I caught a glimpse of my year-old niece in front of the mirror yesterday practicing faces. This was just after I'd carried her away from an electric cord. She protested loudly and then gave me a new look, totally different from her usual smiles, narrowed eyes and a sort of smirk. This is extremely valuable, to learn to pull off these reactions without thinking. It's funny because it's clear that she intends for her expressions to be social. I'm just starting this book on social cognition, and one of the premises is that grasping that other members of one's species are intentional agents enables members of that species to share knowledge, and cultural transmission progresses much faster than biological evolution. So I read interviews from the back issues of chickfactor to tide me over. There are great interviews with Isobel and with Jessica Griffin from the Would Be Goods. Reading them back to back, there was a nice contrast in worldviews, based on age and life experiences. I miss Isobel, too. (I think Stuart said he missed her first.) I like it when she said that she enjoyed being approached by girls her own age after shows. I wish I credited her youth when I was younger. This must have something to do with accepting yourself. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+