Sinister: I'll be your mirror

[Youn Noh]

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.

   

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