Dresden dolls tonight

[fugitivepeas]

I am so FUCKING excited about the show and afterparty tonight I think I'm gonna explode into tiny pieces of light. The only thing keeping me together is that it would be really hard to sweep me all up in time for the show

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[krypticnight]

When I go on vacation, I tend to have the same problem. I seem so focused on 'capturing' the experience that I forget to actually do the experiencing. It's like you throw away the present in hopes that the posterity, as remembered through the media remnants of it, will be exciting.

But yayyyy, dresden dolls. =)

[ephermata]

I'm sorry to miss the concert. Blow a kiss to Amanda for me!

As for personality editing displayed on camera, there seem to be at least two issues here. One is the authenticity issue, related to the question of how to understand people responding to lonelygirl15 being a "fake." For me, the basic issue is that of being lied to. In contrast, when we read fiction, we are willing participants in building a story that is pre-declared to be not real. When we believe a story is real, however, as when we view news or talk to a person on a date, and then find out it isn't, there's a feeling of betrayal. That seems to overshadow the issue of whether it's meaningful to talk about that story as 'real' or not.

A second issue is that of selective editing. One place to start here might be to look at Erving Goffman's _The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life_. He gives examples of such selective editing that have nothing to do with video -- one of my favorites is when he talks about how people living in a cabin can see their visitors put a smile

[fugitivepeas]

yea! It seems as if you always have a list of interesting things to read about so many subjects.