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April 27, 2007

Mariachi Audiences

I've recently switched to "Mail" from Entourage, and this has meant the resufacing of some very very old emails indeed when I use the search function.

One just popped up from my "actively dating" days (I'm not really sure what I mean by that, except that I was doing a lot of dating back then) where I expounded on my theory about how when two performative people go on a date they should be able to hire a third person who would act like a talk show host and mediator, gently interceding: "Mary, if I can interrupt -- that's a really interesting point you just made, I wonder if Mr. Jones here has any thoughts on this?" etc. Sort of like a verbal chaperone.

Then I thought you should also be able to hire a modest audience to follow you around -- like those bands in Mexico restaurants that serenade you at your table, only the opposite, so instead of performing for you (which, frankly, makes me uncomfortable), they would laugh and clap when you said something so that you, as a performative person, would feel good about yourself. Maybe that would make me uncomfortable, too, but I'm not sure. I think I might like it.

'Cause I really hate it when I can't get a word in edgewise and no one listens to me. Maybe this is why I'm so interested in projects that invert the relationship between performer and audience. I'm just not a very good audience member by nature.

p.s. You may wonder what this Dog LOL has to do with anything, and the truth is, not much -- well, nothing. I guess you could argue that dog looks kind of like a dog you might meet in Mexico. Nat made this LOL and it was just in time to throw up with this, which would otherwise not have an illustration. Maybe I'll include an image macro with all my entries from now on.

Posted by mary at April 27, 2007 12:00 PM

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