tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post4465116784359941647..comments2024-03-01T03:37:20.420-05:00Comments on I'M SOMEWHERE ELSE: reasons to have bangs/readingAmanda Foresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200794053287551087noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-27608739123290529112010-02-27T15:42:11.785-05:002010-02-27T15:42:11.785-05:00sorry to take a long time to answer. whenever peop...sorry to take a long time to answer. whenever people comment here, I get all excited and want to answer, but I put it off because I'm excited. now everyone here is probably not checking back.<br /><br />anyway, the body language. Amanda Palmer is holding her shoulders up really high and basically looking really nervous and serious and like she's concentrating really hard, which isn't the way she normally looks. I'm particularly struck by 4:10-4:13-ish though when she adjusts the guitar strap and the audience starts laughing and she gets this really blanked/startled look on her face which is an expression I get a lot (in fact it's the title expression of this blog).<br /><br />I'm not saying that a person without any disability wouldn't ever have that kind of body language, but it does indicate a particular kind of oddness/shyness that Amanda Palmer normally doesn't display.<br /><br />Zoe, they should have dressed up as one person! That would have been a lot cooler. And I agree the laughing is the worst part--I feel like it would be a little less creepy if it was like "Evelyn Evelyn are really shy, let's encourage them" and everyone was yelling "you can do it" or something--as it is, the audience is <i>startling</i> them and scaring them, which seems mean.Amanda Forest Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284158336100298682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-52263321586522502022010-02-23T22:20:11.139-05:002010-02-23T22:20:11.139-05:00About the girl who always asked "You?" a...About the girl who always asked "You?" after she answered a question -- reciprocal questioning is something I'm trying to master right now. It's hard because when someone asks me a question I'm thinking about the answer to that question, and not about what their answer to the question might be, so I sort of have to kick myself in the brain in order to remember to ask them the same question.<br /><br />I also love spotting other people. And I wonder if they spot me, and I kinda wish someone would.<br /><br />It's really cool what Amanda Palmer and that guy can do in terms of playing one instrument simultaneously -- I wish they had just told everyone that they were learning to play one instrument simultaneously instead of pretending to be conjoined twins. I agree with your old teacher that when one grows up, one may learn that this is an iffy thing to do.<br /><br />Also what made me really uncomfortable about that video was the laughter. I couldn't tell if it was friendly or malicious laughter, or in fact what was funny about their act.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-56461824816271769082010-02-23T19:28:14.491-05:002010-02-23T19:28:14.491-05:00Of course, I'm not familiar with her body lang...Of course, I'm not familiar with her body language normally since I'm not a Dresden Dolls fan but what about her body language was nonstandard? I couldn't see it. <br /><br />I'm asking because I'm currently wondering about my own body language at the moment. I made a Youtube video a while back (took it down) and I was surprised by how fake I seemed when I didn't really mean to.lux aeturnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391526866406089000noreply@blogger.com