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My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Location | Chicago, IL, United States |
| Introduction | why do I waste my time in supermarket checkout lines perusing which latest starlet is suffering from an eating disorder? or why do I watch "Entertainment Tonight" despite my extreme distaste for Mary Hart? In short, it's this: [Einfuhlung]...a term coined in 1903 by a student of aesthetics named Theodore Lipps. He was searching for a way to express the strangely intimate emotional connection that arises between a viewer and an onstage performer. He used the example of watching an acrobat stepping across a high wire, that moment of breathless suspension when audience members gasp as if they themselves were teetering on a tightrope; the sense of, as Lipps described it, "I feel myself inside of him." Lipps defined empathy as an "inner participation...in foreign experiences." Cognitive scientists refer to this ability to read another's feelings, thoughts, or intentions as a "theory of mind." from Field Notes on the Compassionate Life by Mark Ian Barasch |
| Interests | Reading, listening to music, driving aimlessly while doing interest number 2, remembering memories, anything involving my St. Bernard Mulligan, seeing friends and drinking wine, watching movies, dancing by myself or with others, talking/listening, art, looking at photographs, Art Deco Hollywood, traveling, karaoke-style singing, the seaside, junk store shopping, board games (Scattergories, Scrabble) and electronic games (Catchphrase, Tetris), other interesting people with interesting interests. |
| Favorite Movies | Edward Scissorhands and Amelie are the two most consistent...I love lots of movies |
| Favorite Music | Right now: Bloc Party, New Order/Joy Division, the Libertines, trance mix usa 2 &4, the Bravery, LCD soundsytem, the Cure, Fleetwood Mac, ...this list will just go on until someone stops me. |
| Favorite Books | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Girl by Blake Nelson, Oh the Glory of it All! by Sean Wilsey, The Awakening by Kate Chopin this list is forever in redux |