The Mirror

[IdleRich]

I got captured by a somewhat anxious mirror-relation one of my early acid excursions in college, and also came across tripping advice at that time along the lines of "don't look at the mirror." (Berghain, and some other imitator dance clubs, don't have any mirrors in their bathrooms, very intentionally)

Perfect timing. Yesterday I was in Desterro and I went in the backroom with the sound guy (yes, for that reason) and there was this freaky guy in there who was pointing at this broken mirror stuck on the wall and giggling, and the sound guy said "That is the only mirror in the whole of Desterro, we deliberately don't have any in the bathrooms*"


*he's American

 

[IdleRich]

There's a Steven Wright joke about putting tape over all the mirrors in his house so he can't accidentally fall through into another dimension.

Reminds me of a very offensive joke that I'm not gonna tell.

 

[woops]

fuck this thread

 

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let's just post tubes with the word mirror

 

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much more fun and easier

 

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look everyone I've got loads

 

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@sufi

 

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brb just gonna post on my blog about this new genre "reflectology"

 

[IdleRich]

Rochat quotes the anthropologist Edmund Carpenter’s description of showing mirrors to the Biamis of Papua New Guinea for the first time, a phenomenon Carpenter calls “the tribal terror of self-recognition”: "After a first frightening reaction, they became paralyzed, covering their mouths and hiding their heads – they stood transfixed looking at their own images, only their stomach muscles betraying great tension."

Is it King Solomon's Mines where our intrepid adventurers convince the tribe of savages that they are as powerful as their witch Gagool by showing them their reflections in a mirror? I've seen variants of that story crop up a few times so it wouldn't surprise me to find out it had its roots in some real event.

 

[woops]

has roots in the shuffling house sounds, "reflecting" how Mirrors allow us to shuffle between realities and identities to probably

 

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What is so compelling about seeing yourself? You can say it's simply because it's you and you have a unique connection to yourself, but that doesn't do it justice, does it? It makes sense, but it's reductive and unsatisfying.

 

[IdleRich]

Borges and Baudrillard on the revenge of the mirror people feels like it could already apply to the internet, what with filters, "echo chambers" and the like. There are now millions of mirrors reflecting a distorted image that's punching through to our world.

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror is named for the screens on our phones that let us into the internet.

 

[william_kent]

let's just post tubes with the word mirror

that's a game I can join


Les Rallizes Denudes - Enter The Mirror

from the best live album ever, Live 77

the mirror song to end all mirror songs

 

[IdleRich]

There's a bit in Against the Day where Pynchon talks about a Venetian mirror used as part of an illusionist's act which literally splits a person into two. The only way to undo it is to convince both of them to climb back into the cabinet.

I meant to mention Pepper's Ghost as the classic mirror illusion.

 

[woops]

What is so compelling about seeing yourself? You can say it's simply because it's you and you have a unique connection to yourself, but that doesn't do it justice, does it? It makes sense, but it's reductive and unsatisfying.

i find it very satisfying. cos i look so good. and now there's 2 of me

 

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There's a disturbing arty porno from the 70s called Through the Looking Glass that involves a girl being assaulted by a demon that comes through a haunted mirror in the attic.

Through the Looking Glass (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[IdleRich]

Woody Allen mirroring the mirrors of Welles' finale.

Enter the Dragon has the mirror scene at the end which I believe was inspired by The Lady from Shanghai - same kinda thing at the end of The Man With the Golden Gun.

Jordan Peele's Us (or is it we, I've forgotten) is all about being terrorised by mirror images of ourselves - and doesn't that end in a fairground hall of mirrors too?

 

[woops]

it's the perfect subject for a songwriter. alone with your ultimate inspiration.