amanda palmer's open poem to jonathan chait (and other crimes)

this stuff just fascinates me too

i truly believe that we’re heading into a musical economy that will rely on more of this kind of model: fans buying your empty wine bottles

i truly believe that we’re heading into a musical economy that will rely on more of this kind of model: fans buying shit you chewed on

maybe she and andrew wk are the same person? there seems to be a lot of overlap in mania and selling of body clippings.

i truly believe that we’re heading into a musical economy that will rely on more of this kind of model: fans being directly called upon to support their artists on stage.

unpaid fanterns.

I legitimately don't understand the chewing postcard thing. Maybe she chews up a postcard and sticks the resultant paste between two other postcards?

lol

Chewing the stuff is another excuse to take a picture of herself and write "Nom nom nom" as a caption, solidifying her internet awareness.

for $500 amanda palmer will send you spitballs

aside from her racism, rape lols, and making fun of disabled people, i really hate her attitude about these fundraising schemes, acting as if she has stumbled on something brilliant that any "indie" artist could have come up with, as if she could have convinced thousands of people to give her $50 apiece or literally buy her trash for hundreds of dollars without prior support from a major label.

it is POSSIBLE that she could have done this, but she didn't. that she built her fanbase on the back of major label support never seems to be commented on by her, she seems to 100% actually believe that working musicians/artists who criticize her "crowdsourcing" are just jealous they didn't think of her brilliant self-sufficiency (via fans) scheme 1st

i mean, she auctions off kisses onstage! it is disturbing to me as a female musician that this is considered "the future of the music industry"

Wait, more info re racism?

xpost ugh

nazi joke tweets, kkk joke tweets.

the worst thing imo is when, in an interview, she started talking about how after "evelyn evelyn" she came under fire from "disabled feminists." after saying "disabled feminists" she smirks for a long time as if to invite lols and then bursts into laughter. cause thats hilarious

god i get so wound up about this i should really stop reading this thread >:(

The fans who play for free are probably doing a few professional musicians a favor by sparing them having to deal with her.

blog where she proclaims that "no one owns the holocaust." how brave

ok this is actually probably the most heinous thing ever said by anyone "we’ve read the diary of anne frank, we’ve listened to the music of neutral milk hotel, and we’ve wondered what we could put on stage that would move people, make them think, make them feel.

wow that is like next level make jon lewis hate you type shit

holocaust cuteness plus nmh

*vomits furiously*

wait what

can we go back to the part where all I knew about her was weird eyebrows

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Anyone read David Byrne's book yet? I just got it in the mail and flipped through (literally) until I came across a chart illustrating the costs and profits of his last self-released album with Eno. Granted, we're talking a slightly different tier of artist, and a legacy act at that, but I can't imagine Byrne solo is too far off from the level of Palmer these days. Anyway, it was kind of cool to see the breakdown of a record that cost something like $315,000 to record and distribute and promote, all self, made around a million and netted Byrne (minus Eno's share) around $300,000, which Byrne points out is a lot more than he got for his last studio album, which he determined works out to around $160K a year in salary. He concedes that most indie acts can't afford the initial expenditure to allow such a nice take, but it was still interesting to see a minor major figure - or major minor figure? - break down his own version of a DIY scheme. Looking forward to reading the book, which seems like at its best may be a bit like Albini's famed essay but more levelheaded and specific.

Wait, is Palmer a holocaust denier now or something? Man, how far this thread has come.

this is like the only occasion where i could imagine jeff mangum actually punching someone in the face - if he heard that he would be really fucking angry. god this woman is horrible.

no, she isnt a holocaust denier, but she does think its ok to make nazi jokes and klan jokes. she refers to this as "using the klan ironically"

amanda fukkking palmer

not that it makes anything better, but i dont think her eyebrows are tattoos. i think she draws them on. they look different all the time

hahaha im not proud of the fact that i just googled that^, but it did yield a video result in which a fan comes on stage to draw them on for her

wait are we not allowed to make jokes about Nazis? those guys were hilarious

"The fans who play for free are probably doing a few professional musicians a favor by sparing them having to deal with her."

most important part of the situation.

lol roxy I google imaged amanda palmer eyebrows just the other day to see if they were tattoos or drawn on, learned the same thing, haha

reminds me of the surprised-looking old ladies at my grandma's church who drew on their eyebrows

we've all read the wikipedia part where she mentions she was a "living statue"-type street performer for a while, right?

i don't know, it just seems to help put me in the mindset

so this gal basically gets her fans to do everything for her in exchange for the opportunity to bask in her star power, is that right?

she'd be less annoying as a human statue and that's saying something

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/05/amanda_palmers_1.html

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wat

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not that it makes anything better, but i dont think her eyebrows are tattoos. i think she draws them on. they look different all the time

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:35 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i've been wanting to jump in with this for ages

but i was worried it would demonstrate that i have paid slightly too much to a dresden dolls video

"Looking forward to reading the book"

david byrne book got slammed pretty hard in the nyt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/books/how-music-works-by-david-byrne.html?ref=books

they even called it a road to nowhere! timez lolz.

not that it makes anything better, but i dont think her eyebrows are tattoos. i think she draws them on. they look different all the time

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:35 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i've been wanting to jump in with this for ages

― thomp, Monday, September 17, 2012 6:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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http://pickuptheforkbuenosaires.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/uncle-leo.jpg

That NYTimes David Byrne review is a mess. It reads like the dude came up with some zingers first ("His prose seems to have been translated from the Chinese.") then wrote the review around them. I mean, the Byrne book may be dull as dirt, but it's kind of a weak sauce criticism to suggest your money might be better spent on Talking Heads records. Well, yeah. Duh. Did the author expect the book to get up, grab a guitar and dance for him or something?

the byrne review reads like the editorials that my 70-year-old mentor used to write

so i'm totally into it

it probably says something about me, and something BAD, that earlier today i was happy to listen aloud to linda sharrock basically orgasming over sonny's guitar freakouts, but while later reminding myself of what that one dresden dolls song sounded like i made sure to turn down the volume so as to not be overheard by my flatmates.

"i'm listening for the articles"

had to dig for this one but ch*ki posted this on twitter a while back http://i.imgur.com/XEBsP.jpg

that is a thing of beauty