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

Saw them at the Cafe du Nord show here in SF.
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, September 27, 2004 10:05 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I had no idea I'd actually seen this woman perform (w/DD)

They were somewhat disappointing live.
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, September 27, 2004 8:20 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember vaguely giving my rather choice seat up to a pretty girl to go home.

So I just got some PR hoohah saying the album debuted at number 10, plus:

New Amanda Palmer Phone App!
Amanda also launched her new phone app today, which will help realize another long-standing fantasy: to help members of the Amanda Palmer community locate each other geographically, so that they can connect offline as well as on the web. Designed by Fame House using the Mobile Roadie platform, the app also allows users to upload and share photos and comments, enjoy music and videos, and keep up with the latest Amanda Palmer feeds from her blog, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram. The app is available at iTunes or Google Play.

is that LouZoom compatible?

Isn't everything?

Beginning to think we should have precovered this.

i really want a hipster-runoff-circa-2004 analysis of this whole phenomenon

hipster runoff circa now version would be 'amanda palmer shows tight nips in flaming lips video, has hairy pits' i guess

the Amanda Palmer community

Amanda also launched her new phone app today, which will help realize another long-standing fantasy: to help members of the Amanda Palmer community locate each other geographically

I want to download this app so I know who to avoid.

Yeah, I was going to say that app sounds really useful in the same way as megan's list.

VICTORY or something

http://pitchfork.com/news/47917-amanda-palmer-starts-paying-musicians/

Beginning to think we should have precovered this.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:11 PM (14 minutes ago)

I think so too, but to go next-level there would need to be a separate "GriftStarter" page and a website o' weird promo.

I am beside myself at the resolution to this tbh

probably gonna lol all night

i love that it comes with a 'fuck you too':

we are going to pay the volunteer musicians every night. even though they volunteered their time for beer, hugs, merch, free tickets, and love: we'll now also hand them cash.

we have the power to do it, and we’re going to do it. (in fact, we started doing it three shows ago.)

Wasn't this when she was still going on about things with Emily the NPR intern?

She added, "We're also retroactively sending a payment to the folks who've already played with us. SURPRISE!"

love this editorial comment

maybe dude who drove from North Carolina to New Orleans to keep playing with her made her feel bad

Friend on FB just now:

Chick-fil-Amanda Palmer

LOL!

I think this is a really cool thing for her to do. From all her fronting and obliviousness I did not expect this outcome, and to continue taking the piss now she's finally done the right thing seems mean-spirited at best.

I don't feel cool about this at all and I need a hug and a near beer

um

Palmer doesn't specify how much each musician is getting paid.

pray for amanda

On the pros and cons list of this whole thing there's like 1 pro and 20 cons.

The one pro is that there was some funny name-calling

Designed by Fame House using the Mobile Roadie platform

lol ugh these things are so gross. people get ahold of you and say "we have an app, we already work with x & y & z, there's nothing to it, we plug in & personalize with your names & you pick a flavor and we keep x % of the net." p much exactly like lending your name to a pair of shades or something

dammit now I want aeroshades

Guys, I've had the best time on this thread in the last week.

my management team tweaked and reconfigured financials, pulling money from this and that other budget (mostly video)

makes me feel like we may have destroyed something beautiful.

*chestbumps entire thread*

its good that shes decided to pay them

shes still racist, ableist and corny

Which is the bigger crime?

i feel like mitt romney will be the next to buckle.

if we can convince everyone that mitt romney is a millionaire married to neil gaiman i think we've got this in the bag. the BAG.

no secret camera needed

i wonder if jimmy carter's grandson was paid in beer for that scoop

I think this is a really cool thing for her to do.

OTM

its good that shes decided to pay them

shes still racist, ableist and corny

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Racist? Did I miss something?

ironic klan joeks

the klan joke i've seen attributed to her doesn't scan as racist to me. just sort of dumb.

http://pitchfork.com/news/48012-animal-collectives-deakin-apologizes-for-kickstarter-controversy-explains-delayed-solo-material/

I heard that Dibb is refusing to finish his project until gay marriage is legal in every US state, and Mali.

Palmer should write him a check to hire an assistant.

can we throw "Deakin's Mali songs LEAKED" mp3s out there which are 7 minutes of fart noises

That's racist.

Not all African music sounds like fart sounds.

Actually, this would be a pretty convincing fraud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnLf9Pnyk_E

(^^ awesome song, btw. Sampled by Def Leppard for "Rocket.")

isn't that also the sample from The Jungle Line?

I think that samples something else. Ingoma Tribe's Ensemble De Tambours, says google?

which is also what black burundi sampled:

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/112513/Burundi%20Steiphenson%20Black-Burundi%20Black_Ingoma%20Tribe-Ensemble%20De%20Tambours/

burundi black