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

trying to figure out forks' post

In retrospect, I should have been even more of an asshole to gaimen on twitter

― matt (upper mississippi sh@ke

iirc, ums mentioned the word "troll" or "trolling" in one of his tweets and gaiman was like "oh, I get it, you're a troll. I'm blocking you now."

I did to Ned, not gaimen, because a former ilxor was tut tutting about me trolling and I said ”you mean awesome trolling”

I brought up many substantial points about how it was impossible for their claims that ”all this money is going back to the fans and better packaging” were false based on my knowledge of putting out and paying for the manufacture of cds....he never once bothered to respond with facts of his own.

He cut off and blocked me after I mentioned ”special hugs”

Perhaps someone else could have done better but I was the one called to do twitter battle that day, I pray I brought no shame upon my family and swear by Christ that Neil Gaimen shall taste the bite of my sword someday

oh, that's not what I meant at all. lord and life. you were a hero to us all that day.

” The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?”

http://www.seethemuzic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Amanda-Palmer-and-the-Grand-Theft-Orchestra-performing-at-St-Andrews-Hall-Detroit-MI-November-11th-2012-photo-by-Marc-Nader-5498.jpg

pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel

I can't get over how she can take a musical style/aesthetic that is totally my shit, be good at it and still be wholly repellant and unlikable artistically.

irl lol mookieproof

mookie otm

^

ftr, i thought matt's trolling of neil was awesome
also dan otm

It's a shame, really (though a minor shame), since she is absolutely not terrible and in fact was pretty great when I saw her a few weeks back. But as a person she's this horrible mix of showbiz kid, whimsy-miner, pretentious artiste, ironic hipster and all sorts of other unctuous things.

she was a living statue. You almost don't need to say anything else.

I like a big chunk of her music, and she was actually very nice when I met her, but that doesn't excuse any of this shit.

frankly, i don't care about the weird ethical shit like you guys do. I just want her to grow ordinary eyebrows.

that's p much my position

...and I recognize that she sucks, the terrible person thing is just shit icing on the shit cake.

Oh dear.

RT @amandapalmer: just sat alone with bono in an irish pub for an hour and talked about music.

Did he end up with her eyebrows and did she end up with his glasses?

"music"

Then they pretended they were conjoined twins...

music = "factivism, stadiums, kickstarter and eyebrows"

i don't know if i can go on

just wait for their collaborative album

if only that pub could have been bombed

Guys it's worse than you might guess -- they were in Long Beach for the TED Talks.

TED CAN FUCK OFF THEN

Bono, Amanda Palmer and Ted Nugent walked into a bar...

(I know TED ain't Ted. Fuck it.)

imagining them both just talking over each other the whole time

I know where that pub is if anyone wants to toss in a tear gas canister.

IRA really needs to get its shit together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMj_P_6H69g

"i had the most profound encounters with people"

amanda palmer's open tab with bono

i love the way she just tosses out "i wrote the songs" as an afterthought because she said something nice about the drummer and that can't just sit there and let people think that he was actually as important as her or anything.

this is so insufferable. like stunningly so.

"they weren't with us on the sidewalk."

"master level ninja fan connection"

The comments on that video are a good catalyst for a Two Minute Hate session if you haven't had the minimum amount of cathartic anger.

didn't make it past the living statue wannabramovic story but man that explained a lot really

I don't think she aimed that high, it was more like those silver- or gold-painted cowboy dudes on the sidewalk

oh sure, i get that; i'm just saying that it's a rosetta stone with the "my art elevates me literally and figuratively above you; should you connect, we are making my glorious art but if you do not you are a sad sad person"

is her version of a sad person when she draws on weepy eyebrows?

people who I have seen praising amanda palmer's TED talk on the Internet in the past hour: rashida jones, kenan

haha

to be fair, kenan's stint as sidewalk masturbator was probably well-received

well, received

if unwelcome

"we made an art out of asking people to help us"

if by us you mean ME

"and then twitter came along and made things even more magic because I could ask instantly for anything, anywhere"