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

Like you have to ask.

TED: Ideas Worth Shredding

I really tried to watch the TED Talk with an open mind...but the whole bringing out the crate followed by the theatrical pause really got my hackles up and I only made it as far as "I didn't use to make my living from playing music" before I had to shut it off.

That's just what I need, ten thousand more buskers on my commute. Thanks, Amanda Palmer.

in this brave new economy, everybody will just give me stuff because i ask for it. i am a visionary!

Every rock star should be required to spend a fixed number of hours as a painted public statue before they can ask for money. Like community service or flight hours or something.

AP:

http://www.gamechronicles.com/dvd/bd/hotfuzz/hotfuzz7.jpg

ILX:

http://content7.flixster.com/photo/12/47/40/12474077_gal.jpg

I have to admit, I've never just gone on Twitter and straight asked for money. It's so stupid it might just work...

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6kdD559K0DDyziyGqgWDdii95H-SPrKoYKGenldnSBR7DQo14

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYydhUjYseaYjo-O9SZi9_uXbqF3zBKQoHmSFxD5E9kT1v-vrr

its always worse than i think its gonna be with this gal

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

the displaced hondurans story

the drummmeriwroteallthesongs

this person is terrible

the displaced hondurans story

the drummmeriwroteallthesongs

ok please elaborate, don't make me watch it.

pretty sure both were explained in this thread, I understand and have not watched any videos

after describing how a house full of honduran immigrants slept on couches so her band could take the beds, the mom thanking palmer the next morning ("in her broken english") for staying there and making music her daughter enjoys: "and i'm thinking: this is fair."

― da croupier, Friday, March 1, 2013 11:54 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"And meanwhile, I was touring locally and playing in nightclubs with my band, The Dresden Dolls. It was just me on piano and a genius drummer - I wrote the songs - and eventually we started making enough money that I could quit being a statue."

made for a dull gig, being a statue. Thank god for the drummer!

It could be that she mentioned that she wrote the songs to differentiate the Dresden Dolls from a cover band?

The honduran vignette, it has been bothering me for days. Fuck this lady.

it is haunting

"this is fair"

I often hear about how too many Americans have a "sense of entitlement."

It's almost always just bullshit Right Wing talking points.

Unless there actually are a bunch of Americans who are like Amanda Palmer... In which case I weep for our country.

thing it, it's a bullshit Right Wing talking point with a gigantic center of truth

it's basically a full-on no-win situation

its like an experimental piece from 70s protest theatre.

minimalist strings swell, actress talks in a casual, affectless voice.

"and i said to myself, this is fair."

slowly, dancers emerge, swirl, and fall.

"and i said to myself, this is fair."

lol

giant silver statue-lady walks slowly across the stage, putting on a crown.

"and i said to myself, this is fair."

Would have been better if she was dressed as the Statue of Liberty.

"Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor. That is me ... and I give myself ... to you."

after "this is fair" she says "this is.... this" which is even better imo

while doing the exchange of flower for cash motion. gak

i just said "gak" which i dont think i have said since 4th grade so its that bad

god's gift to hondurans.

"broken english"...god it's so sweet when ethnic minorities make crude attempts at communication *pats central america on the head*

its like an experimental piece from 70s protest theatre.

minimalist strings swell, actress talks in a casual, affectless voice.

"and i said to myself, this is fair."

slowly, dancers emerge, swirl, and fall.

"and i said to myself, this is fair."

― s.clover, Tuesday, March 5, 2013 12:18 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolll

She should think about going back to being a statue.

at this point she could just tweet for someone to make a statue of her

can we go back for a bit to where she auctioned of shit that she nibbled on to her faithful followers?

I'm kind of at the point where I can't even blame her as much as I want to because there are a shit ton of ppl buying into her bullshit and making her sketchy view of the world into a reality

^this. if the market supports it

so really my takeaway is "destroy the market"

or "make the market think they want bullshit from me" if I'm being honest

I've been doing my best to not actual watch this TED Talk or read anything new about her cos the last time i did she was exploiting kids that had committed suicide and it was pretty much the last straw for me. She's a horrible narcissist.

i'm presuming everyone's familiar with the "1000 true fans" model?
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php
this was old news in 2008. She's basically just restating the premise but personalizing it in her own special hugs way

I wonder what I would be like now if I had spent the past xx years in a sophmore bubble

my advice is to generally not watch any TED talks

But it's the intellectual thing to do.

Watch them with your butt.

I don't see how that could even work

arnold palmer's open letter to roberta flack:

To Roberta Flack

I was quite surprised when I heard “"Killing Me Softly with His Song" on the radio and learned that the song describes me as being “famously rude, combative, abrasive, embarrassing, insane bigot, best left forgotten.”

At the Atlantic City Country Club I still have the reputation for being a wise, brash and determined gentleman who doesn’t throw his clubs, drink or curse and attends mass every day before going to work, where I am highly regarded as the golf professional. I thought I was familiar with your hit single ‘"Killing Me Softly with His Song", but I must have somehow missed the “bigot” and parts “best left forgotten.”

Your description of me as “bigoted” may have once been justified, as it was supported by Walter Travis, who won the US Amateur at the Atlantic City Country Club before he won the British Amateur, but was so rudely treated by the British he refused to return to defend his title, especially after his center-shafted putter was retroactively banned by the Royal and Ancient Order of what he considered Snobs.

Walter Hagen, my friend and colleague, confirmed their view when he took exception to the British rule that golf pros were not permitted in the clubhouse dining room, and refused to play until the rules were changed. And John B. Kelly, another ACCC member and Olympic rowing champion, was banned from participating in the Henley rowing regatta because he was a bricklayer and not a considered a gentleman.

It wasn’t me who had bad manners and had to be taught a lesson, it was the British and UK professionals who thought they could win the US Open trophy just by showing up, and so it was left to me – the wise, brash and determined golf legend – to teach them a lesson. I did it again at Shawnee in 1966, shortly before the U.S. Open at Brookline, when I handily won the Shawnee tournament by eight strokes.

That’s when I gave my famous speech, promising to keep the US Open trophy in America, which generated international interest in the game and took golf off the sports pages and put it on the front pages of every newspaper in the United States and the British Empire. That speech set the stage for the showdown at Brookline, which was called “the Greatest Game” not because a local amateur won it, but because I was there and I am famous. The international spirit inflamed by my“combative” style can still be felt today during Walker, Ryder and Curtis Cup tournaments, and other “friendly competitions between nations,” especially between the USA and UK.

I hope that you will correct your crude and rude mischaracterization of me in your hit single "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and the true story is someday told of the great American golf champion who sparked and inspired today’s international competitions.

Arnold Palmer

I am now imagining Arnold Palmer with Amanda Palmer's eyebrows

http://www.saveusterrelldavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1phil1.jpg

robert palmer's letter to

if one wanted to risk sounding like a bret easton ellis character, one could argue that by allow people pay to engage with her, rather than pay to experience her art, she's actually letting people pay for what benefits them - interacting with someone whose art they enjoy. In a sense, she's acknowledging that there's no guarantee that listening to her music is inherently rewarding to all, while it's definitely rewarding for a fan to drive down and give her a neti pot or buy her toenail clippings or whatever.

― da croupier, Friday, March 1, 2013 11:26 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p insightful imo