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

HFS OTM

she's a sociopath

All these aggrandizing personal anecdotes where she tells stories about things that happen BUT SHE SEES WHAT IT IS REALLY ABOUT are tired

the basest, most cruel insult someone could throw at me

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

lol Bruneau w the post of the day...

It cost 1.2 million to send 24,883 packages? That's $47.90 a package.

No wait, 6356 of those backers only received digital media.

I don't want to call her a liar but I sure as fuck don't believe a word

Best part of that article is that they played a ukulele house show making $5,000 and then took the limo to the Ritz-Carlton hotel they ended up staying at. Scroll down to the comments and you will find stans vehemently arguing that these people are not rich!

well shit dude she had to make her own dinner

When did this whole thing start, the "white musicians lying about their finances" thing? It's makes me so angry. I want musicians to get paid, get rich. It's so frustrating when the ones that do get rich start lying about it. Or reposition their definition of "rich" to keep themselves in the percentile of the populace.

Maybe it's part of a larger problem of white people lying about stuff, huh

Her insistence on not being rich brings to mind the Chris Rock routine about the difference between rich and wealthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m37JkkGjAY

Is singer Amanda Palmer a free-spirited visionary – or a deluded egotist?

Clearly she is a deluded free-spirited egoist.

Sad that her parents would not let her live in a realm of metaphor. Must have been a tough upbringing.

Inside, Amanda explains, are 25 Amanda Palmer fans. They don't know each other but they met online – during the Kickstarter appeal – to pool $5,000 for her to play a concert for them. She's doing 35 of these concerts across the US.

Holy fucking shit, someone who netted more than $100k for playing 35 living room ukelele shows counts as rich in my book. Unless she has absolutely no concept of money/saving.

bingo

I hope she's rich, I'm glad she's rich if she is
also Doubletrees typically have pools and free waffles, I don't know what arts reporter was complaining about

Doesn't Doubletree also give you free cookies?

So, $200 to have your favourite musician come play in your living room ....

Jon Ronson, arghghghghgh. I'll guarantee you Gaiman's publisher paid for the Ritz-Carlton. The next day, the same publisher made out that he couldn't pay more than $5k for some newcomer's manuscript.

I would totally pay $200 to have Prince or The Cure play in my living room

Jane Siberry has been doing that for the last five years. Come to your house, play a tiny show, ten people each, conversation and tea and food and stuff. Great way to make a living through your 50s, if you have loads of talent and a dwindling fanbase, afaic

I would pay $200 for all sorts of musicians to play my living room. And I bet most of them would not to be so lame as to profess lack of money , even the ones that were poor, let alone the rare few whose money was a matter of public record.

Tbf Jane Sibbery seems like she's been trying to lose fans for years. Didn't she even change her name for a while? Bands and musicians should sell naming rights.

"It hurt my feelings in an unprecedented way," she says.

She's a complicated woman xp

Her music rules tho

'never before in the history of feelings has hurt been borne by one perceptive woman as i have borne this'

- Bob Marley

lol if jon ronson is profiling you you are def some sort of narcissistic nutbag, question answers itself

Doesn't Doubletree also give you free cookies?

― DJP, Sunday, June 23, 2013 4:17 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

paging a hoos

lol otm re: ronson

I would totally pay $200 to have Prince or The Cure play in my living room

― DJP, Sunday, June 23, 2013 4:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like my living room couldn't even contain Prince, like my apartment would just melt down or something.

he's apartment-sized, apparently

ronson story is great. so many batshit quotes.

i wanna do an A/B quiz with quotes from amanda palmer and the futurist manifesto

"the basest, most cruel insult someone could throw at me, which was to tell me that Bertolt Brecht would not be proud of me"

honey.

Perhaps now is the moment to note that Brecht’s work comes out of the roil and churn of the modern age’s first global economic crisis, and punk rock the second. We currently find ourselves in the third such crisis. And in times like these, when Amanda Palmer’s hustle becomes a half-real and half-symbolic version of the competition to scrape a last dollar from the hides of the desperate, we might recall the ruthless criticisms of a world arranged by owners and workers offered by Brecht and punk rock. Those criticisms are immediately before us again, having burst forth from the cabaret.

the vile slander to which she refers

classic brecht-shaming

the brecht referencing i think brings us to the key point: mostly people hate amanda palmer because shes a drama kid

people hate drama kids because they're all little amanda palmers

they have no eyebrows?

nice clip, keyes.

worth pointing out, pointlessly, to the universe, that the ny'er article does not in fact say what she says it says

im just dying at like, her whole

she doesnt understand it as like

"brecht would be ruthlessly critical of me" or "brecht would hate me"

its "brecht wouldnt be PROUD of me"

well that's hertolt anyway

I was trawling through an old Excelsior thread looking for the post where Abbott described accidentally kicking a duck and found this:

More than LOLs is all I never needed you to show, then you wouldn't have to say EXCELSIOR!, 'cause I'd already know