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

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

omg

aw. as much as I hate ap, a teenager should be able to fuck a carrot without it impacting their education.

I agree but this story is reminding me so much of multiple stories I heard about junior high girl slumber parties gone horribly wrong in my hometown, the worst one being about a girl who put a hot dog in her vagina on a dare and couldn't get it back out because it broke off, so she had to tell her parents and have them take her to the doctor.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+sog+snopes&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

oops dog

not much, what's oops with you

saying whoops upside your head

*sings it*

Hey waterface, how 'bout this time the suicide without the endless suicide note?

there was also Girl A who broke off a friendship with Girl B, claiming that Girl B had taken her into a garage to show off how much Girl B's dog liked licking her vagina

in summation, small town ppl do fucked up shit when they're bored

Hey waterface, how 'bout this time the suicide without the endless suicide note?

― Three Word Username, Tuesday, July 9, 2013 4:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dog what are you talking about

We are talking imaginary all beef franks, not suicides

Opening this thread is scarier than opening the U.S. Supreme Court thread.

nice job creep matt

I am not a dog and you are named after a record you do not understand. xpost

I am not a dog and you are named after a record you do not understand. xpost

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/200/420/BRTky.jpg

probably an aircraft he doesn't understand too.

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/356104542963761153

didn't click through