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

Watch Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Moby, and Stephin Merritt sing Rocky Horror - reality continues to troll ILX

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

They should call themselves the Black-Hearted Peas

Watch Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Moby, and Stephin Merritt sing Rocky Horror - reality continues to troll ILX

That's a real Inglorious Basterds, blow up the theater type of scenario right there.

Stephin why :(

reality continues to troll ILX

only if you keep posting it! happened in 2011, posted itt in 2012

Amanda Palmer Verified account
‏@amandapalmer
12 Years a Slave drove the point home. the privileged (whites/straights/menfolk) MUST be allowed to fight for change. not just the oppressed
https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/428300950390857728

are you fucking kidding me?

Plus!

https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/428293898536894464

yeah i just saw that....sadkjf;l,ahiqr3teouwfgj paworgji qneosdpfghijrw9 pgilsd

lmao UMS

she is incredible

So much twisted logic in just a few short tweets, my mind is struggling to grapple with it

(wept. a lot.)

stuff like this bothers me. a lot.

Honestly, if she left it at weeping over 12 years, I'd be ok with it, but jumping from that to a defense of macklemore is just too much. This is way worse than any of the kickstarter drama.

Envisioning a supergroup of AP, Macklemore, Brad Paisley & Ani DiFranco

I for one applaud her courage to stand up and support the privileged people of the world.

unfamiliar with 12 years a slave. what do the white men do to come in and save the day?

it is kinda a fascinating tweet just in terms of how complex it is, like it's obviously a concise medium & yet what she's saying makes me want to draw diagrams & create infographics just to explore the new perspectives on history drawn out by her thesis, like really thoroughly map the new parameters suggested

Envisioning a supergroup of AP, Macklemore, Brad Paisley & Ani DiFranco

With Michelle Shocked grousing out at the front door.

unfamiliar with 12 years a slave. what do the white men do to come in and save the day?

― how's life, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:33 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Took them in as sla-oh wait

(Seriously though, Brad Pitt's character sends a letter to Solomon's former home, setting in motion the latter's freedom.)

@maura
reading ap's twitter also taught me that she's going to be an advice columnist soon. as if today didn't have enough content bubble evidence.

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/jan/17/amanda-palmer-agony-aunt-your-problems-answered

Dear God in Heaven @ all of this

How, as a white person, the hell do you walk out of a movie like 12 Years a Slave thinking "how do I make this more about myself"? I honestly cannot comprehend this. (Also, exactly who is stopping white people from helping to end racism, because it isn't black people..)

"how do I make this more about myself"

well

It just boils down to a stupid reverse racism argument. "White people can't fight racism because someone said something mean about macklemore"

Let's not even get into "I saw people being mean to Macklemore and I thought 'ME ME ME ME ME'"

Damn. First 400 years of slavery, and now people getting upset about Macklemore. When will we ever learn.

ap is one of those people where you wanna hate the player more than the game

this thread started with so many AMANDA PALMER IS OTM posts, too

there are lots of players and lots of games, but name one of the former more solipsistic than ap

terrell owens

there's a freaky friday situation i would pay to watch

A Night With Terrell Owens and Neil Gaiman

At least she didn't say something about "independent artists" having a hard time

This thread is now my two minute hate session. I hate myself for bookmarking it.

some of the advice she gives is good

Oh hey guess what she's posting about today.

I just said this on the ronan farrow thread but holy shit how can she argue for "separating the art from the artist" when she does ted talks advising selling fans of the art access to the artist?

Minor, minor details.

the only detail that matters croup is that you googled

everything else is just technique

nb i did too

not looking at her feed now or ever.

surely her narcissistic charlatanry renders both herself unable to prevent herself from pushing every hot button the culture offers and the culture unable to punish her for it.

https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBgpaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0cGljLmNvbS9zaG93L2xhcmdlL2U3c3NwMi5qcGcUwAcUqA0AFgASAA&s=B_2K3JoMh309_dn9D9UAETHl1BG_0rQruvvfjl45wpY

no less than 15 people on twitter have sent me a link to the notorious potato salad kickstarter, which has now reached over $60k from 4,000 backers - just so a kid can make a potato salad. it has made national news.
it's like the first meme kickstarter with no actual point expect the point it has become by the energy it has gathered.

some of my artist friends are very angry about it.
some people think it is just very funny.

i think i have been spending the last five months writing about this topic and if my book has taught me what i believe, it is this:

ANYONE IS ALLOWED TO ASK FOR ANYTHING.

THAT'S THE DEAL.

nobody has to fund this fucking potato salad. if anybody is funding it, it's because they are finding joy and connection in the act of funding a potato salad.

andy warhol would be so fucking proud.
so would the dadaists.

bring it on.

i'm not going to back it, though.

i'd only back it if there was a level that offered a potato-salad locket, to be worn around one's neck, forever, as a sign of love and commitment to the potato-salad maker....with a piece of the potato-salad in it.

i'd buy that.

Am I the only person who gets giddy when this thread get bumped?

if my book has taught me what i believe, it is this:

GOLD!

i've really inspired myself

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Aberjhani-love-gold-poetry-yourself-spirituality-inspirational-self-esteem-Meetville-Quotes-185123.jpg

amanda palmer otm

so looking forward to that potato salad kid posting potato salad internationally for $3