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

what the fuck guys stop shitting up this beautiful thread

goodnight nobody

goodnight loon

Goodnight hoppers

watching the earlier part of that periscope reminds me that she's actually a good songwriter and performer when she wants to be. watching that 1'15 part reminds me why i always forget that first part.

also there's gotta be a reason she keeps mining the old dolls material.

shocker: people who are memed as The Worst are not actually The Worst

she is Pretty Bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcXGZUbbyo

shocker: people who are memed as The Worst are not actually The Worst

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine)

no, she's pretty much the worst.

but she's also a talented songwriter and performer when she wants to be. it just seems that her fans prefer her to be a self-obsessed nightmare, and she obliges?

She's the 2539th person to say what she says in this, but Amanda plz: https://www.theguardian.com/music/australia-news-blog/2016/dec/29/amanda-palmer-donald-trump-is-going-to-make-punk-rock-great-again?CMP=twt_a-music_b-gdnmusic

lol

especially having studied Weimar Germany extensively – I’m like, ‘yes what happens next is definitely going to be good.’

dying @ the difference in length between Amanda Palmer's and Edward Ka-Spel's comments on this album

http://amandapalmer.net/icanspinarainbow/

that sandwich was instrumental in the making of this masterwork

I just looked over at the scrollie and decided: no

Poor Edward.

https://medium.com/@amandapalmer/oh-lorde-deliver-me-from-fucking-joan-17ed0a1d83e8

i’ve been on wild tear for the past two or three years to really kick the shit out of my bucket list, and i’ve done it with fervor.
i’d wanted to make a record with my dad. (i did it and i put it out using the funds from my patreon. it was wonderful.)
i’d wanted, for ten years, to make a record with Edward Ka-spel. (i did it. i’m wrapping up that tour this week. it was really beautiful and fulfilling.)
i had a baby.
and i’ll admit it: none of these three above projects were a huge commercial success.
but a nice side effect of doing all these projects, baby included, is that i haven’t had much time and/or energy to feel insecure.

after reading all that i had to go back and read this again to make sure i didn't just hallucinate it:

this piece is an excerpt from a longer post

does she not have a therapist?

Is this a preview of an upcoming TED talk?

lol Gott Punch OTM

I know of at least one person who read that rant and proceeded to buy the Lorde album specifically in response to it.

Lorde as Donald Trump and Palmer as Hillary.

how dare you slander Lorde like this

celebs like Palmer don't need therapists because they fuel their narcissism through a fan proxy. Truly those who seek fame like this are similar to addicts or the mentally ill. See also Conan, it's some innate insecurity

o'brien or the barbarian?

O'brien - based on how much he seemed to thrive off of fame in the doc. I mean he's super nice to his fans, but he needs that *fix*

I just feel like a therapist could help introduce Palmer to useful words like "jealousy" so she doesn't have to call it "Fucking Joan" instead

lol

Beyonce or Madonna really didn’t throw me into a panic — i would never make those choices

thanks for this, i'd been wondering why amanda palmer wasn't beyonce and it's reassuring to know it was her choice

i used to hate this thread and in this new context it's a pleasant respite from the world outside to step inside the impenetrable sphere of self-regard that is ap

I'd love to hear a Beyoncé Knowles/Edward Ka-Spel collab

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lest you believe the hype, the porta-potty is to the left just off-camera (even thurston moore had to use it)

honestly, some of that was very insightful and worthwhile reading

granted, I only read about 15% of it

I would probably pee next to a dumpster before using a toilet Thurston just left
fwiw it's been less than a month since I last pissed on a bar dumpster, though

Thurston's a human toilet

that ps

there's a live show with ka-spel on here:

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/amanda-palmer-edward-ka-spel-maifeld-derby-2017

when reading that excerpt, the line " none of these three above projects were a huge commercial success" made me go back to make sure she'd listed three albums and wasn't including her baby

she hadn't

I think I'm gonna bow out of this

hahaha

I always enjoy when she makes these sorts of list and makes sure she calls out her "lovers" a la Will Ferrell & Rachel Dratch on SNL

The baby bit was a decent self-aware joke by AP standards

this imagined scenario starts off as super-plausible imo but quickly devolves from there

i also starting using this embarrassing mental trick in which i tried to flip the fictional script and i’d imagine fiona apple or regina spektor thinking about me and getting annoyed.

i’d try to imagine fiona apple sitting on a chaise lounge surrounded by wonderful plants and colorful furniture and pretty clothes staring into the sinking L.A. sun and thinking: “why am i making this goddamn 12-song record? i should be more like amanda palmer and have a patreon, so I could do whatever I felt like whenever I felt like it and know I’d be supported and free from record company interference. i am terrible. fucking amanda palmer.”

or i’d imagine PJ Harvey looking over the edge of a wind-swept cliff in dorset, clutching the leashes of a couple forlorn greyhounds, thinking “ughhhh…i wish I could give a TED talk about how irritating the bloody music industry is. fucking amanda palmer.”

or tori amos sitting in a woodland mansion somewhere, surrounded by exotic birds, rare concert grand pianos and herbal teas, musing about whether she should have started a band with just a drummer, then taken off her clothes more often while learning to play the ukulele.

i knew that these fictional scenarios were bonkers.

just a lonely girl thinking baout tori amos surrounded by exotic birds and herbal teas

markers otm idk why u guys pay attention to her. the only reason I'm even aware of her is because of this thread

it's like the first half of the article was all a setup for a "keeping up with the Jonis" pun and then we didn't even get it

"Joan" indeed Iaskyou

http://concert.arte.tv/de/amanda-palmer-edward-ka-spel-maifeld-derby-2017

this is excellent, total catnip for any Legendary Pink Dots fan, where has Patrick the violin dude been hiding all these years and how can we get him back into the Pink Dots?