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

Is it good?

it's that facial expression rendered in music, basically

It would be a cool twist if it was unfortunately amazing

crystallised narcissism made audible

my internet automatically disconnects when there are ukuleles

hmm, same deal over here

The first I ever heard of her was when Coin Operated Boy by the Dresden Dolls came out on the radio. I actually liked it pretty well. A snappy little novelty number to break up the endless spins of Boulevard of Broken Dreams and American Idiot.

I checked out a smattering of her stuff after that, but never found anything I enjoyed.

I had not at the time seen the music video with full mime routine and eyebrows.

I don't get why you would crawl down the staircase to the basement tho, is it a special kind of staircase with very low clearance or is it a thing punk rock people do? can't put my finger on it right now but i feel like i've seen photos of punk rock people standing descending staircases in upright posture

why you would crawl down a staircase to the basement, based on 20+ yrs of punk rock experience:

1. you are highly intoxicated and your legs gave out
2. you are wheelchair bound and it's the only way to get down the stairs
3. avoiding excessive smoke inhalation from a fire

for attention

Doesn't Doubletree also give you free cookies?

― DJP, Sunday, 23 June 2013 20:17 (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

hoos u motherfucker im callin u out

someone did that damn coin operated fucking song at karaoke a while back and it was mortifying

not as bad as "sex and candy sang sultrily" but definitely up there

i asked for a cookie at the desk and got two

warmed

hoos i beg u forgive

About five years ago someone I worked with put on the first music of the day, which was all 5.5 minutes of her Ukulele anthem. Not a morning person at the best of times but that was brutal

I’ve stayed at a doubletree a few times the past year, close to a concert venue, and luckily never had to pick between active picket line and hot cookie hospitality

the media is flailing.
artists are scrambling.
the music business - after everything it should’ve learned post-napster - is still screwing artists & the public is none the wiser.

but bold art will surface to the top.

pay attention.
the revolution may well be crowdfunded.

— Amanda Palmer is about to tour the UK/EU (@amandapalmer) September 3, 2019

gil scott patreon has spoken

I am not certain what she expected the music industry to do to/with artists post-Napster?

gil scott patreon lollll

Lol maura

Absolutely perfect.

"whitey on the moon" stretch goal

Well here's a thread.

In recent months I have been dealing with a bizarre situation with Amanda Palmer. I blocked her years ago, I think we had a spat about that tour where she offered to pay musicians in hugs and beer. She recently became fixated by this and asked her 1m fans to find out why I had.

— Laura Snapes (@laurasnapes) November 21, 2019

so out of character

what a psycho

that sucks/palmer sucks

so, this sucked. i was about to do a huge tour of britain and ireland - one of the most extensive UK-centered tours of my career, including four hard-to-sell-out shows in london. losing this press ally was going to be a major pain in the ass.

let it go, amanda, let it go.... pic.twitter.com/PcdjBPb37H

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

and i let it go, but i still thought, WHERE IS MY NEW YORKER PROFILE? WHY IS THE ATLANTIC NOT BANGING ON MY DOOR TO WRITE A TWELVE-PAGE PIECE ABOUT MY INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY? i was sad.

let it go, amanda. let it all go....❄️❄️ pic.twitter.com/upr3rbuXPc

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

Good god.

In positive news, glancing through recent photos of her, she seems to have switched to a natural eyebrow look. Not sure how recent that is, but it's a major improvement. Hate to talk about a woman performer's appearance rather than her music, but those eyebrows were like a 1990s edgy teen haircut phase carried on for the better part of two decades.

WHY IS THE ATLANTIC NOT BANGING ON MY DOOR TO WRITE A TWELVE-PAGE PIECE ABOUT MY INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY?

Err, if you have to ask...

known feminist

of course i’m not entitled to coverage. but when a known feminist does a tour to 20,000 in your area, talking openly about miscarriage & abortion in a way that nobody is currently doing & you claim to be a progressive, feminist paper, that’s your choice to explain to the people.

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

where is all of the attention that i obviously deserve

nah man, eyebrows

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, September 14, 2012 9:07 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Paging VegemiteGrrl

https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/amanda-palmer-sxsw-live-march-11-2019-u-billboard-1548.jpg

funny that colossal assholes who make bad art can be feminist too

The "Let It Go" moment is actually a false epiphany for Elsa (which may be relevant here)

very

i don't know exactly what kind of history we're making here, but it feels important, and we have 15k patrons cheering us on. like i've always said, when the media disappoints you, don't blame the media.

make the media.

BE THE MEDIA.

here’s the article: https://t.co/dBJjfTnzXE

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

if you want to support this whole circus of new-media-making, free from shackles of click, please join my patreon. i can’t wait to hire more undiscovered, diverse writers. let’s amplify their voices. we’re on fire & almost @ 16k people as of this tweet. https://t.co/StKQnUYJqk

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

love to create a strawman controversy out of thin air and make myself the victim of a deep (music media) state conspiracy

she's got a point, I forgot she existed, so it must be the media's fault.

last night when the front row told me leonard cohen had died. i unthinkingly fell to my knees. photo: @HayleyFiasco pic.twitter.com/NrKNFKKLNE

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 11, 2016

I sit before a stage, night after night. A blue-green spotlight shines against the darkness, and into it strides a woman in an exquisitely tailored jacket, red leather boots and a white shirt. Sometimes she carries a ukulele, sometimes a glass of wine. She looks out at a sea of faces and begins.

“Compassion is very complicated. When I was fourteen years old, a man tied me to a table in his basement.”

wow what great writing

we're just poking the elephant everyone

Reading other people’s opinions of Amanda Palmer reminds me of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One person opens Amanda’s Twitter account and says, “Ah, Amanda Palmer is a narcissist.” Another reads her book The Art of Asking and says, “Ah, she is a philosopher.” A third and a fourth listen to her music; one says “Ah, she is a healer,” and the other, “Ah, she is a bigot.” And Amanda, the elephant at the center of it all, marches on and trumpets her opinions to the sky.

'Ah, she is an asshole."

anyway, reminder that she's been at jeff bezos' super-secret parties and like... yeah idk what else to say

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/neil-gaiman-hints-at-the-talk-around-jeff-bezoss-campfire/

honest to god i think this board is the only place I've ever heard Amanda Palmer's name

I love when people do the rhetorical shell game of "I know I am not entitled to (x). But here are the reasons why I know I am entitled to (x)."

free from shackles of click --> please join my patreon

An elephant is soft and mushy...#SamGross pic.twitter.com/zLAlpNJqMW

— MacCocktail (@MacCocktail) June 12, 2015

I find that people who were huge TMBG or Residents fans also are huge into Amanda Palmer. It's weird and disappointing.

what sucks too is she's using her alliance w/marginalized voices as a way to turn herself more into the center of attention, you get the sense that if any one of them ever caught the spotlight for too long while she was in the vicinity she'd get vv testy about it.

well, then they would be marginalizing her voice by actually being visible in her project, right?

I know of many knitters and designers who like her. The same ones also write a lot about being fairly compensated for their work designing and/or teaching. I doubt any of them would accept being paid in beer and hugs!

I want to say the Dresden Dolls were not terrible? At least I am pretty sure I saw them perform at least once and they were not terrible.