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

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)."

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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.

I am cracking up at the picture Whiney posted because I keep thinking AP has knees in her butt

we can all put this right by supporting my patreon instead of hers

I think we'd all be better off drinking Patron.

going by that logic, you could also say that my entire album and tour is a blatantly cynical attempt at leveraging feminism and progressive politics for money.

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

ahhhhh

She's so close!

tbh I think it's a certain type of validation that's the target here and not specifically money, but money is the public currency of validation ("hard to sell out shows")

all she did was - poetically - state the facts

a 'press ally'

mookie's gaslighting me, I think

don't tell us, tell your followers

I will do so via the greatest journalistic endeavor yet attempted

*hires someone to write long, glowing reviews of my posting sessions*

https://i.imgur.com/At1AdpW.jpg

*pitches mh instantly*

lad

no amount of anger from them about this episode will make me not love their paper.

Disingenuous passive-aggressive "love" is the best

anger from them

She makes me dislike Neil Gaiman.

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

^^^this

xp Yes! It's a weird feeling, but now I wonder about what Gaiman is really like as a person, versus just enjoying his writing. Feel like over the years, his blog posts painted a relatively humble, interesting guy, whereas I would activate a "Black Mirror" filter for Palmer.

Gaiman's writing is very bad

(having re-read all of Sandman recently)

Amanda Palmer Now Just Going Door-to-Door Trying to Shock People

— S.I. Rosenbaum (@sirosenbaum) November 21, 2019

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

^^^this

― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 21, 2019

I have to remind myself who she is, often by checking this board.

Hey remember that time Amanda Palmer decided to do disability cosplay and one disabled feminist fan was like “wtf” and Palmer was like “lol” at the idea of a disabled feminist and her fans piled on the disabled fan and basically told her to kill herself while Palmer did nothing?

— Malice Walker (@humblecore) November 21, 2019

once when amanda palmer was coming to town an acquaintance of my ex-wife - who she hadn't seen in a couple of years - sent her, and seemingly everyone in his phone, a street teamy type text promoting the show. i thought it was very weird at the time, though now i see that it was probably solicited by amanda herself.

when things like this thread make me check out her music to remind myself what she sounds like, I'm always reminded of that old thing about "good and original, but the good parts are not original and the original parts are not good"

i thought it was about conjoined twins? Like, the way I heard it, it was super absurdist and not actually mocking disabled people? And also on that thread, there's some link to some problematic celebrity tumblr that cites one of her crimes as using the "r-word" in a song .... like 15-20 years ago, when it wasn't the same kind of horrible insensitive dick move it is now ... While it is fun and easy to have everything someone you think is horrible actually be horrible, (and that is one of the few joys of our current president ... he is so consistently horrible), I feel like some of her alleged "crimes" are actually nbd and are cases of: applying contemporary standards to historical actions, people being over-sensitive, and people engaging in the completely human behavior of deciding the worst about someone just because they hate that person.

not to conflate the "r-word" thing with the other listed "n-word" thing, which is ... nah, she definitely doesn't get a pass for that, not even if it was 1999 or whatever.

just checked out her spotify and was a bit weirded out to see that one her most listened to songs is called 'Leeds United'

here's the thrilling back story:

In an interview with Songfacts, Palmer explained that "Leeds United" was inspired by losing a Leeds United football shirt that was given to her by Ricky Wilson of the English band Kaiser Chiefs.[12]

can happily report that the song itself is suitably shit btw

not a patch on "leeds united calypso"

had to google that and oh christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkcoCka5fuQ

xxpost from what I read it was more her responses and tweets following and sicc'ing her hive on the blog author and then mocking "disabled feminists" on Twitter and in a TV interview

Think I saw someone on twitter say similar, but why the fuck was there a petition to stop Kanye covering Bowie and not AP? She is a thousand times worse in every way.

it’s bigger

I try not to think about her. I did see her at the Bowie Proms in London a few years ago and she did Blackstar quite well but the rest of her output and her persona I just can't abide. That said, I've known several people like this in my life. And some of them I hated, and some of them I quite liked. They are narcissists and think they are the smartest people in the room; sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. But it's not just narcissism, there's something else wrong with them. I can't quite put my finger on it. At any rate these days I avoid people like this, they are a time suck.

I like Neil Gaiman's books for the most part. I try not to think about him being married to her. I have a friend who plays music with her as well, and I also try to not think about that.

xp than you

Amanda hasn't covered Losing My Religion, but she's got a six-minute take on Everybody Hurts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8xOT-mIgU

the thing that never seems to stick to amanda palmer is that the voice you hear between tracks on “who killed amanda palmer” is a recording of her boyfriend finding her body from when she faked commiting suicide

— #3 sisterwife but #1 in his heart (@TamikaVST) November 22, 2019