May 2012
1 post
BRAAAINS: the artist, divided, and a zombie...
HOLA dear comrades, a note about the blog for the next few weeks: i’m putting up production updates about the record, the tour, and the album on the kickstarter page, some for backers only. i’m not going to drive everybody crazy and double-post all of those photos and stories on the blog. if you want to get in on it, go to the kickstarter and pay a dollar. otherwise i’d feel...
April 2012
2 posts
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND HERE'S WHAT I WOULD LOVE
good MORNING my dear comrades guess fucking what? it’s my birthday!!!!! i’m 36. happy birthday me. la la la la la. guess what else? while many of you slept soundly, SHIT WAS AFOOT. my team slaved over the weekend. packages were tweaked and re-bundled. videos were edited. text was edited and re-edited. art shows were booked and rock and roll spies in every continent synchronized their...
on recording, marriage, and the problem with first...
i’m in dallas, mixing the record at john’s. (i may NINJA somewhere outside next week. follow the twitter.) my head is still spinning from five weeks straight of rehearsing-and-recording all day every day….then shooting a video (more on that soon). then flying here. i owe melbourne a big, long blog. i miss you. at any rate: the record is a masterpiece. the band and all the...
March 2012
4 posts
What I Do The Day Before Recording & The Shit I Am...
hola comrades!
TOMORROW, we record. today? today. • miles biked: approx 6 • people hugged/visited: approx 7 • visits to LUSH to obtain soap gift for producer: 1 • meetings with said producer: 1 • massages gotten from tom’s mum robyn: 1 • texts received: approx 18 • voicemails received: 3 • texts read: approx 18 • voicemails listened to: none, yet • number of st. clare’s seen in...
dispatch from an international low-maintenance...
hola comrads! i send you love from the bathroom of the northcote social club, where me & the band share mirrors and toilets with the peoples….as we ready ourselves for the Task Of Rock. in melbourne, it is turning fall. it’s been a long, long time since i’ve been in a not-hometown city for long enough that i smelled and felt the change of a season. but it’s...
Neil Gaiman: As requested by too many people:... →
much more on the topic of writer-seduction can be found on neil’s tumblr… neil-gaiman:
birdartpoetry asked: Mister Gaiman, you’re kickass. I was just wondering, what do you think is the best way to seduce a writer? I figured your answer would be pretty spectacular.
In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people,…
pictures of the new band, and i warn you, they are...
hola dear comrades….. the grand theft orchestra has been officially born. i’m…..feeling awkward and record-terrified. nothing unexpected. i’ve been spending my days working and thinking of nothing but my songs, the shows, the thing ahead. i’ve become obsessed like you have to. it makes me a bad friend, a bad wife, a bad blogger, a bad housekeeper, a bad...
February 2012
4 posts
threw my bad fortune
hola hola.
in quick melbourne show news: about 500 of you in Melbourne got an email yesterday from The Wheeler Centre telling you that this friday’s talk with meow meow (“FRANK”) was cancelled & that you’d be refunded. lots of people tweeted asking what was up…there was confusion, and i’m sorry you didn’t hear it straight from me. meow is sick but...
my earth-shattering news, by amanda fucking...
hola comrades!
first of all….thank you all SO so very much for all the positive response to the “polly” video. holy shit. it had more impact than i’d imagined, for real. thank you all, deeply, for sharing the link and tweeting it around and generally helping us spread it far and wide….it’s getting tons of views and love online. nirvana posted it to their...
new video for "polly" (nirvana cover)...with some...
hola dear comrades…… greetings from sunny melbourne, I’ve decamped here for the next few months and have some incredible news forthcoming about my new record, stay tuned…will be letting the magic shit hit the fan in the next week or so.
better yet, get the blog emailed straight to your inbox: HERE.
SO… i already wrote a blog about the recording of this song back in june,...
finding peter jefferies (a long story, with a...
hola comrades! i’m gong to embed some songs for you to listen to while you read this one. try it. …………….. newses & shows first……..skip this if you’re not in melbourne/australia. it’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you, you citizens of melbourne: i semi-apologize, but you’re about to get REALLY SICK OF ME. i’m...
wellington journalist absolutely trashes our gig,...
….or….. “amanda palmer looks back on her press clippings from age 73” scene: the room is dimly lit by faded, fringed lamps with real incandescent bulbs of a past era. the collected clutter, observable when one’s eyes adjust to the Blanche DuBois-level lighting, looks like a cross between the set of “Sunset Boulevard” and “Pee Wee’s...
January 2012
11 posts
rocky horror, church, and abortion. (and new...
hola comrades….quickie-hot-of-the-presses-info for MELBOURNE: this february (sunday the 19th), i’ll be joining MEOW MEOW, georgia fields, wendy harmer, and virginia trioli for Women of Letters’ LAST-EVER show at the beautiful Thornbury Theatre before their big move to Northcote’s REGAL BALLROOM!!!
it’s an afternoon celebrating female talent whilst simultaneously raising...
tit-free newspapers, masturbating in hotels,...
hola dear comrades!!!!! here’s the best news of the day…..i’m on page three of the main tasmanian newspaper (photo via @newrosehotel): (here’s the uncensored original photo…and here’s a mirror in case twitpic pulls it down, since in the past they’ve seemed anti-tits) …dianna graf took the picture in front of city hall. here’s the article, online. i...
playing the violent femmes & meeting PJ
first up, a bit of ninja-gig-newses: AUCKLAND!!! it’s official….DRESDEN DOLLS’ LIBRARY NINJA GIG! 2pm this friday!! ALL AGES…FREE…follow @Auckland_Libs or visit aucklandlibraries.govt.nz for more info… _______________________________________ hola my dear comrades…. writing to you from the depths of still-earthquake-devasted christchurch, new zealand, where i was supposed to...
an open letter to washington about SOPA (from...
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users. We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). As creative professionals, we experience copyright infringement on a very personal level. Commercial piracy...
THE DRESDEN DOLLS, MICK HARVEY, JOHN PARISH &...
warning: if the following record album didn’t change your life, ignore this blog. my enthusiasm will make no sense to you. everybody else, read on. we announced this about an hour ago…..hot off the presses. so you know, this is news that has our inner teenagers feeling kind of like THIS: here’s the way low down. brian ritchie (the original bassist...
anatomy of a hickey
the continental australian tour has come to a close….brisbane, melbourne, sydney, adelaide, and perth have ALL BEEN KILLED DEAD BY THE DRESDEN DOLLS. the band is in the best shape we’ve ever been in. every city has been reduced to rubble by the drum power of brian viglione. photo by holijade, via instagram right now we’re holed up in perth, enjoying the 90-degree heat...
i hate amanda infinity net
some exciting news for you before the blog… our friends at moshcam are webcasting the show TONIGHT in high-quality-multi-camera-glory…find out what time it starts for YOU (wherever in the world you are) HERE, RSVP on facebook HERE, tell your friends to watch with you, tune in at partyontheinternet.com and we shall see you all on the internetz…or, well, you’ll see us. (be warned, the player...
brisbane ninja gig tomorrow afternoon!!!
yes! brisvegas ninja action is back. tomorrow, thursday. 1 pm. all ages. at a very very very bad-ass location very centrally located. a request: ALL ATTENDEES PLEASE DRESS IN SOLID COLORS; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, white, black (and if necessary, gray or brown) that means, please try and find the same colored pants & shirt…the same colored shirt + shoes...
the Wedding Blog
neil and i were married one year ago, to the day. this is the story of our wedding, the “official one,” and what led up to it. i know, i know…it’s a bit late. i started compiling this blog in the weeks after our marriage and found - like many of my blogs - that the longer i left it unposted, the more cumbersome it became. because my life is structured the way it was,...
December 2011
6 posts
The Most Important Thing I Learned In 2011, by...
i thought i’d write you a little essay on the most important thing i learned this year. (more photos of recent melbourne goings-on under the essay.) i was thinking of putting up a end-of-the-year best-of list of things i’ve seen and read. and maybe i will….after new years. i always think i’m going to do that and never do. this fact may become relevant in my essay. ...
retro oztacular zpectcular!! bad seeds spreading,...
HOLA COMRADES!!!!! first, two painfully important thangs, slightly boring for the non-locals….so skip these if you’re not from melbourne or new york. though they’re in hilarious contrast if you wish to read on for sheer amusement. 1. MELBOURNE in the “HOUSE ME AND MY PALS” department….. i have some nefarious plans that haven’t come to...
christmas with spiders, hungover + new years...
hola comrades….!!! greetings from down underoos so, one of the things that i’ve been doing down here is trying to clear the debris out of my life before i break ground on the Giant Next Project (which i’m aching to give you news about, but need ot be patient and wait….but i assure you, giant things are afoot, and they involve huge amounts of new art and music). ...
holiday santa candle BANGS holiday turkey candle...
i’m landed in melbourne, and so fucking happy to be here. the weather is summery and glorious. tom dickins charioted us from teh airport, the nice lady from the telstra cell phone company saw neil’s tweets and offered to get us some free SIM cards, i opened up the paper to see that nick cave and warren ellis are down the street from us at a recording studio as we speak, we’re...
queens of the stone poop VS coldpoop: a new dolls...
hola comrades!!!!!!!! i’ve left you hanging once again. too much life. always a good sign. HI. i’m in a cafe in hermosa beach LA, about to board a plane with mr. neil for a good long stretch of couple-time in melbourne… …we’re doing christmas together this year, with our wonderful friends the nicholls/coney clan. as usual, businessy-shit first: the dresden dolls...
November 2011
4 posts
art, nakedness & museums, oh my! (warning:...
hola comrades!!! business first. it’s high merch season, lots of you want stuff, and lots of you keep asking about WHAT to buy WHERE so that the money goes to me/the band. i’m drafting a huge blog about all of that….heads up. if you have any SPECIFIC questions (where do i get xx? etc), hit me in the comments below, i’ll be scanning while i write this new one. also,...
finally, someone explaining #occupy in a way that...
this is best & most on-point video about #occupy i’ve seen. after trying to put it into words for mexican journalists all day, it’s an especially welcome video to see… this is what occupy means to me: here’s the link if the embed gives you grief: youtu.be/BRtc-k6dhgs AND: they’re crowd-sourcing what they hope will be a “moving and transformative” feature...
greetings from sunny #occupy (...and this one's...
please note: there are a LOT of photos from my travels in this blog…so this entry doesn’t take 10 minutes to load, they’re resized below, but all of them are clickable for you to see the full-size versions… i’ve got classic blog constipation, which always happens when too many fucking things happen at once. currently Not getting Blogged: • the tour with neil (but HERE’s a...
"SCIENCE FICTION / DOUBLE FEATURE!" (me, moby,...
sorry for such a blog-lull. i’ve been flying at breakneck speed since starting tour. i’m working on a longer blog to post tomorrow or the next day about everything’s that’s been happening at #occupy and beyond. it’s been crazeballs. i’m feeling pulled in about 6 directions, which is just about right and normal for tour. it’ll be over before it even began....
October 2011
7 posts
halloween: i'll be on craig ferguson w/ my...
LOS ANGELES: hoping to head to #occupy in LA tomorrow (they’re at @OccupyLA, btw). PLEASE FOLLOW ME ON THE TWITTER for exact time & location, things’ll be shifting fast. if i have enough advance warning, i’ll post to blog. and before anything else, i want you to read this. i don’t usually ask you guys to read press…but this one’s special. it’s a...
presenting UKULELE ANTHEM: a prescription for...
UPDATE 11/08/11: “Ukulele Anthem” is available NOW at Bandcamp for free+donation! <a href=”http://music.amandapalmer.net/track/ukulele-anthem” _mce_href=”http://music.amandapalmer.net/track/ukulele-anthem”>Ukulele Anthem by Amanda...
an open letter to mayor menino, from amanda...
hola comrades. last night i went to a rally that lasted several hours in roxbury (a neighborhood of boston proper) called “occupy the hood”, just a few blocks from where i live. roxbury is what local boston folks would refer to as The Ghetto. almost all black. shitloads of gangs, crime, and drugs. this rally was a unique offshoot (and the first of its kind) of the...
blogging & tweeting as second-class art forms
hola comrades!! i got a moderate ration of shit on my last blog for not going into enough editorial detail (about the #Occupy movement). even neil, who reads my blogs before they go up to the public (I have a list of friends and management who get copied on the blog before it posts) commented: “DARLING,” - he always starts sentences like that especially when he has something...
occupy.
i’ve been giving all of my moment-to-moment attention to twitter and lagging extreme on the blog, i apologize. in short: if you don’t know what’s been happening here in the states with the occupy movement…or have only been following it vaguely though mainstream. read THIS. the source: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet from the site:...
keep amaze and carry balls? help. also, news...
hola comrades!! two quick pieces of news…. thing 1, for AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: THE DRESDEN DOLLS ARE COMING FOR YOU!!!! i am working on a massive blog’o’info ‘bout it, but MONA FOMA announced we’re playing and i wanted you to know it is in fact HAPPENING. there’s a dolls’ facebook event for MONA FOMA here, and an AFP event here (which’ll list...
abortions, window smears, drunken little girls,...
hola comrades…… even if you were a ninja, if you were a ninja you’d still be a talker, talker thinking that you’re all protective that you’re self-selected i know it’s so awkward, awkward today neil and i went to see laurie anderson. it reminded me that i’ve never fully blogged about my love for her. so i’ll work on that. meanwhile, the best part...
September 2011
4 posts
grab-blog: tonight in boston, the new haus blog,...
good morning world. it’s a gorgeous fucking day in boston, massachusetts, where i’m currently holed up for a day of email and coffee. i decided it’s a good to to blog a nice long random blog filled with random ephemera, since i have a lot of it kicking around my desktop. ………. i’m ok, for all of you who’re asking. better every day, pretty...
nancy upton's "plus-sized" rebellyon
you guys will love this one. nancy upton, a chick who’s got a dresden dolls’ heartplane logo and the lyrics JUST SING from “sing” tattooed onto her forearm, made national news this week, after winning an american apparel model-search contest for “plus-sized” girls. she found the wording of the contest really patronizing, so she responded by sending in hilarious...
a portait of the artist still in fucking bed
new york. the sound of the traffic travels up here to this little room.
i leave the windows wide open overnight, so outside can come as in as it can come.
i wake up with a head full of amanda-voices and for once i manage to stay half asleep and half awake and let them simmer while i watch. i have my mind and my ideas and my whole self back after a month or so of almost total absence. the summer of...
ten years ago today...
…i was in my bathroom and my cell phone rang. it was my mother. “planes have hit the world trade center and the pentagon”, she said, with a franticness in her voice that took me aback. i rushed upstairs to lee’s and we turned on his ancient television to the news. it is the first and last time i have watched television at home, in my 11 years of living here. new york...
August 2011
5 posts
lots of answers: on touring, working with exes,...
hola my dears…. thank you all for all the cyber-hugs and wellwishes. it really does help. i love you guys. things are getting better. one more day in edinburgh, tomorrow we head to brighton for the show there on thursday (from what i hear, it’s sold out…hooray). then onto london, vienna, amsterdam, and then home where i plan to sleep for a few days. i asked for questions on twitter,...
missive from edinburgh, warrior style
hola my dears. i’d planned to do a blog a day this month, with my excessive amounts of time-off energy. i did not do that. i also had planned on doing a lot of ninja gigs while in edinburgh. i did not do that. i also planned on running around the city all month, seeing a million different shows at the fringe. i did not do that. i planned a lot of things i did not do. i had a harrowing month....
Amanda Fucking Palmer's Guide to the Edinburgh...
for those of you not in edinburgh….you might want to read this ONLY if you want to drool and blubber at the exciting things you are missing. if you’ve not been following the plot, this is my 6th (i think) time at the fringe, and every year i’ve been frustrated at my lack of time to actually go out and see shows. so this year i finally tried to organize my life around being...
the art of audience courtship
hola my dear comrades. the other night i wound up talking into the wee hours with neil and margaret cho, and wanted to share some important things i’ve learned. before i do that, though, the weather. if you’re not from the west coast or europe, skip this news. it’ll just make you SAD. also, i owe you guys a fringe list of shit that neil and i are going to (or have already...
machine gun or penis? any way you cut it....
this one was too good to just twipic. i’m still putting together an edinburgh blog. a few weeks ago, my friend alina simone took me on a adventure with her to brighton beach, brooklyn, in order to research an article an article for the new york times about why russians refuse to put ice in their drinks. the article is up HERE:...
July 2011
7 posts
amy, take a bow.
is it wrong to want to live on your own? no, it’s not wrong but i must know how can someone so young sing words so sad
sheila take a sheila take a bow boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear and don’t go home tonight come out and find the one that you love and who loves you the one that you love and who loves you
- the smiths
hola dear comrades….quicklike/newslike:
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Radiohead and Ukulele have a birthday...and "NO...
ah, the radiohead video. it took forever. and then it was DONE! BUT, as tends to happen to many things in amanda-landa, the timing to release it wasn’t quite right. we didn’t want it dropping during the dresden dolls’ tour in november only to have it get overshadowed or further confuse the hell out of people (those people who STILL don’t realize that amanda palmer of...