burning beds & theaters
(public post)
hallo loves
i was going to catch up and write to you at length today. it didn’t happen. the fires and other internal dramas have put us behind – we are on the move and everything feels so strange and fragile.
midnight oil. i remember the song well from high school one of australia‘s finest band in those days.
how can we sleep when our beds are burning?
the fires here. trump hovering over the world war three button. ash refusing to go to bed. neil looking like someone hit him with a human pause button this morning. the sky…
and i just saw the news that koko in london is burning, too.
what is up with you, universe?
no idea whether the damage will be total or the theater reparable…but i have played so many shows there. with neil. with my dad. with the grand theft orchestra. its where i was standing when i found out my friend becca darling died. it’s a place close to my heart. it’s a lot to see. it’s hard.
to my UK friends and london people – i love you. may we revel in the spaces and moments we can before they burn. jesus.
share memories. share hopes.
the flames everywhere.
today we ordered masks to wear in melbourne. the smoke hangs.
the dick-ish PM of australia finally committed 2 billion in aid to the fire catastrophe. it makes me wonder if i should really put the effort into printing up a poster for charity – or spend my time on bigger pursuits and bigger ideas and bigger undertakings. spend my time figuring out how to galvanize my self and my community to address what’s really going on (hi, global climate crisis) instead of fretting about what printer and ink to use to raise $2k to add to the $2 billion. i just don’t know. i don’t know. help.
reading all your comments last night made me happy. thank you for being here. i love you all a lot.
i saw that lizzo left twitter. she said:
…i relate.
it’s like : with everything that’s going on, climate burning, world collapsing, crisis everywhere looming, it feels too hard to also engage on twitter where someone is always yelling at you for being too this or too that. i’m a strong woman and i’ve managed to fend off trolls and bad vibes over there for over 12 years. and even i am almost at my limit. and i have you, this, here.
i am tired of being around people yelling at each other. i’m exhausted. it’s exhausting. the left and the progressives are eating themselves.
tomorrow is another day.
i love you all.
i also finally brushed and washed my hair. and i still believe in you.
gnight
x
a
p.s. here’s one idea. a midnight oil cover to thing for charity. couldn’t be too hard. maybe…
Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty-five degrees
The time has come to say fair’s fair
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact’s a fact
It belongs to them, let’s give it back
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
The time has come to say fair’s fair
To pay the rent now, to pay our share
Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore, east to Yuendemu
The Western Desert lives and breathes
In forty-five degrees
The time has come to say fair’s fair
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact’s a fact
It belongs to them, let’s give it back
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
The time has come to say fair’s fair
To pay the rent now, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact’s a fact
It belongs to them, we’re gonna give it back
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
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