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MORE BOOK HELP, this time: street performing & busking stories…
hola comrades before book: HOLY SHIT I WENT TO SEE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN LAST NIGHT AND HE BLEW MY MIND. why did nobody tell me??? i expected it to be a run-of-the-mill okay rock show. but the guy is an entertainer...
another book help question, this time: language
hola comrades. this is a super quick one and i’m hoping it’ll make the rounds and reach you linguists, non-english speakers, and other geeky academic types who know about these things. these were a couple of the comments that came...
EDDIE VEDDER gave me a TROPHY!!!!!
good morning. I AM FILLED WITH ABSOLUTE JOY. last month i saw a flurry of tweets after michael moore (yup, that one) posted on twitter that eddie vedder, the singer of pearl jam, had covered the “ukulele anthem” at a...
from st kilda, to fitzroy, and back again: some song background
please press play. okay…now read. i don’t usually write happy music. but… it seems like the perfect day to post this song…and some backstory for good measure. this song, “from st kilda to fitzroy” was a little-shared b-side on “theatre...
a letter i just wrote to the peoples of facebook
…because it’s been getting kind of hot over there, people yellin’ and all that. but everything applies here on this blog, too. same-same. this is a short letter to you guys on facebook. i hope you read it and share...
someone asked about delilah.
first off…i want to thank you guys so much for weighing in on the justin bieber/danny hillis blog. it’s amazing…i never know where those threads of conversation are going to go, and sometimes the blog astounds me by becoming a...
justin bieber, + “how dare you, amanda palmer?” (a poem by danny hillis).
i spent a few minutes on twitter today talking about justin bieber. and wow. i was in no way defending the dude’s actions…i mean, yeah, he’s doing some pretty stupid, self-destructive (and potentially other-people-destructive) stuff. that wasn’t what i was...
and now, for something not about Death at all…
i was about to sit down and write a blog about another one of my dead friends…and then i was like, maybe i’ll spare you for a few days and post about something that isn’t DEATH DEATH DEATH. so i’m...
the ballet of life and death, and other injuries. (for conor).
g’day comrades. first of all so you know people here in australia don’t say g’day, at least not in sydney. maybe they still do in the bush. but they do have a wonderful assortment of things that they DO say…my...
AFP & Special Guests to Play 10 Night Residency at Sydney Festival 2014
Amanda Palmer will be performing 10 solo shows at Sydney Festival 2014 beginning January 9-19th. Tickets on sale now – click HERE to get yours while they’re still available! If you plan on attending multiple performance, you are eligible to receive...
