DISQUS

therealtaryn · 8 months ago

So, the fact that you crowd surfed is absolutely amazing.

and i love when you play muse covers, because they're one of my favorites.

Long Live Amanda Fucking Palmer. :)

Love,
Taryn

Austin · 8 months ago

boston is so proud of you.

yosmark · 8 months ago

My heart just skipped a beat... no shows but YOU WILL BE BACK!!!

I think I want to cry of happiness :')

Amy · 8 months ago

So much beauty in this entry. I love it. I wish I could have been there to see, for you are dazzling!

You can come and crash on my big smooshy couch in Japan for as long as you want! :D
Be my bum roommate!
I'll make us cookies.

Stephanie · 8 months ago

Amanda, I just want to say that you are my hero. I've somehow never managed to catch a show by you or The Dolls (much to my everlasting dismay) but I read the blogs, have DD on constant iPod shuffle and now, as I embark on a completely new chapter of my life with what I could fit in my car and still have room for myself and my dog, headed to a new state with no job lined up (a decision made at 10am this morning), the phrase "WWAFPD" will follow me.

Maz Chiong · 8 months ago

You are phenomenal. I wish I could've seen/met you on one of those days but alas I was penny less and couldn't acquire coachella tickets. I even tried to win them from you, but it's all good, there will be another day when I can appraise you're wonderful talents in the flesh. I am so thankful for your generosity and thankful that you give your fans the chance to win tickets to your shows. When the moment of our meeting happens, it will probably be one of the happier moments in my life. I look forward to it!

I hope I see you sometime soon, hopefully in June if you decide to do a show in LA before or after your surfing adventures.

Shiranne · 8 months ago

i'm really tempted to go to moscow so i can see you and support you and all that, but it's just not that close, and i don't really have the money for it. wanna come visit jerusalem and do a show in yonder holy land? it's really hot and humid in israel in the summer, but boston is also really hot and humid in the summer isn't it? anyway. yeah. you've got a lot of fans in this hellhole.

Chuck · 8 months ago

Lunch with Weird Al? Not the most probable meeting of musicians I adore, but that just makes it even more fucking awesome.

ktdotrose · 8 months ago

I love the back picture!! Make posters. Immediately.
You are a fantastic bloggist.

laurie · 8 months ago

You should totally go to China. You guys make an awesome couple.

Ryan · 8 months ago

Hey Amanda,

I'm not your normal "go online and find the artist you like and email him/her", but I saw your show at Coachella and fucking loved it. My girlfriend introduced your music to me when we first met (about a year and a half ago), starting with "Girl Anachronism" -- and I've enjoyed listening to your stuff ever since. But when you played, I realized that your not just an awesome musician, but also a great fucking performer.

Any who, enough of the idol worship. I just wanted to let you know that I tried to chase you down after the show so that you could call my girlfriend, huge fan, and well... say hi. Mostly because I feel like shit for going without her, but also because it would blow her mind. She also told me to tell you (if and when I saw you) to tell you she loves you and your belly... and that you'd know what that meant. But after the Radiohead cover, I easily lost you in the chaos of people that is Coachella. If you'd still like to call her for me, I'll send you an email with the number. And please tell me more about the book your publishing that you mentioned during the show. Thanks again for the kick ass performance and reading my jargon.

Sincerely,
-Ryan Babcock

Patricia · 8 months ago

Please have a fantastic, relaxing, recharging break! I'm so grateful that I got to see you in Sydney, and follow your adventures through twitter and the blog - you deserve to go chill for ages. Thanks again for a wild ride through this tour and giving me the best gig I've ever been to. xxx
sydney's redhead who cried through astronaut.

jessylou22 · 8 months ago

Amanda. Thats me in the leopard print, in the picture of you painting me. I loved painting all those fans. It was a lovefest. On the drive home that night it hit me that i actually orchestrated getting all those letters painted on. I can't believe i panted "Amanda Fucking Palmer" on 25 people in less than an hour. Thanks to the team work that made it epic Then at the end of it all you painted me. Then being on stage with all those people in front of us, and drinking wine with you back stage... seriously you make my life.

I love you. Love. Love. Love.

I told so many people about you. Passed out nearly 200 cards, and i have so many more to give. I love being on your street team. Katrina rules.

The world must hear your music. I can't wait for june. I'll be seeing you again.

Linda · 8 months ago

There's something strangely alluring about the sparkly green ting ting shit in your hair. I think that if you would have offered some of that to morrissey he wouldn't have felt so bad, and that he would quite possibly have attracted a large number of gay sailors. He'd be like the equivalent of a statue of liberty trolling spoon.

All the love!

Santi Gabanti! · 8 months ago

Coachella has to be the best festival in America, in my opinion - and Ive never been to the US of A
It just looks like a huge, fucking great time and, I would of let you paint my belly AFP - so fucking funny!

Looks like you had a good time!

Andi · 8 months ago

Glad to hear Coachella went well (I'd love to make it there one day!) and that you get a break now.

Come to Britain on holiday?!?!

Andi xxx

carolinacoffeegirl · 8 months ago

AFP,
today is the day I order your book, and shell out 40 dollars to the great cause that is feeding you and keeping you from the horrors of.....waitressing?
I am so thrilled that I got to see you in NC when I did as well.
I love you. Thanks for doing what you do.

Amanda Flintoff · 8 months ago

Amazing post...brilliant pics!

What a fantastic way to start 'cooling down' after an EPIC year.

Still want us to let you know when this baby is born (I am weird pregnant belly signed woman)??? 5 weeks to go. Maybe more...it'll show up whenever it likes.

anna · 8 months ago

This looks like soooooo much fun! If you go to China, share pics? Congrats on an amazing tour!:)

jgoldenflame · 8 months ago

I love you crowd surfing and singing "creep" on such a sweet little instrument. I cried. Tears rolled down my face because I felt so happy to watch you love so fearlessly and have as much fun as you want. It makes a difference in the lives of everyone who witnesses it. It makes a difference to me.

Madeline · 8 months ago

Jesus, you killed that Muse cover. I've never heard their music so stripped-down and raw. Thank you.

Good luck with surfing and yoga. You clearly need the break, and you'll come back an even better performer with your physical and emotional portfolio somewhat diversified.

david · 8 months ago

when is the evelyn evelyn record coming out?????

Marcella · 8 months ago

I hope you enjoy Mexico :)! We'd be honored to have you here.

david · 8 months ago

you saw my bloody valentine but didn't see the yeah yeah yeahs?!
they were phenomenal!!! the best band of the night. hands down.
my bloody valentine was weird as fuck. they played one note for 20 minutes straight!!
what the fuck was that?
re-goddamn-dicuous. that's what it was.

Anna · 8 months ago

I just thought you'd find it interesting that you were mentioned (and pictured taking the very picture that appears in this blog) in this blog:
http://loscampesinos.wordpress.com/
los campesinos are an incredible welsh band. it makes me happy when bands/artists i like are fans of other bands/artists i like. like you're all one happy family or something.
coachella sounded amazing, wish i could have been there. someday i'll venture out from my cozy canadian home and bear the desert heat.

Chris · 8 months ago

God Damn Fucking AMAZING!!!

Great energy & great music.
You were Coachella personified.

Fred von Lohmann · 8 months ago

I took three of the photos of the Coachella set that you posted above. And let me tell you, that was the highlight of my weekend (OK, second only to Leonard Cohen). I had always meant to check out your music, never quite managed to, but your set this weekend made a total believer out of me. One more fan for your army...

kali_licious · 8 months ago

Take your time. Enjoy your yoga retreat. Learn to surf. Be happy. Happy is always a good place to be.

abrokengirl · 8 months ago

I feel chills.

The fans need regular feeding.

sarah · 8 months ago

Coachella looks like sooo much fun! That'll be my graduation present to myself next year. (:
Speaking of Festivals, you should go to Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in NY towards the end of July. It's greaaaaat! Look that shit up.

You have some great plans planned, and you're lucky you can take those chances. Good luck!
Cannot wait to see you on Sunday!

lanap · 8 months ago

Amanda Fucking Palmer!
i have a great picture of your crowd surfing at coachella
some pretty great ones actually, you were AMAZING!

HornyHeather · 8 months ago

Its great to see you happy and relaxed :) Enjoy your well-deserved rest and we will welcome you with open arms on your return to the UK!

Heather xx

ps- Thank you for the Neutral Milk Hotel recommendation - i just bought it off iTunes. its so fucking weird but it might just be my summer CD :)

Jonathan · 8 months ago

Did you see this when you were at Coachella?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/naked-...

Synopsis: a wizard removes his robe, revealing the first micro-penis I've ever seen outside of an anatomy textbook. He defies many police orders to clothe himself, so the cops help him along with some wrestling moves and a taser. Several tasers, in fact. Although, despite the tasers, choking and arm-bars, they don't really seem to succeed in clothing him with much more than a pair of handcuffs. Crowd participation was enthusiastic but limited to shouting slogans that seemed more relevant when George Bush was president.

Rating: "Hard R" for 360 full degrees of male nudity (including an unwashed perennium), foul language, lengthy scenes of clumsy, pointless violence and, oddly, no score despite the fact it was filmed at a music festival.

Oh, also: great idea for a Dolls song. "Street-Fighting Fop". It'll be about the more refined members of all those Weimar Freikorps and paramilitary groups that were always mixing it up at cabaret closing time. Specifically, about a handsome young Red who tries to beat down some Sturmabteilung goon but he gets his ass kicked because he spends too much time reading Marx and not enough raising hell. But his lover consoles him; she prefers a thinker to a thug. Can't wait to hear it!

russty · 8 months ago

Amanda, Thank you so much for the secret show! You made my week amazing! You are truly a beautiful soul. I was blown away by the fact that you got dressed up in costume and make up to play for us on a Wednesday afternoon. You made a dream of mine come true. I probably would not have gotten to see you live other wise. Thank you for letting me be part of something special. And believe it or not I do have a job! haha I'm an artist and I dropped everything I was doing to be there. It was a great reminder of how awesome my life can be. I hope you find some time to rest and recharge. Please do come back in June. LA is always ready for AFP!

Alycia Adame · 8 months ago

Lunch with Weird Al?!
Take me with you!

Lisa · 8 months ago

i love you so much amanda youre the most amazing woman, along with patricia quinn :)
i love the belly power and crowd surfing pic!

Love YOU!
X LISA X

cayta · 8 months ago

Thank you for sharing this with those of us who couldn't be there. It is really cool of you to do that.

June_Miller · 8 months ago

My friend texted me the first day you performed and said 'Amanda Palmer has just made the most epic entrance I HAVE EVER SEEN!' I didn't know what you had in store, but I knew it had to be good. Well-played, madam. You're a crowd-surfing hero. And a bad motherfucker. Bless you. The silhouette shot of Zoe is awesome. I have to say that I'm stoked you guys enjoy performing together so much. She was my favorite one in Rasputina, back in the day, so this all pretty much rules infinitely.

I actually love that black and white dress very much. Classy.

Those tricky dicks at Coachella, setting up such awesome musicians performing at the same time. It's really hard to decide between watching Morrissey or Cohen, I'd guess. But at least you can just take a little jaunt one way to check out either, compared to the other usual option of taking one and leaving the other entirely. I guess my friend ended up floating between you and Rollins, who was doing spoken word at the same time. But she mainly stuck around you. Good.

I have a strange fascination with that giant sailor pic, for some reason. I wanna emulate it. Weird? Yeah..

Also, a beautiful gay man who is TOTALLY MORRISSEY owns the only bar around my area with a gay night. I love him in a completely platonic way. Quite the showman.

...

Your Twitters are my newest addiction.

I'd Twitter, but I'd have nothing to Tweet.

Other than just saying 'Twitter' and all its other variations infinitely, because I think it's fun to say.

...

I'm glad to hear you're resting up, and writing and just regrouping after such a long while. It's been said before, but you really do deserve it. I'm also glad you've written up a new song. Looking forward to hearing it..

My last couple songs that I wrote sucked. Ass.

But I've got a couple more that I just need to finish up on (IT'S ALWAYS THE ENDINGS THAT FUCK ME UP) that can and totally will make up for them. I promise.

Rest easy out there. Love from the West Coast, floating eastward.

Californians are stupid. They get kind of taken aback or trip out when I say I want to move to Massachusetts. Some have even been like 'No you don't! It's not your thing!' I certainly doubt you know my thing, or what's good for me, sir.

I've been finding my 'thing' all my life, and it has nothing to do with California. California is fucking retarded. Californians smoke too much pot and party too hard and pussy-foot their way around shit that actually matters because they want to make sure that 'everything's chill.' Fuck those twats. You're dead on about the Southern part of the state, but the Northern part barely has anything going for it either. There's a line in a rap song I like, which states that 'intellectuals only half-listen.' There you have it. A bunch of pseudo-intellectuals listening only to the point where they deem fit, and ignore the other sides of the story and just keep repeating those same rehearsed lines. Music, philosophy, art, religion. All practiced lines.

Get outta my face!

...

That was a bit of a rant that has nothing to do with you slaying Coachella. Sorry about that..

You slayed the hippest of the hip! Hooray! Hip hip hooray? Hip HOP hooray? Yes.

HornyHeather · 8 months ago

Eek! Be careful in Mexico and dont get that deadly flu! :-S

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Keerthi Somanath · 5 months ago

KEERTHI SOMNATH GLASGOW CALLNG HARI TO FUCK

From: Hari Prasad N <harinprasad@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:57 AM
Subject: Chat with Hari Prasad N
To: keerthi20livelife@gmail.com

3:36 AM me: hi bandar
harinprasad: hello sweetu
me: i forgot my mobile at home today
so mis me :)
iwas going to message u that now
harinprasad: :(((((((((((((((
me: saw ur mail
hehe
muaaaaaaah
harinprasad: :)
3:37 AM mmmmuuuuuaaaahhhhhhhh
me: kya baat hai
full mood
:P
harinprasad: mausam hi aisa hai :P
me: uffo yeh baat hai
meine soncha
mein hun isliye
:P
3:38 AM harinprasad: yeh sun kar dil baag baag ho gaya
me: hehe
bandar hai re tu pura… muaaaaaaaaaaah
harinprasad: hmm :)
3:43 AM me: hmmm kal thoda bura laga that icudtn go to gym
or cudnt even meet u
:)
:(
harinprasad: hmmm
but u shud hv gone to d gym na..
3:44 AM me: arre isha dropped
mera adha intrest tha bhi nahi
:D
harinprasad: toh kya..
me: :):)
hari
harinprasad: kya hua??
3:47 AM me: thanks for being so honest with me yesterday
means a lot to me
thanks
:*
harinprasad: dear i really like u...n dis relationship
3:48 AM me: ha re but well
thanks
shayd tu kal aajata then things wud have ahppend not cos u wanted to
cos u were honest abt it
shayd mein hi inititate kardeti
i like u
but u r bites hehe don’t b so harsh next time
me: aunty ko line marta hai behsram
:P
harinprasad: mmuuuaaahhhh
me: kiss bhi kartha hai
:P
harinprasad: mmmmmmuuuuuuaaaaaahhhhhhh
safe hai na....
li8 le sakte hain
me: ja then
wudnt talk to u
for 1 day
uwud knw
harinprasad: arrey
me: bye
harinprasad: babu
3:53 AM listen....
i wud not take u lightly
me: hmmm
better
:P
asie ayega tu raste mein
:P
harinprasad: hmmmm
3:54 AM me: joking beta
muaaaaaaaaah
tu agar li8 leta bhi hai i cant help it anyways
3:55 AM so take it easy… I like u lots and I want u madly
muaaaaaaaah
harinprasad: oye relax....
me: bye bye now
harinprasad: ok bye
tc
shal miss u
:)
me: iam relxaed baby
heheh
aja
aur relax kardungi
:P
harinprasad: :P
kahan?
3:56 AM me: kabhi to mana kar diya kar
:P
harinprasad: naheeeeeeeeeeeee
me: heheh
kal i might be free
come if u want
harinprasad: ok
me: bye jaan
harinprasad: bye sweeeeets

Keerthi Somanath · 5 months ago

KEERTHI ADVSNG HER BF 2 BRNG CONDOMS
6:26 AM keerthi20livelife: banda
emi doing
me: work lo unna
bangaram
cheppu
keerthi20livelife: okies
me: aypondi
aypondi
ippude
keerthi20livelife: padukoledha kana
me: ma frnd ki school nunchi
notice vaste
dani kosam
unna
padukole
keerthi20livelife: ok
6:27 AM me: inka
bangaram
time ente
keerthi20livelife: ikada 3 30
me: muaaaaaaaaaaaaah keer
ok
na pics ekkada
watng ikkada
keerthi20livelife: agu kana
me: i lov u keer
keerthi20livelife: iwud send u wait
me: ok
ok
keerthi20livelife: i love u too
6:28 AM me: laptop di emi ayndi bangaram
keerthi20livelife: emo kana naku edo mail vachindi
abt VAT ani edo
arshee walu chusi cheptha anaru
me: ok
chepav
ok
keerthi20livelife: anthey adi
me: ok
keerthi20livelife: bonus odda kana eroju
:P
me: kavali keer
keerthi20livelife: oddu le
me: ok
6:29 AM keerthi20livelife: em mood leda ?
:(
me: undi kani .....
keerthi20livelife: sare oddu le aythe
me: ok
keerthi20livelife: musuloda po naku mood baga ikkada
me: ok
i lov u bangaram
i lov u lots
6:30 AM keerthi20livelife: chalu
me: i lov u
keerthi20livelife: hehe
me: muaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
6:31 AM keerthi20livelife: ala kadu kana sumtimes edo i suddnely feel nneu thappu chesthunana ani
love anukuntu edo
sumtiems
anthey
me: k
keerthi20livelife: inka emi ledu
inka emi ledhu
me: ok
6:32 AM nenu dani gurinch anale keer
genral ga cheppa anthe
keerthi20livelife: ok
i miss u
6:33 AM me: i too keer
inka
tinnava?
keerthi20livelife: upvasam kana
6:34 AM me: ohh sorry keer
marchi poyya
sorry
keerthi20livelife: its ok
nuvu thinava
me: inka
ni8 tinna
almost nidra lo unna
inka
keerthi20livelife: chustava
:P
??? heheh
6:36 AM me: ha chupi evaru leru le
keerthi20livelife: hmm
me: keer bra kuda tesay keer
keerthi20livelife: kana
sare thesestha
6:38 AM ra padukundam
banagaram
6:39 AM me: abba
ala anaku keer mood vasthe nuvvu levu ikkada keer
keerthi20livelife: li8 kana
6:40 AM me: ok
6:41 AM i lov keer
keerthi20livelife: i lov u too banagarm
me: keer pant kuda tesay va chusta

6:42 AM keerthi20livelife: kana sigguledu

me: aahh ledu na pellam na keer

keerthi20livelife: ha ni pellame nayana oddu anaga idi chalu

me: ok
keerthi20livelife: inka
me: nuvvu levu
6:43 AM keerthi20livelife: hmm

me: keer tisay pant chudaliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
keerthi20livelife: vadalav ga

6:44 AM munde musloadu
:P
me: ahmm
6:45 AM uff uffffffffffffff

keerthi20livelife: cha
me: muaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
keerthi20livelife: kana
me: bangaram
keerthi20livelife: bangaram
me: i lov u
keerthi20livelife: muaaaaaaah
i love u too
me: keer india vaste natone undu keer
keerthi20livelife: ok

me: mi intiki veldam ma intiki veldam ok na

6:46 AM keerthi20livelife: ok

me: k
keerthi20livelife: mari room ki odda

me: room ka ?
keerthi20livelife: ha naku kavali adi nito

me: siggu lede niku

6:47 AM keerthi20livelife: kana na mogudu

me: hmm

keerthi20livelife: i love u
me: i lov u too
6:48 AM ht enti?
keerthi20livelife: i love u lotsssssss kana
chala
me: ok
keerthi20livelife: kana

6:49 AM me: cheppu keer

keerthi20livelife: condom techuko apudu ok na :P
me: condoms odde naku istam ledu
keerthi20livelife: na valla kavatledhu
me: ok
6:50 AM keerthi20livelife: bangaram
anduke aidga
me: ok
keerthi20livelife: plz na kana kada na bangaram kada

me: ok le talli

keerthi20livelife: hmm tanxs na bangaru mogudu

me: abba
keerthi20livelife: but dani kana mundu naku metlu petali nuvvu

6:51 AM me: ok

keerthi20livelife: shoping veltam ga apudu mettelu kondam

:)
6:52 AM koti kana
na banda kana
na musloada
na mogudu
na amar
6:53 AM ma ayina
amar
me: emi
ni amar e keer
only keer amar
muaaaaaaaaah
i lov u
keerthi20livelife: muaaaaaaah

Keerthi Somanath · 5 months ago

From: keerthi somanath <keerthi20livelife@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Subject:
To: Hari Prasad N <harinprasad@gmail.com>

hi re
is ur mcafee working
?
if it isnt just let me knw ok
and i knw iwas bakwas in starbucks and didnt talk what we had to
but i think u und me now :)
as always hehe
li8 ok

its ok i only want to say
it happened its over
i am over with it too
bas
u told me to chose either on actions or mind
i chose actions cos i dont want to control my mind
:) cos i blve mind control mein na ho to only person is happy
atleast i am happy that way :)

and padmini ko beech mein kuch nahi kari
i just thought abt her too cos u see its easy to give in to temptation especially when its u aur kuch nahi

and yeah THANK GOD U R NOT MY BF :P
hehe
see i enjoyed it and and ur bites hehe its a memorbale thing for me
but its ok now
i dont want to have so much confusion in my life
ok

the whole mail is about me and not about u
my thinking abt u is still the same
for me u r still the hari i knw
i knw abt u more but its diff
bas

tujhe agar kuch kehna hai
to better mail me
cos i think we can put everything without contradticing much
phone pe also its ok but i think we both und it now
even a chat is also ok

hope u did enjoy with me
i was what iwas with ualways
nothing show off or ignoring u

take care

keerthi

PS dont forget about the mcafee thing
ok

Keerthi Somanath · 5 months ago

Hi Rey H R U..?

So far I am good. ha rey am sorry yesterday am not good, am not able to pick your call or even mailed you back.

Aur kya chal raha hai. I am trying to tell you something since many days rey but don't know how to tell. you are the only person I can share with. I am not happy here and my life almost sucks. You know I said about my friend hari.

Even though he had a girl friend (padmini), he proposed me many times and he told he will marry me. I am in confusion for many days because I like him too. As you know amar and me love each other and we are going to marry soon. But don't know what happened to me with out knowing I am with hari for some days and he used me. He tried to rape me recently when I am alone in my apartment, I tempted and submitted myself. Now he don't wants to marry me, he just wants to be with padmini after all things happened.

Now, my life became messy and not able to think anything. Recently I stopped talking to hari but he wants me every day for that. He is now torturing me and started black mailing everyday in office, bus stops and even started coming to my apartment when I am alone and harassing me for sex. Don't know what to do, really I am dieing here everyday. He just wants to sleep with me and wants to use me as his bitch or keep.

I never told all these to amar and he came to know all these by my mails recently.

I tried to kill myself but .. Any way janedo. Hope time will solve everything. I did a mistake and suffering with these.


Hope to here from you soon. And please don't tell these things to anyone.


Keerthi Somanath