amandapalmer.net: dying to china, "sleep no more" footage
KaylaConspiracy
· 2 months ago
I readily admit I have both control and flying issues. I'm going to have to try the "Are You Ready To Die" game.
Sleep No More sounds phenomenal. Right up my alley! Might have to make a trip over Xmas break to see it.
kirbybits
· 2 months ago
hahah, oh man, I was actually saying "damn pandas!" to my friend...it wasn't until later in the show I realized the gentleman behind me had a camera. oops/yay :)
also thank you again for promoting Sleep No More -- it was on my to-do list in a "oh yeah if I have time I'll get around to it" sort of way. I'm going back tonight, and then again next week. and then again after Halloween.
to anyone who is Boston-adjacent: GO. GO SEE IT. AFP is not wrong, it is completely incredible, and some of the best-spent hours of your life.
akaSylvia
· 2 months ago
You can combine flying with control issues: get your pilot's licence!
What many people really have waited for... another mediocre jazz singer.
klingonpixie
· 2 months ago
Sleep No More was amazing, and so was your show; I am so glad I managed to get tickets! Thank you so much for signing my souvenir card, too :)
laura
· 2 months ago
Any chance that sort of interactive theater will ever make its way to LA? I'm dying to loose myself in an all-consuming performance.
Guest
· 2 months ago
Sea Pome
· 2 months ago
I'm so seriously bummed....we were at the performance that night but left Manderlay before the final set and missed you......It was an AMAZING theatre experience though ...everyone should see it. Can't wait for the New Year's Eve show......1 of the HOB 200.
djunabaya
· 2 months ago
i play that game also every time i sit in a plane. i don't have exactly fly issues but its kind of thrilling to get into such a heavy thing an fly. it seems inpossible somehow. maybe thats why its so overwhelming... i can kind of understad what you mean when you describe that "take off" feeling.
hugs and love from austria. i kind of hope the big birds fly you in this country soon again.
holyghostboy
· 2 months ago
Eno always said we make a contract with death everytime we fly...actually, there is a little performance art show based on this in BrisVegas at the moment:
Sleep No More - man, do we need more of that in Brisband...at least we have The Danger Ensemble...was a real pleasure to see their hamlet show and hang out with them at the Melbourne Fringe...joyous, bent beautiful artists and humans doing the art.
Arana
· 2 months ago
I love flying. I love lifting off. I'm the annoying person on the window seat (window doesn't seem the right word for that little peep hole) who keeps opening the shade, looking out for long periods quietly humming to herself, letting all the annoying 'wrong time' light in. When else do I ever get to see the top of the clouds? I'm pretty sure I want to build a house up there. Summertime made me all gooey, you guys rocked that! Come back to Australia Amanda Palmer. We got a whole bunch of sunshine and easy livin' for you. No guarantees about my mama though. Lots of squiggles Arana P.S. Apparently fasting is a great way to deal with jet lag. I love nuts as much as the next girl, but not eating on the plane (12-16hour fast), then eating at local times really does the trick for me.
Best Friend
· 2 months ago
Saw Punchdrunk in a very similar, Edgar Allen Poe based event in London a couple of years ago. You're right, this is what people need (or at least i need people) to be doing with theatre/art/music/etc. - combining things in intense new ways, taking live art to new places. I dont think any other art experience has stuck with me the way that one did. i would have wandered that endless house forever, if I could have done. I would have bought 30 more tickets and gone back every night, told all my friends to go, if it wasnt sold out. so why aren't more people creating art in ways as different as this? If Punchdrunk were performing the same type of peice 2 years ago, to awed reviews and full-capacity audiences, why are they still the only group creating full-immersion theatre like this? Or if they're not, why haven't we heard about the other ones? I can't help but feel that maybe other forms of more traditonal, less full-on theatre costs less, takes less time to prepare, needs less space, and holds bigger audiences. i guess it's not always easy to include the non-monetary value of something in a theatre's accounts book. The Punchdrunk 'events' are incredibly site-specific, so i suppose they can't really tour as such. but if they've trekked all the way to Boston, maybe one day someone like them will make it to LA or Brisbane. By the way , I don't want to sound like i think theatre is all but stagnating. Far from it - but i do think it's strange that you do have to look quite hard for, and wait quite a long time between, really exciting and novel pieces of theatre. If anyone is intersted in other theatre going in new directions, Frantic Assembly is another UK theatre company who have been doing some good things and are worth looking out for, in my humble opinion.
xxx
CiCee
· 2 months ago
Corridor is another company that does this kinda stuff, it's run by a mate of Felix's (from Punch Drunk). I was in one of their shows once and my whole class at uni helped design for it, its really great to take the feeling that you get from a place and transform it into an experience which distills and amplifies that. Site Specific is really big at the moment on theatre design courses, but maybe it will take a bit of time for that kind of thing to start seeping through into the mainstream even with Faust and Masque of the Red Death and stuff blazing the trail because it takes a lot of funding and it is a bit riskier as far as the people with the pockets are concerned. Let's hope it's not totally sidelined by all the lack of money at the moment!
krisjay
· 2 months ago
Great seeing her sing a standard like that, awsome job, made me teary.
lentower
· 2 months ago
if you can't afford to go to sleep no more, volunteer to steward, it's as much a blast, as being paid audience
note i can afford to go many nights, but have been stewarding instead
see a's p.s.s, above
lentower
· 2 months ago
nyc is boston adjacent for sleep no more - it's that good
T.C.
· 2 months ago
So... before I go any further.... I mean I just stopped what I was reading. I'm fairly new to your blog.. probably a week or so. I've enjoyed it quite a bit and have liked most of what I've read so far. Your views on monetizing art is very insightful and I found it valuable.
But I just had to stop reading... you are traveling with Neil Gaiman? Did I just hear that correctly? I mean, I've written two songs about characters in his book "Anansi Boys"... I mean this guy has inspired me. WOW. Are you talking about *THAT* Neil Gaiman?
okay, thanks for your time.
elblooz
· 2 months ago
Nice to see Amanda singing some old standards.
luci_fer
· 2 months ago
Sans the honey-roasted peanuts, I have a similar thought process when flying. This makes me happy. And yes, I also have control issues in some areas...emotionally/personally...but I love to fly, and also feel at ease when it lifts off, like I'm inwardly lifting off as well, but in the best possible way.
While I don't play the "are you ready to die game"; there are points which make me think about it - a jolt or if the plane goes through an air pocket or something - and it's not thinking ohgodohgod I might die. It's thinking...well...actually...if I did, now wouldn't be a bad time, and looking out the window at the ground beneath me, there are certainly worse ways to go. The earth looks beautiful and it would be like going home. Which is a strange thought.
"thus swaddled in my fleeting mortality and achieved liberation"
yes.
JKHolland
· 2 months ago
Amazing. Figured I was one of the only people in the world neurotic enough to play the 'are you ready to die' game. The release of control is huge for fellow control freaks. Awesome blog Mandy.
Amanda As a Londoner I am very jealous that my beloved Punchdrunk has run off far far away. Though the discovery that they have jumped into bed with you makes it seem not so bad... you have both in your ways changed the way i think about and connect with art and it seems only fair that you should meet and that love should bloom...
davidgrantrosen
· 1 month ago
"Look Mommy no Hands" udderley gorgeouscious! Cannot wait to hear the original
davidgrantrosen
· 1 month ago
"Look Mommy, no Hands": udderley gorgeoscious! Cannot wait to hear the original. Thankyooooo
Name
· 1 month ago
If billie holiday had been more into dressing up and stuff, she'd been about as good significant and relevant as amanda. amanda rulez.
Jason
· 1 week ago
THANK YOU for bringing this to my attention. I just went last night and it was incredible. I am still processing it.
All Comments
Sleep No More sounds phenomenal. Right up my alley! Might have to make a trip over Xmas break to see it.
also thank you again for promoting Sleep No More -- it was on my to-do list in a "oh yeah if I have time I'll get around to it" sort of way. I'm going back tonight, and then again next week. and then again after Halloween.
to anyone who is Boston-adjacent: GO. GO SEE IT. AFP is not wrong, it is completely incredible, and some of the best-spent hours of your life.
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hugs and love from austria. i kind of hope the big birds fly you in this country soon again.
www.myspace.com/flighthq
Sleep No More - man, do we need more of that in Brisband...at least we have The Danger Ensemble...was a real pleasure to see their hamlet show and hang out with them at the Melbourne Fringe...joyous, bent beautiful artists and humans doing the art.
When else do I ever get to see the top of the clouds? I'm pretty sure I want to build a house up there.
Summertime made me all gooey, you guys rocked that!
Come back to Australia Amanda Palmer. We got a whole bunch of sunshine and easy livin' for you.
No guarantees about my mama though.
Lots of squiggles
Arana
P.S. Apparently fasting is a great way to deal with jet lag. I love nuts as much as the next girl, but not eating on the plane (12-16hour fast), then eating at local times really does the trick for me.
I can't help but feel that maybe other forms of more traditonal, less full-on theatre costs less, takes less time to prepare, needs less space, and holds bigger audiences. i guess it's not always easy to include the non-monetary value of something in a theatre's accounts book.
The Punchdrunk 'events' are incredibly site-specific, so i suppose they can't really tour as such. but if they've trekked all the way to Boston, maybe one day someone like them will make it to LA or Brisbane.
By the way , I don't want to sound like i think theatre is all but stagnating. Far from it - but i do think it's strange that you do have to look quite hard for, and wait quite a long time between, really exciting and novel pieces of theatre. If anyone is intersted in other theatre going in new directions, Frantic Assembly is another UK theatre company who have been doing some good things and are worth looking out for, in my humble opinion.
xxx
volunteer to steward,
it's as much a blast, as being paid audience
note i can afford to go many nights,
but have been stewarding instead
see a's p.s.s, above
But I just had to stop reading... you are traveling with Neil Gaiman? Did I just hear that correctly? I mean, I've written two songs about characters in his book "Anansi Boys"... I mean this guy has inspired me. WOW. Are you talking about *THAT* Neil Gaiman?
okay, thanks for your time.
While I don't play the "are you ready to die game"; there are points which make me think about it - a jolt or if the plane goes through an air pocket or something - and it's not thinking ohgodohgod I might die. It's thinking...well...actually...if I did, now wouldn't be a bad time, and looking out the window at the ground beneath me, there are certainly worse ways to go. The earth looks beautiful and it would be like going home. Which is a strange thought.
"thus swaddled in my fleeting mortality and achieved liberation"
yes.
As a Londoner I am very jealous that my beloved Punchdrunk has run off far far away. Though the discovery that they have jumped into bed with you makes it seem not so bad... you have both in your ways changed the way i think about and connect with art and it seems only fair that you should meet and that love should bloom...