I'm still on a high from the (2nd) Union Chapel gig. So glad you came here :-)
Marjorie
· 2 months ago
I'm still on a high from the (2nd) Union Chapel show - so glad you came here. :-)
conversecamus
· 2 months ago
you could make a lo-fi record at home. Put together some uke songs and piss takes, maybe a couple of spoken word pieces by Mr Gaiman and ta da!
...just don't get Mr Folds involved again. The result would be biblical but it would cost a pretty penny
Michelle
· 2 months ago
Oh. You are made of win as always. I would totally tune in to a ustream-athon. Although I am too broke to buy things I love to watch them.
Name
· 2 months ago
Hi! An AFP webcast sounds great. FYI, there was a story recently on NPR about a geek performing weekly webcasts to reach fans & grow VIPs. http://tinyurl.com/mknbsb
Cliff
· 2 months ago
I know Amanda, how about you start working on the next Dolls album! Oh and while your at it get back here to "The O.C." Orange County, Ca. is really missing you!! Your the best girl keep rocking our worlds!
Dennis
· 2 months ago
It is so...orgasmic, knowing that I am the Dennis mentioned in this blog. Yay for me being willing to give $85! And yay for Beth taking a photo so awesome, I just had to have it :D
Sylvia
· 2 months ago
I played a 3s and 7s game with my uncle last time he came down from his hill in Scotland. It was very boring. Then we played a double 6s and double 1s game. It didn't work. Got stuck.
lly
· 2 months ago
i don't think their webcasts are the problem; i think tila tequila and katy perry are. ;)
KinkyTurtle
· 2 months ago
Yaaay, I'm so excited to be seeing you in VA in November. Shall be a night to remember.
Vayda
· 2 months ago
What you should do with your life: set up some shows over here on the west coast! And don't skip Seattle (actually, Washington entirely) like MCR did. :D
Annabelle
· 2 months ago
Aie and come to New Zealand again because your show earlier this year was the best thing I'd seen in...my life?
toreee
· 2 months ago
you wanna know something that presses my buttons, life is fucking ironic! i try to see you in the dolls for like 2 years and ive been trying to see you solo for a year and a half and ive never had the money to go see you and the one time i do im in college in boston and i get tickets to go and its cancelled :( and i live in pa so i wont be in ma for new years which fucking sucks. all ive wanted to do is see you in concert and it feels like ill never be able to :( i really love your music try to tour in pa again in summer next year i might be able to see you then if i have money
<3
Shannon
· 2 months ago
I think what you've been doing with your life is pretty great. Making solo albums, making albums with the Dolls, touring, coming to little Birmingham AL from time to time to see us, all of that is good. Is the problem that in order to keep doing all that stuff, you have to do it with the same stupid label?
karen
· 2 months ago
amanda-- where is your paypal button to donate $?! not only am i happy buying shit from you but fuck, i'd love to just GIVE you $! how can we do that?! youre amazing and i adore everything you do. if there's anything i can ever do for you as a broke ass grad student living in virginia, consider it done. xo! karen
Nomie
· 2 months ago
I am so very excited for the Northampton show. And I'm trying to figure out if I can fit making a giant pot of rice salad into my work schedule before the show.
Joo
· 2 months ago
I say most definitely aie. A million fucking times aie. I think it should involve a lot of the ukulele. And songs that you'd never never be played on there, just for the hell of it. I personally think that hugely entertain me.
Nalani
· 2 months ago
ai ai ai!
craigsteffen
· 2 months ago
I would totally tune in to a webcast. That sounds like a lot of fun.
As far as what to do...have you tried non-performing art? Painting, sculpture, drawing, clay? I realize you're an incredibly kinetic person, so perhaps at first glance quieter arts might not appeal, but an art studio can be a very active and vibrant place.
If you're looking for an artistic place to "get away from it all", you could ping Lisa Snellings and see if she could use someone else in the studio. If you're not allergic to epoxy resin that would be a bonus. I presume you know her and her work. If not...she's a kinetic sculptor, among other things: http://slaughterhousestudios.blogspot.com/
Rachel
· 2 months ago
I heart you, Amanda Fucking Palmer.
Greig McCallum
· 2 months ago
AIE!!!
NotoriousB_R_E
· 2 months ago
When will you come back to LA? Or is it too soon to even think about it? I saw you at the Troubadour in June and it was amazing to say the least but I completely chickened out and sank back when you were being awesome and saying hi to everyone in line before the show.
Ryan_Anas
· 2 months ago
I'm very sorry that you have been sick as of late. You travel so much and come in contact with so many people in the name of what you do, and getting sick is sure to come with that. I hope you feel better soon.
It is very exciting to hear about the work going on with the Evelyn sisters. I'm sorry that it is proving hard to get them on the same page artistically, but they write such beautiful songs, and I'm sure if anyone can help them create this album, Jason and yourself can. If the ep is any indication to what the full length album will be like, I cannot wait. the artistic process is hard in the best conditions, and I can imagine how hard this project can be, but try to hold onto the love that drew you to the twins in the first place. Best of luck!!
I would give a resounding AIE to a web casting marathon. At some point you could do a painting like you have done at shows and signings in the past as you webcast and maybe auction it off towards the end. another thought would be to maybe incorporate a string of emailed lines of poetry into some sort of exquisite corpse poem. Maybe people could donate like 5 dollars for each line they submit, and then you could turn it into something beautiful and read it. For people who will not be able to stick around till the designated reading time, a video of your reading could be included in a future blog. I'll try to think of some more over the night.
I love how you walk us through all of your shows and adventures here on this blog. I really can't thank you enough for keeping us informed and in touch with your life. You rock!
<3
elliterate
· 2 months ago
I wish I'd caught the show at The World's End. I can imagine it would have been such a fun night.
I'm hoping to see you guys somehow in New York. If not I'll just have to pine over the photo's again!
Stephanie.
· 2 months ago
I have an irrelevant question.
What's the word on With the Needle that Sings in her Heart? Haven't heard anything on it in quite some time so I'm wondering if it's still going to be released?
Shell
· 2 months ago
Come to Iowa sometime, love!
tomatoes_and_radiowire
· 2 months ago
can't wait for the webcast.. california is lonely since you've been gone.
ajekofalltrades
· 2 months ago
there's been talk in the air, suggesting that the AFPTarot could be made assemlbed into an art show of some kind. i think that'd be groovy. get Celebrity Tarot Lounge to do some readings; play some music. drink some wine. win. perhaps?
geo
· 2 months ago
working with conjoined twins..what haven't you done? it sounds a difficult yet hopefully (eventually) fulfilling. it sounds like you need to release it as like a double album or something, like you know how there are those magazines you flip over and read the other way? well one side could be the album and art how one of them whats it to be, then flip, and there's the album as the other wants it to be. ha that would be such an effort
don't forget you're wonderful peace and love
Xenjn
· 2 months ago
AIE!! Yes! Pretty please do the webcasts you speak of! Oh! If you need something to do, the blogs you promised us? About roadrunner and about the rest of the songs on the DVD (Which I got, by the way. I was the random chick who asked you to sign it as many times as you could. ;__; THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I WAS SO HAPPY I CRIED.)
Oh! There's something you should know, I had a dream last night that you and I spent the whole day together, hanging out. ...I never met so many cops in my life. IT WAS AMAZING.
...I am going to be in Boston this Febuary. I hope you'll be performing there or something. ;__;
XD Watch, the day I'm in Boston you're going to decide you want to come to Arizona. XD I can't win.
Anyway, I love you. I really, truly do. Thank you, so, so, SO fucking much for signing my DVD. I can feel the LOVE, really, really I can. Thanks again! ;_; ^___^
nhs76
· 2 months ago
Do you know who Fiona Ritchie is? She hosts 'Thistle & Shamrock' on NPR for us longtime Irish music buffs. Her name has become synonymous with the promotion and celebration of traditional Celtic music in the U.S. You could be the same kind of person for the alt/indie world, whether on the air or as a concert series -- unless Hayley beats you to it! You're a natural-born impresario. P.S. If you live in the moment, do you ever really have to figure it all out?
insignifikunt
· 1 month ago
Suggestion: Chuck a Prince and change your name if you want to release new music not under road runner although labels have probably introduced some clause to stop that hey? Or maybe try negotiating with them again to get dropped.
Other than that, if you are thinking of recording a new album it can be done without the label. They'd still have dibs on releasing it but if they decided not to promote it, you could leave it up to fans and friends in the industry to help out. Money can be raised for actual advertising...
It doesn't cost a lot to record an album anymore, unless you have Ben Folds producing it with all of his elaborate ideas :p but there are so many amazing nobodies out there who can help. Put the word out and see what happens.
Or you could start you own label and just help other artists out for a while if you can't work on your own music. Its still being creative, Road Runner doesn't have dibs on guest appearances do they?
I don't know if it is possible but you're only contracted to Road Runner for your music and lyrics right? Could you write a new album but GIVE it to someone else, someone you trust, to be the copyright owners? Without the knowledge of road runner... So for all anyone knoww that person wrote it all. Then you could record it as someone covering someone else's songs and that person gets all the money from the exploitation of the musical work copyright (and give it back to you). Road Runner can keep the recording copyright only if they actually paid for the recording...(which if it didn't cost much could be recoupted quicker and then you can start making money from that to???) I don't know if it could work that way though... I have knowledge of copyright but it's still a mind fuck for me.
Write a novel?
Move to Australia for a while and do a residency like you were thinking at the beginning of the year. This is something I could actually help with.
Try to get into the Sydney Festival in January... Travel expenses should be covered right??? Peaches is here then to for the Big Day Out... You two doing a show together would be a major win! :p
Maybe get into theatre more often again?
Tina Bobina
· 1 month ago
The other day a buncha people bought an entire block worth of parking meters. They brought in some of that grass turf and music players and croquet and canvas and paint and checkers and bubbles. I saw this and thought of you. Fondly, Tina Bobina. Washington State
chaynicole
· 1 month ago
aie!
... as long as it's on a fri, sat, or sun... i would totally watch the full 12 hours. i have no life aside from college work...
Steve
· 1 month ago
I can't help but throw a nickel in regarding what you should do. Consider doing one thing hedonistic, one responsible and one for someone else. Yeah, it sounds Hallmark, but I stand by it.
Oh, and don't take what may be your creative prime for granted. WKAP was brilliant. Even if label problems prohibit you from releasing stuff, keep writing, storing songs like nuts in a tree.
And if you ever come to play near Milwaukee, my wife and I will gladly put you up or cook something for you.
Cheers, Steve
csdaley
· 1 month ago
I am of course waiting for the announcement of a west coast swing. Do you here us AFP we need west coast dates :). Plus, I am sure that you could get Zoe to play, awesomeness would ensue.
Teresa Jusino
· 1 month ago
Seriously, Amanda? I think you've been thinking too hard about what you "should" Be doing with your life. I'd KILL to be doing what you're doing with your life right now. It's actually what I'm working toward now. Writing and submitting - getting my stuff out there so that at some point writing will be all I do and I won't have to work in an office anymore.
There IS no should, and the path you're on is a pretty great one. And you want to talk debt? I've got $50,000 in student loans I'm still paying off, plus a whole bunch of other shit, and I have a "real job." :) Be creative. You're meant for it.
PS - how awesome is it that you have Holly's back when it comes to dating! :) She must be pleased!
Anita
· 1 month ago
Amanda, it both bums me out and makes me feel better that you still don't know what to do with your life, given that you're already doing what some people would consider a 'dream job'. I sit here, day after day at my ageing office computer working in job that leaves me both creatively and spiritually bereft and I ask myself "Is this it? What am going to do with my life?" (The standard answer to that is: fucked if I know) Maybe we should take some comfort in know that we aren't alone and that to keep asking the question is probably a good thing. PS: You rock BTW.
Curse_it
· 1 month ago
Haha, you are something else. I'm turning into an AFP zombie...
Curse_it
· 1 month ago
Haha, you are something else. I'm turning into an AFP zombie...
howlie
· 1 month ago
You should speak to Mark Watson about the idea of a webcast, he's managed pretty damn well with 24 hour shows in the past :)
Robbo
· 1 month ago
Has Amanda really prostituted her boyfriends daughter? For her own profit? Oh well. She has done worse things im sure :D
Name
· 1 month ago
Aye!
Miko
· 1 month ago
Like the idea of the webcast. The idea I have for it (don't know if it's possible), but it's an idea: Make a concert with friends via internet. Another idea is (not for a webcast) a a kind of opensource band. Someone has an idea, recording it, load up as mp3 and someone hear it, has another idea what to do with it and so on. It has a countdown to upload songs (like two weeks or a moth) and after this countdown someone try to put all or the best stuff together to a song.
Simon McNamee
· 1 month ago
Hello "Amanda fucking Palmer",
I don't really care about you so I didn't bother reading your rather long-winded ramblings. All I wanted to say was before you record your thoughts on things, perhaps you should find the correct elemental symbol for Iron.
Idiot.
duckypoison
· 1 month ago
What's the most important thing in the world?
Do that.
Go for something of importance, because momentary stuff is fun to begin with but eventually, it's gotta have a point to it; a goal, a process.
We know you're fabulous. xx
rhyskka
· 1 month ago
I just thought it would be awesome if the webcast would be somewhere outside. I mean, you must have some lovely scenery right there at your middle of nowhere! Probably it would be too windy and also no internet connection, but if it's possible - it would be lovely. I also think that you making a webcast gig would be very much awesome. You haven't done that yet, have you? I mean, playing a full gig online. I hope the time will be alright. My suggestion would be to make it happen on a saturday night, when people can stay late without having to wake up for work in the morning. Anyway, anything you would do still would be great! Btw, I can't wait to hear another blogs on the wkap videos stories. Loooove! Rita
lillerina
· 1 month ago
AIE!
As to what you should do with your life: get hooked on crochet.
Lauren_C
· 1 month ago
Maybe not your thing but I'm gonna throw it out there anyway. I really love the idea of getting everyone to send things/materials, anything, to you and then making some sort of sculpture/art piece live on a webcast or a series of webcasts and auctionting the final product off. Details would have to be worked out but I imagine it could come together fairly quickly.
Had a brilliant time at the 2nd Chapel show. It was the first time I'd managed to get to a show and I had to travel across the country to do it, I had serious backache after sitting in the pews for three hours and I was given the wrong size t-shirt, but it was well worth it. I had an amazing night. The church looked absolutely beautiful, as did you. I fell in love with the headband you were wearing.
Love. x
laurieanne
· 1 month ago
If I can come up with the goats, will you marry me instead?
Clare
· 1 month ago
Sorry to miss the London webcast - the union chapel and world's end gigs were amazing. As to what next, can you tell us what the situation is with Roadrunner? Is that what is stopping you producing another amazing album, or is it that you want to do something totally different? Does your contract allow you to release tracks online, on a 'tips' basis (as Dresden Dolls did sometimes)? (seriously, your cover of the 'Wind that Shakes the Barley' was wonderful - I'd ipod it!). Or is it that you want an entirely new project? film seems one way forward - the success of the short film bodes welll...
Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be amazing!
stasha
· 1 month ago
AIE!!
And this time I actually have money >.<
theresaembrey
· 1 month ago
Amanda...dont give up...the Evelyn's are going to worth the trouble, between Jason and yourself I have complete faith that I'll be seeing them perform somewhere soon (like seattle) Oh and when your done please send webley HOME!
bess82
· 1 month ago
I love love love the idea of buying up all the parking spaces for the day, feeding in coins every hour and just having a party - but why not do it bigger, and go for a whole level of a multi-story carpark? At £30 per car space per day here in the UK, that's a prettyfuckingsweet deal if the "entry fee" is that each person pays for the equivalent of a day's rate for one car space. But doesn't bring a car, obviously. Instead, we all bring paint and canvas and recording equipment and instruments and performance artists and talking parrots and face painting equipment and we all make something, together. And webcast it, of course.
As for the marathon webcast - YES. Do it on a Saturday and give us a couple of weeks notice and we'll all be there. If people will spend 24 hours outside in London in October listening to 24 hours worth of manifestos (google "Manifesto Marathon"!) then they will definitely spend 12 hours inside in their nice warm houses listening and watching you be the amazing person that you are. Also, if you do this at the end of the month, then I and I'm sure many others will have just been paid and can do more than watch in frustration, shrieking "I CAN'T BELIEVE I DON'T HAVE EVEN $40 TO BUY ONE OF THOSE PRINTS," and wishing desperately that payday wasn't a week away.
And if you're still wondering what to do with your life? Check this guy out: http://bit.ly/G5BN2. He's a teeny little old man with the most amazing artistic vision, of how the world is and why that sucks and what should change. He's eighty-three and is one of the most amazingly passionate people I've ever met. He's never, ever stopped creating art (well, except for the '77-'80, when he was on an Artistic Strike) and he never, ever gives up. What I'm saying is - do what makes you fulfilled, what you feel like you need to do, what you must do. This might be what makes you happy, but it might not be. I don't know if Gustav's happy. But he's doing what he thinks is right and is using his art as a way to try and get people to understand what he thinks and feels.
So look at everything you've done in your life, and figure out which things felt the most important and why. Then take that "why" as your answer, and come up with more things to do that provide the same answer.
And finally, I know that so many people before me have said this, but I still need to say it again: you're amazing, Amanda. You make so many people so happy. Not just with your voice and your music and your songs, but because you're such a real person and you make your fans feel like real people too. You give us so much of yourself and we appreciate that so, so much.
manta
· 1 month ago
Dear Ms Palmer, in response to your request for information/advice about what to do with your life: 1. find a good motivation w/in self 2. address the space. Given these two conditions are met, all other needs will be more than adequately supplied. love, manta
manta
· 1 month ago
WTDWYL department: "When the punk movement first surfaced in England in 1977, its nihilistic posturing and contempt for cultural and pop-music traditions rattled both the social and entertainment establishments. Long after the movement petered out or became commercialized elsewhere, it took hold for the first time in Jakarta in the mid-1990s — at a time when the music's belligerence seemed to perfectly echo the hostility many young people felt toward the authoritarian regime of then President Suharto... At this family's core are the members of Marjinal, a punk band that has helped over a thousand street kids earn cash by teaching them how to busk. 'Music gives these kids a way to survive, to make some kind of living,' says Mike, Marjinal's lead singer. 'Punk, to me, is addressing the things that are rotten in society. It tells us that we have the ability to be independent and take care of each other.'" From http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,917...
Lauren
· 1 month ago
Aye!
And I know this may be a long-shot, but we'd love to have you in Atlanta. There are more than enough strip clubs here for you to hold a gig at. XD
donato678
· 1 month ago
I cannot wait until the Philly show!! LOVE YOU AMANDA!!
CeciTart
· 1 month ago
Honestly I am a little perplexed with the whole 'do with your life' question. I thought you were doing with your life. You inspire, touch, entertain so many people. You have entire websites devoted to you. You have albums and a book and videos. It seems so weird to me that you are asking yourself 'what do I do with my life?' Maybe I am misunderstanding, and what you are asking is what do I do next...but if the question is 'what do I do with my life?' it seems to me you are already doing it.
Love and respect, ~Cecily
marlonanthonycameron
· 1 month ago
Amanda,
On your worst day you are worth 1,000,000 Katy Perrys and in your heart you know it. I haven't read your blogs recently as life has got in the way but your amazing, inimitable voice always comes back to me. You are what's happening now and this will be reflected in the fact that your fans will be fans for life, which is more than can be said for gaga et al Stay cool, Mac
john
· 1 month ago
Your life's your story and you get to live it as the main character, live your life, live the now.
Operating life without a safty net is scary and can wear you down, for that I recoment sleep in a safe warm bed while hugging some one or something that makes you happy and nodding off remembering that your having fun, and living life really fully, and if its scary thats just what makes it all the more real.
Gaijin
· 1 month ago
Hmmm, what to do with your life? Huhu, so many possibilities, damn. I suggest you become a buyô dancer and after years and years(and years) of practice, you become a buyô teacher who will spread the buyô awesomeness all over the world. 1° Buyo makes people happy or you reach bliss or whatever, so it's cool. 2° You devote your life to awesomeness. And the world lacks people who devote themselves to Buyo awesomeness. Then again it also lacks people who devote their life to art/love awesomeness so if you'd rather just be... well, youself, fair enough!
holdoll
· 1 month ago
virtual tip wineglass... very nice! I battle with the question what should I do all the time, now that I have an almost 2 yr. old insane little boy, and an almost equally crazed 6yr. old daughter, that question is pretty much answered for the moment. I just joined your site today but have been a HUGE fan for a while now. I have not seen you live, and am so excited for the day I do!!!! XXXXXOOOOOOO
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...just don't get Mr Folds involved again. The result would be biblical but it would cost a pretty penny
<3
I think it should involve a lot of the ukulele. And songs that you'd never never be played on there, just for the hell of it. I personally think that hugely entertain me.
As far as what to do...have you tried non-performing art? Painting, sculpture, drawing, clay? I realize you're an incredibly kinetic person, so perhaps at first glance quieter arts might not appeal, but an art studio can be a very active and vibrant place.
If you're looking for an artistic place to "get away from it all", you could ping Lisa Snellings and see if she could use someone else in the studio. If you're not allergic to epoxy resin that would be a bonus. I presume you know her and her work. If not...she's a kinetic sculptor, among other things: http://slaughterhousestudios.blogspot.com/
It is very exciting to hear about the work going on with the Evelyn sisters. I'm sorry that it is proving hard to get them on the same page artistically, but they write such beautiful songs, and I'm sure if anyone can help them create this album, Jason and yourself can. If the ep is any indication to what the full length album will be like, I cannot wait. the artistic process is hard in the best conditions, and I can imagine how hard this project can be, but try to hold onto the love that drew you to the twins in the first place. Best of luck!!
I would give a resounding AIE to a web casting marathon. At some point you could do a painting like you have done at shows and signings in the past as you webcast and maybe auction it off towards the end. another thought would be to maybe incorporate a string of emailed lines of poetry into some sort of exquisite corpse poem. Maybe people could donate like 5 dollars for each line they submit, and then you could turn it into something beautiful and read it. For people who will not be able to stick around till the designated reading time, a video of your reading could be included in a future blog. I'll try to think of some more over the night.
I love how you walk us through all of your shows and adventures here on this blog. I really can't thank you enough for keeping us informed and in touch with your life. You rock!
<3
I'm hoping to see you guys somehow in New York. If not I'll just have to pine over the photo's again!
What's the word on With the Needle that Sings in her Heart? Haven't heard anything on it in quite some time so I'm wondering if it's still going to be released?
california is lonely since you've been gone.
it sounds a difficult yet hopefully (eventually) fulfilling.
it sounds like you need to release it as like a double album or something, like you know how there are those magazines you flip over and read the other way? well one side could be the album and art how one of them whats it to be, then flip, and there's the album as the other wants it to be.
ha that would be such an effort
don't forget you're wonderful
peace and love
Oh! There's something you should know, I had a dream last night that you and I spent the whole day together, hanging out. ...I never met so many cops in my life. IT WAS AMAZING.
...I am going to be in Boston this Febuary. I hope you'll be performing there or something. ;__;
XD Watch, the day I'm in Boston you're going to decide you want to come to Arizona. XD I can't win.
Anyway, I love you. I really, truly do. Thank you, so, so, SO fucking much for signing my DVD. I can feel the LOVE, really, really I can. Thanks again! ;_; ^___^
Other than that, if you are thinking of recording a new album it can be done without the label. They'd still have dibs on releasing it but if they decided not to promote it, you could leave it up to fans and friends in the industry to help out. Money can be raised for actual advertising...
It doesn't cost a lot to record an album anymore, unless you have Ben Folds producing it with all of his elaborate ideas :p but there are so many amazing nobodies out there who can help. Put the word out and see what happens.
Or you could start you own label and just help other artists out for a while if you can't work on your own music. Its still being creative, Road Runner doesn't have dibs on guest appearances do they?
I don't know if it is possible but you're only contracted to Road Runner for your music and lyrics right? Could you write a new album but GIVE it to someone else, someone you trust, to be the copyright owners? Without the knowledge of road runner... So for all anyone knoww that person wrote it all. Then you could record it as someone covering someone else's songs and that person gets all the money from the exploitation of the musical work copyright (and give it back to you). Road Runner can keep the recording copyright only if they actually paid for the recording...(which if it didn't cost much could be recoupted quicker and then you can start making money from that to???) I don't know if it could work that way though... I have knowledge of copyright but it's still a mind fuck for me.
Write a novel?
Move to Australia for a while and do a residency like you were thinking at the beginning of the year. This is something I could actually help with.
Try to get into the Sydney Festival in January... Travel expenses should be covered right??? Peaches is here then to for the Big Day Out... You two doing a show together would be a major win! :p
Maybe get into theatre more often again?
Fondly,
Tina Bobina.
Washington State
... as long as it's on a fri, sat, or sun... i would totally watch the full 12 hours. i have no life aside from college work...
Oh, and don't take what may be your creative prime for granted. WKAP was brilliant. Even if label problems prohibit you from releasing stuff, keep writing, storing songs like nuts in a tree.
And if you ever come to play near Milwaukee, my wife and I will gladly put you up or cook something for you.
Cheers,
Steve
There IS no should, and the path you're on is a pretty great one. And you want to talk debt? I've got $50,000 in student loans I'm still paying off, plus a whole bunch of other shit, and I have a "real job." :) Be creative. You're meant for it.
PS - how awesome is it that you have Holly's back when it comes to dating! :) She must be pleased!
PS: You rock BTW.
Oh well. She has done worse things im sure :D
Another idea is (not for a webcast) a a kind of opensource band. Someone has an idea, recording it, load up as mp3 and someone hear it, has another idea what to do with it and so on.
It has a countdown to upload songs (like two weeks or a moth) and after this countdown someone try to put all or the best stuff together to a song.
I don't really care about you so I didn't bother reading your rather long-winded ramblings. All I wanted to say was before you record your thoughts on things, perhaps you should find the correct elemental symbol for Iron.
Idiot.
Do that.
Go for something of importance, because momentary stuff is fun to begin with but eventually, it's gotta have a point to it; a goal, a process.
We know you're fabulous. xx
I also think that you making a webcast gig would be very much awesome. You haven't done that yet, have you? I mean, playing a full gig online.
I hope the time will be alright. My suggestion would be to make it happen on a saturday night, when people can stay late without having to wake up for work in the morning.
Anyway, anything you would do still would be great! Btw, I can't wait to hear another blogs on the wkap videos stories.
Loooove!
Rita
As to what you should do with your life: get hooked on crochet.
Had a brilliant time at the 2nd Chapel show. It was the first time I'd managed to get to a show and I had to travel across the country to do it, I had serious backache after sitting in the pews for three hours and I was given the wrong size t-shirt, but it was well worth it. I had an amazing night. The church looked absolutely beautiful, as did you. I fell in love with the headband you were wearing.
Love. x
Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be amazing!
And this time I actually have money >.<
As for the marathon webcast - YES. Do it on a Saturday and give us a couple of weeks notice and we'll all be there. If people will spend 24 hours outside in London in October listening to 24 hours worth of manifestos (google "Manifesto Marathon"!) then they will definitely spend 12 hours inside in their nice warm houses listening and watching you be the amazing person that you are. Also, if you do this at the end of the month, then I and I'm sure many others will have just been paid and can do more than watch in frustration, shrieking "I CAN'T BELIEVE I DON'T HAVE EVEN $40 TO BUY ONE OF THOSE PRINTS," and wishing desperately that payday wasn't a week away.
And if you're still wondering what to do with your life? Check this guy out: http://bit.ly/G5BN2. He's a teeny little old man with the most amazing artistic vision, of how the world is and why that sucks and what should change. He's eighty-three and is one of the most amazingly passionate people I've ever met. He's never, ever stopped creating art (well, except for the '77-'80, when he was on an Artistic Strike) and he never, ever gives up. What I'm saying is - do what makes you fulfilled, what you feel like you need to do, what you must do. This might be what makes you happy, but it might not be. I don't know if Gustav's happy. But he's doing what he thinks is right and is using his art as a way to try and get people to understand what he thinks and feels.
So look at everything you've done in your life, and figure out which things felt the most important and why. Then take that "why" as your answer, and come up with more things to do that provide the same answer.
And finally, I know that so many people before me have said this, but I still need to say it again: you're amazing, Amanda. You make so many people so happy. Not just with your voice and your music and your songs, but because you're such a real person and you make your fans feel like real people too. You give us so much of yourself and we appreciate that so, so much.
1. find a good motivation w/in self
2. address the space.
Given these two conditions are met, all other needs will be more than adequately supplied.
love, manta
And I know this may be a long-shot, but we'd love to have you in Atlanta. There are more than enough strip clubs here for you to hold a gig at. XD
Love and respect,
~Cecily
On your worst day you are worth 1,000,000 Katy Perrys and in your heart you know it. I haven't read your blogs recently as life has got in the way but your amazing, inimitable voice always comes back to me. You are what's happening now and this will be reflected in the fact that your fans will be fans for life, which is more than can be said for gaga et al
Stay cool,
Mac
Operating life without a safty net is scary and can wear you down, for that I recoment sleep in a safe warm bed while hugging some one or something that makes you happy and nodding off remembering that your having fun, and living life really fully, and if its scary thats just what makes it all the more real.
1° Buyo makes people happy or you reach bliss or whatever, so it's cool.
2° You devote your life to awesomeness. And the world lacks people who devote themselves to Buyo awesomeness. Then again it also lacks people who devote their life to art/love awesomeness so if you'd rather just be... well, youself, fair enough!