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Re: how to win friends and alienate people

Till Ulenshpigel — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:50:00 -0000

You are really cool)

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Till Ulenshpigel — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:50:31 -0000

You are really cool)

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Maria — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:10:00 -0000

I miss anthony...

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Maria — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:10:00 -0000

I miss anthony...

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Amee Zing — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:08:00 -0000

Darling, I am proud of you. You are brave, and thank YOU (capslock) for accepting the challange. I hope that someday, we can meet. You do inspire me to continue to write my script.
An admirer of your genius,
Amee
no need to reply, I really get it.

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Amee Zing — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:08:28 -0000

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ExistentialGirl — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:18:00 -0000

I thoroughly love your music, and it has been both incendiary in my life and a solace in the many times of sorrow. What's even more interesting and wonderful and mysterious (or maybe just genetics...) is that as I have morphed through my life, I have found that your music has followed similar paths, and remained relevant to how I perceive consciousness. I find it wonderfully delicious that there is the opportunity to communicate like this...

It's ironic that you express hesitations at not being classical player, because for me it is just the opposite. I was trained classically from an early age, and became reasonably accomplished, but after abandoning that for adolescent adventure and excess, I find that now when I sit at a piano, though I have the urge to let loose and play something, it's hopeless. I literally cannot play a note...I just freeze. I envy and enjoy the way you play with such true passion, born not from endless hours of wrist-slapping, but from raw emotion.

I am a new mother, and though this is entirely different than touring, I understand how it is to have something you created and that you love entirely, something that is a part of yourself, be the same thing that can rob a bit of your personal freedom, and how exhausting it can be. Now that's it's a little more difficult to find moments to myself, I always keep in mind that this is my existence, I can make it whatever I want, and I am responsible for what it is...and I love ever moment of it.

Have fun, make music, make art, make love....do what you can with the absurdity of it all to make existence a bit less painful.

Oh, and I am not one for keeping posted on things of this nature, but I heard you were dating Neil Gaiman, and that seriously has put a smile on my face for the day. I have been reading everything he has ever published since I was a teenager, and his writing, very much like your music, was able to take me out of my head and provide much comfort in my life. I can't wait to get a copy of the book you two did together, and I expect much more!

My little artist family here, we're all going to send you some artwork and stuff...I hope we can make you smile, too. (I hope you get it, actually...)

Much affection,
Courtney

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ExistentialGirl — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:18:29 -0000

Have fun, make music, make art, make love....do what you can with the absurdity of it all to make existence a bit less painful.

My little artist family here, we're all going to send you some artwork and stuff...I hope we can make you smile, too. (I hope you get it, actually...)

Much affection,
Courtney

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luciendesar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:11:00 -0000

"who am i kidding…? i hate playing the piano alone. this has always been my problem. it took me years to understand it.i hate practicing. i hate playing with no witnesses. "

Holy shit! this is the same issue with me! I didn't realize it after playing piano for 25 years I really have an issue playing alone or not within ear shot of people. I have this "what is the point?" feeling every time I rehearse. Composing is different because you get in that creative zone that your hair could catch fire and you could care less. But practicing the piano is different.. it needs to be done though. My advice, I did this when I lived in NY working for a Broadway company, is to practice at nursing homes. They enjoy it and they don't care if you are repetitive when you play.

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Guest — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:11:35 -0000

"who am i kidding…? i hate playing the piano alone. this has always been my problem. it took me years to understand it.i hate practicing. i hate playing with no witnesses. "

Re: how to win friends and alienate people

haleyhanabusa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:34:00 -0000

"but now there was this back room I could go to and just kind of look and watch and see what people were doing - or rather saying, in less than 140 characters."

The best way I've heard twitter described. I had originally thought it a silly way of people letting everyone know when they were about to eat lunch, but I never thought of it as what it really is- Probably the largest and most interactive IM program I've ever seen.

"Since my initial foray into Twitter and subsequently being swept up in the whirlwind, I've started making some of the best art and music of my life"

I also feel the same way here. (I'm sure not in the exact same way, but something close.) I'm able to see what various artists I admire are thinking. I made a graphic that Amanda Palmer and other people actually liked. I've never had any kind of confidence in any of my art before, but now I find myself completely thrown into it. I've found the courage to ask my brother to read my stories, to actually continue practising drawing because it doesn't really always "suck". I've been able to listen to and make friends with people I never dreamt of 'meeting', because I've always been afraid to speak to other people-- I don't think that just because it's the internet means it's not "really being social".

Instead of the internet causing me to lose all grip with reality, it's caused me to fall in love with it.

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haleyhanabusa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:34:19 -0000

"but now there was this back room I could go to and just kind of look and watch and see what people were doing - or rather saying, in less than 140 characters."

"Since my initial foray into Twitter and subsequently being swept up in the whirlwind, I've started making some of the best art and music of my life"

Instead of the internet causing me to lose all grip with reality, it's caused me to fall in love with it.

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Steven — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:51:00 -0000

cue up; Blondie's - One Way or Another

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Steven — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:51:59 -0000

cue up; Blondie's - One Way or Another

Re: how to win friends and alienate people

Anthony — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:04:00 -0000

Ooh fuck, that last sentence before the p.s. sounded creepy.

p.p.s
I'm not a stalker, Amanda. I promise :D

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Anthony — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:02:00 -0000

Dear Amanda,

That sounds weird. I'm sure I could find a better place to put this comment but this blog post is recent and I got shit to say.

Essentially you've changed my life. Not just in the way I love music, but in the way I see the world. You've helped me realize that there are good people in the world, including yourself. I had more i was going to say here but I didn't really know how to present it in a proper way.

Anyway, after a serious bought of depression I recently I started doing things again. Visiting friends, and going interesting places, and meeting nice people. My goal was to go to the show you are playing in Falls Church next month, but being a minor I sorta can't. It would have been only my second concert anyway(First was Kimya Dawson if you're wondering), so I dunno if I'd fit in very well.

Other goal: Boston Symphony Hall show. I've never been farther north than Baltimore, but I've gone farther South for weirder reasons. If I can actually find the money to buy a ticket before it sells out, I might be able to go. I must be interested to have a gourmet -boxed- dinner. That sorta ruins the purpose doesn't it? :P

I love you Amanda, In all ways. I hope we'll get to meet oneday, one way or another.

Best Wishes,
Anthony.

p.s.
This comment will probably be relatively poor written and difficult to read, since I'm not good at writing little things like this.

Re: how to win friends and alienate people

Anthony — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:04:22 -0000

Ooh fuck, that last sentence before the p.s. sounded creepy.

p.p.s
I'm not a stalker, Amanda. I promise :D

Re: how to win friends and alienate people

Anthony — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:02:34 -0000

Dear Amanda,

That sounds weird. I'm sure I could find a better place to put this comment but this blog post is recent and I got shit to say.

I love you Amanda, In all ways. I hope we'll get to meet oneday, one way or another.

Best Wishes,
Anthony.

p.s.
This comment will probably be relatively poor written and difficult to read, since I'm not good at writing little things like this.

Re: how to win friends and alienate people

Tea/like the old lady beverage — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:37:00 -0000

Amanda,
please don't work too hard.

but Tchaikovsky 1st is amazing.

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Tea/like the old lady beverage — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:37:16 -0000

Amanda,
please don't work too hard.

but Tchaikovsky 1st is amazing.

Re: how to win friends and alienate people

Dea — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:15:00 -0000

Hi Amanda,

As someone also seeking small pockets of sanity in a hectic life, could I ask you to share your meditation technique with us? My thought process re: meditation goes like this: "Meditation sounds cool! I'd like to try that! Also sounds buddhist. Very venerable, ages-old. Maybe I should take a course. Because I want to learn how to do it Properly. Where can I take a course? When do I have the time to take a course? " and on and on and on

So anything you have to say on it would be, er, enlightening :)

thanks.

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Lucy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:59:00 -0000

San Francisco feels like a kitchen.
Kinda.
You could move here.
Be By the Beautiful Bay! It never snows in coastal California.

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Dea — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:15:41 -0000

Hi Amanda,

So anything you have to say on it would be, er, enlightening :)

thanks.

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Kristen McHugh — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:37:00 -0000

LOFNOTC WAS AWESOME. :D All the photos made me think of flip-book animation, actually. ( If I could draw to save my life, I'd totally make an AFP flip-book.) Since you've been mentioning the yoga/meditation thing, I thought I'd share this: http://www.ashesandsnow.org... A friend passed it on, (@lifemapper) and in the midst of 2 wks of non-stop pressure, it really brought me back to a place I could breathe. I hope you have a wonderful time in China/Singapore.

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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:19:00 -0000

hope i see you next year....