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Im not drinking her iced tea anymore
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:30 |
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Amanda Palmer once tried to do a national tour and get local bands to open for her "for exposure."
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:34 |
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Skwirl posted:Amanda Palmer once tried to do a national tour and get local bands to open for her "for exposure." I thought it was not paying her backing musicians, not the openers. Both are hosed but not paying her backing musicians feels even more ridiculous to me.
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:43 |
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She also had a flash mob wedding she is the worst
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:44 |
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jjack229 posted:If the contact with strangers while grocery shopping is the same as the contact with a partner during sex, then I am doing at least one of those two things wrong. As a grocery store clerk strangers are definitely getting really intimate and putting their fluids all over me until they get what they want and leave, so yeah it’s pretty similar.
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:48 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I thought it was not paying her backing musicians, not the openers. Both are hosed but not paying her backing musicians feels even more ridiculous to me. Oh yeah, I was misremembering. Holy gently caress she's terrible.
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:49 |
Krowley posted:She also had a flash mob wedding she is the worst What does this mean... Wait, do I want to know?
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# ? May 4, 2020 20:52 |
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T-man posted:Im not drinking her iced tea anymore Or watching that old Twin Peaks show she was in.
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:14 |
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Powered Descent posted:Or watching that old Twin Peaks show she was in. She’s simply irresistible!
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:17 |
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Powered Descent posted:Or watching that old Twin Peaks show she was in. I'm sure as hell not taking a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and bringing back a palm leaf
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:19 |
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goatsestretchgoals posted:You’re dumb and bad but maybe you never learned how to spell the words street and fighter. In all sincerity, the moment I realized there was a lot that presaged current comic book movies in Mortal Kombat, I knew I needed to rewatch Street Fighter and the first TMT films for the same reason. Speaking of creative derivation, of the army of moody artist women singer-songwriters spawned by Kate Bush, Amanda Palmer is the worst, right?
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# ? May 4, 2020 21:35 |
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None of these things are true, for the record. 1. She is not a terf, period end of story (There is a song called "Sex Changes" but that is about sex... changing.. things. Not gender reassignment. ) 2. She did not have a flash mob wedding? She was married at Michael Chabon's house, for starters with a bunch of other famous authors there. (Yes it's true that I'm an old school fan of hers but I only remember this bc I was doing a news blog for a record store when she got married and I wrote an article on it.) 3. The "did not pay her band" story is actually completely distorted and false: She HAD a touring band. A paid touring band. The same band she made that album with. She HAD opening acts. They were paid, too. What she wanted was at every city on that tour for random local musicians to come up on stage and play with her and her band during the main concert as a big interactive experience. For fun. On a volunteer basis. it was just a last minute idea of an extra thing to add to the shows. When other people said "hey we know you came up in this sort of diy punk communal hippy crashing concerts for free sort of way but in this day and age it sets bad precedent to not pay artists for any reason" she understood and made smaller, paid arrangements but by this point in time the internet blew the whole thing out of proportion and made up this whole exaggeration that isn't even how it happened and now this story gets spread around each and every time her name is mentioned and maybe we can stop doing that? And now I've gone and used up my "one post every ten years", thanks a lot. x ampersand oh has a new favorite as of 22:20 on May 4, 2020 |
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x ampersand oh posted:None of these things are true, for the record. Amanda Palmer account spotted
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:19 |
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x ampersand oh posted:the internet blew the whole thing out of proportion and made up this whole exaggeration that isn't even how it happened and now this story gets spread around each and every time That doesn't sound like the internet at all!
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:23 |
“Sex Changes”, a song definitely about nothing but loving, which opens up with Dear Mr. and or Mrs. sender We're pleased to inform you that your application's been accepted Starting from the time you get this letter Your life will be one never-ending "hope you're feeling better" You get your choice of an aesthetic Ah we need to chop your clock off tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock It might not be what you expected There is no money back once you've been ripped off, ripped off, ripped off Today's a very special day The boys'll murder for it but what will the neighbors say? It leaves you feeling pretty hollow it might be nice to look at Don't forget you're stuck with it tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
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chitoryu12 posted:“Sex Changes”, a song definitely about nothing but loving, which opens up with x ampersand oh posted:None of these things are true, for the record.
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:26 |
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chitoryu12 posted:“Sex Changes”, a song definitely about nothing but loving, which opens up with "we need to chop your clock off", definitely a real thing that people say to refer to, idk, something non-trans related
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:28 |
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x ampersand oh posted:When other people said "hey we know you came up in this sort of diy punk communal hippy crashing concerts for free sort of way but in this day and age it sets bad precedent to not pay artists for any reason" she understood and made smaller, paid arrangements but by this point in time the internet blew the whole thing out of proportion and made up this whole exaggeration that isn't even how it happened and now this story gets spread around each and every time her name is mentioned and maybe we can stop doing that? Wasn't her whole deal in "The Art of Asking" about how cool she was for doing that? I quite like her Theatre is Evil album, but she is kind of a poo poo.
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:29 |
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x ampersand oh posted:None of these things are true, for the record. I know nothing about Amanda Palmer, I wonder what that song- chitoryu12 posted:Sex Changes, a song definitely about nothing but loving, which opens up with
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:36 |
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Come on, guys. The post opened with:x ampersand oh posted:None of these things are true, for the record. No need to debunk something that was meant to be complete nonsense.
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:40 |
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Neil Gaiman wrote pretty good stuff, and did a good job of chaperoning Good Omens into an awesome miniseries. He's also done a lot of smaller awesome stuff for absolutely no good reason. I haven't read any of his work beyond.... Smoke and Mirrors, I think? Could be he's gotten really terrible.
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:42 |
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Lol the band thing was Amanda Palmer being too cheap to hire touring horn players for just a few songs per show so she wanted “professional volunteers” in each city
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:48 |
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TheManWithNoName posted:Lol the band thing was Amanda Palmer being too cheap to hire touring horn players for just a few songs per show so she wanted “professional volunteers” in each city Sounds like she was just asking people to horn in on her set
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# ? May 4, 2020 22:53 |
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Brawnfire posted:Sounds like she was just asking people to horn in on her set Well a lot of her stuff has sexual themes, it's not unfair to expect people to be horny
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:00 |
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Boy do I wish I had stuck to just debunking the "didn't pay her band' thing because Heck Yeah I express myself really poorly and that is why I am professional lurker. And i really do wish I hadn't brought up the song or dismissed it so harmlessly. I was angry at People On The Internet and wanted to vent and was careless. "Sex Changes" is a complicated situation but considering the rest of the song concentrates on abortion and domestic violence and sex from a decidedly cishetero standpoint, yes those lyrics are supposed to sound like they are about one thing when they are actually about another. Did she accidentally write transphobic sounding lyrics when she thought she was being clever about something unrelated? Yes and that's bad. I don't even know if she can apologize enough for doing that. But there's a difference between being a narcissist and being actually trans-exclusionary in her stance and politics the latter of which she is not. I really don't blame people for arguing about the song. I'm nb femme queer, btw, so i take it as personally as someone who reads it the opposite way and is not a fan does.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:03 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Neil Gaiman wrote pretty good stuff, and did a good job of chaperoning Good Omens into an awesome miniseries. He's also done a lot of smaller awesome stuff for absolutely no good reason. I haven't read any of his work beyond.... Smoke and Mirrors, I think? Could be he's gotten really terrible. Pity about Palmer. She does have a personality that rubs a lot of people the wrong way, and it does make Gaiman seem like.... like he could have any number of women tripping over themselves to be Mrs. Neil Gaiman, but he sought out someone who genuinely seems to embody the "dick-flattening" meme. I get the feeling a lot of people would throw him a big party if he did cut the cord and leave. x ampersand oh posted:"Sex Changes" is a complicated situation but considering the rest of the song concentrates on abortion and domestic violence and sex from a decidedly cishetero standpoint, yes those lyrics are supposed to sound like they are about one thing when they are actually about another. Did she accidentally write transphobic sounding lyrics when she thought she was being clever about something unrelated? Yes and that's bad. I don't even know if she can apologize enough for doing that. But there's a difference between being a narcissist and being actually trans-exclusionary in her stance and politics the latter of which she is not. I really don't blame people for arguing about the song. I'm nb femme queer, btw, so i take it as personally as someone who reads it the opposite way and is not a fan does. mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 23:08 on May 4, 2020 |
# ? May 4, 2020 23:05 |
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I mean it basically sounds to me like Palmer makes some pretty impulsive bad decisions and then people who don't like her amplify that bc that's the nature of... anti-fandom? I have no defense for Sex Changes and am not even going to try and excuse that, but the real IoSM seem like fans of Gaiman and Palmer going nuts over a breakup.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:10 |
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Having read that Patreon page I'm absolutely reminded of high school relationship drama and yeah I nope'd the gently caress out of the details.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:12 |
Funny how I finished reading American Gods for the first time just earlier this afternoon. (Overall pretty decent, though the middle portion where Shadow hides away in the Midwest town could’ve stood to be trimmed down more than a bit, and the ending was a bit anticlimactic)
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:35 |
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Here, have some primo incel poo poo. https://twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1256697210936463362 https://twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1257175262644637696 It's a whole thread.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:42 |
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Regalingualius posted:Funny how I finished reading American Gods for the first time just earlier this afternoon. Read Anansi Boys next it's like a semi-sequel, and it's probably better.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:43 |
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I really like that one song of hers from Life is Strange.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:45 |
Slowpoke Rodriguez posted:Read Anansi Boys next it's like a semi-sequel, and it's probably better. Planning to, considering I have all of this free time now.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:48 |
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His recent Norse Mythology is a solid read, and I have never been disappointed with anything he has written (though I do prefer his short stories). Also I will go to bat for Dresden Dolls any time. Palmer does have a personality that rubs a lot of people the wrong way and that's fine. I like some things she does and dislike others. I have been to at least two shows of her and Gaiman where they put on a free live show for fans and those were always a lot of fun.
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:53 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Here, have some primo incel poo poo.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1254224637111779332
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# ? May 4, 2020 23:58 |
“I’ve been rejected thousands of times, clearly it’s everyone ELSE who’s the problem!”
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# ? May 5, 2020 00:14 |
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This is such a loving honeypot for people who belong on your block list and watchlists generally. Edit: https://twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1254784750503378951 LOL Absurd Alhazred has a new favorite as of 00:18 on May 5, 2020 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:This is such a loving honeypot for people who belong on your block list and watchlists generally. Correct, it is a Twitter thread.
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# ? May 5, 2020 00:18 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:This is such a loving honeypot for people who belong on your block list and watchlists generally. Fellas is it gay to please other people? Sounds like this is why Rome fell.
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