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[lentower]

why did which 'he' go?

ben folds?

[The Angel Raliel]

the reviewer

[absynth aura]

I wondered that also.

Maybe he was intrigued, or had got told to review a gig for the blog or something.

[hugo torres]

is Amanda Palmer going down under?

[melliestew28]

ME!  ME ME!

[lentower]

hi melliestew28

me too

welcome to the sbox!!!

you could pop over to
http://www.theshadowbox.net/forum/index.php?topic=2.0
and Introduce Yourself

thanx!
-len

[soldsoul4foos]

Some of the article I agree with, some I don't.  However...I will say this.  When I first started listening to Amanda was when the Dresden Dolls were together.  Saw a ton of shows from Maine to Boston over the next few years.  Although I can't really put into words why, but I certainly enjoyed her music more during that time, and the beginning few years of her solo career, as opposed to the last few years.   :'(

[marie_x]

oddly enough i read and agreed with this article.

a few years ago i may have felt like this attack on amanda was one of a personal level to me but i didn't read a word i didn't agree with.

sad, but true.

[Agonistes]

i dunno.  reviews are what they are, and this is a bad one.  by which i mean, it's written badly.  if he wanted to heap some scorn, he could at least have been witty about it, but his humor is severely lacking, and his sarcasm lacks a discernible edge.  it's not that i disagree all that much--i hate the ukelele, the between-song twitter breaks, etc. when i would rather it be about the music.  i will never be the sort of fan who asks PLEASE TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR LIFE.  i don't hug people, and i don't give a crap about the love or the group magic, i just want the fucking music.   at the end of the day, the love and magic don't really exist, and they never really did.  music is all that can endure.

frankly, it's the same with neil gaiman.  i could give a shit if he likes me or even knows my name, i just want to read his books.

maybe it's how obviously false that image is that is the problem.  the one phrase the guy said that stood out in my mind was how the ukelele song amanda sang seemed to ridicule the song.  i thought the same exact thing with her version of 'creep'--partly because i hate that song but also because she sang it as though she were making fun of it, and i got some fun out of making fun of it.  i thought it was hilarious and kinda avant-garde until i realized she played it at every single show on that tour--and then released an entire radiohead cover album (which i have never heard because i hate both radiohead, and ukeleles).  same with the rebecca black parody.  every time i see amanda play the ukelele i feel like she is somehow making fun of the song she's playing, and you want to laugh with her till you realize, oh--she's seriously playing a song she likes.

i'm actually kind of offended he spotlit her claim to bisexuality in the way he did.  sure, lots and lots of people can and do claim bisexuality in a desperate attempt to seem fascinating, but it doesn't have shit to do with her music or really even her image, and implying she's not, and in fact career-jumping because she married a famous dude is bordering on personal insult, which an article like this should avoid, and stick to insulting tangibles.  the writer is as unfamiliar with amanda's sex life as i am, and therefore it falls not to us to judge what in hell she is, but rather to take her word for it; after all, she would know better than anyone.  i guess it's just another reason he doesn't like her, but it adds nothing to his article.

also i didn't think the dresden dolls was 'novelty music.'  weird al yankovic is novelty music.  romanovsky and phillips are novelty music.  the 'down under' album is novelty music.  it's just that the dolls had a unique sound, and not enough bands play similar.  really, still, not enough bands play similar.



so, yeah.  while i might agree with some of his criticisms, he makes them seem ranty with his haphazard, wit-free style of writing.  

kinda love the phrase, 'faux-goth' though.

[lentower]

there are as many kinds of bi-sexuals in the world, as they are straights or gays,
maybe more

at one end,
are people who thing they like to sleep with both sexes (total virgins) and
some people who have sleeped with both sexes at least once

at the otherend,
are people who regularly sleep with both sexes, and need to.
a few are in committed exclusive polygamous
relationship with a group including both sexes

imho, people who have had casual sex with just one person of
a sex shouldn't be labeling themselves yet


from what a has posted in her blog,
she's somewhere in between the two extremes i listed


as i've said before,
a is a performance artist,
who likes mixing it up - that is constantly
changing and evolving what she does

the performance often includes music

even on a tour based on a single album,
both the show, and the music change from night to night

so much, that
if you go to the first and last shows of a tour
(i've come close)
you can have trouble believing it's the same tour

[Agonistes]

didn't mean to get into a discussion about bisexuality, or promote a lecture on it, there are threads for that.  just meant to highlight the inappropriateness of the writer mentioning it in amanda's case.  is it a criticism of her life in general, or of her career?  was my point.

[Musings]

oddly enough i read and agreed with this article.

a few years ago i may have felt like this attack on amanda was one of a personal level to me but i didn't read a word i didn't agree with.

sad, but true.

Dude, you got to change your profile picture, bc I am reading your posts about Amanda as far higher satire than you mean it to be. 

[marie_x]

oddly enough i read and agreed with this article.

a few years ago i may have felt like this attack on amanda was one of a personal level to me but i didn't read a word i didn't agree with.

sad, but true.

Dude, you got to change your profile picture, bc I am reading your posts about Amanda as far higher satire than you mean it to be. 

I still love who she was when she kissed me!!

[Astica]

I like the Dresden Dolls, and intend to see them when they come down here next year, but Amanda's solo stuff isn't really my cup of tea. There were a couple of alright songs on WKAP, but that was still vaguely Dolls era despite Brians departure, so I don't know.

I do wish she'd put the ukulele down, and I think Amanda's main talent as a musician is how she plays with other people. For instance, in Evelyn Evelyn, the way she and Jason can stay perfectly in sync while playing two halves of an instrument is incredible (especially with the guitar), and while I've never seen the Dolls play together, they seem to be able to play off each other with incredible energy, too. I feel like this is kind of lost when she's by herself.

Her public persona can sort of irritate me sometimes, but she's alright. 

[absynth aura]

I like the Dresden Dolls, and intend to see them when they come down here next year,

I swear to god, if they play when I'm out of the country, I will punch a small child.