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[The Great Ma Chao]

He's excluding the bone jumping. All mine, all mine.

[BATTEREDxBRIDExLUVR!]

of course.

[Apothecaries]

That is possibly the best response to all of this that I could have ever imagined. Thank you Amanda.

[Rob]

He's excluding the bone jumping. All mine, all mine.

Dude...she totally want's ME!

[Kovacs]

He's excluding the bone jumping. All mine, all mine.

Dude...she totally want's ME!

10 bucks says Rob's liquored up. I mean, it is debate night, you can't blame him.

[Ronan]

He's excluding the bone jumping. All mine, all mine.

Dude...she totally want's ME!

10 bucks says Rob's liquored up. I mean, it is debate night, you can't blame him.

I wonder does he get funnier the more he drinks, in a Terry-Wogan-narrates-the-Eurovision-on-BBC kind of way? Or does his grammar just take a slide?

[overratedtoejam]

AMEN! damn how did i miss this post...it all makes sense now. i'm surprised you guys could work as hard as you did together for so long..i know i would've gone crazy no matter how amazing the other person was (which both of you are pretty damn amazing). mad props to you guys for sticking it out for those awesome years. i can't wait to hear more music whent the time comes.

[warmkessel]

Brian,

Thanks for playing for me in San Francisco!



Thanks for playing for me in San Jose!



Thanks for playing for me in Los Angeles!



Thanks for playing for me in San Deigo!



 in Pheonix!



in Albuquerque!



Thanks for playing for me in when you were tierd of traveling from city to city, when you didn't even know where you were!



Thanks for playing for me when you traveled through the night on the tour bus!



Thanks for playing for me when you where playing so hard that your muscles acked.  That you broke drum stick after drum stick.  When you cut your hand, shook it off and played on.



Thanks for throwing those drum sicks high!



Thanks for playing.  I know that what you do looks easy.  I know that it's not!

I'm going to miss your playing. 

There will be other show, but they will not be the same. 

I hope that time and tide will change your heart.

If it doesn't I understand.


Thank you Brian.


P.S.  Thank you Amanda as well.

[Rob]

He's excluding the bone jumping. All mine, all mine.

Dude...she totally want's ME!

10 bucks says Rob's liquored up. I mean, it is debate night, you can't blame him.

I wonder does he get funnier the more he drinks, in a Terry-Wogan-narrates-the-Eurovision-on-BBC kind of way? Or does his grammar just take a slide?

Mostly my typing goes away.

This took me about 20 minutes.

[rosesandpianos]

I doubt the reply to this will get to Amanda, unless she really reads all the replies to her posts? hehe

But that was spectacular. It's interesting, I was just thinking the other day about how much I appreciate Amanda not just as an amazing artist (and when I say artist, I mean artist. ART. Not those corporate artists that spring up occationally on MTV) but also as an amazing person, making the time to write things and post them for fans to read. Just being that open, i think it's awesome, especailly since (like you said about some people; guys in general) it's hard to get things out of people you do know personally and see everyday. Because I am very much one of those girls who has to talk about things, even though sometimes I can't. Blogs, close friends, and art help with that. And though the only people who will really care what I'm talking about are my friends, whereas you have a whole amazing fan base (woo hoo! ^_^) it's inspiring. And I thank you.

I'm sure a great deal of that has to do with being an exhibitionist, with enjoying the positive feedback that will undoubtedly come from star-struck fans, and with having that much free time in between tour stops. I mean, really, a load of people do what you described.

I've always thought that these kinds of responses were some of the last that were ever wished for, when you talk about The Dolls. Punk Cabaret Is Freedom is not an ideology; it's a slogan. Amanda is not a saint; she is a good artist. Brian is not the next coming of Gandhi; he's a nice person. I think, the point of it all--that is a not a pun, I swear to god--is to, by connecting to fans in the ways you and others are describing, avoid this kind of idolization. To be a pair of people amidst a sea of other people, who happen to have unique voices, who happen to have a platform from which to speak from, and utilize those gifts to inspire others to forget what they, the artists, are, and be themselves.

This isn't just directed at you. It's a message spread; your's is simply the sentiment I've read most recently. So it does not all apply to you. I don't even know who the hell you are. I just know you are part of a demographic that heeds to certain parameters. And you know what? Amanda's an intelligent, business-minded woman, and she knows that this demographic is lucrative. Those corporate MTV sellouts, they mind the same basic idea that The Dolls have. Find a market, put food on the table, maybe make some really good music on the way. That is not to say it is--was--their main focus, but it's a damned truth and you'd be a fool to think otherwise. They made it this far for a few reasons; musically-inclined capitalism is one of those.

Please. Enough with the dick-and-or-tit sucking. They're people. You're people. Stop identifying with them and be someone, because goddamit, none of those songs were written for you.

Except maybe Sing.

And Coin-Operated Boy. She definitely wants to jump my bones.

Um, excuse me... I am my own goddamn person. I concider myself an artist. I play piano, I work in/act in many local theatres, write poetry and songs, paint, have dreams. I get inspiration from Amanda's art and music, from the passion. I don't idolize her because she's famous or any of that, i respect her as a person because that's what she is. A person who happened to make it big doing something amazing: creating art. When I say 'make it big' it's amazing because she's able to share her art with so many people. I know so many respectable and AMAZING artists where I am, many of them are my friends. I don't know Amanda personally, but I just respect her for what she does, and her music is amazing. I have no intention of becoming famous myself, I don't need fame or people idolizing me, I would hate that. I respect her because she does art because she loves it, to create art that comes from her.

Honestly I didn't even realize what you were talking about in most of this, because I don't think you were really getting what I meant. Is there something wrong with me saying something nice about Amanda? We're all fans, clearly, since we're on here.

I'm fucking tired, I don't know if I'm making any sense.

'I mean, really, a load of people do what you described.' -- What are you reffering to...?

And I never said Amanda was a saint... I even emphized the fact that she's an 'artist'.

But I live an breathe art, wether that means creating it our appreciating other artists. I will retract that thing about MTV, that was shallow, but otherwise I don't see what you mean. It's like appreciating Piccasso or Motzart. It's art.

I appologize if any of that was rude or hard to understand, it wasn't intended to be.

And duh those songs weren't written for me. Why would I think that? what the fuck.

[jupiter or japan]

damn warmkessel, let some other people get some sticks! 

[BATTEREDxBRIDExLUVR!]

I doubt the reply to this will get to Amanda, unless she really reads all the replies to her posts? hehe

But that was spectacular. It's interesting, I was just thinking the other day about how much I appreciate Amanda not just as an amazing artist (and when I say artist, I mean artist. ART. Not those corporate artists that spring up occationally on MTV) but also as an amazing person, making the time to write things and post them for fans to read. Just being that open, i think it's awesome, especailly since (like you said about some people; guys in general) it's hard to get things out of people you do know personally and see everyday. Because I am very much one of those girls who has to talk about things, even though sometimes I can't. Blogs, close friends, and art help with that. And though the only people who will really care what I'm talking about are my friends, whereas you have a whole amazing fan base (woo hoo! ^_^) it's inspiring. And I thank you.

I'm sure a great deal of that has to do with being an exhibitionist, with enjoying the positive feedback that will undoubtedly come from star-struck fans, and with having that much free time in between tour stops. I mean, really, a load of people do what you described.

I've always thought that these kinds of responses were some of the last that were ever wished for, when you talk about The Dolls. Punk Cabaret Is Freedom is not an ideology; it's a slogan. Amanda is not a saint; she is a good artist. Brian is not the next coming of Gandhi; he's a nice person. I think, the point of it all--that is a not a pun, I swear to god--is to, by connecting to fans in the ways you and others are describing, avoid this kind of idolization. To be a pair of people amidst a sea of other people, who happen to have unique voices, who happen to have a platform from which to speak from, and utilize those gifts to inspire others to forget what they, the artists, are, and be themselves.

This isn't just directed at you. It's a message spread; your's is simply the sentiment I've read most recently. So it does not all apply to you. I don't even know who the hell you are. I just know you are part of a demographic that heeds to certain parameters. And you know what? Amanda's an intelligent, business-minded woman, and she knows that this demographic is lucrative. Those corporate MTV sellouts, they mind the same basic idea that The Dolls have. Find a market, put food on the table, maybe make some really good music on the way. That is not to say it is--was--their main focus, but it's a damned truth and you'd be a fool to think otherwise. They made it this far for a few reasons; musically-inclined capitalism is one of those.

Please. Enough with the dick-and-or-tit sucking. They're people. You're people. Stop identifying with them and be someone, because goddamit, none of those songs were written for you.

Except maybe Sing.

And Coin-Operated Boy. She definitely wants to jump my bones.

Um, excuse me... I am my own goddamn person. I concider myself an artist. I play piano, I work in/act in many local theatres, write poetry and songs, paint, have dreams. I get inspiration from Amanda's art and music, from the passion. I don't idolize her because she's famous or any of that, i respect her as a person because that's what she is. A person who happened to make it big doing something amazing: creating art. When I say 'make it big' it's amazing because she's able to share her art with so many people. I know so many respectable and AMAZING artists where I am, many of them are my friends. I don't know Amanda personally, but I just respect her for what she does, and her music is amazing. I have no intention of becoming famous myself, I don't need fame or people idolizing me, I would hate that. I respect her because she does art because she loves it, to create art that comes from her.

Honestly I didn't even realize what you were talking about in most of this, because I don't think you were really getting what I meant. Is there something wrong with me saying something nice about Amanda? We're all fans, clearly, since we're on here.

I'm fucking tired, I don't know if I'm making any sense.

'I mean, really, a load of people do what you described.' -- What are you reffering to...?

And I never said Amanda was a saint... I even emphized the fact that she's an 'artist'.

But I live an breathe art, wether that means creating it our appreciating other artists. I will retract that thing about MTV, that was shallow, but otherwise I don't see what you mean. It's like appreciating Piccasso or Motzart. It's art.

I appologize if any of that was rude or hard to understand, it wasn't intended to be.

And duh those songs weren't written for me. Why would I think that? what the fuck.

[robby]

rock love is like a drug.
you get addicted,
and you always need more.

if eventually there's no more, it will suck
but there is such thing as rehab.

and we'll always have the music as a memory.

amen, amanda palmer.

The Dresden Dolls are the GREATEST band EVER!

[yosmark]

Jesse, you have the talent to make people look stupid by just quoting them.

[BATTEREDxBRIDExLUVR!]