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[$ethie]

I still reserve the right to be sad and bitter for the next few weeks. This is a rather devastating event, no matter how much anyone tries to sugarcoat it.

[lanskyy]

I still reserve the right to be sad and bitter for the next few weeks. This is a rather devastating event, no matter how much anyone tries to sugarcoat it.

I agree. No matter how much I understand their views and choices, I am still very upset about this.

[The Great Ma Chao]

This is classy.

I don't mean that sarcastically. I don't mean that in juxtaposition to the way in which Brian's reaction has been largely perceived.

It's classy.

I do not remember writing this. I took way too many pills last night.

[Bad Kitty]

I still love Amanda & Brian (whoopsie.. strike that ampersand? /kidding )

If more Dolls stuff happens YAY. If not BOO.. but YAY that they did it in the first place and were so fucking rad.

I love love love them. Both.

Amen & Amen.


oh but one PS - that "Men are from Mars Women are From Venus" book sucks ass. I can think of few books that have irritated me more. in life. ever.

PPS - that PS means nothing.

[witchseason]

Amanda's post (at the beginning of this thread) made me cry. Thank you.

I'll read the rest of the thread later.

[siri_]

coming up: first reaction.
yesnoyesnoyeswhatthefuckNO?!!
...

alright, done. ah. that's nothing to read when just gotten out of bed. read both sides/threads/stuff, and yes, everything then just fits nicely - though I'm on the feeling-immensely-sad-side, still. and will be for quite a while, I guess. though we all know there's no real reason. the music continues. happiness continues. what on fucking earth could be, in managable ways, be any better?

austria shares its grieve. and greetings. hossa and hurray.

[pas_drôle]

Still at the posting's very end there was that much hope for a "booyay, you really believed that jabberwocky?" like before. D'oh, there is still everything so vague yet intangible. This is not a good sign at all.

Let's try the James Brown-yoga therapy for a while. After all, there is still hope the world ends in bitter darkness when this Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland just will start to work. So hope is a hole.

[demise]

Amanda,

If you ever come back to San Diego, PM me and I'll take you out surfing.

[Golly Mina!]

I'll be waiting.......



for rock love to happen once more.


 

We'll all pray for that

[Rob]

Amanda,

If you ever come back to San Diego, PM me and I'll take you out surfing.

Make sure I'm in on that, D.

[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.

[Elle]

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.

Can I just say.....a-fucking-men. I agree so much.

<3 Amanda, you're amazing.

[Shakti]

for brian to claim that you "hate touring" seems absurd

In light of having read Amanda's blog about losing and breaking things and getting stressed out on tour, I don't find it absurd at all.  He didn't say she refused to do it, or didn't do it well; he said she hated it.  And that he found that to be a drag (more or less).

As a person who hates travel (but is usually happy to have done so in retrospect), married to someone who loves to travel, I believe I can understand this.  I don't enjoy it, and my stress diminishes my husband's pleasure.  We do this a couple times a year for days or weeks at a time.  We manage, we recover.

I simply can't imagine the toll that a similar, even only vaguely similar, dynamic would take when taken to those lengths -- months, years at a time of travel.

[The Great Ma Chao]

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.

[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.

that, mostly.