many things to tell you, and someTHING coming tomorrow. (Patreon)

HOLA!!!

thank you so much for all your wonderful comments on that last blog. you guys are like a goddam group fire extinguisher of fraud vibes. i love you. together we will all get super actually real together, eh?

AND NOW dyyyyanmmmmm shit is so cray today that i have divided up my post into seven parts: 

1. ****michigan**** votes in the primary today!

2. shhhh...if you're in AUSTIN, i'm doing something tonight AND ONLY TELLING YOU, you patreon special folk you.

3. the NINJATED blog (and webcast archive!)  is up with a gazillion photos!

4. I AM PUTTING OUT a real-ass SONG tomorrow, and i'm really happy with it and yeah.

5. a thought: i write music. sometimes i think people forget that because the other shit is so distracting. sorry.

6. to make my point and to distract you, here's an interview i did with parents.com

7. bye.

........

1. michigan votes in the primary today, AND IT IS A PIVITOL VOTING DAY !!! and i hope to god if you're in detroit or anywhere in michigan, you're reading this on your phone while standing in line somewhere, ready to save our country from donald trump. 

in an attempt to motivate maine the other day, and michigan today, i posted spontaneous video-songs to facebook. HEY IT WORKED IN MAINE...maybe it'll work in michigan. (here's's today's dumb  michigan song, from bed:

 https://www.facebook.com/amandapalmer/videos/vb.6565888374/10153656703708375/?type=2&theater and here's jason webley's not-dumb michigan song: https://www.facebook.com/amandapalmer/posts/10153656814008375)

AND,,,,,HERE IS A LINK that's simply info about where to vote if you don't know how. SPREAD THE WORD, people: http://voteforbernie.org/

2. SURPRISE: i'm in AUSTIN visiting crazy uncle thor and doing a teeny appearance at benefit for the austin bat cave (a non-profit group dedicated to providing children and teenagers with opportunities to develop their creative and expository writing.!!! yes indeed!!!) tonight (tuesday.)

....it's a TINY PIZZA PARLOR so i'm not announcing this on social media...just you guys! 

the lowdown: 7 pm at homeslice pizza on congress. i'll have a baby and be with thor, you can't miss us....say hi

:)

3. i wrote up a huge blog about the VANCOUVER #NINJATED SHOW!!!!! special guests included adam savage from mythbusters, jason webley, sarah kay, bill t jones in an improv performance with me and jherek and rhiannon from the caroline chocolate drops, ASTRONAUT CHRIS HADFIELD giving a teary goodbye to david bowie, THE NATIONAL KITE AND YOYO CHAMPIONS OF CANADA... and more.... and we raised ALMOST $17k for the greater vancouver food bank - so THANK YOU to anyone here who came or who donated via the webcast online. THERE'S TONS OF BEAUTIFUL PICTURES (including the one you see here taken from back of stage by maria popova, who also guested)....go look: 

http://blog.amandapalmer.net/030816/

4. I AM PUTTING OUT a REAL-ASS SONG tomorrow, and i'm really happy with it and yeah. it's called "machete". i now have over 7,000 patrons here and this feels like the first, big, hefty, full-production song that i've made and released here. "thing about things" and "bigger on the inside" and "a mother's confession" are great in their own right, but this sucker sounds like something off "theatre is evil"...it's long, it's got strings, it's got ben folds on drums, it sounds like the herculean effort it was. i am really excited. which brings me to point three:

5.  ....a thought: i write music. i actually do. that is what i do. sometimes i think people forget that because the other shit is so distracting.

here's a great little write-up i just got in the guardian, in their "cult heroes" department...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/mar/07/amanda-palmer-dresden-dolls-cult-heroes

it's a great write-up and it actually depressed me in a way, because i found myself liking it so much for a depressing reason: it's one of the few pieces of press about me lately that talks ABOUT THE SONGS. note, ironically enough, that the comments section devolves once again (three fucking years later) into people talking everything BUT the art and flinging back and forth shit about kickstarter and beer and hugs. 

newsflash, sometimes even to me, because i get so caught up in my bullshit: 

i write songs. that is who i am and what i do. 

it still pains me that years later, all people can think to write about is...everything but the songs.

i write songs, i make art. that's how i like to define myself, if i have any control over the narrative.

without songs, no dresden dolls, without songs, no kickstarter, without songs, no shows, without songs, no gigs, without songs, no TED talk, without songs, no book, without songs, no patreon, no this, no here.

i am a fucking songwriter. 

i want you to know this about me, in case you missed it.

tomorrow i am releasing a really good song that i'm really proud of. 

and i'll tell you the whole story behind it tomorrow when i post, because i like doing that, and i think the story behind the song will strengthen the listen.

and please, if you want to help me defeat the fraud police and the real and imagined voices out there trying to make the conversation about my life and choices and business and shitty voice and hairy body and whatever else....just remember. the songs. the songs. like...it's the economy stupid. it's the songs, silly.

so get ready to share.

6. and, er, to distract you even further, here's an interview i did with parents.com about the release of "a mother's confession". 

http://www.parents.com/baby/all-about-babies/parents-can-definitely-relate-to-amanda-palmers-new-song/

okay. sorry to barrage you with so much, but here we go.

tomorrow, help me share a song to the world. 

we are the media, people. who'd have thunk it. let's do this shit.

7. bye

wait 8. MICHIGAN. just reminding you. 

ok bye

xxx

a