a message from the woods...where Things are being made. (Patreon)

hello my loves.

before anything: TOUR UPDATE!

brighton and liverpool are 100% sold out. edinburgh is a few tickets away from being sold out. vienna is almost sold out. berlin is almost sold out. cologne has a few hundred tickets left. all dates (including the boston/nyc dresden dolls' shows later this month!) here: http://amandapalmer.net/shows/

i'm a little depleted. but this is what i get for trying to do too many Things. 

it's okay. better this than depressed because making not enough Things.

 i'm making it work. this patreon has been an incredible education in Thing-management. it honestly has been a little like kid-in-a-candy-store lately with the Thing-Creation. i currently have a belly full of sour patch kids and gummy worms and i'm in the middle of digesting. EVERYTHING TASTES SO GOOD. EVERYTHING IS COVERED WITH CITRIC ACID. EVERYTHING IS IN A SMALL PLASTIC BAG WITH A TWISTY TIE. IS ANYONE FOLLOWING THIS METAPHOR ANYMORE. I'M NOT.

i love you. i've been feeling very disconnected from the people on the internet and i've definitely been noticing that scheduling myself up to the eyeballs with thing-making (and baby-Thinging) has meant that my usual chat-all-fucking-night on the internet with the people has taken a lower spot on the totem poll.

i miss that, and i miss it because my Thing-making headspace has traditionally been driven by a constant conversation with you, the listener. so i'm spending time pondering how to remedy this in the coming months. a lot of it also has to do with how segmented and fragmented my internet spaces have become. twitter is great but isn't what it used to be, and YOU'RE all over here. facebook is great for reaching in a certain way but facebook also sucks balls and not everybody is over there. patreon's system is still very 2002 and i wish we could use this blog, this system, this spot for discussion but it's very clonky and top-down and i don't find myself wanting to start bigger longer discussions here because the space doesn't connect back on itself (i can read and respond to 450 comments, but that's not like having a democratic conversation on the internet, and that's what i miss.). i keep toying with the idea of making a forum on a third party platform but i don't want you guys to have to make yet another identity and password. it's all SO ANNOYING.

meanwhile let's talk about THE ENJOYABLE THINGS OF LIFE.

that is, THE THINGS THE THINGS...here's a Thing Update.

1) the edward ka-spel record is still getting mixed by edward over in london and it's AMAZING. i'm just loving everything i'm hearing. we'll try to get a song ready for you for september. it's gonna be good.

2) THE SECRET ALL-NIGHT VIDEO we made last week is in the editing studio. the attached photo is of josephine, running among the many violins. there are so many beautiful stills from that night of shooting that i think i'll keep trickling them out at you as we get closer to releasing it. it's gonna be good.

3) i have another little surprise song in the works...a SUPER STUPID and wonderful jokey dance song i've been working on in the shadows with brendan maclean, an australian songwriter. it should be out soon. it's gonna be good.

4) AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST...i've been hunkered down for the past four days with my soul-sister, jason webley. i'm going to post about that tomorrow...but we're going into the studio to make something that hopefully we'll able to share with you super-soon. it's ALSO gonna be good and it's a long beautiful story how these particular songs came to be....so i need to take some time to tell it. i'll tell it once jason's gone and i can justify telling a story instead of Making the Things (but it's not a COMPLETE secret...because you may have already seen this on the internet in the past few days).

okay i love you. back to the songwriting cave with my friend

and so you know

i'm steeped in gratitude.

sometimes jason and i look at each other after i've fed the baby and he's off for a walk with his anti-nanny justine as we are sitting down in the morning to do our daily quota of songwriting and we say 

"holy shit. this is our JOB."

holy shit. this is our job. we are really lucky fucks, and i'm filled with gratitude...especially to you guys, who are all doing your small part to run the engine of our ability to sit down and put our hearts and brains into musical form.

i love you.

xx AFP

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