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i just wrote this piece about nick cave for the guardian... (Patreon)

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2016-09-10 18:20:57
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2023-04

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hi guys....

fuck i'm tired. but i Did a Thing.

i just wrote this yesterday and this morning, for The Guardian. it's been a few years since i wrote any Real Journalism but i was so incredibly moved - uprooted, really - by Nick Cave's documentary that i came home form the film, thought and thought, woke up inspired, asked the guardian arts guys if i could write something. then they said yes and then i was FUCKED, because i had to do it. so instead of spending yesterday doing all the things i said i was going to do (clean my room! do the dishes! answer my emails! write the introductions i've promised people!) i drank coffee and tried to Actally Write a Thing.

it's the first time, post-baby, i've sat down and tried to form a long, coherent set of thoughts. it was really, really hard. and last night, ash wouldn't sleep, and i kept trying to make sentences that worked, and they just wouldn't form, and i thought: THIS IS IT. THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. I WILL NEVER HAVE A BRAIN AGAIN. i almost chucked out the whole article this morning. but i didn't. it's rambling, but it's from the heart.

please please read it. and please please share it especially with your fellow writers and songwriters and art-makers - it's a good read for artists in general.

special thanks to justine for taking me to the film, to holly for babysitting, and to neil...who offered to edit this fucker last night at 1 am. i am blessed. neil and i used to do a lot more of reading each other's work and editing for each other before baby-times. it's nice to feel that again. i feel a littler realer.

here it be:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/10/nick-cave-skeleton-tree

....ok now i swear to god i'm going to do the dishes

oh AND - you've got real-ass new music coming your way in a few days, ,care of me and jason webley, we'll be releasing the sketch-songs we wrote for "jib" and offering limited vinyl of the EP. 

reading this piece will help put that into context. the fact that jason sat down with me and we kicked each other's asses into writing was a huge deal, and know you'll understand a little more about Why.


xxxx


a


p.s. US TOUR IS ALMOST 100% SOLD OUT!! chicago just blew out and there are scant tickets left for everything else. so so happy. thank you all for spreading the word.

Files

Nick Cave's gift: a skeleton key that unlocks the source of songwriting

Last night I went to see One More Time With Feeling, by accident, with Justine, the French goth-rock anti-nanny who's been helping me taking care of Ash while I try to write songs for a new record. I've been struggling with the mystery of how to juggle everything. I'm a bit lost.

Comments

Anonymous

Thanks Amanda for writing this. At first, I was like "His kid died, why are you comparing being tired to that?" and then I read further and realized that we all come to whatever piece of art with whatever we have in our pain box. Pain for everyone is very real, and I think it's bold for Nick to really expose that as an artist. It's definitely not narcissistic in any way, shape or form. I think we as artists always expose a little bit of ourselves to that, but the world we live in right now wants everything to be nice and clean. Wants everything to be clinical. Your husband said it best! Make Good Art! Whenever you want to work, make good art. Child falls off a cliff, Make good art. I could never imagine my worst nightmares realized with one of my two littles facing that. The horror. But I think that's what Nick does best. Shows us the horror. Thanks for writing and sharing. Your friends, Starr.

Anonymous

Great article about grief, art, and artists. I shared it.

Anonymous

I love this piece so much. Thank you.

Anonymous

Beautiful! This, right here, gave me all the feels: "We cannot “make sense” of anything, really, although we can plod forth with our stupid little notebooks and paints and guitars, with our pathetically small little mirror-shards of offered reflections to one another, showing the poetic debris we’ve managed to harvest from our suffering." Wow, love. You're awesome. Even with baby brain. ;) xoxo

Anonymous

Thank you for this. Heartbroken after loosing a friend I held dear to my heart this year (right before valentine's day) I've stopped making art and ate and drank myself into an unrecognizable blob of self pitty. On morning 7 of a "cleanse" these words bring strength to get up and put on pants to keep moving forward. I had no idea about Nick Caves' loss. Fuck you pain and loss. I will smile and keep living and making. Thanks for the inspiration Amanda. You are a wonderful mother and human.. and artist.... and thank you Nick Cave. Love-Bob

Anonymous

I'm not a fan of Nick Cave's at all, in fact I don't think I'd know any of his songs if I was asked, but this made me want to see the film and hear his music. Well done for writing something and I'm excited about hearing the Jib music!

Anonymous

The "JIB" vinyl is already on sale through Jason's website. Limited to 1,111 and shipping in December.

Anonymous

I'm sorry you have to deal with this shit, Amanda. That guy doesn't get that he's doing the very thing he is accusing you of. "Look at ME! I have a subjective opinion about Amanda Palmer (and it's personal), based on my own point of view and life experience! Sincerely, C.C. O'Hanlon." Peace be with you, Mr. O'Hanlon, don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you.

Anonymous

Amanda, this is one of the best pieces you've written. Beautiful. Because of it, I'm going to see the film if it's playing anywhere near where I am. ...And because of it, I'm going to write more. I'm careful with people too, and I censor a lot. I've wondered, at times, if that self-censorship was killing me. It's definitely killing my art. I understand what you mean about his bearing so much and it still seeming like a selfless act. So many thoughts and I'm too tired to put them to words properly, but thank you. And don't stress about the haters. As a dog once told me when I was high in Amsterdam: "Some people are never going to get it, no matter what you do." Come to think of it, everything that goddamn dog told me was true.

Anonymous

" A reminder that any pain of any size can be transmuted into a gift of art. We cannot “make sense” of anything, really, although we can plod forth with our stupid little notebooks and paints and guitars, with our pathetically small little mirror-shards of offered reflections to one another, showing the poetic debris we’ve managed to harvest from our suffering." I just read this twice and am sitting here crying, boy did this hit hard. This article is beautiful, raw, and inspiring, as always I truly admire your honesty. Especially with haters always lurking, and i honestly feel odd saying 'sorry for the haters', because i'm not. Without them, there criticism and negative energy, you wouldn't have the inspiration to be louder, to create more, to cross the lines stripped and bare and say 'you see me, and I you." I am sorry the haters make you doubt yourself, make you box yourself in afraid to pick up a pen and write, or strike a few chords and belt out a song. Don't let them silence you or back you into a corner, you have over 9000 folks paying to support you, which doesn't include the other thousands of fans who just adore you. Sing louder, sing for the haters, sing for the critics, sing &lt;3

Anonymous

Off to write... After my first trip to the USA experiencing The Dresden Dolls, Action Bronson and the new Nick Cave poetry in pictures, sounds and words, one broken right foot later reading this now is just beautiful. One more time with feeling was by the end of my trip, an amazing experience mixed with confusion about viewers who would leave during the endtitles. Judging them undoubtably. It did hit me quite hard this source of nick cave inspiration and i couldn't and wouldn't want to understand why anybody else except narcissistic me couldn't and wouldn't soak it up inside their systems. Till the very end. Forgetting that everybody has a different approch and processing. And that's what makes art for me. Watching a process. So the show was a show in itself. And to feel that is in lack of other english words just beautiful and amazing. Wait I just found sth else. Hauntingly beautiful. I'll end with that. Thanks for writing this AP.

Anonymous

Interesting piece...can't wait to read! Thank you.