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re: my last post .... i made good on my self-challenge. 


it is 2:32 am. yesterday i wrote a rambling song. today Jason and I challenged each other to finish and record it. we started at 1 pm and it took all day. we did it. 


it's about 11 minutes long. 


bonus points:

we did it WITH THE BABY IN THE ROOM THE ENTIRE TIME, because Jason's house is one room and where else would the baby go. Jason manned the mics and protools rig. I love him. 


I just took this photo. if you look closely, you can see the baby. he slept during the most important takes. he is an awesome baby who understands the intricacies of the sonic universe. 


it is my longest most obnoxiously literal song I've ever written. it's not even a song. it's more like a blog in musical form. it's kind of ridiculous. that's fine. 


I will be thinging this baby. 

I mean thinging this thing. 

I mean babying this thing. 

I mean thingbing this babything. 

I mean you know what I mean. 

it needs a few finishing touches. 


I am proving Things to myself. 


im like a 50 year old man buying a Mazda Miata except I'm doing it with fuck you I'm 11 minutes long piano blog-songs. 


the future is nigh


I love you


time to take this actual baby to bed. 



xxxx

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Sally

You and Jason making art together makes my heart sing.

Kristine Lemler

Wee! Go Ash and Amanda. Love taking my little man on adventures.

Anonymous

I just watched you perform this in Everett. I loved it. It felt like listening to an old friend. All of us on Patreon who read every single line of every single post and watch every video and click through every link -- we know the people and lots of the moments you're talking about. Listening to it all in song form as you figure it out feels warm and intimate (in a way that I don't feel when I'm listening to Beyoncé, as inspiring as she is!). You are a wonderful mother and your artistry is obviously not suffering from having a baby around <3 (P.S. I'm in the crew that won the giraffle!) And tell Jason that it felt really good to stand up and shout "This, sir, is an outrage!"

Anonymous

You are my soul. No, I have my own soul. You have a direct dial button. You take me to places I cannot yet go unescorted. I am recently diagnosed high functioning autistic. My husband has undiagnosed Asperger's. I have lived alone for 35 years. I can't live in the polite world. I don't understand it all, but I trust you. I need you to do you. I don't fully know the depth of the hole that Bowie made in me, but you carry his torch. Thank you. I need you. I love you. Thank you for being you and being accessible and blazing the way. I'm a Patreon person who still doesn't really even get it. I know I need you in my life. I can't be bothered to listen to all the content you post, I just need you. Love, hugs, and thanks.

Romana Challans

Five kids later an din a wheelchair and I am still 100% me and being me and following those dreams to do so. You can journey wherever you want however you want. You are still Amanda Fucking Palmer. Just more so - you have added a layer. Like love and despair and loss and marriage and friendship and every big thing does. We are all the sum of our experiences. Bowie articulated that life journey so damn well.....

Kristine Eden

Thank you for this. It was- to many words to fit- it was - my heart leaps having been present for that- it was my first time SEEing you- (I lived in the boonies for five years)- it was - I can't believe I got to be there for that. You have my heart

Oscar F'n Wilde

Absolutely beautiful! It's a wondrous thing that this child gets so early to be wrapped in a warm cocoon of music, especially that his mother is in the process of creating.

Sienna Warecki

Honestly my favourite songs of yours are the super long/more rambly ones because they just sound like you talking while playing some music and there is something so stripped-down about that. <3