THE STATE OF ALL THINGS: August 4th, 2021 (Patreon)

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Hallo, everyone. I love you.

I am sad and I feel bad. You may be noticing that last month, we didn't post an Althing. That wasn't on purpose. It was a fat ol' MISTAKE because Amanda got distracted by her weekend of touring. It means we are out $17,000. That's what some goddamn people make in a YEAR. Shit happens. We'll survive. And anyway, the silver lining is that these posts are now geared to the start of the month, which is healthier for everyone. Running against the clock is never good.

I muse on my own failings and what these messages from the universe in the video, which also includes me reading from a biography of MC Escher, and crying....WHY? You'll have to watch. 

Before I go deeper....

Here's what's in this month's Althing roundup:

• WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO IN THE PAST MONTH
• PROJECTS RELEASED THIS MONTH
• WHAT'S COMIN' DOWN THE PIKE
• DISPATCHES FROM THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLES OF TEAM AFP
• HOW THE PATREON ITSELF IS DOING
• OTHER ARTISTS TO SUPPORT
• ART BEGETTING ART

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WHAT I'M UP TO...

Well, the best photo to sum up my state of mind at the moment is this beautiful photo Neil took of me two days ago. 

It was Sunday morning, I was exhausted from a 16-hour day with two shows on Saturday, and Neil and I started talking about the global Covid news, the climate crisis, and whether or not to head back to America.

Neil took this without telling me. 

He calls it "Amanda Faces the Future"

And that's about the whole of it.

I don't know.

I don't know where I'm going to be living in a month. Or two. Or three.

I just don't know.

I'm trying to simply live in the present, be a good mother, and stop trying to be the person with prediction that I am sued to being.

I'm saying no to everything.

I'm trying to breathe.

I'm trying to not let other people's expectations or opinions cloud my judgment, and I'm trying to put my child at the center of the story, where he belongs.

This is how I do that: I imagine, twenty years from now, what Ash would tell me he would have wanted me to do. For right now, I think he'd want to stay in New Zealand where he has guaranteed playdates that won't ever get cancelled, and where he never has to wear a mask, and where he never has to see another kid in a mask. For now, that's what I think. And for now, things in the states feel fragile. I want more infortantion, and that will only come with time. Both Neil and I are double-vaxxed, but Ash isn't. So we wait.

AS few weeks ago, Ash had his winter school holidays, so we trekked down to Queenstown, in the South Island, for a breather. This is us in Arrowtown....

And here we are on a family hike near Bob's Cove....

AND....THIS EXISTS IN THE WORLD...

AND....my favorite new town: 

Glenorchy. 

Population: 400.

Ash in Queenstown, on the bay...

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I barely worked for two weeks.

It felt good.

I think I might try to take more time down there.

The mountains did something good to my brain.

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THEN.....

I came back slammin'.

I did a very small TOUR this last weekend: a "Small Hall Crawl" here on my newly adopted  island-home of Waiheke.

The tickets went on sale first to patrons and locals (via email and text! OLD SKOOL), and last week I posted on social media. All four nights sold out, but the halls were TINY. The biggest fit 200 and the smallest, 80.

I'll do a big old post with lots of pictures soon, and shows #2 and #3 were professionally filmed with patron dollars, so that little mini-movie will hopefully come out soon and be thing'ed to delight you all. The shows were GREAT. SO GREAT. Small, intimate, new, old, real. I did some of the songs from There Will Be No Intermission, but mostly, I crafted an entirely new show for the locals - I talked a lot about what it feels like to be here, and how conflicted I am about whether to go home given all the delta news.

We had a pro photographer at the shows, Xander Charity, and the photos are still coming in....but for now, here's a wonderful shot of me and described  "Celtic Maori Witch" + drag queen Constance Maraj. 

Photo taken by my pal Simone Flight, who came up from Queenstown for the shows, bless her heart. Here's what I posted to instagram:

i haven’t posted for days because i just did four shows in a row and a whole goddamn beautiful patron party day and i am epically shattered but also my heart was pieced together slowly playing and singing for people again. my friend @simoneflight took this picture of me and @constancemaraj performing together on the last night of the small hall crawl…at rocky bay, no microphones, for a crowd of 80 in a space teeming with ghosts. i know i cried at least 4 times during the set. everything feels raw but i know this much: music is life and music heals. we are gonna be okay. my community here is holding me in the moment i need it, and that’s all that’s needed. being an artist is the most beautiful and joyous and wondrous thing on earth. i am a live wire, i am a love wire, with the help of my new art friends i have live love wired my new island home with a desperate telegram message from the bottom of my heart: here we are.

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Here we are in-fucking-deed.

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The tour, and a bit of my general life, also got a long, in-depth write-up in the Waiheke Weekender. I will never fantasize about being on the cover of Rolling Stone again.

I have arrived.

We posted up the whole article here on Patreon, you can read it here.

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Allan Amato also just shared this outtake from the There Will Be No Intermission album cover shoot...

I couldn't help but share it again. Here's what I posted on Instagram...

Grief. Respite. 

Or both. @allanamato just posted this beautiful shot from what wound up being the There Will Be No Intermission cover shoot at the Salton Sea, which is near Los Angeles…we drove out there one day while I was in the thick of recording the album. We only had about 30 minutes to shoot before the sun set. I was so deep inside the songs I was recording…The Ride, Voicemail for Jill, Death Thing, Drowning in the Sound…what a month that was. This could have easily been the album cover and worked. I still love this record so goddamn much. I created it, I wrote it, I recorded it, I toured it for a year. I never got to really end the tour because covid ate everything. It never ended. There was no intermission. We are still on stage, forever. Allan, your photography sings. Thank you. ♥️

And while we're talking about the album cover, I came across this from @kerryontherecord on Instagram. The art circle continues evermore... 

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And now, onto Patreon business....

PROJECTS RELEASED THIS MONTH

THE COUCH OF TRUTH WITH AMANDA PALMER: EPISODE ONE "SUICIDE & MENTAL HEALTH: THREE STORIES"

After sitting in editing purgatory for over 2 years, we finally put out the project that we filmed backstage at the Toronto show of the There Will Be No Intermission tour, back in March 2019.

It wound up being a 5-part series of short 10-minute episodes, where I sit down with members of this community and we talk about heavy shit. 

The first episode "Suicide & Sadness: Three Stories" was just put out. You can watch the video here, and read more about the creation and process behind the project in the big ol' Patreon post here.

The feedback has been AWESOME. Here's my favorite comment from someone named Daniel, on the youtube page:

I am in and have been in a rough place for a long time, right now.  And even with the help that's available to me, it's still rough.  And that's why seeing this, and hearing these stories is so important.  

Because it helps reinforce that I'm not alone.

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THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS.

To feel not alone.

I have been too strapped to promote the clip on social media, but am hoping to get to that ASAP. You can help me by going out and sharing it with your pals. Here's the direct youtube link. Go forth. Share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6681m0cH8mc

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WHAT'S COMIN' DOWN THE PIKE:

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Well, biggest and best.....The WAIHEKE SHOW FILMING.....with any luck, will be out in the next month.

also in the offing an overdue $10 webcast/Ask me Anything....

It's been a little while since we did a webcast for the $10 folks, but here's a heads up that we've got one pencilled in in a couple weeks. We'll be announcing it properly shortly, stay tuned....

These webcasts are normally really beautiful and really nourishing; it feeds my soul to be surrounded by this community. Bring your hankies.

I'll have my ukulele, I'll answer some questions, and I'll also probably pull some patrons up on screen to find out WHO you are, WHERE you are, HOW you are. It's a really beautiful and fun way to connect the community, and I've missed it. Sorry I've been so waylaid, but I've been deep in the momming and these shows.

If you're not in the $10 tier and you want to join, you can switch up your tier (and you can - and should - CAP YOUR PLEDGE to make sure you don't exceed your budget! CAP CAP CAP!!!)

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In terms of Thing Releases....

MORE COUCH OF TRUTH

The remaining Couch of Truth episodes should be winging their way to you over the next couple of weeks...

Miscarriage: Where Is The Hallmark Card?

Grief: And It's Going To Hurt

Abortion: Three Stories

Having A Kid... Or Not: Two Stories About Being Okay

**I was originally planning to release these in ONE GIANT CHUNCK....but 'm going to put up a poll tomorrow about whether or not you guys feel okay about these being thing'ed weekly. To make up for the shortfall of the missed Althing, I may try to do that.**

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And the great Abortion Podcast Series rumbles on. Here's an update from Kelly about how it's going:

Having spent the last couple of months gathering intel and contributions from some incredible people, Fannie & I were really excited to get in a Zoom room with Amanda and start recording some audio. 

This was our first opportunity to hear and feel how the scripting we'd worked on would sound and whether it would come alive in the way we hoped.

It was a moment. 

If this didn't work - the words didn't scan, the energy was wrong, the tone off balance - it would be a huge blow. You can plan the hell out of a project but if the chemistry isn't there, there's nothing you can do about it.

Then of course Amanda Palmer blows in from taking Ash to school mid text message, which she read aloud to us as she's composing it. "Don't forget to bring the toaster," she tells an unnamed correspondent, and Fannie and I nod, mindful we have barely an hour.

TL:DR She smashed it out of the park, Fannie got it all on tape, and I styled out the emotional ride of watching an artist making words and ideas soar in the moment by slipping into a fugue and losing my place in the script repeatedly. A true pro.

Thanks for your patience on this. It's been a longer project than anyone anticipated but it's gonna be more than we could have hoped for. We can't wait to share it with you.

Love, 

Kelly

{I LOVE YOU KELLY. SORRY LIFE IS SO WEIRD BUT DAMMIT WE ARE DOING A THING. -afp}

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And the eternal list of bubbling-away projects on the backburner...

• The Look Mummy, No Hands music video & documentary....
• Tasmania Confession Booth documentary...
• Michael Dunaway's documentary from the There Will Be No Intermission tour...

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AND MAYBE....

A NEW SONG.

YES.

....for those of you who are like WE LOVE YOU TALKING ABOUT SHIT AMANDA BUT MUSIC PLEEEZE.....i started and finished a brand new song. The deadline of the Waiheke shows kicked my ass and it's done and really, really good and (sorry) really, really sad.

The working title is "The Ballad of The New York Times". It's about doom-scrolling. It's fucking really sad. And happy. And Awful.

("Doomscrolling", by Charles Deluvio & Romolo Tavani)

With any luck, I'll record a demo of it this month, or I might even use the live recording from Morra Hall as the demo and send it to y'all.

But the main things is I AM WRITING AGAIN and it feels very, very good. I hadn't written a song in a year.

Part of it is because I don't have a full piano at my place. I'm working on getting one,

I wrote the song....at a friend's house on Waiheke. Not bad.

I wrote a little post about it, for the $5 patrons (to try to keep her home at least semi-private?)

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DISPATCHES FROM THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLES OF TEAM AFP

From Jordan, manager extraordinaire:

Greetings from Marrickville South, Sydney, NSW. I am in week five of lockdown joy, another three to go. 

Very boring. It’s nothing new for any of us by now, but it is with great sadness that I look back on how well Sydney did with keeping the virus at bay and where we are now. The Government has just discharged 300 soldiers from the Australian Defence Force to “help” us with the lockdown in the 8 Local Government Areas most affected. 

Hmmmmm…. I read the news today, oh boy… 

I can’t help but to be jealous seeing all my friends in the US & Europe posting their tours and festival line-ups. I sincerely hope that it all actually happens and happens safely with minimal future consequence. Really though, this whole pandemic business is tired and boring and I just can’t wait to get it past us. It’s touched us all, and I have nothing but sympathy and empathy for those affected deeply and painfully. 

Well, dear Patrons – I hope that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you are finding joy in your lives and relationships. Being inspired by books, music, nature, cities, animals, shadows, wherever you find your zone to see and feel the beauty in the world and have a moment of reflection…I hope it is easily accessible to you. 

Thank you, as always for supporting Amanda and therefore supporting us all at Team AFP financially. 

These past 16 months would have been very different without you. I am deeply grateful.

And as it goes I cheers you from my porch, as I drink some good Australian Whisky (Lark, from Tasmania) and listen to some searing African Guitar Rock (Mdou Moctar, Niger).

{Oh Jordan....here's hoping the goddamn lockdown doesn't get extended again. You're a trooper and your constant optomistic attitude is one of my favorite things in life. Love to your whole fam....xx AFP}

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From Michael, my assistant in NYC:

Hello Patrons,

Once again, it feels like I was just writing to you last week. . . the ride spins round once more. . .

My last missive was quite lengthy and got a bit deep so this month I’ll just give you a few quick highlights of my July, which was pretty light with work and very full of family and fun!

Here in the states the beginning of July is usually full of celebrations for the 4th of July, which for better or for worse does cause work to really slow down as so many people take holidays around this time, myself included.  My daughter was visiting for her summer holidays, but now that she’s a working teenager we only had a few weeks together before she had to get back to her job.  I spent the first couple of weeks keeping up to date with all the Team AFP emails, but mostly enjoying our time together being a couple of couch potatoes and binging some great TV shows and movies.

In the middle of the month my daughter and I drove up to Connecticut to visit my family and so I could celebrate my 5 year anniversary with my partner, Cricket.  

Here the three of us are in beautiful downtown Mystic after having an amazing dinner at my brother’s restaurant.

Then my daughter hit the road for Michigan to meet up with my other partner EJ and their family to celebrate the wedding of their younger sister, which happened back in 2020 when we couldn’t all be together.  

Cricket was able to fly out as well and the four of us were together as a family, which always makes me incredibly happy.  I was hoping to share some family photos with you all, but they haven’t come back yet (I’ll be sure to post them next month), so in the meantime, here’s a picture of me with just one of the amazing pups (there were many) that I was able to snuggle while I was there. . .

Then, after dropping my daughter off at home on the drive back to New York, I was asked to fill in for a dear friend and play with the amazing Salt Cracker Crazies at the fantastic Blues Club, Terra Blues.  The SCC are a old-timey Jug Band playing songs mostly from the 20’s & 30’s and I’m always honored to be asked to pluck the ol’ washtub bass while we have a great time!  

It was a little weird being on stage again after so long, but it at the same time, it felt like I was finally back home.

Here we are during sound-check, (photo-credit to our incredible banjo player, Joe Jung.)

And that just about wraps up my July!  I hope you’re all staying safe and as sane as possible in these ever changing times.

As always, love and hugs,

Michael

{Dearest Michael....it is so good to see you BEING OUT IN THE WORLD AGAIN. Soak in up and let's hope it sticks....and I'm so glad you got some good quality fam time!!!! xxx AFP}

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From Alex, Merch Queen-slash-Patreon Architect:

HI KIDS.

The month of July has been rolling along nicely, we're still fairly quiet but things they are a-brewing behind the scenes. 

First up, Art In The Mail is chugging along nicely - the signed letters from Amanda arrived with me in there UK. These are then being inserted in super fancy beautiful art-cards, so cue me spending several hours assembling and sealing cards....

(and yes, that is the infamous disco ball from the 2019 uk/european tour inside a box that is currently doubling up as an assembly table. I'M STILL TRYING TO WORK OUT HOW TO HANG A HEAVY DISCO BALL WITHOUT PULLING OUR OLD VICTORIAN CEILING DOWN!!!!)

and in case you've been following and were wondering, WE MANAGED TO GET AFP MONOGRAM WAX SEALS.

And speaking of Art In The Mail, guess what else turned up.....

PUZZLESSSSS!!!!!

We're currently waiting for the US shipment to arrive in the US warehouse (which should be in the next couple of weeks) and then these babies will be MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE ART IN THE MAIL PATRONS. (as a reminder, art in the mail is opt-in only, we send out a google form when we're producing the art and you need to fill in the form to receive the art!!!!!! if you are in the $25 tier or above and you missed the google form for these, which was sent out at the end of may, email patronhelp@amandapalmer.net and we'll see what we can do for you...)

And once we've given the Art In The Mail patrons a couple weeks to assemble their magnificent puzzle tits, we'll be putting a limited number of these up for sale exclusively to patrons. So all being well, look out for that happening by the end of August....

IN OTHER NEWS.....

I've also been helping to prep the release of the Couch of Truth videos this month. We start putting together Thing release posts in advance, so that there isn't a last-minute scramble to assemble everything. 

This means that sometimes we have to use quite a bit of placeholder text until we have final cuts to screenshots and links to share etc:

And hey, look at this, BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING YOU AND IF YOU EVEN MENTION TAKING YOUR CLOTHES OFF IN A POST, WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO:

thanks big brother patreon.

In other personal exciting news, I got to work at a LIVE GIG this month!! An actual, real life live show. As some of you probably know, I am not a monogamous Merch Queen, I hawk my services out to a few different artists, one of whom is the excellent Grace Petrie, who I've been working with for about 3 years now. She played her first official post-lockdown show a couple weeks back in Nottingham, a lovely outdoor show in an arboretum, the sun was shining, we were outdoors without everyone breathing their germs on each other, and it felt so, so, so, so lovely to be back behind a merch table again, and most importantly to hear live music being played right in front of me, and not just streamed through headphones and laptop speakers. 

(ps Grace is also gearing up for an album release that should be going live for pre-orders very soon, so if you're a fan of queer folk music you should go follow her, and I will probably shout about the album for you all next month :)) 

UNTIL NEXT TIME......

it's goodbye from me, and it's goodbye from this very cute jumper that was advertised to me on facebook and i thought it might be a scam but it turns it was legitimate and it is just very huge on me. 

-alex

xoxo

{We love you MERCH QUEEN!!!! So good to see you out and about and in new sweaters. Thank you for everything you've been bringing to the patreon, and to our lives...xx AFP}

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From Kelly, our podcast editor/copywriter/general helper:

It’s been a strange month here in England. July 19th was pitched as ‘Freedom Day’ - the first significant lifting of COVID restrictions in quite some time - but rising infections and hospitalisations made this feel a little early to drop our masks and launch ourselves back onto the club scene. Ahem.

Things got a little fraught. The racist backlash three of our footballers received from their own fans after missing decisive penalties in the European Championships was shocking, and being a sensitive soul it flattened me for a few days. England being largely terrible at the national game for the last fifty years has at least given us the comfort of knowing if we did win something, we’d all forget our differences and come together as one to celebrate. Naive perhaps, but sport is essentially a fairytale for grown-ups and in the tradition of all the best fairytales, it gets way darker and more traumatic than you anticipated.

Like Amanda and a lot of you guys, I process trauma through art and writing a couple of essays about these events made me feel better. If you want to read them there’s a link here. 

Suffice to say, the angry people are very angry. 

They have good reason to be, perhaps, but getting angry back isn’t going to resolve anything. Answer back with love, like the people of Manchester did when a mural of Marcus Rashford was defaced. They covered the abusive words with flowers and notes to the twenty-three year old, who last year embarrassed the government into making sure kids had enough to eat during the pandemic.

You see? We’re a baffling nation. Even we’re baffled.

Elsewhere, I’ve been enjoying rural English life by watching farmers operate big machines in a field near my house. I was desperate to climb this stack of bales but didn’t because the abortion podcast still needs some work and I haven’t got time to go to hospital. They eventually collapsed but it was nothing to do with me.

Finally, if you’re looking for some recommendations, this is what I’ve been loving lately.

Music: Chaise Longue by Wet Leg. Honestly. Just follow the link and watch them.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9jeJk2UHQ

TV: Lady Parts on All4 in the UK and NBC Peacock. An all female Muslim punk band try to recruit a nervous lead guitarist so they can all express themselves freely on stage. Voldemort Under My Headscarf is arguably their best song but I’m open to discussion.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPqzoAjxvl4

Podcasts: Do Go On. Three Australian comedians pick a subject, one of them prepares a report about it and reads it aloud while the other two heckle. If you like informative humorous comedy that wanders off topic but still somehow gets there, this is for you. https://dogoonpod.com/

Film: The Human Voice, directed by Pedro Almodovar and starring Tilda Swinton. My two word review? Tilda Swoon-ton. That’s it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lGM39dKuY

{Thank you Kelly....for all the doom-and-art-holes I will now go down....xx AFP}

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HOW THE PATREON ITSELF IS DOING....

As of this writing there are 12,480 patrons pledging about $40,390 for the first Thing each month.

The patreon stats are, if you've been following, generally going DOWN by a few hundred patrons and a few thousand bucks every month. We are slowing, but not precipitously. It is to be expected when I'm flailing, momming and not touring, and not promoting anything....and also not putting out content that is hitting a new audience. So I'm not too worried, and as long as we make enough each month to keep the lights on, the staff, paid, the bills paid, the rent paid...we're okay.

I go over this stuff in every Althing, but if you're new to all this: patreon charges you monthly & retroactively, meaning that you get billed on the 1st of the month for all the Things released the month prior.

Because people have their pledges capped (HOW MANY TIMES CAN I SAY THIS....if you are on a budget, you should cap your pledge please: here's the tutorial again), the first "Thing" raises the most money by far, and anything released thereafter raises less and less. I LIKE THIS! THIS IS GOOD! It means I never feel too guilty!!!!!. So really. Please, cap your pledge if you are on a budget.

The numbers below are gross. Not net. Meaning: it's the money raised before fees were deducted by patreon and is not the total deposited to me. patreon takes a 5% fee (which they use to build and sustain the platform, which is GOOD) and then there's a payment processing fee, which varies on a ton of factors and is usually between 5-9% of the total collected.

Also, none of this reflects the money I SPENT MAKING THE ART, running the business, paying the office rent, paying for crowdcast, getting myself around, getting the team around and fed and slept, all the collaborators, and my actual staff payroll, etc.

I don't share that level of nitty-detail-stuff with you because I assume it would bore you to fucking tears. but you can trust me: paying for a full-time staff, office, manager, accountant, and massive team of art-collaborators ain't cheap. sometimes we barely break even, especially when we do a lot of charity projects.

We now have the numbers in from JUNE.

Back in June, I Thanged 3 Things:

1. AFP In Conversation with Catherine Robertson, my second talk from the Auckland Writers Festival, was the first Thing and it earned about $47,762 from 12,813 patrons

2. "Getting Strangled As Gracefully As Possible, or A Year In The Belly of the Whale", a long-form piece of written I published on Medium, was the second Thing and it earned about $19,323 from 7,045 patrons

3. The State of All Things: June 2021 was the third Thing of the month, and it earned about $11,313 from 4,329 patrons.

(we say "about" because patreon may be still trying to process some pledges that have yet to go through...we never know, you know.)

Them's the numbers.

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OTHER ARTISTS TO SUPPORT

PATRICK DEXTER

I came across this one completely by accident the other day, when I tweeted, and Patrick replied.....

I ended up on a rabbit hole listening to his beautiful music, and became a patron, and now I encourage you all to, as well....IT'S SO PRETTTTTY......

https://www.patreon.com/patrickdexter 

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GAELYNN LEA

Gaelynn is incredible - she won the NPR Tiny Desk concert in 2016, and has been a touring musician ever since (and our paths crossed at SXSW back in 2019)

Since COVID hit, she's taken the time to start writing a book about her experiences as a disabled touring artist.....SUPPORT IF YOU CAN!

https://www.patreon.com/gaelynnlea 

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our own JACK NICHOLLS:

Some of you will remember Jack from the amazing reporting they did during the European leg of the There Will Be No Intermission tour.

They’re locked down over in Australia, and will be giving a talk in Victoria, Melbourne next week, along with my other patreon friend Laurie Penny.

From their newsletter:

After a brief reading from my new fiction, I will be in conversation with my friend, the excellent and award-winning British writer Laurie Penny (you may have recently seen Laurie’s work on The Haunting of Bly Manor or The Nevers). We’ll talk about science fiction and the strangeness of the world today, take questions, and then everyone can have a drink and look out at the city towers glittering across the river. The audience numbers have to be strictly capped, so if you are interested make sure you book a ticket at:

https://footscrayarts.com/event/jack-nicholls-author-event/

I’d also really strongly recommend signing up to Jack’s newsletter. They only send one out every couple of months or so, and they’re always insightful and funny. Jack’s a great writer.

And if you want to catch up on the pieces they wrote for the tour, along with photographs by Gaby Motola (also on patreon, see below), here ya go:

Part 1 - Us and Them 

Part 2 - Revolutions 

Part 3 - The Art of Asking About Abortion 

Part 4 - Safe Spaces 

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GABY MOTOLA

And while we're speaking of Gaby... her Patreon is over at www.patreon.com/gmotophotos, and she is constantly putting out beautiful work.

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ART BEGETTING ART

As usual....we love to see art from the community inspired by the work... please always share on social media, tag me, and/or email to art@amandapalmer.net!

Here's some beautiful things from this month...

From @backwithacapitalh via instagram:

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Apparently the Art of Asking book-cover photo is nice to riff off, look.

From @festivmotha via instagram:

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From @sweetbaphomet via instagram:

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And from @verilyvexed, via instagram:

My face, staring back at me, reminds me to take the blanket off my head.

THANK you all for supporting me, bearing with me, holding my team while we continue to go through these strange moments.

The ride continues.

I love you.

xxx

AFP

p.s. if you made it all this way, watched the video, and still need to know who MC Escher is...here you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher

------THE NEVER-ENDING AS ALWAYS---------

1. if you are a patron and new to my work, don’t forget your patronage allows you access to ALL of my patreon releases to date. HERE is the link to download my latest big solo record, “There Will Be No Intermission”, and HERE is a link to download the PDF of the art/essay book that goes with it.

2. if you’re a patron reading this post via an email notification, please click through to comment on this post. at the very least, if you’ve read it, indicate that by using the heart symbol. that's always nice for me to see, so i know who's reading.

3. see All the Things (over 150 of them) i've made so far on patreon:

http://amandapalmer.net/things

4. JOIN THE SHADOWBOX COMMUNITY FORUM, find your people, and discuss everything: https://forum.theshadowbox.net/

5. new to my music and TOTALLY OVERWHELMED? TAKE A WALK THROUGH AMANDALANDA….we made a basic list of my greatest hits n stuff (at least up until a few years ago, this desperately needs updating) on this lovely page: http://amandalanda.amandapalmer.net/

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