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Thanks-Giving, the patron-only BURNING-THINGS-PUZZLE, and a huge merch sale.... (Patreon)

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Hello my loves.

TL;DR...with a much longer post below:

-I love you and am grateful to all of you. But you knew that.

- There's a sale running across both the US AFP store and the UK AFP store, we've discounted a whole bunch of stuff from 15% off up to 30% off. (both stores ship worldwide, but shipping costs vary!)

- There's an EXTRA 10% discount code for patrons - the discount code is NOVEMBERPATRONS in ALL CAPS. You enter this code when you get to checkout, and BOOM another 10% - on tiop of the discounted merch - will magically come off your order!! :)

- We have a brand-new PATRON-ONLY puzzle for sale - featuring the "All The Things" image from the "There Will Be No Intermission" book cover....dark things that once belonged to many of you (...they have yet to be burned. pandemic. See Below.) The puzzle is $25 / £20, and available exclusively to patrons. You will once again need to use the access code NOVEMBERPATRONS (all caps again) to access it. (note: the 10% discount code will not be valid for the puzzle, since it's only available to patrons we just priced it fairly cheap for you, hooray :)) Find the puzzle here in the US, and here in the UK.

......

AND NOW.

Hello loves....

If you're in the US, happy early Thanks-Giving Day. 

I know I just threw up my "basic bitch" post, but I also have some business to attend to today before I totally clock off and break bread & veg with all my ex-pats and kiwis. 

I'm feeling very strange and nostalgic...this is my SECOND thanksgiving (and soon-to-be-christmas) away from home. I even miss my OLD home-away-from-home-family in Hawke's Bay (hi, Kya). 

So many facets and levels of displacement and homesickness...I know a lot of you may be going through that too, right now, as well. 

I'm also feeling deeply calm. I've accepted it all. We do what we gotta do with what we got. Then we do it.

Meanwhile....the kitchen is full throttle:

I hope that .wherever you are, and whoever you're with, whether you're American, European, African, Australian....WHATEVER....I hope you're able to step back for a moment of gratitude every once in a while. 

Maybe even...right now. I am feeling it in spades. And, as usual, extremely grateful to all of you for making my life possible.

I love you.

Thank you. 

...................

AND NOW....in the FUN ANNOUNCEMENTS DEPARTMENT.....

THE PUZZLE....it's a rare, odd piece of beautiful merch that I envisioned, made available several months ago to the Art-In-The-Mail patrons.

The full story....

If you've been paying attention to the cadence of my posts and work lately, you've probably noticed that I'm s l o w i n ggggg down. 

I'm tired. Y'all....I'm really, really, really tired. I am not BAD, I am just, like many of you, I think...depleted. 

Exhausted. 

But I am also trying to savor the sweetness of being able to "be" exhausted....without terror. There is no terror; my staff is safe, my bills are covered by this patreon, my kid is not in danger....all that.

I was supposed to retreat and rest after the epic-as-anything 2019 tour. The tour was supposed to end in Mid-March 2020. In New Zealand.

Eighty shows. A four-hour stage show. Signings. Non-stop traveling. Campaigning for abortion rights every night. Patron gigs. I was so, so, so ready to go home. Then I was thrown from the frying pan of tour into the fire of a  relationship meltdown amidst a pandemic lockdown, single-mothering with no clue as to when the reprieve would come, all whuile navigating a foreign country where I knew almost nobody. 

All at once. 

I'm so tired.

You may notice that a lot of the work coming out over the next few months is "CATCH-UP" work.

I've been working on the "Look Mummy No Hands" video for SO LONG NOW....and the Tasmnai Documantary. And now the Abortion Podcast....which is actually a Frankenstein Art Project that grew out of interviews I put in the shoebox over three years ago..

I am piecing it all together.

A lot of things in my life  - and our lives - need piecing back together.

My relationships, my family, my body.

My community.

That last one is hard. I wanted so badly to spend the last year and half nurturing this community. Nurturing the friendships that got undernourished while I toured.

It just wasn't on the cards.

And in a roundabout way....that's why this piece of art-that's-also-merchandise means so much to me, poetically.

I've wanted to make a puzzle - ANY PUZZLE - for over TEN YEARS. 

It's always been a puzzle (ba-doom) to me WHAT image to use, and when to do it.

With the help of the whole team, especially Alex in the UK, well.....we've finally made it:

Alex's photo of the puzzle pieced it together completely.....

Now..

You may be thinking that I have just always wanted the opportunity to be stark nekkid on a puzzle. And while that really is a lovely side-effect of this puzzle, it's about a lot more.

This photo was taken as a possible album cover during the shoots for There Will Be No Intermission - and it wound up being the cover of the hardcover patron edition of the Artbook that went along with the album. It was taken by Kahn & Selesnick featuring me sprawled out among all the little things/possessions that were mailed to me by patrons (you can read that post HERE). I promised to burn all the things that were sent. People sent hundreds of things: letters, books, clothes, wedding rings, adoption papers, dolls, necklaces....everything you could imagine. Things to burn.

Here are some photos I took the day of that shoot.....

Here's Coco, standing (lying?) in for me:

Oh my loves....

I still haven't burned it. 

It's waiting, at my house. Memories to release. Pain to vanish.

All our pain.

My life still isn't pieced together.....far from it. 

That's about to happen. It's on the docket.

The Great-Thing Burning was meant to happen before I left for tour. There was a moment there where it was even a scripted scene in the Drowning in the Sound video, but that didn't happen. I didn't want to burn the Things without a grand ceremony, at least a bonfire that I could record.

Tour called. I put it off. 

And then....you know what happened, the pandemic, New Zealand. Time, stuckness. I'm here.

The Things are neatly stored in New York, and when the time is ripe and I am back in the states, the Great Thing Burning will happen.

And the Great Piecing Back Together of my life will happen.

I want you all there with me.

I've become almost superstitious.

Maybe the pandemic happened because I didn't make time to burn the past?

Maybe not.

At any rate....you can help me now.

If I can't burn it, I can make it into a goddam puzzle. So that's what I did.

You may recognize some of your past here.

I promise, I PROMISE!!!!!!!!! I'll burn it.

But first, it's a puzzle.

....................

Again: The puzzle is ONLY available to patrons. Since it's kind of a weird thing, we wanted to make it limited edition. And since the items are so personal, and have so many stories attached, and came directly FROM YOU GUYS, we wanted this to be a special thing just for you.

The link to access the puzzle is here:

US STORE 

UK STORE 

And the password to access it in both stores is 'NOVEMBERPATRONS' (in all-caps), and don't forget you can also use this same code at the checkout to get 10% off anything else in the store (excluding the puzzle!) (NOTE: this code is *only* valid for the AFP stores, not the Dresden Dolls stores!)

I hope that the puzzle gets into the hands of some of the people whose objects are pictured here. It feels like it will mean something.

To me.

To you.

To us.

I love you.

And thank you all, for supporting me through the hardest year of my life. 

I'm only just starting to understand.

xxxx

A


P.S. WHEN YOU GET YOUR PUZZLE....please feel free to USE IT CREATIVELY!!! Make something out of the pieces. MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF YOUR PIECE, if you can find your piece. Make a time-lapse. Make Jewelry out of the puzzle. GO NUTS. I LOVE YOU

------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/

6. general AFP/patreon-related questions? ask away, someone will answer: patronhelp@amandapalmer.net

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Mike Angus

THANK YOU for the puzzle! Love it so v much. Is it too late to send you something to burn when you finally light the fire?

Poppy Ascención

How long will the the puzzle be available to purchase? I don’t have the money right now to afford it sadly.

Rachel Hubbard

I feel really ambivalent about this puzzle. There’s something in it from my family, something we want, need to move on from and it feels like it still exists. It’s still out there, on the cover of the art book that I do have a copy of and now on a puzzle. I don’t think I mind it being out there with other people but I do struggle with the idea of buying another version of it to be in our house when this is something of our past that we are actively working to move on from. The burning though. If you were ever to make a puzzle, a print, art of whatever kind, from all the things burning, that I would love to keep.

Bethany Olson

When the “look mummy” video comes out prepare to receive some seriously emotional meltdown awesome love and screams from me. That song breaks me every time.

Amber LaParne

You’ve done amazing. We are all so proud of you ❤️❤️❤️🙌

Pedro B. Gorman

Dear Amanda, This is pertaining to your Tooth-Fairy voiceramble, as I had to retroactively catch up but really wanted you to read this; I have yet to read the posts after that, I’ve been, well…LIFE-ingly busy. :))) I will cross post this to the Shadowbox, as I think it may be a good read for all of us connected to you :) Pre-Scriptum: Please forgive typos, my bluetooth keyboard must be running outta juice, and has decided to take a vemgeance (see what I mean?) on all words with an N or na M for that matter. I have corrected where possible, but it is nearly 5 am Portugal time, and I arrived from work two hours ago. This voiceramble…? What a lesson, my dear friend. As with most of your Patreon communiqués, there is an odd synchronicity with my own thoughts at any given moment. Perhaps it is projection, perhaps a testament to an AllThing interconnectedness—who knows? Certainly not I! But am feeling so blessed!!!! Thank you immeasurably for the Victor Frankl recommendation. I paused your voiceramble to read his preface before buying the book. It is so true that in the (apparently) senseless maws of bigger-picture nature, our sense of control and meaning lies precisely in the attitudes we choose to adopt. As someone who has struggled with depression and addiction, this has never been more clear than now. Today, and perhaps because I am in an existential conundrum of a life reboot of sorts, I was reading the very brilliant and elucidating philosopher Alain de Botton’s “The School of Life: an Emotional Education,” which, if you don’t yet know, I HIGHLY reccomend, and this passage stuck out. Wanna know why? Because it made me feel so…NORMAL (yes, that overrated word). Here is the passage I was reading BEFORE I checked up on what you were up to, and, which ultimately REMINDED me of you and made me check on you. Because it made me remember the state you were in when you took to the stage in Teatro Circo in Braga, Portugal, in Novemeber 2019 (doesn’t that seem a lifetime away?!) How you had not slept due to the anxiety over things you could not control following Guardian-gate-kerfuffles. To quote you on that night (I recorded a bootleg for my own emjoyment): “How many of you know what just happened in my life in the past couple of days?” Very few of us raised our hands. “You can’t imagine how relieved I am by that, but because I’m me, I feel I should tell you.” We laughed. Nad you shared your pain over (once again) being grossly misinterpreted in & by the media. So, my darling, I leave you with these wise, wise words from Alain de Botton: they reminded me to check in on you! “ANXIETY Anxiety is not a sign of sickness, a weakness of the mind or na error for which we should always seek a medical solution. It is mostly a hugely reasonable nad sensitive response to the genuine strangeness, terror, umcertainty nad riskiness of existence. Anxiety is our fundamental state for well-founded reasons: because we are intensely vulnerable physical beings, a complicated network of fragile organs all biding their time before eventually letting us down catastrophically at a moment of their own choosing; because we have insufficient information upon which to make most major life decisions; because we can imagine so much more than we have and live in ambitious mediatized societies where envy and restlessness are constant; because we are the descendants of the great worriers of the species, the others having been trampled nad torn apart by wild animals; because we still carry in our bones—into the calm of the suburbs—the terrors of the savannah; because the trajectories of our careers nad of our finances are plotted within the tough-minded, competitive, destructive, random workings of an uncontained economic engine; because we rely for our self-esteem and comfort on the love of people we cannot control and whose needs and hopes will never align seamlessly with our own. […] Anxiety is simply insight that we haven’t yet found a productive use for, that hasn’t yet made its way into art or philosophy.” Bar the typos, this a faithful transcript from: Alain de Botton “The School of Life: an Emotional Education.” Amanda, dear…no sooner did I read this, than I thought to open up Patreon and check up on you, and retroactively catch up, and the first thing I heard from you was the Voiceramble on The Regenerative Properties of Calcium & Our Eternal Quests For Meaning in the Loss of Some Things & the Acquistion of Others. I love you, sister of ours; I feel you; I completely and utterly know what you spoke of during the voiceramble, and, at large, through your art, your philosophy and your life. Your beautiful, lamentably departed Anthony must be so proud of your journey, from on high, wherever he is. :))))) Oh, and as a footnote from a Patron-Fan: Please, please, PLEASE—make The Tooth Incident into a song when you eventually have the time!!!!!!!!! I adore you. You give us solace. You give us love. You give us the distillation of the sublime & largely Unnameable through your Art, Choices & Life. Neil is an incredibly lucky man. Ash is an incredibly blessed child. You make me proud to be a human, & unbelievably happy to financially contribute to (and be spiritually fed by) your Existence. Yours, as ever, with frothy, briney, lapping waves of Love at Thy feet, Pedro B. Gorman.

Thomas Herlofsen

The Intermission hoodie is the best piece of clothing I have ever owned. Might take this opportunity to get another one for backup. And I can Spin A Rainbow on vinyl is still available? And a jigsaw for my wife? Hmm..

amandapalmer
>>72458470

hey rachel. i get that. i’d be happy to send you one. can you message? and/or…email alex. we’ll sort ya. i also hope that we all find some closure with the stuff - all of it - when i get home. we did try to keep the puzzle pretty cheap…it won’t turn much of a profit if it makes you feel any differently. it was just something i … wanted to do. :)

Rachel Hubbard
>>72458470

That's really kind of you, Amanda. I wasn't angling for a free one - but maybe, there's something in having the puzzle and doing our own cathartic destruction and sharing the results with you. I can totally understand how your life has got so far away from your intention about what you were going to do with all the things without your control. Maybe there will be some closure in doing our own version as well as yours when you are finally back where you need to be to do that. I am imagining some wild symbolic closure for you there too. Thank you :)

Debz michaela

Aside from the main point of this post I must admit I was immediately struck by… Is that a jar of Vegemite on top of your spice rack??!

Mareile

The puzzle is such a cool idea. I instantly ordered it :)

Kaytiebug of Katty Creations

*doesn't like puzzles at all but wants this one so bad* 😂 As a jewelry artist, I would love to turn the pieces into jewelry... Keep on savoring, and finding time to rest ❤

Laura Morland
>>72498043

I'm guessing that Neil introduced Marmite into the household a while ago, and given their location in the Antipodes, Vegemite must be their current version of the tasty-food-you-need-to-have-eaten-as-a-child-to-appreciate. I know, I know -- my godson's father is Australian, and he has carefully instructed me that there's a world of subtle differences between Marmite and Vegemite. However, I imagine that Marmite is expensive and hard to get in a part of the word that produces Vegemite. I just found this on the Net: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/marmite-v-vegemite-whats-the-difference/

Grace Beaster

Ordered that puzzle so fast it made my head spin. It's as if my fingers have been waiting for it my whole life, without even knowing it would exist.

Charlotte Kent

I envy those who can 'puzzle', i can't recall numbers 5 seconds after said to me, anxiety plus a bit of dyspraxia - fake it til you make it in my job !!

Charlotte Kent
>>72631464

also, hi Alex, fellow UK person, how you feeling about Boris' announcement today? - Charlotte x

Amy Lynn Reese

I think the thing about your music that spoke so much to me was your own uncertainty that anyone would stick around to see the end with you, with everything in your life. It was an anxiety that I felt myself, having been so poorly attached all my life. I am happy to report that that is a thing that can change. It's taken me years to even see that, yes, it is possible to come out of that place where you're going to get left and walked out on, after so many times of having to be the rock for other people. After so many times getting cut off. I hope that when you and your son come out of Kiwiland that you have learned where to fit your gigantic sad human-ness into your life. That never goes away, I don't think, but there is a place next to it where you learn that you can own your life. I want so much for you to have that, and feel that. I don't want you to be stuck in your mind forever. I want you to come out here, and enjoy some moments doing what you want to do, instead of doing all the things you are supposed to be. -- <3

TakeKare

Random comment to leave here, but I took the kids to see Disney’s Encanto and Luisa’s song “Surface Pressure” reminded me of your voice and the messages we share with each other’s here about the pressures of life and holding things together for your family. I know you’ve covered some Disney songs on tour that were very powerful. If you haven’t given it a listen - check it out. ❤️❤️❤️ Sending holiday season hugs to all! https://youtu.be/QRqGryij6tE

Tony Ivanova

Is it still possible to send a thing for burning?

amandapalmer
>>72454233

nope. if you wanna, email michael@amandapalmer.net. he'll give you an address, and we will add it to the pile :)

amandapalmer
>>72454968

when they're gone they're gone....so i dunno!! if you want, you can email aelx@amandapalmer.net and ask him to set one aside. i bet he will. x

amandapalmer
>>72690485

sure! just email michael@amandapalmer.net and he'll get you a good address to send to. we'll add it to the pile. :)

John Sea Wind

Gods, I love you, Amanda Palmer!

Debz michaela
>>72498043

Hi Laura, no it’s more to do with Amanda’s known loathing of the stuff that tastes like asses that inspired my comment ;)

Parker
>>72649477

Ah…the infinite dichotomy that is what we want to do versus what we feel we’re supposed to do. What contentment there is when the two are aligned 💓

Rebecca Ryan

I can’t do puzzles. They drive me nuts…but THIS I could do..mwah!

Steve Platt

The video... the video... what is the music? <3

Alex
>>72584926

HEY KATIE. We may have a proposition for you. Can you send me an email, alex@amandapalmer.net ? -Alex, Team AFP

Jules Chatelain

I wrote about this long ago and Amanda replied "fuck that thing!" ... (1) I sent something (from an old relationship, that was weighing me down) to be burned. (2) I forgot what I'd sent - THAT is how useful it was to send it away - but then of course I was sad that I couldn't look for it on the picture ... (3) But in the detailed pix I think I see it. What actually happened is I saw it and though, "I used to have one of those, I found it a burden, wonder what happened to it ... " HAHA maybe that's my thing after all on the cover! Either that or someone else was burdened by one of them too! Either way GREAT ENDING and great to be included. Yes of course I ordered TWO puzzles. Fucking love puzzles.

Wolfgang Englbrecht

Yeah OK, I just ordered a puzzle and a bunch of other shit, then payed about 50% shipping to Germany on top. Fuck brexit, srsly. But still worth it! :)

Jorie McCann

anyone have a new* since November? Discount code for the Puzzle? I'm so excited though.. and not ungrateful.. just.. would love to not pay $33 with shipping for my birthday present to myself.. !(<3) don't judge me? ;)