To protect the world from devestation!
To unite all peoples within our nation!
To denounce the evils of truth and love!
To extend our reach to the stars above! espionage, building my flying apparatus beneath the Houston Astrodome, licking, writing, eating opponents' brains, inventing cocaine, performing the five-point palm exploding-heart technique, chess, Russian, interuniversal travel via hot air balloon, making tea, portraiture, assisting evil alien Lord Xenu, attempting yoga, bellydancing, obssessing over "the Dark Knight", smirking at pantomime, snowball fights, reading PervScan and ZenFetish, marveling, studying, kicking ass, Scandinavia and those who are all about it, surrealist games, paneer, psychology, Domo-kun, burlesque, Boy Scouts, Batman, fashion, action, Shakira, cabaret, Michael Haneke, the Nouvelle Vague, handlebar moustaches, German Expressionism, the CIA, Radical Edward, angry music, the proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, miso soup, Kelly, Nabokov, astrology, deerstalker caps, viking funerals, Brad Neely, Repressed Homosexual Suicide Pacts, Elegant Gothic Lolita, David Lynch, Belly Dance Divas, Orson Welles, Scandinavia, 'pataphysics, Natalie Dee, monocles, trauma, Cyrillic, old film stock
i would like to meet a tux of penguins.
MY FRIENDS
CLARE
she was born in a bottle rocket 1929
with wings that ringed around a socket right between her spine
all drenched in milk, in holy water pouring from the sky
i know that she will live forever, she won't ever die
JIMMY
this isn't the last song, they don't know us you see
it's only the last song if we let it be
ALIYA
the dreamer is somnambulising the somnambulist in an ambulance
i kissed and killed an ambulance
KARA
when you think the night has seen your mind
that inside you're twisted and unkind
let me stand to show that you are blind
please put down your hands, cause i see you
i find it hard to believe you don't know
the beauty that you are
KEN
show me show me show me how you do that trick!
the one that makes me scream, she said
the one that makes me laugh, she said
and threw her arms around my neck
MELODY
brown eyes i hold you near, you are the only song i want to hear
a melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
LEXI
how many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
how many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
a trail for the devil to erase
AMANDA
there's no hell and no hiroshima
chernobyl was a cover up
the world is really all in love
AKASHA
i arch my back to touch the stars
they fall from my hand
tomorrow the sun will rise again
a pearl, a grain of sand
AMBER
and in the rollercoaster din
by the parachutes in saddle shoes
you break your shins
but i have never seen two eyes so shiny
view all my friends right here
My Favorite Music Acid Bath, the Autumns, Babes in Toyland, ANGELO BADALAMENTI, BAUHAUS, the Beatles, BEIRUT, Belle & Sebastian, Björk, Blue Bob, Blue Öyster Cult, Bôa, Boards of Canada, David Bowie, Candypants, Wendy Carlos, Celtic Woman, Climax Golden Twins, COIL, Daisy Chainsaw, the Decemberists, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Einstürzende Neubauten, Foxhole, the Frank Popp Ensemble, Franz Ferdinand, Katie Jane Garside, Goblin, PJ HARVEY, Imogen Heap, HOLE, Jack Off Jill, Jane's Addiction, Billy Joel, JMc, Jocelyn Pook, Joy Electric, Lazy Lane, Living with Eating Disorders, Marcy Playground, Marilyn Manson, Miranda Sex Garden, My Bloody Valentine, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, My Ruin, NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pagan Babies, Liz Phair, Pixies, Placebo, Portishead, QUEEN ADREENA, REM, Rammstein, Rasputina, Scarling., Shakira, the Shins, Simon & Garfunkel, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Smashing Pumpkins, THE SMITHS, Swans, Switchblade Symphony, Tool, Umbrella Tree, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, Rufus Wainwright, the White Stripes
I listen to jazz, Coltrane in particular, when I write. I'm an amateur chamber music enthusiast and my favorite composer is Schubert. I would love to get a hold of that jukebox that Quentin Tarantino has in his house. When a good song that I'm really into comes on, I have to sit down and be all intense about it and concentrate, but when I'm milling around doing my thing, I play unnerving ambient noise.
please visit Amanda Palmer's Myspace
I Have an Awesome Passion for Film Annie Hall, Audition, Bande a Part, Batman Begins, the Big Lebowski, Blood of a Poet, Blue Velvet, Brewster McCloud's Amazing (Sexy) Flying Machine, Cache, Cannibal Holocaust, City Lights, a Clockwork Orange, Contempt, THE COOK THE THIEF HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER, Cries & Whispers, Dead Ringers, Death Proof, the Departed, Dogma, Dom Durakov, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE, DROWNING BY NUMBERS, El Topo, the Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, EYES WIDE SHUT, Fantastic Planet, Fargo, Freaks, FUNNY GAMES, the Game, THE GODFATHER, the Green Butchers, Grey Gardens, GRINDHOUSE, a Hard Day's Night, Harold & Maude, Heavenly Creatures, Help!, Ichi the Killer, Inland Empire, Interiors, I Spit on Your Grave, Jacob's Ladder, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, Juno, Kill Bill vol. I, Lolita, Love & Death, M, the Man Who Fell to Earth, May, Memento, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Naked Lunch, the Omen, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, Persona, the Phantom of Liberty, the Piano Teacher, Pink Flamingos, Planet Terror, THE PRESTIGE, Psycho, Requiem for a Dream, Rigoletto, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rope, Rosemary's Baby, the Saragossa Manuscript, Secretary, Session 9, the Seventh Continent, THE SHINING, the Silence, Silence of the Lambs, Stand By Me, Star Time, Sunset Boulevard, Suspiria, SWEET MOVIE, Taxi Driver, Thirteen, Through a Glass Darkly, the Tin Drum, Transformers, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the Usual Suspects, Videodrome, THE VIRGIN SPRING, Winter Light, ZODIAC
I am obssessive about craft. I have watched and rewatched "the Godfather" and "Zodiac" a sick number of times marvelling over their craft. My Top 5 Directors are David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, John Waters and Ingmar Bergman. I am terrified of musicals and, with some pretty slim exceptions, I can't watch them (especially in theatres).
TVTVTVTV Azumanga Daioh, Batman the Animated Series, Beast Wars, Beetle Borgs, Cowboy Bebop, Dinosaurs, Gundam Wing, Forensic Files, the L Word, Laverne & Shirley, Law & Order: SVU, the Mighty Boosh, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mystery Diagnosis, the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sailor Moon, Serial Experiments Lain, Star Trek, Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Transformers, the Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, Unsolved Mysteries, VR Troopers, What Not to Wear (British), Wondershowzen
I watch virtually no television in terms of when it's actually aired. I can't stand having my schedule dictated by TV. The only thing I'll watch as it airs is Craig Ferguson. I have a deep, abiding love of the man. Every 4th of July I stay in all day and watch "the Twilight Zone" marathon on SciFi, though. Naturally.
I LOVE READING BITCH ROSSIIA and A Cigarette Burn on the Moon (Aliya Mehdi), the End of Alice (A.M. Homes), the Sluts (Dennis Cooper), Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov), Necrophilia Variations (Supervert), Animal Rights & Pornography (J. Eric Miller), the Cement Garden (Ian McEwan), Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl ("Renee"), Edie (Jean Stein), Dirty Blonde: the Diaries of Courtney Love (Courtney Love), Wasted (Marya Hornbacher), Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris), Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille), Writings of the Vienna Actionists (Brus et al), the Female Eunuch (Germaine Greer), the Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin), Sailor Moon Vol. I-XVIII (Takeuchi Naoko), House of Incest (Anais Nin), Story of O (Pauline Reage), Burlesque and the Art of the Teese (Dita Von Teese), the Book of Masks: an Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Remy De Gourmont et al), And the Ass Saw the Angel (Nick Cave), the Man who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis), the Stanley Kubrick Archives (Alison Castle), Bad Behavior (Mary Gaitskill), Ulysses (James Joyce), ANYTHING PUBLISHED BY TASCHEN
I Greatly Admire the Following
Prince Randian, Sarah Silverman, Andrew Donnelly's beard, TWEAK, Anita Berber, Laura Albert, Athanasius Kircher, Salad Fingers, Amanda Palmer, Laura Palmer, Courtney Love, Jessicka, Katie Jane Garside, Dita Von Teese, Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Old Gregg, Lithium Picnic, Batman, David Lynch, Vladimir Nabokov, Zooey Glass, Alexei Karamazov, Van Veen, Natalie Dee, Special Agent Dale Cooper, and the fury of awesomeness that is Aliya, Clare, Kara, Jimmy, Ken, Melody , Lexi, Amanda, Akasha, Amber and Alex.
Is she weird? Is she white? Is she promised to the night?
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kari on fire off the shoulder of Orion...