who killed amanda palmer
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Guess who is feeding Amanda Palmer and Vermillion Lies backstage on Thursday night at State Theater? Me! In true Amanda style, she posted a blog post that said something to the effect of, ‘we’re touring, we’re hungry, feed us’. So I replied to the email address given and typed up a few simple, healthy veggie menu options. A couple days later, I was told I’m on the guest list and when to be at the theater with the grub. Pretty cool, huh?
Don’t hate on me though because if you’re going to any of her shows, you can pretty much always meet Amanda afterward, get stuff signed, tell her you love her, want to have her baby and so on. She tends to stick around for that very purpose and is just as wonderful as you imagine.
I planned on handing out some illustrated haiku love GingerDead-style like Jim and I did at the Dresden Dolls show last year. The problem was I’ve been too broke to get postcards printed and by the time money came in, there wasn’t time. So, I turned the artwork above into these rad oversized bookmarks that I’ve been printing and cutting for the last couple of days. I think it’s kinda nice to hand out something sorta souvinier like and relevant rather than my comic characters this time around. 
So, how about this week we roll with the theme? How about some haiku responses that answer the question Who Killed Amanda Palmer or even how or perhaps a haiku epitaph for her tombstone? Use your twisted imaginations and let Amanda feel the love…sniff…i think it’s what she would have wanted….double sniff….
<3 see you week,
calan
oh btw, here's what the bookmark looks like...only bigger...
and here’s the photo reference i used. she’s even beautiful with her skin still on…see?!
Memory Lane
me and jim brigad’n for the dresden dolls…
punk cabaret / dirty business haiku comic
the aftermath of the Dresden Dolls show, inspired this Stendhal Syndrome haiku comic – also photos of the show and us.
okay, now i’m really gone.
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i’m so freaking excited!!!
March 25th, 2009 at 2:34 am
Glad you get to go
Sorry I won’t see you there
Fucking awesome show
March 25th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Hi Calan,
just home from Jim Morey band show; intense musical interplay +jacked up on espresso= can’t sleep; saw your myspace bulletin–i’m always up for a haiku or two…
pretty candy skull
trips the light fantastical
bones are sugar sweet
end, it ain’t the end
everyone comes round in time
dying pulls her free
here she lies in state
music like the stars above
underneath her wake
i love artists like Amanda who are so accessible to their listeners, their admirers ( i hate the word “fan” ) when they break that invisible barrier that separates… it sounds like you’ll have a most memorable time! (by the way, amazing picture of you and Jim at dresden dolls!) and i love gingerdead, too! wicked and beautifully morbid….
lovepeaceanne
March 25th, 2009 at 3:55 am
for real? thats so cool and random. Have fun at the show. She puts on a great one.. i wish i met her at the last show i went to. >
March 25th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
her last epitaph:
feeding the corpse, the marrow
there is no sorrow
wow calan, what an exciting thing to do! you’re awesome to even think of doing that. i *know* you’re going to have a wonderful, awesome time.
and lucky lucky lucky amanda palmer. does she know you’re serving spiders for dinner?
March 25th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
ty mathias
welcome anne! thanks so much for jumping in with the haiku fun on your first post.
uunconscious ink – yah, next time you’ll know. she’s really into connecting with fans. i know you are a twitterer so follow her. she’s starting a twitter revolution. i joined just to stalk her. she’s announcing flash mob meetings at random in different cities, doing twitter q and a’s with fans, using twitter to take song requests from the gigs, it’s pretty amazing how she’s utilizing it.
ty sera. shhh the spiders are a surprise!
keep the haiku coming please! i’d love to point her over here to read your haiku responses..i mean i’d love to if she were still alive and stuff.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
We’ll Miss Amanda
But We Will Never Forget
She Lives on in Song
I love your comic! Give Amanda a big hug for me!
March 25th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Ugh, I’m so jealous! I will meet Amanda some day.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:05 am
aww macca. yeah, you will. keep an eye on her with twitter.com, check out photos she puts up, send comments – she reads them. she also does impromptu q and a sessions where you can twitter a question to her. the newsletter is great too because you never know where she’s going to pop up. even when she isn’t touring it’s not unlikely for her to do a show somewhere. the shadowbox.net forum is cool too – lots of fans and amanda posts pretty often.
more haiku please!
March 26th, 2009 at 3:00 am
I hope I’m not too late! Your work is absolutely gorgeous. I was hoping to throw a few haiku into the ring, if I may.
Gone before her time,
The world left shocked and saddened,
Amanda Palmer.
Such a pretty girl,
especially in water,
caught upon the rocks.
Eyes stare but don’t see,
legs folded like a puzzle,
black stockings, white skin.
Sylvia Plath stuck
her head in an oven, too.
Life too much to bear.
Who killed Amanda?
A cruel, cold world, that’s who.
Too painful to live.
Pushed from the top stair,
Amanda flew through the air,
landing on the floor.
Tortured, lovely soul
slipped the bonds of gravity.
Death is not the end.
I hope these aren’t all crap, and that something in here might be along the lines of what you’re looking for.
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I hope you guys have a GREAT time feeding the AFP crew at the show tonight. We’re all blessed by our connections to each other
Yours,
Amy
March 26th, 2009 at 11:00 am
hi Amy those are truly beautiful! very specific to some of the clues out there too. i can tell you’re a shadowboxer.
we are blessed, indeed.
glad to virtually meet you…
calan
March 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
“One more year” she sighs
Casket swinging on its own
Pallbearer’s delight
“One more year” she says
Casket dancing on its own
Pallbearer’s day off
“One more year” she wails
Casket opened on its own
Pallbearer’s dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krJW2qMVv4M
Death magnificent
This is how we swing her now
One more year we chant!
March 26th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
omg, those are awesome. love love love the video, darlin’ see you tonight! xoxo
March 27th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Nice, that is quite a stroke of luck. Or should i say appreciation of genius. Hope you have a blast.
That video was awesome. That is so how i would want any funeral of mine to go. But then again i told my family to do whatever they wanted with the body and just make sure they had a good time at the wake. That was an order.
Who killed Amanda?
Oh come now, everyone knows
the butler did it.
Here lies Amanda
God wanted an autograph
He’s so impatient
March 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
i love Astronaut so much.
it makes me cry sometimes.
that and not being able to see amanda.
tear.
anyways, have the best time calan, for all of us =]
~
why must the best
die when theyre young
like all of the rest
they lose their last song.
the piano was her bed,
now its her tomb
harmonics to heaven
not enough room.
and while she’s down there
the spirits will croon
“she’s not gone forever”
just scathed by the moon
eternity can end
even death was once born
amanda palmer
shall not soon return.
and far from now when she does
even i’ll say
simply to her
“you simply must play!”
~
March 27th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
matthew – that second haiku would be the best epitaph. i love funny tombstone messages.
ford – wow. that’s really beautiful. thank you so much.
everyone – amanda is aware now of the poetry in her memory here. it made her spirit smile. i told her in a seance last night
so keep em coming!
p.s. she gives the most amazing hugs…there is a sincerity in her hug if you know what i mean and she is an incredibly warm and beautiful being.
March 29th, 2009 at 11:59 am
awesome haikus!
March 30th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
“Feed me cherry pies,
ply me with strong black coffee,
& I’ll solve this crime.”
March 30th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
D’Oh!?!?!
Calan, please remove the last word from the last line!
Either that, or replace the last line with this line:
“& I’ll solve this crime.”
Either way, I just mis-counted the syllables, sorry.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
done
but, you know it’s really alright to have more or less. i need to make a page about haiku here on the site somewhere. american haiku has approximately 17 syllables. i’m reading a book by the guy that kinda started american haiku and he doesn’t always do 5, 7, 5. it’s more like a guide. go with the way it sounds, should have a nice flow and try to get around 17 syllables. anyway, i edited to read how you wanted.
here’s some virtual pie and strong coffee – solve away and report back to us. in haiku of course.
April 1st, 2009 at 2:02 am
Amanda Palmer
songs bright and full and lovely
dark misery too
singing with our friends
can bring beautiful fun
hangover’s a bitch
April 1st, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Amanda Palmer
From awesome street performer
To dead sensation.
Over your grave,
Does Brian sob, wishing the
Cabaret lived on?
We can’t get you up,
We can’t get you up at all,
We can’t get you up,
Our Strength Through Music
has gone, your music is gone,
Trapped in Ampersand,
You are no longer
our Astronaut, for Blake Says
That death has claimed you.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:41 pm
nice coolio! i can tell you’re a big fan. are you following the who killed amanda palmer mystery stuff? it’s too much for my wee brain, but i enjoy analyzing the wkap video series (see her youtube channel) with jim and i found the wiki with all the clues solved so far revealed. it’s quite complex. you can find it through the shadowbox forum. i’ve even emailed ‘the stranger’ to try to follow along as the plot thickens and help plant clues if i’m called upon.