from the brand new music video for “UKULELE ANTHEM” watch it at http://bit.ly/SydOHua read the blog all about (chock-full of photos) at http://bit.ly/blog030414 directed by Jim Batt - jimbatt.com costume design by Tristan Coumbe words & music by Amanda Palmer - amandapalmer.net a very special thank you to: Ben Marshall, Katrina Lui, Alex Sinclair, Tony David Cray, and all the fine folks at the Sydney Opera House that made this video possible.
Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

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Members Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra are: Amanda Palmer | amandapalmer.net Chad Raines | chadraines.com Jherek Bischoff | jherekbischoff.com Thor Harris | twitter.com/thorharris666 Former Members: Michael McQuilken | michaelmcquilken.net
Genre Alternative / Punk Cabaret
Hometown Boston, MA & New York City, NY
www.amandapalmer.net
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The Amazing Venn Diagram of the Elusive Artistic Sweet Spot (via @betsiwithani on twitter - need source credit if anybody has it?)
a good crowdsourced question from my now BBC-legit writer friend alina. i was just reading about a similar emotion in brené brown's new book, "daring greatly". she names this feeling "foreboding joy" and it's the feeling of panic and fear that accompanies a feeling of happiness (OH NO THIS AMAZING THING IS ONLY HAPPENING NOW AND MIGHT VANISH OR GET CANCER TOMORROW OR SLIP THROUGH MY FINGERS) I feel this often. it's like a cousin of schadenfreude (the feeling of glee at someone else's misfortune). I think it's very human. and our life's work to notice it. I am, by the way, taking 48 hours off from editing my book to go to a bat mitvah and neil and I just got to visit Zoe Keating and jeff who live a few hours north of San Francisco. different landscapes colliding love abounding https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152174800812106&id=596172105
•LOOKING FOR PHOTOS for BOOK!!!• in my TED talk, i mentioned the sharpie-naked-amanda part of the evening that happened towards the end of the kickstarter gallery events. as i plug away on THE BOOK this month, i'm also trying to gather up some visuals. if you caught this moment in remotely hi-res, TELL ME. email superkate@amandapalmer.net with what you got - if you have a BUNCH, just pick your five best. subject of the email "AFP SHARPIE PICS for THE BOOK" or something. PLEASE NOTE: we are ultimately seeking *hi-res photos* but we'll confirm and request them if your shot might be useable. don't stress. if you're not "pro" but snapped photos, don't hesitate to show us. if you don't have a ton of fancy equipment but think you've got something amazing… …sometimes someone snaps a pic on their point and shoot or phone and it's perfect. that happens more than you'd think. SHOW!! x a p.s. if know someone who may be able to help…share this with them. we were in BERLIN, LONDON, BROOKLYN, SAN FRAN, LOS ANGELES, and BOSTON, though i didn't pull the paint-me stunt in every city. jog my memory, people… (original photo via Luis Pedro de Castro - strangelfreak.blogspot.com)
jamy ian swiss, my book doula, hard at work.
the book marathon is ON. ten hour editing-stretches with my book-doula jamy ian swiss every day for the next two weeks. breaks for coffee and food only. BRING IT ON MOTHERFUCKER
worth its own moment...posted to cheer me up in that last thread by persephone ginger. thank you girl. (art by shannon sophia)
sketch of Neil done while he was waiting for dinner a few nights ago, which is why he looks sad. he looks sad when he's hungry. two kinds of black pen (fine point and brush) on watercolor paper.
heaven.
sleeping position of my chiropractor's cat. wow.
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great interview with neil previewing the show he's about to do at Carnegie Hall.... this one in The New York Times.

"I have no idea of what parts of my brain I use to do what I do. Mostly, the creative process is really, really fast. And w...hen it happens, I have a pretty good idea of what something is. I am much more like somebody driving in the dark. My headlights will illuminate a little bit ahead of me, and I know where I’m going. I’m not just driving randomly."

this is true for so much art-making, and it's why it drives me crazy when someone asks

"so, how do get an idea for, and then write, a song?"

i always want to counter back:

"so, how do you think about your relationships?"

the HOW of the process is as random as shit, even though you know you have to do it, and you know you do *do* it, and you know that doing it and the *how* of how you do it is important.

if i think too much about the how, i can ruin it with self-consciousness.

are you following me here?

ground control to major tom.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/books/neil-gaiman-follows-the-guiding-light-of-instinct.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0 Meer weergeven
Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct
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Neil Gaiman discusses the stuff of nightmares and his upcoming appearance at Carnegie Hall, where on June 27 he will give a reading with a live score by the FourPlay string quartet.
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from the "Behind the Curtain of Social Media, Facebook, Bandcamp, streaming and so forth" department...and this is especially pithy given that i posted my blog twice yesterday and watched Facebook stop the spread of the second post (because... it contained a link i'd previously posted, i assume). eek. yuck. etc.

also includes our wonderful friend Zoe Keating and great food for thought in general. i know these posts are boring to the average reader but for my music business and social media geek friends out there, i'd love you to weigh in.....

"On Facebook, it’s no secret that 'organic' (i.e. unpaid) reach of pages has been falling, leaving many artists and labels wondering why their posts are only seen by a small percentage of the fans who clicked on a Like button to receive them.

Conspiracy theories abound about Facebook pushing people to pay for ads, while the social network argues that with an average of 1,500 potential stories from friends and pages available any time a user checks their news feed, it has to find a way to boil that down to (again, on average) 300 of the most relevant updates."


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Bandcamp’s Ethan Diamond: ‘Fans want to support the artists they love’
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When musician Zoe Keating published details of her 2013 earnings in February, most of the media coverage predictably focused on how litt
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foto van Amanda Palmer.
FREE #MayDayPAC webcast w/ AFP & LARRY LESIG!!
maandag 16 juni om 20:00 in EDT
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from the MINISTRY OF LIFE, DEATH and CROWDSURFING, i discovered this gem of a clip and it's perfect for today. if you want to know how easy it is to try to sing in key while being turned upside-down in the hands of strangers, here is your a...nswer. not easy.

it's me with The Grand Theft Orchestra (michael, jherek and chad) doing "bottom feeder" from the kickstarter record, "Theatre is Evil". i've been writing about crowd surfing and trust in The Book, and chad raines, seen here playing guitar, just showed up at the house for a few days. tonight we cook kale. in a few days jherek bischoff (seen here singing INTO his bass and conducting the strings section) is going to show up with about 12 people since they're recording up the road in hudson. we are readying all the guest futons. and a few days ago, in the rain, i was at michael mcquilken(the drummer)'s wedding.

what's most painful-beautiful about this clip, though, is that this was filmed in london, at Koko, a few weeks after the record came out.

that was the night that, two hours before getting on stage, i got the phone call that becca had died. i barely remember playing the show....but i have these incredibly strong memories of feeling more alive than i ever had before. all the songs about death (like this one) took on a whole new meaning. i still won't watch the "astronaut" clip. it was one of her favorites. all i can remember is that i couldn't get through it. maybe next year.

life, death, life, death, life in a circle.




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FREE WEBCAST THIS MONDAY!
I will be ONLINE in conversation with the amazing Larry Lessig, harvard law professor, TED speaker, lover, writer and passionate citizen, this monday at 8 pm (eastern standard time!). tune in and witness improv. i ...just asked larry to send us some recommended reading BEFORE we all get together for this webcast on Monday, and here tis.

"Imagine you’re a candidate running for political office. Your finance director gives you a choice. You can either try to raise at total of $100,000 from a thousand people, or you can try to raise $100,000 from one person. (Under federal law, no one can actually give a candidate a contribution of $100,000 [yet], but you’ll soon see why that detail doesn’t matter for the argument I’m making here.)

Which would you do? Which strategy would you select?"

Larry is one of my heroes....I feel very honored to be able to help him signal boost a project that will hopefully make a huge real change in US politics. please save the date and share the news.

...........

we're going to be talking mostly about the MAyDayPAC, a people-powered superPAC to end all superPACs.

here's another article from larry, recommended reading, shorter:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/06/our-new-superpac-is-going-to-change-american-politics-for-12-million.html

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

from larry himself:

The idea is to kickstart a SuperPAC big enough to make it possible to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016.

Government has failed us. More than 90% of Americans link that failure to the influence of money in politics.

Yet the politicians ignore this influence. While America founders, they spend endless time with their funders.

These funders hold our democracy hostage. We want to pay the ransom, and get it back. Or at least we're going to try.

...........

LETS DO THIS.
i'll be tweeting and FBing the link right before we go live, check in.

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What’s So Bad About a SuperPAC?
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Or, how I came to love the (money) bomb
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in further celebration of facebook's lift of the breastfeeding photo ban...this honest, funny, insightful piece of writing by ruth kamnitzer about what it was like to move from canada to mongolia when her child was an infant. the mongolian ...take on breastfeeding & breastmil? verrrrrry different from the west:


"In Mongolia, instead of relegating me to a "Mothers Only" section, breastfeeding in public brought me firmly to center stage. Their universal practice of breast feeding anywhere, anytime, and the close quarters at which most Mongolians live, mean that everyone is pretty familiar with the sight of a working boob. They were happy to see I was doing things their way (which was, of course, the right way).

When I breastfed in the park, grandmothers would regale me with tales of the dozen children they had fed. When I breastfed in the back of taxis, drivers would give me the thumbs-up in the rearview mirror and assure me that Calum would grow up to be a great wrestler. When I walked through the market cradling my feeding son in my arms, vendors would make a space for me at their stalls and tell him to drink up. Instead of looking away, people would lean right in and kiss Calum on the cheek. If he popped off in response to the attention and left my streaming breast completely exposed, not a beat was missed. No one stared, no one looked away - they just laughed and wiped the milk off their noses.

From the time Calum was four months old until he was three years old, wherever I went, I heard the same thing over and over again: "Breastfeeding is the best thing for your baby, the best thing for you." The constant approval made me feel that I was doing something important that mattered to everyone - exactly the kind of public applause every new mother needs."

and this....which answered a question i've always wondered about....

"While we've all tasted our own breastmilk, given some to our partners to try, maybe used a bit in the coffee in an emergency - haven't we? - I don't think many of us have actually drunk it very often. But every Mongolian I ever asked told me that he or she liked breastmilk. The value of breastmilk is so celebrated, so firmly entrenched in their culture, that it's not considered something that's only for babies. Breastmilk is commonly used medicinally, given to the elderly as a cure-all, and used to treat eye infections, as well as to (reportedly) make the white of the eye whiter and deepen the brown of the iris.

But mostly, I think, Mongolians drink breastmilk because they like the taste. A western friend of mine who pumped breastmilk while at work and left the bottle in the company fridge one day found it half empty. She laughed. "Only in Mongolia would I suspect my colleagues of drinking my breastmilk!"

also, i posted a new blog yesterday, just a basic round-up. http://amandapalmer.net/blog/20140611/

http://www.drmomma.org/2009/07/breastfeeding-in-land-of-genghis-khan.html

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peaceful parenting: Breastfeeding in Mongolia
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Thank you for this fantastic article! I love learning about different cultures and I wish in the U.S people took breastfeeding more seriously! I have nursed 4 babies each for 1 1/2 to almost 2 years. I would have nursed longer but when I get pregnant I wean.
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posted a new blog filled with a little bit of lately everything.

http://amandapalmer.net/blog/20140611/
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in case you missed it yesterday, i posted a new blog - “87.7 fashionistas per minute” - about #TheBook and // BORA YOON’s Indiegogo…you can read it & join the discussion at my site: http://bit.ly/blog061114
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"The idea that 'public' women are available to all men for sex, and also deserving of degradation or any violence that comes their way, retains a strong hold on societies the world over."

amen.

when i look at my career as a "public woman..." - and my haters' visceral reaction to things i've done - through this particular lens, there's a whole new layer.

so many people are scared to fucking death of women who are comfortable sharing their nude bodies without using them as personal-sex-sales-pitches (sluts!!) or corporately-rented advertising space (supermodels!!).

fly it, people


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#FreeTheNipple: Facebook Changes Breast-feeding Mothers Photo Policy
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The idea that women should be able to share non-sexually objectifying images of their bodies, a form of counter-speech to our pervasive sexual objectification, eludes many people, who seem to skim the surface of what the core issues are....
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ASK ME ANYTHING.

the doctor is IN for the next fifteen minutes.
haven't done this for months, but feeling insomniacal and in need of society. hit me. it's always fun to see where this goes. if you haven't been following the plot -
1) i'm almost done editing the book (two more weeks, god willing)
2) no, i'm not a man
3) i'm also not sure when i'm coming to calgary for a show
4) in advance : i love you too

HIT ME

(and as usual, like/upvote the questions you want answered).
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The Amazing Venn Diagram of the Elusive Artistic Sweet Spot

(via @betsiwithani on twitter - need source credit if anybody has it?)
Foto: The Amazing Venn Diagram of the Elusive Artistic Sweet Spot (via @betsiwithani on twitter - need source credit if anybody has it?)
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michael mcquilken and adina verson tied the knot on a rooftop in queens, in the pouring rain, at5 am.
perfect.

not pictured: the mariachi band that struck up a tune right after this moment…

michael is my ex (i was with him before neil) and most of you know him as the studio/touring drummer on Theatre is Evil (which was after we broke up! we were, like, adults!!). he also directed & edited the ...“polly” video we did for the nirvana tribute album, directed & edited “the bed song” music video based on my script & concept, and created a lot of the stage show for our theatre is evil tour. he's amazing.

adina is the magical being he met at yale school of drama; she’s also an amazing theatre person, stunning beauty, actress, soul of love. (she was also in “the bed song” video and played the “hipster who hates amanda palmer” in the start of the “do it with a rockstar” video.)

the guests gathered at 4:30am and walked up the stairs to the roof.

now we are all NAPPING and joining up later at a beer garden for a massive drunken wedding throwdown. LIFE!!!!

i'm really, deeply happy for them. as i am for brian and his new wife, olya. this is clearly the season for The Drummers Of My Life getting hitched.

i'm not holding my breath that thor is going to tie the knot…he's thor.

http://instagram.com/p/pBamhPwWwP/

polly: http://youtu.be/lg0dWANc3mo
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fascinating debate happening in the comments of this Rolling Stone piece - okkervil river's will sheff firing back at don henley who freaked out when sheff wanted to release a free "re-imagining" of one of henley's songs.

there's a few ang...les to the discussion - the fact that the song was released for free almost makes it messier - but i've got strong feelings about people's strong feelings about covers songs, etc, and i do think we're getting into a deeper and deeper jam re: copyright and song ownership.

the old laws just don't fit the new system. nobody's saying they're bad laws or useless. but shit isn't working quite right now that free exists the way it exists.

he's right: music USED to be constantly shared, built on, passed around, changes, added, shared, shared, shared, passed from mouth to mouth and it wasn't about ownership - it was the opposite. i said something touching on this in my TED talk and i'm touching on it in THE BOOK as well (fucking book.)

now we have the internet and free digital content, and we think it's "brand new", but it's kinda truly old school when you look back...music used to be a different KIND of free, if you get what i'm sayin. people didn't clutch it to their chests. they made it to be used and shared.

and The People, the community, they took care of the artist who carried the song....they weren't so worried about the song itself. we need to morph and grow our thinking about this if artists are going to survive and create with wild mad open minds...

my two cents.

very interested to hear what others think about this.

as a songwriter, i've considered re-imagining songs myself and have stopped, thinking "uuuhhh, i don't even know how this will WORK in the real world if i do it. might has well just do a cover or write a new song."

sad that i'd have to think that way, no?

i'll dig up an example or two of when i wasn't so afraid tomorrow

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/news/okkervil-river-responds-to-don-henley-copyright-laws-kill-art-20140604

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Okkervil River Responds to Don Henley: Copyright Laws Kill Art
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Will Sheff writes artists communicate back and forth with each other over the generations, take old ideas and make them new
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amazing interview in Salon with Alan Moore.

"But I’m tending to think zombies are the perfect metaphor for culture itself. That it is dead, still shambling around looking for brains, and endlessly repeating the things it did in life. I mea...n, I’m sure it will only be another few years until the moviegoing public gets to learn the exciting story of how high school student Peter Parker had the transformative accident that changed him into the amazing Spider-Man … again. You know? It’s the same stories and same ideas reiterated over and over again. And if we do it in 3-D, if we do it in enough spectacular digital photography, then perhaps people won’t notice that we haven’t had a new idea in decades. Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn’t appear to notice. [Sighs hilariously]...."

sighing hilariously,
amanda, on a plane from the west coast back to new york to attend a wedding tomorrow morning at 5 am. (the 48 hour trip to San Francisco was wonderful and full of every kind of love. i also attended my first bat mitzvah, and it was awesome. now back to writing a book. i mean editing a book. i mean i don't fucking know i just know it's late and fuck fuck fuck, not done. the end.)

(sent via @FelixMarques on twitter. thanks, luv.)

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/alan_moore_the_revolution_will_be_crowd_funded/
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Alan Moore: The revolution will be crowd-funded
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The "Watchmen" creator talks about his new Kickstarter-funded film series, zombies and the surveillance state
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a good crowdsourced question from my now BBC-legit writer friend alina. i was just reading about a similar emotion in brené brown's new book, "daring greatly". she names this feeling "foreboding joy" and it's the feeling of panic and fear t...hat accompanies a feeling of happiness (OH NO THIS AMAZING THING IS ONLY HAPPENING NOW AND MIGHT VANISH OR GET CANCER TOMORROW OR SLIP THROUGH MY FINGERS)

I feel this often. it's like a cousin of schadenfreude (the feeling of glee at someone else's misfortune).

I think it's very human. and our life's work to notice it.

I am, by the way, taking 48 hours off from editing my book to go to a bat mitvah and neil and I just got to visit Zoe Keating and jeff who live a few hours north of San Francisco. different landscapes colliding

love abounding

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Foto: a good crowdsourced question from my now BBC-legit writer friend alina. i was just reading about a similar emotion in brené brown's new book, "daring greatly". she names this feeling "foreboding joy" and it's the feeling of panic and fear that accompanies a feeling of happiness (OH NO THIS AMAZING THING IS ONLY HAPPENING NOW AND MIGHT VANISH OR GET CANCER TOMORROW OR SLIP THROUGH MY FINGERS) I feel this often. it's like a cousin of schadenfreude (the feeling of glee at someone else's misfortune). I think it's very human. and our life's work to notice it. I am, by the way, taking 48 hours off from editing my book to go to a bat mitvah and neil and I just got to visit Zoe Keating and jeff who live a few hours north of San Francisco. different landscapes colliding love abounding https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152174800812106&id=596172105
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stick with me, people with internet power, i may need you more than i thought. like mr. colbert (who shares his lovely, safe for work, "digit" here), i am a hachette author. which feels ridiculous to say because i'm not an author. i still f...eel like a songwriter/performer/blogger who is (badly) masquerading as a book-writer. you know i'm writing a book, right? THE SOUL-SUCKING LIFE-CONSUMING HELL-BOOK THAT IS NOW SIX WEEKS LATE GETTING TO THE PUBLISHER??

guess who the publisher is? Hachette! and my hell-book, "The Art of Asking", which is supposed to come out November 11 (11/11) on the hachette imprint Grand Central Publishing, is…actually almost done! i have been spending eight hours a day for the last three weeks straight, with my ass in a chair editing this fucking beast of a memoir-wtf-non-fiction-motherfucker. and it’s going to be a great book! and guess what else? i’m on hachette!!

so is colbert, J.K. Rowling, james patterson, malcolm gladwell, and two really nice people i met at the same lunch: candace bushnell (the original sex & the city columnist) and seth grahame-smith (who wrote, YES, "abraham lincoln, vampire hunter")…they both also have books coming out on Grand Central in the coming months. and…we’re all on hachette!!

read more at http://bit.ly/ColbertVsAmazon

if you haven't been following the hachette/amazon drama, here's a breaking news piece about it: http://bit.ly/NYTonHachette

the man in this article, michael pietsch, was seated next to me at a hachette luncheon the other day at Book Expo America, and he told me he really, really liked "the ukulele anthem". he gets the full seal of approval.

now: it's hard to tell exactly what's going on back there in the negotiating rooms, but it's high octane who-owns-the-future-shit. it also means that if things don't change, y'all will NOT be able to pre-order my book through amazon. which blows. it'll really hurt the book sales, given that i'm hoping this book will actually reach beyond the walls of my inner-sanctum fan-base.

i will, of course, try to guide traffic to the good guys (stephen colbert is sending his fans to Powell's Books, Inc.…YAY POWELLS!!!!!), overwhelming their stockroom with requests, which is awesome. but just a warning.

DRAMA AHEAD.


and i hope it dies down fast, because…yeah.

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Amazon vs. Hachette
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Amazon's dispute with a publishing company creates major headaches for authors and consumers.
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SONG of the DAY: "DESIGNER VAGINA"!
speaking as one who has a labia the size of, oh, rhode island, i am very pleased to see someone has taken up their ukulele (mandolin?) for this cause because i'm so fucking busy with this fucking book i h...aven't had time.

melissa main, whoever you are, bless you.

ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know what a labiplasty is, it's surgery to, well, yes....CHOP OFF YOUR LABIA TO MAKE YOUR VAGINA LOOK NORMAL!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labiaplasty

following on the butt surgery post from the other day...i looked up some stats, and it's super-chilling. apparently

'The American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) states 1,030 "vaginal rejuvenation" procedures were performed in 2006. The two recognized plastic surgery organizations in the United States, the American Society of Plastic Surgery and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), stopped tracking these procedures after 2006. However, surgeons in the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as in other developed nations, report that the procedure seems to be growing exponentially in popularity.'

my labia are (sorry to TMI the shit out of you, but hey, here you are) about two inches long. and wrinkly. i can practically tie them in a knot.

i remember being a teenager and looking at porn and wondering if they were wrong. but none of my lovers ever seemed to care, so I let it go.

i think it might be time for me to write the I HAVE SLEPT WITH LIKE A HUNDRED PEOPLE AND NONE OF THEM SEEMED TO MIND THAT I HAD A GIANT LABIA book.

i know this may seem like an unseemly little topic but i really would like to add my voice to melissa's on this one:

GIRLS: YOUR VAGINA IS FINE THE WAY IT IS. REALLY. IT MAY SEEM LIKE IT'S WEIRD-LOOKING, BUT IT'S NOT. THAT IS WHAT VAGINAS AND LABIA LOOK LIKE.

GUYS: VAGINAS GENERALLY DON'T LOOK LIKE PERFECT LITTLE PINK-FLOWER VAGINAS YOU SEE IN PORN!!

EVERYBODY: SEX ORGANS ARE FUNNY-LOOKING!!! HAVE YOU *SEEN* A PENIS LATELY??

i also found a site called "realself.com" (http://www.realself.com/review/thailand-th-labiaplasty-trim-meth-bangkok) and this sad little exchange in a forum, a thread started by a new zealand girl who sounds like she's relatively young and got a labiaplasty for $864 dollars.

"I haven't been happy with the length of Labia Minora [i think she means majora - afp] for about 5 years, I have guys comment on it and getting Brazilian waxes and wearing a bikini is always nerve wracking....then heard from someone that in Thailand you can get it don't for a really affordable price and they have great surgeons over there as long as you do your research and find the right one just like in any country. Anyway so six months later I was off to Bangkok with my mum...."

then a set of follow-up posts and pictures of her recovery and freak-out when the stitches didn't dissolve, etc etc:

and a comment below:

"Why the hell would you do that ? It's like cutting the petals from a flower to have only the flower button !!!"

her response:

"Because it was uncomfortable and embarrassing having large labia, no offence but it's comments like this that made my only feel like I could trust one person to tell about the surgery, which was my mum trust me I wouldn't have gone through all of this if it wasn't going to make massive positive difference to my life."

and therein lies the question.....
why, oh why, was it uncomfortable and embarrassing?

i want to sprinkle anti-shame fairy dust all over the world today

more reading...an article in The Guardian about labiaplasty and porn

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/27/labiaplasty-surgery-labia-vagina-pornography

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not the most compassionately worded response, but dude, i'll totally take it.

chances are, if you crowdsurf, someone's going to inadvertently touch your hoo-ha or your tits.

but I can feel the difference between a touch and a squeezy g...rope.

I've been groped a handful of times (ba-doom ching) in my years of crowdsurfing. it always makes me feel really weird. i have a thick skin (insert bad pun about crowdsurfing in thin leggings HERE) about it, but it's amazing to me that people at my own shows - I mean, seriously, at an *amanda palmer* show for christs sake - would get off of groping the host.

much less the guests. I hope the guests have never been groped. sheesh.

on a pleasant note? 99.9% of the time crowsurfing feels like pure, unadulterated trust and if anything, there's that OPPOSITE problem of "Jesus - where do I put me hand where it's fuckinn appropriate !! she's coming right at me !!! AGGGGGHHHH"

one of the first times I ever crowdsurfed and moshed (at a misfits concert at the middle east in Boston) I got a black eye. (inadvertent.)

I WAS SO EXCITED.

anyway. back to writing a book about this exact shit.



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Band Stops Concert to Call Out ‘A**holes’ Seen Molesting Crowd-Surfing Teen Girl
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At a packed outdoor concert in Kansas City, the lead singer of grunge rock band, Staind, stopped mid-song when he noticed some of the crowd were sexually assaulting a young girl who had been crowd-surfing. The singer, Aaron Lewis, told the band to stop playing so he could make an announcement. As th…
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