Need I say more? Not as fun watching this shit at home on DVD - if you haven't seen this, you're not alive yet.
Find your local urban cinema if they still screen it, and go get your cherry popped. someday, I swear, I'll do a RHPS tour and open up for the movie, then spend the rest of the night throwing toast.
Do not watch this movie unless you are prepared to be very upset for a few days.
Incredible film making, beautiful music, a heartbreaking story and commentary about the death penalty...and Björk. How can you resist?
Zoë Keating & I were both devouring this book on the last tour. In a very Bill Bryson-y way, Pollan does this genius thing where he takes information that might otherwise bore you to death (how the corn industry works, eh??) and makes it fucking FASCINATING. Basically, Pollan set out to trace four meals (one from McDonald's, one from Whole Foods, one from an organic farm and one he creates by hunting and forraging) back to their origins. This book is made of win, I didn't want it to end.
I would recommend this book to anyone who interested in mindfulness and meditation (the idea, not the bullshit ritual) and doesn't want to read a bunch of woowoo new age or Buddhist books. Tolle is a great teacher and a great writer, he cuts to the essence of what Buddhism points to: the only way to escape suffering is to wake up to this moment. I've bought over 15 copies of this book and given them away in the past year since reading it.
I love much of PJ's work but this album is my favorite. I recently re-discovered it and it's even more fucking awesome than I remember.
All of her stuff is different: if you've tried dry or "Rid of Me" and it's too heavy for you, or if you're tried the newer stuff and it's too minimal/weird for you, try THIS. The production, the songwriting, the vocals, all of it are PJ at her fucking best. The woman is a Goddess.
It is important in becoming artists to make sure that we do not pollute this world; moreover, as artists we can actually beautify this world. Inspired in this way with our contact with dharma art, there is less room for neurosis. That is the actual project of dharma art, which is both necessary and important. Inch by inch, step by step, our efforts should wake people up through the world of art, rather than please everyone and go along with the current. The dharma artist is not a self-styled artist painting a picture out of his own shit and piss and selling it for a million dollars, but an upright person, a good, gentle, and well-meaning person who is wiling to cut through his or her subconscious gossip completely so that a straightforward, brilliant, precise, clear mind takes place....What makes you artistic? What convinces you, if you are uncertain, that a work of art is a real expression of yourself? Or is a work of art something to make sure that the rest of the world is convinced about you, so that in turn you yourself find ground to exist? - Chogyam Trungpa
Download the Murder by Death & Amanda Palmer split single now!
Yet, your "Status Update" has been loaded with SPAMMERS.
Seems "Sean" (see note below) says you don't care. Moreover,..
IT'S OUR JOB to FIX your PROBLEM
As a long-term supporter of Dresden Dolls & your Amanda Palmer projects, and one of many that has expanded the minds of others to your work, I find this disturbing. In addition, Someone claiming to represent you mailing me NOT to report SPAM to you (as if I did something wrong) comes across more as a threat. 'Sean'
should be spending time DELETING the SPAMMERS off your list than making your supporters feel ill-at-ease.
Anywho, may you, your Gailman and cast have a great yet sane 4th.
T. Mockingbird
P. S. Below is a passage of said note
Hi there "Tequila"..
Sean here, a member of Amanda's team. I notice you comment quite often and never really care but I do have one thing to ask of you: When you see spam, please let it be.
Ok so some fellowess brigaders and myself have decided this...
a tour called the twitter tour or wait here is mine i am sure i will not surprise you...the clitter tour...
twitter+female you+mocking mariah's glitter+ = great fun for all~ great fun to us...we are a mockulatory lot of happy art misfits...
if you do not use the clitter tour i might have to write a play for it...and it is better in your artistic hands...i will take it way to far...funny but very bent...
You should come to Ohio. I am quite certain you have more fans here than you might expect. I'm just sayin'....tour comin' up? Include Cleveland or Cincinnati. It will be financially lucrative.
Had a blast today at the beach....thank you soooooo much! Can you tell me where the some of the pics that were taken today might be avail to look at or download? Thanks!
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