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[xiphias]

Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman are collaborating. Actually, Amada Palmer and Neil Gaiman are, like, right now in Boston taking photos and collaborating.

How did I not know this? Why did my f-list not implode with awesomeness?

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[tapuz.livejournal.com]

wow, well, you just made MY flist implode w/awesomeness!

so how did you find out, and WHAT are they doing???

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

According to this page:

Palmer has also been collaborating with graphic novelist/screenwriter Neil Gaiman (Beowulf, Princess Mononoke), who wrote the liner notes for her upcoming album. Palmer and Gaiman are currently working on a book of photography to coincide with the release of Who Killed Amanda Palmer on Sept. 16, via Roadrunner Records.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Parts of my flist are, but they're the locked journals...

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

You might want to read kylecassidy. He's the photographer - and he's been posting lots of outtakes along with a fair amount of unabashed (and fun) fanboy squeeing.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

*passes out*

N.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I knew about this, but...I love Gaiman's writing. (Less now than I used to, but still.) I like Palmer's music. It remains to be seen whether a book of photographs by them will be like Michael Jordan playing baseball.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I found out from reading officialgaiman, and then I got a Facebook update from the Dresden Dolls that blithely mentioned it as well.

I am dying. (Actually, that sentence should end "TO GO HAUNT THE SOUTH END AT 3AM LOOKING FOR THE HOUSE".

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

I know, I read about that too. I swear, he has the coolest friends.

[sarianna.livejournal.com]

omg. that is the smexiest thing i've heard all summer!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I guess I should find out who Amanda Palmer is . . .

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

One-half of the Dresden Dolls, and has also been doing some solo projects recently. She recently played with the Boston Pops, for instance -- including the Dolls' song "Coin-Operated Boy", one of their first hits, in which, during one of the instrumental parts, she got into a shoving match with the conductor of the Pops, which ended with Keith Lockhart, the conductor, sitting at the piano playing the piano solo, with Amanda in at the podium conducting the Pops . . .

Her next project is an album and book called Who Killed Amanda Palmer -- it's a solo album, but I'd managed to miss that the book is being written by Gaiman.

[dillonpuff.livejournal.com]

I think she should die in a fire. Dresden Dolls opened for Nine Inch Nails a while back and it was an absolutely horrible performance. They covered War Pigs ... ugh. I was so happy when they got off the stage.

Anyway ...

Neil Gaiman is cool. I downloaded an audiobook of Anansi Boys and they picked a really awesome guy to read it.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

That's a bit harsh. She's a friend of a number of my friends who are reading this, so, y'know, telling people that one of their friends should die in a fire, even as a joke, is kinda not-so-good.

I've seen the Dolls twice. The first time, they were doing a concert for a fundraiser for the high school in my town. And the second time was a dance at the local science fiction convention.

[dillonpuff.livejournal.com]

well, let me apoligize for my diction, but diaf tends to normally just exprsss displeasure, not an actual desire for a person to combust. poor choice for the audience I suppose :|

sounds like the dolls do some swell stuff for good reasons, but between some of their more annoying fans (every band has those) and their performance, I wont be rushing to see them

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I don't think anybody should die in a fire, no matter how awful a person they are.

[dillonpuff.livejournal.com]

eh, there are a small handful that might deserve the fate, but it is rather horibble.

that said it is simply a phrase and not an actual intended situation I wished for.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

It's "simply a phrase" that I find particularly upsetting, and I hope the fashion for using it passes soon.

[dillonpuff.livejournal.com]

words have whatever potency you chose to assign them

I apologize if those ones were particularly distasteful to you however.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I appreciate that. However, I've never been a fan of "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me." It's patently untrue.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

My brain imploded from awesomeness and thus I did not squee about it :P but I would have, were I posting about anything at all.

[aspectabund.livejournal.com]

Check out www.neilgaiman.com , and look back at some of his recent blog entries. He's got a few fun photos of him and Amanda up, and he also mentions that he's writing little ministories to go alongside the photos. :)