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Amanda Palmer: an open letter in response to amy, re: musicians, volunteering, and the freedom to choose.

Why I'm Fine With Playing For Amanda Palmer For Free, By S.F. Cellist Unwoman

...please lock Barrett Brown up and throw away the fugn key!

Here's Berlin as you'd see it from above.

Armelle Caron Berlin from above.

Here it is again, after an autopsy. The city has been dismembered, dissected block by block, the blocks then categorized, sorted and stacked by shape. Berlin, of course, contains mainly rectangles. It also has trapezoids, triangles and, down in that last row, weirdly shaped squiggles that represent actual city spaces. So, if you are walking through Berlin, the cityscape isn't going to repeat endlessly. There will be surprises. There are some totally irregular nooks and crannies there.

Armelle Caron Berlin in parts.

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The Right to Denigrate Religion

The field recordings of Muddy Waters made by Alan Lomax in 1941 and 42. In 1941 Lomax went in search of Robert Johnson, only to discover that Johnson had been murdered three years before. So Lomax recorded three tracks by Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield). Both he and Robert Johnson has both been taught by Son House, and Lomax also recorded six tracks by their mentor. Lomax returned the following year and recorded a further eight tracks by Muddy Waters and five by Son House. The sound on these recordings has been restored by Jean du Touche-Grande. Released on Zircon Bleu in 1999.
Tracklist:
1. Country Blues (0:07)
2. I Be's Troubled (3:33)
3. Ramblin' Kid (6:39)
4. Rosalie (9:55)
5. Take A Walk With Me (13:00)
6. Burr Clover Blues (16:07)
7. I Be Round To Write To You Soon (19:20)
8. You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (22:48)
9. You Got To Take Sick And Die (26:12)
10. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You (28:22)
11. Country Blues (No.2) (30:32)
Bonus:
Son House - Field Recordings 1941/42

Tracklist:
1. Levee Camp Blues (0:07)
2. Shetland Pony Blues (3:53)
3. Delta Blues (7:21)
4. Special Rider Blues (Take 2) (12:42)
5. Low Down Dirty Dog (15:50)
6. Depot Blues (20:42)
7. American Defense (23:44)
8. Walking Blues (26:40)
9. Country Farm Blues (29:40)
10. The Pony Blues (31:52)
11. The Jinx Blues (Take 2) (36:07)

Can't wait *yawn*

This Onion joke seems to me to miss the point as I am sure that if it was against their religion to depict christ then those far right (well known for their tolerance) christian fundamentalists might have something to say on the matter!
As the film's makers anticipated and indeed I would say incited the violence, is that covered by 'freedom of speech' in the U.S.?
Maybe they were ALL on drugs when they thought this one up...

Military Hangs Back as FBI Hunts Benghazi Killers

Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect

More blood on her hands?

For da Chooks in da hoodXXX

I have no fundamental problem with either asking your fans to pay you to make your record or go on tour or play for free in your band or gather at a mud pit downstate and sell meth and blowjobs to each other. I wouldn’t stoop to doing any of them myself, but horses for courses. The reason I don’t appeal to other people in this manner is that all those things can easily pay for themselves, and I value self-sufficiency and independence, even (or especially) from an audience.
If your position is that you aren’t able to figure out how to do that, that you are forced by your ignorance into pleading for donations and charity work, you are then publicly admitting you are an idiot, and demonstrably not as good at your profession as Jandek, Moondog, GG Allin, every band ever to go on tour without a slush fund or the kids who play on buckets downtown.
Pretty much everybody on earth has a threshold for how much to indulge an idiot who doesn’t know how to conduct herself, and I think Ms Palmer has found her audience’s threshold.