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From: Amanda Palmer
Subject: dude
Date: August 15, 2009 5:57:25 PM MDT
To: bob@lefsetz.com<\/p>\n

if asked….how does twitter actually make you money?<\/p>\n

well it just saved me at least a couple grand in hotel and piano rental bills.<\/p>\n

imogen heap and i ended up DMing each other b\/c of your post and she offered me & neil her apartment (with piano!) for two weeks in central london while i’m there gigging and filming next month.<\/p>\n

thanks bob\/thanks twitter.<\/p>\n

you rock
XXXXXa<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amanda Palmer:<\/p>\n

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\nthe new art of twitter and blogging and realtime connection with hundreds and thousands of people means that the very role and meaning of the rock star is changing.<\/p>\n

watch it happen.<\/p>\n

i started making the music in the first place not because i wanted music, but because i wanted human connection.
music was the bridge there.<\/p>\n

(it took me a long time to admit this to myself, because i felt guilty and like a naughty\/bad\/inauthentic artist when i truly discovered this, in my mid-twenties, classic crisis time).<\/p>\n

BUT this is, hands fucking down, also why people listen, why they search, why they want art.<\/p>\n

connection = primary.
music\/art\u00c2\u00a0 = secondary.<\/p>\n

yes, you need a filter (like you’re often saying) to FIND the music you love and connect to (and that filter has evolved and will continue to evolve….radio-vinyl-MTV-blogs and on and on)
BUT
the music ITSELF is a filter to connect to another human expressing mind\/heart that blows your skirt up and makes you feel alive, not alone, etc etc what have you.<\/p>\n

so in a weird way, music may take the backseat and act as a filter to those you follow on twitter….not the other way around.
fucked up, but maybe not.<\/p>\n

it’s a symbiosis. one will need the other, but don’t discount the realtime human connection as only a tool.
it is and it’s not.
for many people, it’s the thing that they NEED and WANT, the holy grail of Not Feeling Alone in a world where that used to be JUST A FANTASY as you lay in bed with your headphones on, imagining a connection with the artist and the other people who might be out there in beds just like yours, imagining the same thing.<\/p>\n

the music simply provides the necessary room in which the miraculous happens and all these bed-worlds collide in cyberspace.<\/p>\n

there is a reason that i often find myself wanting to sit behind twitter and connect instead of sitting at the piano and writing.
there is a reason that the fans on there would often rather be connecting than lying in bed with their headphones on.<\/p>\n

we do both. we need both.<\/p>\n

twitter = realtime connection.
at the very end of the day, humans crave realtime connection.<\/p>\n

that is Why It Works.<\/p>\n

twitter.com\/amandapalmer
amandapalmer.net<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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