Amanda Palmer -- half of the virulently successful Dresden Dolls, equal parts
blogger, YouTube-fanatic, and
Twitter-community-organizer, and altogether musician extraordinaire -- allowed Switched to pick her brain on technology, music, and Tweeting on Friday nights.
Palmer, who is most famous for playing the piano (punk-cabaret style), has a rabid
Twitter fan base, pens an exhaustive blog, and uses her Internet savvy to
auction her sixth-grade breakup letters online. Aside from using interconnectivity to the fullest, she recently returned to her old high school, Lexington High in Boston, to collaborate with a former teacher and direct a student-filled play. The performance was based on
Neutral Milk Hotel's baroque indie-rock album 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' --
an album she feels so strongly about, she jokingly asked a student unfamiliar with the record, "You
must have it on that vast iPod of yours."
She doesn't like
iPods, but she does read a lot. In fact, she just completed a work of her own, a photo diary entitled 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer,' in conjunction with comic book author
Neil Gaiman and photographer
Kyle Cassidy & Co. We've transcribed some of the interview's highlights, but are also hosting the 45-minute interview in its entirety. Palmer addresses her love for
Avril Lavigne, the curse of the working musician, and why she can't listen to music anymore.
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