Me and my child, hand in hand, trudging uphill. Very perfect for the changing of the New Year and what we all have ahead of us. Gorgeous photo taken by Brad Samuels, my noble and beautiful old friend from elementary school.
What. A. Day. My dear god I love you all. And we will do it again tomorrow apparently. ♾️♥️🎉
How’s 2025 so far, my loves? We are 6 days in and nobody’s stormed the castle yet so that’s good…? Me and my hair are ready to greet an ominous new year. There is so much to be done. I basically just took two full weeks off work so that I could focus on the kiddo and the house and our families, and now I’m getting back in the groove. The house is still coming together, the kiddo is dropped back off at school, and here we fekkkkin go. There are some huge old art projects to finish up, huge new art projects to dig into, including some film music (!?), massive think-y essays to write, and my crowdfunding system @patreon is about to have a 10-year-anniversary-overhaul that’ll no doubt make things easier and better for me and the team and my patrons, so that’s exciting. Also about to finally crack into writing a couple new books and focus on perfecting the future of The @DresdenDolls and the music we have been workin on for years. I also gotta finish booking the summer and camp and all that. And I gotta write a killer speech for a music awards ceremony in LA at the end of the month. I think the theme is going to be about Femininity and Volume, and I’m gonna write a newspaper companion piece that goes into further depth. The future is bright. I beg you all to join my Patreon (and check your credit card statuses, I lost another couple hundred people on the 1st of the month) and if you just want my writing offerings, join the substack at any level. Also, tell me how you’re doing. And: First, coffee.
Me and the microscopic piece of {Snow? Yogurt? Fireplace Ash? Antimatter?} in my hair have an announcement!! This is EXCITING. I will in (hopefully sunny?) California for the 13th annual #SheRocksAwards on January 25th…where I will be honored along with 11 other incredible, trailblazing women. I plan to speak about some important and pressing issues. There are public tickets for the ceremony which you can find at the link in my bio and be sure to check out a few of the other honorees here: @samanthafishmusic @christinaperri @paulacoleofficial @mixiofficial @aijiaofficial @tricerocbklyn @katiedaryl @nurit.siegel.smith @bethyheidt
Please spread around for the LA community. ❤️🩹
That’s a strong no thank you, Facebook AI, but thank you for asking. I’ll write a handwritten note in person later when I have time and the world isn’t falling apart. 😂
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Amanda and friends at Zing! @amandapalmer
Sharing for my folks in and around Los Angeles. Thanks @catpowerofficial for passing it along 🔥❤️🩹🙏
Sharing for my folks in and around Los Angeles. Thanks @catpowerofficial for passing it along 🔥❤️🩹🙏
Sharing for my folks in and around Los Angeles. Thanks @catpowerofficial for passing it along 🔥❤️🩹🙏
Sharing for my folks in and around Los Angeles. Thanks @catpowerofficial for passing it along 🔥❤️🩹🙏
Sharing for my folks in and around Los Angeles. Thanks @catpowerofficial for passing it along 🔥❤️🩹🙏
Sharing for my folks in and around Los Angeles. Thanks @catpowerofficial for passing it along 🔥❤️🩹🙏
Sharing for my folks in and around Los Angeles. Thanks @catpowerofficial for passing it along 🔥❤️🩹🙏
This is so scary. I am sending my love and hugs and hope for calm and safety to all my family, cousins, community….friends, community of artists and musicians in LA. Good god. Please send word how you’re doing and that you’re ok and how things feel over there. We all care.
Just a little human update. The writing I’m doing is keeping me intact, it’s pouring out like the old days, and the paywall is zero (you just need to join as a free patron/subscription member, a la Substack). I need to write. I can write. And I can self-publish. I’m lucky. You can join as a paid member if you’d like: just note that we are switching everything to monthly very soon, in collaboration with the folks at @Patreon, to make everything play nicely with the Apple iOS. The upcoming house concert – which will probably be about 30 minutes or so with a Q&A and filmed as a live show for all patrons (next week) – will also be available to allllll members of the patreon, including the free ones. Come over to the post to make requests later today. Maybe we need some poetry, too. Hi Mary Oliver and Ocean Vuong. We need you. Hang in there, all. Hold steady. I love you. PS Here’s the piece I published yesterday. It’s called “Last Night A Drag Queen Saved My Life”. https://www.patreon.com/posts/122713077?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
Our place of worship. @museumofscience
Everything changes.
That’s a wrap. Homebase House Concert recording filmed and recorded and in the can with only …. 3.4% mistakes. Livable-withable chord mistakes. 5 songs, all by request to the patrons (I got over 350 requests, picking was difficult), one poem, one ABBA cover, one very, very special guest. Going to the patrons in the next few days as an embed. My soul is nourished. To everyone: thank you. Music is saving me. Thank you. 🎹🙏♥️🔥
That’s a wrap. Homebase House Concert recording filmed and recorded and in the can with only …. 3.4% mistakes. Livable-withable chord mistakes. 5 songs, all by request to the patrons (I got over 350 requests, picking was difficult), one poem, one ABBA cover, one very, very special guest. Going to the patrons in the next few days as an embed. My soul is nourished. To everyone: thank you. Music is saving me. Thank you. 🎹🙏♥️🔥
Rehearsing in the living room for tomorrow’s patron-only filmed house concert. I got over 300 requests and am only going to play a tiny handful of them, but it’s nice to remember that I’ve written….anything. Sometimes I forget. The concert will be uploaded natively to the patrons, including the free members, before the end of the month. See you in the video hole. Music saves. ♥️🔥✈️🎹🪗
