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'The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury' from An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer.

An Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer is available in stores now.

Recorded live in 2012, and initially released as a limited edition set to Kickstarter backers, Neil and Amanda now bring the experience to you for your listening pleasure.

Enjoy 3 full discs of Neil and Amanda performing audience favorites, duets, cover songs, poetry, short stories, and more!

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The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury

"Poem For Amanda (by Neil)" from An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer.
An Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer is available in stores now.

Recorded live in 2012, and initially released as a limited edition set to Kickstarter backers, Neil and Amanda now bring the experience to you for your listening pleasure.

  Enjoy 3 full discs of Neil and Amanda performing audience favorites, duets, cover songs, poetry, short stories, and more!  

Artwork by Cynthia von Buhler: http://www.cynthiavonbuhler.com/ 
8in8 is comprised of Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and Damian Kulash of OK Go: http://www.eightineight.com/‎  

The live album can be purchased within the webshop: http://amandapalmer.net/shop  

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Neil Gaiman - Poem For Amanda (by Neil)

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know

Neil Gaiman reads from the only surviving "prompt copy" – Dickens's own performance script – of "A Christmas Carol." Background, context, and some curious factoids here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/23/neil-gaiman-reads-charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol

Neil Gaiman reads Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"

Background, transcript, and more here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/04/duke-ellington-remixer/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/design-matters-with-debbie-139

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Terry Teachout on Duke Ellington's creative borrowing and plagiarism

Recorded at TED 2014 in Vancouver. Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/20/neil-gaiman-ghost-stories/

Neil Gaiman on the haunting ghost of dead ideas

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/11/dorothy-parker-reads/

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Dorothy Parker reads "Inscription For The Ceiling Of A Bedroom"

From the Criterion Collection disc 'Wise Blood.' Context and more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/25/flannery-o-connor-grotesque-reading/

Flannery O'Connor reads "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

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La Mar - Anchor (Mazde Remix)

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/18/amanda-palmer-wislawa-szymborska-possibilities-poem-reading/

Photograph by Allan Amato. 

Amanda Palmer reads "Possibilities" by Wisława Szymborska

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From my debut album 'Ology'
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if im drowning wont you take me to the waterfall?
lay stones in front of those banks
and keep me underwater til im breathing
throw me in the fire til im frozen
teach me til i dont know what im doing

why dont we open up sometime?
sell me that gold in your veins
i want your fortress next to mine
every nightmare on your plate
can i trust that you wont mind 
my sanity slipping away?
why dont we open up?

if youre thirsty, let me lead you to the maranjab--
plant trees in spite of those rays
and leave you in the sun until youre soaking
throw you in the fire til youre frozen
teach you til you dont know what you do

lets be the last ones

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Ology

Open Up

dont click this. 💙

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/12/elizabeth-gilbert-nypl

Photograph by Jori Klein for NYPL

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Elizabeth Gilbert on Tom Waits and creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert on Norman Mailer and the cancer of writerly myths

Recorded for Brain Pickings. Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/02/amanda-palmer-reads-wislawa-szymborska

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Amanda Palmer reads "Life While-You-Wait" by Wislawa Szymborska

Uma das mais raras interpretações, dessas que Amy gostava de fazer, de maneira informal, sem dúvidas é uma das que mais impressiona; comove...
Nunca imaginei Amy Winehouse cantando Beatles e quando me deparei com a canção do Paul McCartney "All My Loving", na lista das mais lindas da banda de Liverppol, eu não conti as lágrimas...

Amy Winehouse - All My Loving

To read Neil's blog - "Ray Bradbury" - from 2012.06.06, visit http://bit.ly/ngjRAY1
To read his blog - "Ray Bradbury: In Memoriam and In Green Town Illinois" - posted in the evening of 2012.06.06, visit http://bit.ly/ngjRAY2

This recording was released via the Kickstarter/fan-funded live album "An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer" - additional info available at http://kck.st/pF2lMG
Recorded on 2011.11.08 in Portland, OR at the Aladdin Theater.

Written and Read by Neil Gaiman | @NeilHimself

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jaron Luksa | @JaronSound
Original artwork by Cynthia von Buhler | @CynthVonBuhler
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Amy Winehouse - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (Live De La Semaine)

Roald Dahl: The Last Act (Audiobook Extract) read by Gillian Anderson

Blessed be your longing. Your endless ache. Your sharp crystal shatter. Your sea glass heart.
Blessed be the long, slow slide into desire.  The swift plunging wound to the heart. The bleeding out onto the kitchen floor.
Blessed be the fierce of want and the howl of despair and the swan dive of surrender.
Blessed be the indignation of right and the never more naked of wrong.
Blessed be your strong smooth body and your roadmap of scars and brittle bones that give way under the weight of lives unlived.
Blessed be the unmet passion, the ruthless boredom, the absolute certainty of regret.
Blessed be the sweet laughter.  The hard fuck.  The bitter fight.  The soft  impossible forgiveness.
Blessed be the restless seeker.  The relentless urgency.   The unanswered call.
Blessed be the giving up.  The hope unraveled. The void at the end.  The clenched fists and the desperate grasping and the way it all slides away when the time comes.
Blessed be your trembling breath and your strong knees.  Blessed be your siren song and your briny tears and your frantic prayer.
Blessed be your violin body, your electric hipbone, your staircase ribs.
Blessed be your slaughtered dreams and your cynical projection.  Blessed be your fire of initiation. Your ritual of comfort. Your secret shame.  Your whispered confession. Blessed be your primal roar.
Blessed be the rejection.  The hollowed out, disregarded heart.   Blessed be the end of the rope, the absence of expectation, the way it all gives way eventually.
Blessed be the blood and guts and gore of it all.
Blessed be the wanton emptiness of greed and the brutal havoc of love and the way peace grows in between cracks in cement.
Blessed be the dirty street corner hustle and the pretty surface of things and where they meet in the most sacred center.
Blessed be the harsh divinity.  The winged flight.  The salt skin.  The symphony of lust.
Blessed be the holy and the worship.  Blessed be the sacred mother. Blessed be the faithless edges. Blessed be the ritual of liturgy and agnostic devotion.  Blessed be the profane and the provocation.
Blessed be the brazen orgy, the unabashed revelry, the stained glass cathedral of your hungry flesh.
Blessed be the solitary pilgrimage and the long journey home.
Blessed be the one who contains herself. Blessed be the one who contains us all.
Blessed be the truth that demands reckoning and the goodbye that wrenches secrets from behind closed lips. Blessed be the sucker punch bruises.
Blessed be smooth slide of sun behind the mountains.  Blessed be the wise desert and the pounding sea.
Blessed be the sweet swell of words. The luxury of punctuation. The silent spaces between bodies. The ragged sigh of breath on bone.
Blessed be the poet and the poem and the one between them who has no words of her own.
Blessed be the plagiarism, the thievery, the rash disregard for origin, the gratitude for the beginning of things.
Blessed be our free fall into destiny. Our slow burn.  Our consuming fire.  Blessed be the breaking and the becoming.
Blessed be the ugly.  Blessed be the sweet sin. Blessed be the rage. Blessed be the grace.
Blessed be. Blessed be.  Blessed be.
In the end, all words are just another way to say amen.

Amanda Palmer reads "Life While-You-Wait" by Wislawa Szymborska

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