I didn’t really know what to say to her. After all, there’s not much interest an incredibly talented, and extremely busy, artist like Amanda Palmer can take in my simple recognition of a comment. So, after contemplating the moment for far, far too long, I decided I’d just make a note of it here instead. I suppose that’s what a blog is for. So it goes.
Amanda Palmer is, perhaps, currently my absolute most favourite musician alive. I find her rapturing, her music enthralling, her energy invigorating. Amanda and Brian Vigilone make up the duet band from Boston The Dresden Dolls, and I’m not afraid to say their music got me through some incredibly hard parts of my life this year.
Wait, I’m gushing here and that was not my intention with this post. I only wanted to mention one thing, because I couldn’t believe, at the time that I saw it, that Amanda’s post was appearing like that in my Twitter Feed. Perhaps I have a tendency lately to desperately search for meaning in the most useless, random places, and perhaps I find it too easily, and perhaps I spend far too long wrapped up in my silly little head mulling thoughts over that really don’t mean anything. But after a day like today, when all I really needed was a sign, somewhere, that things will be okay, Amanda gave it to me. And it probably wont make sense to ANYONE but me, but here it is.
Amanda posted, quite simply, “11:11″.
And I knew, not for the first time, that everything will, one day, be perfectly okay.
I suppose I’m just a simple Bokononist looking for whatever lies I can construct my universe with that make me feel damn fine about things. And if such, if there’s nothing else going on with 11:11 than that, then I’m damn happy to see it that way. No matter how silly it is.
Thanks Amanda. 11:11 to you too.
Check out The Dresden Dolls here: http://www.dresdendolls.com
And Amanda’s site here: http://www.amandapalmer.net/afp/
