Showing posts with label self-control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-control. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Amanda Palmer: Fakir

I was reading "Willpower" by Roy Baumeister and found this passage which I imagine that Fourth Way fans might find interesting. I don't know much about Amanda Palmer, but that she's married to Neil Gaiman counts for something in my book.

Here's the passage:

If you have a causal acquaintance with Amanda Palmer's music, if you know about her banned-in-Britain abortion song or the "Backstabber" video of her running down a hall naked holding an upraised knife chasing the equally naked guy in lipstick who was just in bed with her, you probably don't think of her as a paragon of self-control. 
She has been described in a lot of ways -- an edgier Lady Gaga, a funnier Madonna, the high priestess of "Brechtian punk cabaret"-- but the words 'Victorian' and 'repressed generally don't come up. Her persona is Dionysian. When she accepted a marriage proposal from Neil Gaiman, the British fantasy novelist, Palmer's idea of a formal announcement was a morning-after confession on Twitter that she might have gotten engaged "but also might have been drunk."