If you do not like Amanda Palmer, I imagine ALL of the reasons you have for that are all the exact same reasons I love her. She is so over-the-top, she is theater gone bad. I stood at the Metro in Chicago and waited for her to come out, only to watch Neil Gaimen saunter out on stage and read something he had wrote about her “death”. I don’t know how any other person could have the entire Chicago Metro stand there hushed, while Gaimen reads his words. The Danger Ensemble was hidden, walking through the crowd, until they reached center stage, where they pulled veiled Amanda Palmer up into the air.

To express to you, my fascination of Amanda Palmer, all I can say, is that for the entire show, I only had one drink. A whiskey sour, served up by a waitress who was walking through the crowd. If the waitress had not been walking around, I would have had nothing, because I was not taking my eyes off the stage. I do not remember being so frozen and attentive during a performance, but the entire production commands your attention. Honestly, it was the same feelings, I had eons ago when friend’s dad dropped us off at Motley Crue. It was the same idiotic slack-jawed feeling!

I think Mr Pungsnotded had it right, when he said that all of the people at the show thought they were going to get to go home with Amanda Palmer. He was right, I thought I was going to get to go home with Amanda Palmer. There is just this spirit that surrounds her, and everyone wants to be a part. And overall, everyone is a part of the spectacle, because without the adoration of the audience, the crazy dramatic lighting and performances of the Danger Ensemble would not work!

Really, the ironic lip-synching of her own song, Guitar Hero might be my favorite of the whole show. So absolutely perfect, how else would you sing such a song! I loved this show, it exceeded and what exactly what I would have expected. And to have been there, in Chicago, this year, after the election, I think I will remember it forever.