Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is 240 kilometres (150 mi) south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania, the 26th largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of 507,626 (as of June 2010[update]), of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart precinct. Tasmania’s area is 68,401 square kilometres (26,410 sq mi), of which the main island covers 62,409 square kilometres (24,096 sq mi).
Tasmania is promoted as the natural state, the "Island of Inspiration", and A World Apart, Not A World Away owing to its large and relatively unspoiled natural environment. Almost 37% of Tasmania lies in reserves, national parks and World Heritage Sites. The island is 364 kilometres (226 mi) long from its northernmost to its southernmost points, and 306 kilometres (190 mi) from west to east.
The state capital and largest city is Hobart, which encompasses the local government areas of City of Hobart, City of Glenorchy, and City of Clarence, while the satellite town of Kingston (part of the Municipality of Kingborough) is generally included in the Greater Hobart area.
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976), sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has since started a solo career, and is also one half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn.
Palmer was born in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. She attended Lexington High School, where she was involved in the drama department, and attended Wesleyan University where she was a member of the Eclectic Society. She staged performances based on work by the Legendary Pink Dots, an early influence, and was involved in the Legendary Pink Dots electronic mailing list, Cloud Zero.[citation needed] She then formed the Shadowbox Collective, devoted to street theatre and putting on theatrical shows (such as the 2002 play, Hotel Blanc, which she directed).
With an interest in the performing arts, both in music and in theatre, Palmer spent time busking as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride" in Harvard Square, Cambridge; Edinburgh, Scotland; Australia (where she met Jason Webley); as well as many other locations. She references this line of work on The Dresden Dolls' self-titled CD, with the song "The Perfect Fit":
Tea House Moon is an instrumental
They spelled my name wrong again
With an E between the D and the N
Some dope didn't know it should be an O
They spelled my name wrong again
Why in God's name can't they check
It's a pain in the ass and the neck
Not a capital crime, but it's the umpteenth time
Why in God's name can't they check
I see my name up there in lights
Then I notice it's not spelled right
Tell me why do I put up with it
Pavorotti or Shirley would quit
When you've been around for awhile
These spelling mistakes start to rile
I guess that's rock and roll
Dyslexia takes it's toll
You've been around for awhile
My parents should shoulder some blame
For calling their kid a strange name
Spell it with me friends L-O-U-D-O... N, yes!
My parents should shoulder some blame
My eyes narrow, I start to squint
I think that's my name there in print
Tell me why do I put up with it
Sinatra would have a shit fit!
Wainwright has two w's
They get that one wrong and I get the blues
That old grammar school try 's
Not good enough guys
Wainwright has two w's
One day I thought I would die
When I saw with my very one eye
L-U-D-I-N- W-E-I-N-R-I-G-H-T
I picked you up and lifted your wilted frame into the
I was taken back, yeah, I was taken back
And by the time I caught my breath
You had blossomed into something
That I did not expect
And if it takes all night
I swear I'll wai
For you
Forever
Sunlight, sunshine
All for you my Daisy
We're getting this before you leave
All for you my Daisy
You're a wreck and you know
You've got me wrapped around your finger
Like a boy tangled in vines
But I've figured you out
And now we're here
We're so confused
And I wish that there was some way
That I could tell you
Sunlight, sunshine
All for you my Daisy
We're getting this before you leave
All for you my Daisy
All for, all for, all for you my Daisy
All for, all for, all for you my Daisy
Sunlight, sunshine
All for you my Daisy
We're getting this before you leave
All for you my Daisy
Sunlight, (sunrise)
Sunshine (sunshine)
We're getting this, getting this
(Kali baby...)
[Chorus:]
I'm fucked up, you fucked up, we fucked up
Can we do sum'n?
Hell yeah (Hell yeah)
Hell yeah (Hell yeah)
Hell yeah (Hell yeah)
N I'm about to get up in it.
I'm fucked up, you fucked up, we fucked up
Can we get it freaky?
Hell yeah (Hell yeah)
Hell yeah (Hell yeah)
Hell yeah (Hell yeah)
N we gon' leave her in a minute
We in the V.I.P. spot
Lookin for them nono girls
Who wanna give it to us even though they barely knew us
In Kazoo there they would do the crew, there's two for me and one for you
N dey make me hot
N I'm lookin for a girl to do some
Extra able-bodied, baby till the night stop
Are you gon' be that one?
That very special one?
To come to do me right
Like we on our wedding night
If so, okay, let's go;
My room, clothes hit the flo.
And where they go we'll never know
Blame it on the Cuervo.
It's kinda hard to resist a sista
With tha lips of an angel an dem big ole hips on her
Like what I seen and then I made my approach
I said "Ya got a good team, baby ya need a new coach."
N I'm a 5-10 minute mac
And when we finish that
151 rrum wonder if I know how to act
It's movin thru me and you too
And ain't no tellin whatchu gon do
When the sex on tha beach is affectin how ya speakin (Yeah!)
Ain't even the weekend; you creepin on a Thursday
Boughtchu a drink cause you lookin thirstay!
Gobble it gobble it!
[Chorus]
We offa one too many!
Baby let me call us a cab!
We way too tipsy!
Ya lookin like ya got sum'n ya wantin me ta have
So let's make the night go right
Go back to my castle, relax a baby
Lemme relax you, n when I make tha lights go low
You go low, woman
Kali baby, known for makin women want him! (Really!)
(It ain't ova! Let me turn you ova!
I told you I'm a beast now lemme show you girl!)
Fasten your seatbelt it's bout to get turbulent,
After I hurdle your girdle we'll experiment,
An' I know I'm to' up
1 and 2 and 3, foreplay
You do what-e-ver I say
It's only right of you to spend the night
Now come on bay bay
First we'll let the song play,
Then do what the song say
We're married any way
It's all a part of our role play
Do You See Me Now
Hate the reflection that I see
Wish I could claw... away... my skin
Demons won't let me flee my minds tragedy
Don't label me, not a minority
Society created me
First cuts the neatest, I didn't feel a thing
Don't show me your pity
Second cuts the deepest, a release from within
Don't try to analyse me
Carve pretty pictures of hatred
Avert your eyes, my artwork doesn't lie
Refuse to acknowledge me
I'm not what you want to see
So inject and study me
Pump me with hypocrisy
Third cuts the longest, I just lost control
No doctor can save me
Fourth cuts the boldest, I've an eye for detail
Don't try to admit me
My condition has no name
It's not like I'm insane
Redirect your empathy
My body's my vengeance
I'm addicted to pain
Dug myself a hole again
Lost my self-control again
Kicked myself in the head again
Made my own dumb bed again
CHORUS:
Dizzy moon, dizzy moon
The dream is over
Dizzy moon, dizzy moon
The dream is dead
Lost myself in the mail again
Hit my head on the nail again
Slept myself awake again
Burned myself at the stake again
CHORUS
Dug myself a hole again
Lost my self-control again
Kicked myself in the head again
Made my own dumb bed again
Lost myself in the mail again
Tossed myself in jail again
I walked by your window
I thought that maybe you'd see me
Knowing there'd be changes
Is this the way it was to be?
The things we planned just yesterday
Was it only something that we had to say?
Last night I remember
You looked as though you really cared
Today not the same one
You had another face prepared
The magic of those things we'd seen
Vanished with the words that we were supposed to mean
I called up your name and
Maybe it's true that you don't know me
Could this be the same one?
Who had so much you wished to show me
I don't know what was to believe