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Dresden Dolls

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Genres: Alternative / Rock

Location: Boston, MA

Stats: 5,799 fans / 386,836 plays / 0 plays today

Members: Amanda Palmer- Piano, Toy Piano & Vocals
Brian Viglione- Drums & Percussion

Dresden Dolls's Top Song: Girl Anachronism Buy Album

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Dear Editor- I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, If you see it in The Sun, it's so. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

-Virginia O'Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

(Printed as is, from the New York Sun, 1897)

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Contact:

THE DRESDEN DOLLS
c/o Madison House Inc.
628 Broadway #502
New York, NY 10012
(please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope)

booking@dresdendolls.com

Please send all fanmail to:

contacttheband@dresdendolls.com

If you like what you hear CDs, etc. can be ordered here:
http://www.jsrdirect.com/bands/dresdendolls/

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jamaynefreak said:
I LOVE YOU GUYS! ;p 3 weeks ago
said:
SO i absolutely love you guys. In the morning before school starts I find a set of speakers and play my music... most of the time it's you guys and my friends laugh at me because I sing along and make good faces. I LOVE YOU!!!! Jan 14
ALYSSA pookie :] said:
i love coin operated boy :D Nov 03
A l i c i a a a a. (: said:
Make your songs all downloads, pleeease? :D Oct 24
bandcampbabe said:
omg i love u guys!!! u gotta come 2 vegas! and u should put bad habit on here!!! its my theme song...lol Aug 04
Joey.JailBreak said:
You guys are seriously one of the best bands i know. I love your music. Its so different and influential. I love it, and i love you guys. Come play in the Philly area sometime Jul 09
BananaGar said:
ilove the rocky horror cover, good creative twists Jul 01
Oh!.So.Freak said:
theres not enough words to describe DD music!!.. i love u :) Jun 08
♡intage D☮llface™ said:
you guys are pretty awesome :] Jun 05
Eda said:
You have inspired me to occasionally put on an excruciating amount of white face paint, quit talking, and become a mime. Jun 03
miss_scissorhands said:
No, Virginia. . . is pretty much the greatest album since Yes, Virginia. . . May 28
Kaylaness. said:
Omigosh! I love your music! May 27
moe said:
you guys are sooooooo awesome. i love your music! Apr 26
danaDestroys™ said:
WOAH your one of my heroes. do ya thang girl. :] Dirty business is SO my song. Apr 02
suzuneechan said:
santa creeps me out... he's some old fat guy who... breaks into your house... and eats your cookies... that's not cool, man Mar 24