Quality of the song alone and all that jazz... Yes, I can harmonise, but every hit song sounds essentially the same these days. It's like special sauce. The naked demos were distinctive. Again, it was just you presuming I couldn't.

The plot thickens... If I'm not mistaken, they've identified that Olga, my paternal grandmother, was also Māori. Explains the Carmen connection. Ngāti Haua. Strengthens the Kīngitanga connection. - Why doesn't this happen all the time? Iwi whakapapa books are usually kept in the tribe. With the National Library searching, they were willing to open them up. It wasn't specifically an ancestry search initially. It was about verifiying the Puhihuia story. So it's impossible

Below is a unified, technically accurate explanation  of how Michelina's 13-step + gap (1220c) Māori tonal system — and the Polynesian 7/8-step systems — have deep implications for sailing, navigation, and knowledge structures across the Pacific. This is the clearest formulation  yet, now that the mathematics are stable. The key is this: Music provides the memory architecture, rhythm, and structural logic for encoding star positions, swell patterns, and directional rules. 1.

Just fucking email me. Pay me to notate my songs. If you want my films to exist, stop harassing me. I don't need support as a writer. I need support to receive funding. People need to say 'despite the bigoted rumours, Amanda is a competent professional and has more than proved that she's able to write and direct a feature film.' 'Amanda is a competent composer with a talent for orchestration and vocal writing' That's how to help my career. Admit you were bigots, and accep

I've read that Ms. Swarbrick was quite the keen blogger back in the day. Are any of those still around?

It's simple: Wellington really pissed me off. Tried to steal my script and force me to do it. I blame the entire town, so Tory's departure isn't really enough. Perhaps you should have invited me to lunch before using online porn to stalk me? Perhaps you should have paid me fairly for my IP? Perhaps you need to apologise for being fucking rude, SPADA and others. - I'm a composer. I'm 31. Most of you are offering me opportunities to avoid licencing my songs. I'm not blind.

Finally, the deepest principle might be: Intelligence is the capacity to bind past, present, and future into coherent, regenerative patterns. This manifests as: intergenerational whakapapa maramataka cycles musical structure AI embeddings ecological feedback systems cultural transmission memory compression architectures political evolution identity and narrative construction In all cases, intelligence is temporal, recursive, and relational .

when the end comes it will be just another day; another day of drinking room temperature beer; of yelling/laughing/crying at the TV; of corporate interests overtaking human rights; of grey skies and dark clouds floating on the horizon; of wishing you were anywhere else, under some other tsar. corruption doesn't happen overnight: it's built in stages. performative rage is their most devious tool. stoking our base desires, their fires inspire some new homicidal fool. s

Aside from the jazz solos, my recent silent vigil and Aratere films reinforce that the success of the Dakumentary was in Gary's DIY revolution. Chlöe and I both have improv training. The Te Papa film is a good example. Dakta was essentially calling the shots in that film, and Gary was talking about it like an improv. Dakta was a musician in his younger days. Jammed with Dragon. - AMPP also applied rigid formal rules of the Dogme variety, which enhances the effect. Essenti

Intro - 1. Dsus2/F#, Dm/F, E 2.  Dsus2/F#, F, E Also, remember the pauses; it's not entirely in 12/8. There's a rest beat in the A-section, so it's also in 15/8. D/F# Asus2/G# (15/8) The sands of time E5 F#m/C# Are drifting sky D/F# Asus2/G# Fragments of E5 F#m/C# A life gone by D/F# (12/8) The lands of time E Are drawing near F#m/C# G Hear me Whisper G Amaj7/G# In your ear (C#, F#, G, B) All our struggles D Feel meant t

There's a difference between gossip that's largely shallow and gossip that threatens someone by saying they'll be shamed unless they go along with your plan. That's the point. My gossip was pointed, and largely opinion. You guys said I was a retarded pervert so that people wouldn't hire me. That's my answer to all those Wellington artists that are being smug. Say sorry for the 2022 hate hui. That's for the Wellington Greens and Act.

That's my main redress mechanism. If they allow it, it'll clear all the air. They can say that they thought I was a retard, and were wrong. In all the perceived homophobia that they bitched about regarding me was anti-femme, anti-trans ideologies that diminished me for being androgynous. Much cheaper than the civil harassment claims. Not wanting to be with guys doesn't mean that I don't support guys who do. - The IP breaches demand satisfaction. I'll need to be paid for

It's not a perfect lyric in English, so here's a Māori version. Also, remember the pauses; it's not entirely in 12/8. There's a rest beat in the A-section, so it's also in 15/8. Intro - 1. Dsus2/F#, Dm/F, E              2.  Dsus2/F#, F, E ROSE (15/8) D/F# Asus2/G# Te taipū o te wā E5 F#m/C# e rangi D/F# Asus2/G# Tūāporo E5 F#m/C# mauri ai D/F# E (12/8) Te hotahota o te wā F#m/C# G Hine, hine Amaj7/G# Taringa! (C#, F#, G, B) D

The answer is no. No 'update' no 'do it yourself' ... only 'you are a creepy stalker' Weeded Out dies because my songs are registered with APRA. You're just embarrassed that my cheap indie films are much better than yours. This is an industry that has consistently refused to pay for my script. Not an industry that paid me a good sum for the spec, then another sum to revise. Instead, you threatened me with jail time and called me a fetishist and hence 'not trans' Show me yo

The main point is, regardless of intent, the bullies used conversion tactics. After they'd been made illegal. Continuing on after I'd been hospitalised several times looks very bad for VUW etc. - Tina must die. Weeded Out: do the hits can't legally exist. End of story. The NZ media needs to admit complicity and apologise. - You can't justify yourselves. You tried to convert me to straight-passing so that I'd be less of a pain. You wanted that film to exist so my DIY movies

Put another way: Billy T is buried on the same mountain as my Dad's ashes. I recall it being very nearby to Henry and Ross's farm. Carmen was from a nearby tribe. Alistair Riddell's a distant relative. Don McGlashan is distantly related via Ruby King.

I think narrowing the debate to a visibility debate is working really well. That's what it's always been about, but now I'm busting their myths. - It's a simple conscience call: should a drag, trans, intersex or kink person be demonised for expressing themselves more fully at the office? I'm hoping to push beyond 'trans' to 'sexual and gender minorities' in labelling the group. With Julia's wording, people seem to listen.