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Amanda Riddell
11 hours ago1 min read
For Golriz
The best voices communicate a way of being; a subtle force, echoes of past and present. The last ebbing tones in a DEI suicide note: why...
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Amanda Riddell
1 day ago1 min read
Hi
See, it pays to have powerful friends. But yeah, Golriz is controversial. A lot of people are looking at me differently since we became...
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago1 min read
Tragedies that happened while I was in the newsroom
QEII's death, Auckland Anniversary Floods and Cyclone Gabrielle, Ihumātao, protests in Hong Kong, Whakaari/White Island eruption, Adani...
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Amanda Riddell
4 days ago3 min read
Question Time 12.03.2025
First time in ages that I made it to Parliament. Saw Ben at the crossing near the Cenotaph. Debbie moved for an urgent debate about...
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Amanda Riddell
4 days ago2 min read
Reforming the conservatory
Well, the NZSM as we know it is pretty much dead. If people had listened to me 2 years ago when the funding cuts that threatened the...
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Amanda Riddell
4 days ago1 min read
Credit wars
Well, VUW got a thanks for the lighting equipment that we used for Portrait of a Knight, but they didn't invest in any of my films, other...
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Amanda Riddell
6 days ago1 min read
To the lobbyists
I'm essentially the anti-lobbyist. Politicians are interested enough to watch my ads, but they've not historically had much time for...
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Amanda Riddell
6 days ago1 min read
Litany of mistakes - Amanda vs. Wellington
They have to simply apologise for being wrong. 1. I'm not attracted to children; this should've been a no-brainer. 2. Haven't...
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Amanda Riddell
6 days ago1 min read
Reminder
It may have seemed natural to put my EP songs with the drama screenplay, but that wasn't the way that it was written. The script included...
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Amanda Riddell
6 days ago1 min read
Perfumed Garden thought
How about some DIY percussion? I like the sound of pipes banging, and it might add another colour, alongside trad western percussion and...
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Amanda Riddell
7 days ago2 min read
Why won't I return to the NZSM?
Because the NZ School of Music has never directly invested in my professional development, despite investing in Jake's career. All those...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 81 min read
Covid pop
I was great at that, but now that the whole scene is back to the status quo, my shtick isn't really something that transfers to stadium...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 81 min read
update on the porn warfare
Something new today: sexual cartoons using the same font as me (Permanent Marker). Bestial themes. I'm not anti-furry, but that's not my...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 81 min read
'she seems keen'
Re: the opera. That's what I was saying, though it sorta looks like she's flirting with me based on when Golriz chooses to read my...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 61 min read
Weird
Pan's Preludes were all written as pure music, but people project programmatic things onto each movement. They were all unfinished...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 62 min read
Neurodiversity and privilege
Something that struck me while reading Far From The Tree (ages ago) was that there's tension in America over palatable neurodiverse...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 41 min read
Amanda Michelina Presents: Political Satire
This is all the fruit head AI skits and a few stand-up interviews altered with trippy VFX. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcRO8br...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 41 min read
Titles based on song lyrics by other people
Yeah, I do that a bit. A Beauty Asleep, The Road You Didn't Take, Just Like Yesterday. Deconstructing hooks, though it's not like I ever...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 11 min read
To Tory
I don't want to go over the events of the hui again - there's another post that captured most of those - but I'm going to bring up a...
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Amanda Riddell
Mar 12 min read
Building a career
For better or worse, one of the problems with building a career in NZ is that most art is heavily dependent on state subsidies, and the...
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