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My film scoring rules
Don't give me a temp track unless you're one of those brilliant needle-drop directors. I don't want a music supervisor telling me to...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 2, 20251 min read
No adaptations
No donations. Weeded Out isn't legally available. Please let me say no. Give up on your tactics, and admit that meeting me was a better...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 2, 20251 min read
trans visibility
I'd say that my years of crossdressing in Wellington are more valuable than the TV show that is attempting to cash in on my success. You...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 2, 20251 min read
Writing basics
You can't pinch someone's idea unless it's in the public domain. Ironically, my version of Weeded Out was comprised of public domain...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 2, 20251 min read
"Be a bimbo"
That's basically the pitch. That's not ok. As I said in the manifesto, that's the trannie ghetto. There's a bunch of people in...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 2, 20251 min read
Me vs. Māoridom
No, it's not because I'm a plummy toff. It's because I'm a gay plummy toff. A lot of macho bros just can't handle that. Noticeably, the...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 1, 20251 min read
To the Americans
No, I'm not awestruck by Hollywood. If it was 1948, maybe. 2025 is just a bunch of corporate suits beating the dead horses of...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 1, 20252 min read
To Whom It May Concern,
This letter is to formally establish the current and continuing position regarding the intellectual property rights of Amanda Michelina...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 30, 20253 min read
'let us film it; we'll give you credit'
No. Never. You can't say to young filmmakers that the way to succeed is to steal someone's script, then blackmail them into working for...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 29, 20251 min read
How to reconnect with me
Meet me socially. Give me my social life back by apologising for the slander. Accept that my value as a person goes beyond doing a gig...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 29, 20251 min read
'treatment' = torture
You've got to stop asking me to wank, sing or play guitar when I'm angry. How about communicating directly, meeting me in person, and...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 29, 20252 min read
Being profiled
Well, when all this conversion therapy and SIS bs went nuclear in 2022 and early 2023, I was a member of Te Pāti Māori. Clearly, that...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 29, 20251 min read
Why settle?
Simple: the Greens are in big trouble, and Golriz and Darleen are ticked off at you. My case merely lends weight to their beliefs that...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 29, 20251 min read
The boycott
Was probably the best activism idea I had. Essentially, I wasn't going to concerts anyway, but when I formally called it a boycott, it...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 29, 20251 min read
Let's look at my case
First: these old scales aren't state secrets. I decoded ones from NZ, and it turns out that they're applicable to French Polynesia. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 29, 20252 min read
Classical guitar vs. classical music
It's the same the world over: we're just barely recognised as a classical instrument, and they all think that it's like rock. Newsflash:...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 28, 20251 min read


Tahitian enharmonic
I reversed the 3rd and 4th steps of the Niuean/Society Islands one. Sounded good.
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 28, 20251 min read
'Oro's Preludes
Unfortunately for the NZSO, they didn't commission the piece, I'm not a professor, and therefore they have to pay a very hefty licencing...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 28, 20253 min read
Why won't I do more study?
I don't need those resources to flourish as a musician or as a thinker. I'd rather get a job, but I'll admit that my mental health isn't...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 27, 20251 min read
How Do I Know Jacinda?
She's a really early fan. Saw a film that I'd written music for in 2015. Plus she's friends with Barbara. Went to Question Time when she...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 27, 20251 min read
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