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Bitching about the opera people
Seriously! It's like they expect me to write every aria for a 70-piece orchestra with distended vowels and stolid tempi. Precisely the...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 91 min read
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Being a dissident
Is much more personal in Aotearoa. Flying under the radar is a bit difficult in such a small place, though the nature of our daktivism...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 81 min read
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Court is where this ends up...
The legalities are clear: if VUW or other entities attempt to pursue using my music, and I catch wind of it, they'll end up in court. In...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 62 min read
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To all the parents
Yeah, you're not the same people you were before your children, and far more susceptible to disinformation and misinformation about trans...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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Reviews?
Not in Wellington, until I get my apology from Tory and Nadine. That's the lesson to them: people like me being around, and your...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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fame and riches...
People keep on accusing me of seeking fame or money. I'd say yes to the former (begrudgingly), but absolutely not to the latter. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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Identity politics and opera/musicals
Bluntly, would you rather have an endless series of operas about White or Asian people, or would you rather have a bunch of different...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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To Ant
Yeah, why would some effete opera composer be a huge fan of yours that went to all those NZ film premieres? Well, my brother and I...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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programming choices
Yes, I know that pirating on Facebook is hella illegal, but I don't give a shit. The odds of being extradited to the US are vanishingly...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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cheap netbook
For $100 this is working great. Dave Roil told me that Pakeha don't get that you're supposed to buy stuff at those sustainability things....
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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Golriz
Well, she's not officially on the team for the opera yet, but I'm pitching to her (obviously). I barely knew her from real life, but she...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 51 min read
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Final terms
The negotiations over my IP have concluded, and these are the only remaining options. There is only one legal option: Tina dies and VUW...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 52 min read
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The ring
Nobody has asked me to take it off, and neither have they asked if I'm married. I'm wearing cheap jewelry to Parliament. The ring is an...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 41 min read
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two days, but wasn't under a CTO
inferring something (god, I hate this). Oh well; it's still news, and the thrust of my piece is valid. That's a good defence. Turns out...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 41 min read
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as a poet
Well, I don't take it that seriously. Those aren't my life blood. It's fun, and that light type of humour comes across well.
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 41 min read
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Fragments of childhood
A Casio keyboard Sat gathering dust In the rest home lounge. Fingering it, My mind wandered... * Daydreams of Jelly tip ice blocks at...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 41 min read
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Rights negotiation over
All you had to do, VUW, was simply and reasonably pay me in 2023. That would've been a genuinely helpful gesture. That would have...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 31 min read
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nerd thought
I wonder how many CDs have never been released in another format and the master tapes have been stolen or lost? Lots of recorded music...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 31 min read
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What wasn't real in Weeded Out?
Well, most of it. Very little was exactly like life, but was extemporising on phrases and situations from reality. It was a show idea,...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 31 min read
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G&S biography quotes
'These are the usual steps of the born artist: first the actor, then the producer, finally the writer; or, less concretely, assertion,...
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 33 min read
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