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Pink & White #43 - 22 June 2026
The latter is what happened with my preludes, which are fully written out.
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 221 min read
Another Disney lie
No, Portrait of a Knight doesn't infringe on Kate and Leopold. That would be like saying Kate and Leopold infringes on Mannequin. Or that The Panthers infringes upon Portrait of a Knight.. It's got songs; it borrowed some of the Riddell Productions techniques. - We put Portrait of a Knight on Vimeo in 2018. That means Disney's lawyers have no case. We would've received a C&D. The album was a genuine success on Amazon Music. 12,000+ people listened to The Knight on My Couc
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 222 min read
To Disney and Sony
a) accept defeat. b) stop blaming the shootout on me. Even if I had successfully 'stolen' Michelle back from Paul Mescal, that wouldn't be grounds for the kidnapping and hostage situation. We were very clear that Michelle wasn't planning to get back together with me. That's Hollywood shit, and I think that Hollywood needs to take responsibility for shaping my enemies into monsters. All they had to do was opt out of stalking my page and sending me daily threats. I was doing
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 211 min read
'community'
Smartarse answer: is that the same community that you told I was a demented pervert and a risk to others? There's no way to cover it up. Eventually, the Greens will have to admit transphobia to end my boycott. So will National. Stop telling me that I'm a danger to others when you're the stalkers, not me. - It's like National, who think persuading me to attend Question Time = a victory. I'm not attending because Luxon would seek to arrest me. Much like Weeded Out being p
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 211 min read


Samoan enharmonic?
160c cycle
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 211 min read


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Amanda Riddell
Jun 210 min read
To Sony and Disney
I didn't stalk your actors or director on social media. Your people stalked me, secure that your clout would allow them to bully me and turn me into your secret sauce. If Paul Mescal was reading my posts, that doesn't make me liable for his death. It means that he concocted a sadistic revenge scheme to get Michelle back, and those posts of mine which he read were the engine that motivated his particular choices. As I said, I had those people in my head attempting to make m
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 201 min read
Local music nerd info
I saw the article about how venues are dying, which was also a theme in 2023. Personally, I started in classical music and then started performing at weed clubs, so it's not like alcohol underwrites my gigs or tours (that's probably why I don't make money!). It's impossible to build a cannabis venue at the moment, as it would require all the tokers to have medical certificates. That's what Chris Fowlie told me after the poor turnout at my 2025 gig: Golriz came, as did Sir P
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 201 min read
For all the comms nerds
In New Zealand, Pride Month takes place in February. It's one of those social media things that bugs me every June. I'm not anti-American, but why should I celebrate their date? Being queer happens all year, and my big push was in May.
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 201 min read
'make how-to videos'
Pay me for lessons. My rates are on my website. I can sing and play guitar in most genres; lots of you want pointers.
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 181 min read
Amanda and the Beatles people
It cuts both ways: they sprung into action when I overdosed last year, then I was able to do the same when Paul and Michelle were in trouble. In my case, it meant that I wasn't referred to community mental health or considered as a realistic suicide risk. My answers to those questions supported Jane's view. - Why wasn't Working For Each Other covered in NZ media? 1. Nobody asked me. 2. I think their framing was probably going to be smarmy, charity-case stuff. Believe me,
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 181 min read
AMPP vs. the 'real' parties - part 2
Ok, here are the numbers from our two advertising blocks -- Jan-Feb, May-June Block 1 $682.10 spend 79,129 Meta Accounts 140,958 Impressions ($4.84 per 1,000 impressions = $0.48 per impression) 1,221 Link Clicks ($0.56 per click) 1.65% Click-Through Rate 1.78 Frequency Block 2 $557.77 spend 47,741 Meta Accounts 83,512 Impressions ($6.68 per 1,000 impressions = $0.67 per impression) 674 Link Clicks ($0.83 per click) 0.81% Click-Through Rate 1.75 Frequency As we can see, t
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 181 min read
Michael Jackson trivia
The Jackson family has some very good musicians in it. People that were able to seamlessly transcribe* Michael or Janet as they improvised. *Quincy Jones did that for Thriller, obviously. Michael could read music and write a song, but was busy dancing. Taylor is able to do it all as she's only doing basic steps. An interesting factoid is that Michael was into classical voice and would read PV scores. Composers we both liked were Palestrina and Purcell. - Why is this hidd
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 171 min read
My movie career
Would be dead in seconds if I gave a terrible performance as Tina. I'd never get to direct another feature. I'd never get to write another screenplay for hire. I'd just be that person who sucked at being myself. The Dakumentary is a masterpiece, and this obsession with 'do it again, but in 8K' is utterly pathetic. - I don't think that Shaun of the Dead is just Spaced with a few million pounds. It's an entire universe unto itself, one so successful that it spawned a trilogy
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 162 min read
Viewing Party
Yellow Submarine/Working For Each Other. I'm watching NZ vs. Iran at 1pm NZT. It's 9:15am. - The spooks tell me that they want me to stay up for three days in a row. Testing me... I've been up for 6-7 days before, and didn't go entirely psychotic. Been up overnight. - Paul reckons that it was a Lennon-McCartney story. Some of the designs are his, like the blue meanies concept. George says that they approved storyboards. In New Zealand, blue meanies is a slang term fo
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 161 min read
'fail ed and provide'
No, I'm finally about to inherit $400,000. Even if I don't get paid for Working For Each Other and Beatles Invade New Zealand, I'm still going to have enough money to live comfortably until you accede to my demands. 1. Joel Baldwin has to get a decent go as the soloist for my preludes. He's taken the time to learn the music. Owen has to meet me and apologise. 2. My position in society cannot be conditional upon visibility or performance. 3. Wellington has to accept words
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 162 min read


AMPP - 2026 campaign results to date
While I campaign on many platforms, Facebook is where I pay for advertising. My intention was to spend around $10-15,000 total on my 2026 campaign. Some of that is for electioneering/gigs, but most of it is for ads. - $1,239.87 Spent. 118,959 Meta Accounts reached. 225,305 Total Impressions. 84,605 Page Engagements 1207 Page Reactions 269 Comments - As the Green Party can see, these numbers are really healthy. I'm not kidding when I say that The Dakumentary = an engaged
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 151 min read


'retire'
No. For starters, the AMPP effect being real doesn't mean that I should shut up. I was extremely clear that I was intending to take the 2026 election seriously. Unlike the real parties, I published my manifesto last year, and leapt into action with some solid hits and policy discussion in January and February. Then they found two comments that they interpreted in a deliberately malicious manner, and used those to shut me up until late April. By that point, Collective Memor
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 152 min read
To Steve Barr
Mate, you can't have my songs, my stories, my likeness or my filmmaking abilities. I hate you with every fibre of my being for being a self-centred, abusive prick. Disney made you into a monster. The idea that you could steal my screenplay, bully me into losing my job, then leverage your social connections to threaten me into performing the leading role is corruption, not competent producing. Any competent producer would have met me. They would have negotiated fairly, then
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 152 min read
To Paul Thompson and RNZ's senior staff
Look, after Michelle's brutal beating, you have to call a moratorium on threatening me. No more 'stow ed away' -- editor's tricks = intentional aggravation to piss me off. My bulge isn't illegal and your bigotry is. - Steve Barr and Christopher Luxon are suspects in a front line investigation. The NZ Police have good reason to believe that they have systemically harassed me. RNZ is going to have to admit some level of involvement, but please pin it on them. I don't blame
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 151 min read
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