About the Beach Song

Again, I stress that a specific university wasn't named, and that I was writing it from the perspective of Dunedin students (ie Ethan and Michelle). My script was well on the way before I published that Ad, and frankly I think my protest was at best a minor thread in the many years of bs that made the NZSM look like shit. That's mostly their fault, and not mine. That's why I'm angry at VUW: it seems pathetic than an institution with so many other problems would be so into my Tina script, yet lack the balls to call me in to meet with me about it. That's why I'm shifting to prose, and also not enrolling for an MA. No way, no how, and I honestly would refuse even if court charges ensued, which I highly doubt they would... that's what I've learned over 5+ years of activism: not a single charge filed against me, despite my tactics. - Even this Chloe malarkey, which obviously isn't my proudest hour, didn't result in a compulsory treatment order: that's a sign of how sane I am, and how convincingly I argued my position. Compared to my brother, who has had several compulsory treatment orders, I'm a lot less psychotic, and I think (mostly) the same things when I'm well. - If you're one of those rationalisers who thinks my student music was better than my post-student music... nobody thought that until after I demo'd Pan's Preludes: that's hindsight economics, to borrow a Grant Robertson phrase. This is why I hate my upbringing... a bunch of spoiled sods! I think The Eyes on Me or Chamber of Colours V. - which were purely improvised - are as good as Vanya's Lament or Portrait of a Knight, which were fastidiously notated. And that The Light of Other Days is equal to my student piano piece.