crank rant

Ever since I made the Botans film, I think people have started trying to use the car seshes with Gary as a way of subliminally changing my mind to take the deal. I have ideas of reference all the time, but yeah .. sometimes it's obvious when the fuzz are fucking with you. Sorry for those who were invested in the soap opera script, but if you really wanted it, you should have paid me. Developing it for free wasn't fun, and I simply don't want to cast the usual suspects. They don't need more money - they just want my weed connects. I don't like the mainstream Welly arts people, and that's why I'm not part of that scene. 🤬 - The Dakumentary satisfies their itch to know what activism really feels like, presents Dakta in a realistic light, and used many of the techniques I developed for the soap (so they didn't go to waste 🍀). - To the cops: No. Walking billboards past me won't change my mind. All it does is piss me off further.

No, I'm not working with Red Scare. No. I can acknowledge they found me annoying without apologising; I don't think singing out loud is wrong, and honestly it's important to practice IRL - which is what I spent about 6 years doing before all of this accusatory bullshit they started. Plus I was clearly right and they totally were reading along during the 2020 Election. I'm critical, but they've shown their nasty side to me; that was a deal-breaker. ✍ - I'm starting to get my confidence back about singing on the street .. I didn't realise people liked that. This is why I'm not working with my enemies: this witch-hunt that the Wellington elite started is the kind of thing that leaves one sour about privilege. I like making music at night, and it sucks that my building doesn't really allow that, unless in headphones. I'm lucky that my neighbourhood basically likes me, and that's why I live here - a poor neighbourhood is a better place to be trans than a rich neighbourhood, as I discovered in Mt. Vic. -

I own the stories and the uni can bugger off too.

I'm publishing the book. That's my plan for the trans story - which isn't that weird: someone from Sandpit made a trans-friendly children's book.

I rather like that teens like my music, and I think the book is aimed at a young adult audience (I think cartoon nudity is alright for NCEA .. we were all watching it anyway in my day 🤣). Portrait's target audience was all the Rachel's working in the public sector. Which is funny - Stephen had one temp job with the DIA, but other than that we were guessing, so it's fun that people connected with the story and the songs.

- Why I'm not a mainstream journalist:

I'm not trying to create a balanced portrayal of Wellington - this is about my world, which doesn't include my competitors.

Well, it does, but the same way that they appeared in All That Jazz: a reference or two, but they never show the competition.

I'm not a 'he' - I said trans boy because that's how y'all see me. That pisses me off and that's also why I'm not nice.

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When I reach out, virtually nobody replies. That's why I do this. 😀

It keeps me sane. Watch that Malcolm in the Middle episode where he gets an ulcer from holding his tongue.

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It's fun to see journos I recognise from reading the news, like Luke Malpass and Glen McConnell.

I saw Baz MacDonald last week..

It seems like TV3 has a lot more brown reporters than the other news agencies .. from my perch yesterday, I could see the various stickers saying which seats were for which media company.