I love the idea that all these musicians and filmmakers that I was a fan of when I was getting into movies and music are now aware of my stuff. Obviously, some of the satirical digs sting more than others; Trey's various jokes make me laugh -- my sense of humour is strongly influenced by Parker and Stone. - As I said in A Night To Remember, I love feeling connected to the global industries of my various interests, but I'm really loathe to travel. San Francisco is another city that I'd feel confident visiting re: the US. Emily VanderWerff wrote an article about LA and passing that made me feel like that's probably not a city that I could survive in. - I'm not really sure what to expect in Europe or the UK, but the conservative turn that's been slowly gathering steam over there makes me anxious about traveling. - For people who can't help but try to guess who the author 'really' is... Rachel has elements of me, but I'm nothing like her: I enjoyed Breaking Bad. I'd rate The Wire, Friday Night Lights and Deadwood above it, but it's better than The Sopranos. Mad Men is roughly equal to Breaking Bad, in that they're both really compelling, but also quite flawed. I always thought it was slightly navel-gazing, but the photography was undeniably amazing and so was Bryan Cranston. - My tastes run in Ant's direction: low-budget movies of questionable quality, though my own taste is more gay cowboys eating pudding and C-grade science fiction than the horror and grossout movie area. Part of why blockbusters bore me is that I think film language is becoming compressed and homogenised by social media and the flattening of the screen world. One of my favourite movie experiences in Wellington was watching A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence at the Paramount. I was in the front row or second-to-front, which was perfect for a tableau film. I saw Black Coal, Thin Ice from a similar vantage point, but I really hated that film. Alongside Kumiko the Treasure Hunter .. those were some slow-as-fuck films. - Plus this new passion of mine for NZ film history. I got hooked on those in 2018, though obviously I'd seen plenty of NZ films before I made it my mission to rediscover them. For me, flicks like Should I Be Good and Angel Mine and How To Meet Girls From A Distance are what having a national cinema is all about, not just Utu or Bread and Roses. - As for traveling to the Islands... Well, I'm dead serious about doing so. I'm finding that my Reo lessons are also helping me with grasping some elements of Samoan --- the last time that I seriously considered returning to VUW was to take their Samoan course. As a media thing, though, rather than as an OE. Fluency would be cool, but having the pronunciation to sing would be enough for me. note to self: read J.C. Beaglehole's book on his Pacific trip. - Shipwrecked 2030 is a masala film. That's the thing that got me into it!
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John Psathas said something interesting at a composer's workshop when I was a student. My memory is slightly fuzzy, but someone said something about writing music that their parents would like; John said that we shouldn't care what our parents think, and that the motivation should come from somewhere inside ourselves. Most of the Kiwi 'jokes' at my expense were classic anti-tall poppy crap. That's why I'm such a fan of When You Come Back Home -- that's the counter-protest to tall poppy drongos. That's another Australasian culture thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome