Stop it about my drinking!

1. A few pints a day is fairly standard. Verity Johnson half-joked in her column that a bottle of wine a day and a bottle of vodka on weekends is the standard middle-class NZ way.
   

2. There is no evidence that my music is negatively affected by substance use. I can work while tripping, while drunk etc. - that's part of the discipline. People tried to prove it, but they lost. Paul can back me up, as can Don. As can almost any world-class musician. We're all experts in altered states of consciousness, particularly the embodied type. That's how we make you feel those things that make you squirm and shout!
   

3. I'm not drunk all day. I do my busywork in the morning, while I'm sober. The media has to stop seeing me as a hopeless druggie. I'm a victim of profiling, insults and a smear campaign that took over my city. Despite this, nobody had the guts to buy my IP. The smear campaign was their choice. That's why my IP isn't available. Wellington has yet to apologise for the mass hysteria.
   

4. Remember when you tried to get me to stop smoking weed, then you had to backtrack because I was too cranky? Give it up. You'd struggle to find somebody more literate on drugs and addiction than me and my mates like Gary or Chris Fowlie. Euan, my alcohol counsellor, said that my drinking is unlikely to change much while I'm still being targeted. My life would need to improve: let's start that process with the SIS and the Natzees backing down, followed by a grant for a project that isn't the one they wish I'd make.
   

5. I didn't study last year due to open transphobia. Instead I wrote a full opera score. There's over 2 hours of music that I came up with. If my name was Luke Di Somma, I'd have made six figures. Not just did I do that, I made 15 hours of the AMPP docuseries. I kept up the Question Time notes, albeit with lesser frequency after the veiled threats from Mr. Luxon and the open threat from Mr. Seymour. Instead of getting paid, I was threatened into having an overdose.
   

6. Now I've written a new album in a matter of weeks, while helping Paul McCartney and his people with preserving their IP for generations to come. AMPP is my plan for 2026. I've been very clear about it. Working For Each Other is probably the best slogan going. I work as hard, as well, and as long as anyone else. If our society was fair, I'd make a living wage. I don't need money, but I deserve to be paid equally to cisgender bald men.