To Amelia Wade

Hi, I sent you a friend request! I realise we've never met, but I'm ok with adding random friends for my Facebook profile, as it's more of a protest than a personal page. 🔥 - Amelia - you're obviously too busy to read this right now, but I gather that you're a fan.

I'd like to work at Newshub, but if it's conditional on male clothes then I'll turn them down.

I can see how for my friends/fans that it's frustrating that I won't do a gig, but if they were willing to invite me into their lives then that wouldn't be a problem. If I get the job, then I'm totally planning to bring Amy to work and play her when I get stressed rather than binging on caffeine like I usually do in news settings.

I like playing guitar and I like singing, but it's better for me to do it for fun and those AM films from last year were really fun for me.

While I really do regret writing the subsequent episodes of the Tina show. I thought the first one was tight, and unfortunately the subsequent ones started to mess with my head, which was also because of writing live in front of an audience, which I've gotten really sick of.

What gave them the right to give me that surreptitious feedback?

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I'm sick of this whole 'know' joke too -- that was my brother's song, not mine. My song like that is The Mist or Machine Fatigue, which are totally different.

I wish I was as emotionally forthright as my brother is as a songwriter, but I've got all that dark cynicism and stuff from Sondheim that's part of my makeup as a writer.

If anything, the way I 'know' is writing those bitter, satiric rants. I'm definitely sapiosexual: I'm slightly too in love with my own cleverness, but that's a late twenties thing.

The way I see it, my brother was the one who just needed people to say some kind words and tolerate him, while for me that's not really all that important. I've got a slightly too inflated sense of my own importance, so for me I'd much rather be disliked and respected than liked and thought to be retarded (that's what people used to think).

'Tis You was my brother's idea, not mine. Yes, that one is about Jane, not Sondheim, as most assumed. 👋

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When it comes to trauma and baggage, I doubt you'll find many more people as fucked-up as me.

To recap: I'm quasi-anorexic because of the girls from my high school, I'm a kinky freak because it wasn't ok to be trans when I was 15, and I'm paranoid due to surveillance, intimidation and assaults that happened to me while making this weed documentary that seems to have made my name (while irritating a whole lot of people).

I'm fascinated by the way that the SIS and the uni have threatened me, but I'll cover that another day.