To the community

I don’t think the community needs my help - seriously, those stats that Te Pāti puts out should make you feel ashamed. As I say, I saw Rawiri talk about this in 2020 on FB, and was quickly converted to the Party. - To be fair, this is the help that I'm providing, and it's in the realm of criticism. 🎶😎 I thought my pitch of bringing the NZSO and kapa haka together was something that is worth considering. Not that I’d want to be the token guitarist, but I’d hope that my obsessions have shown the parallels between the two crafts. I forget exactly what I pitched, but I remember it seeming fun. - It’s this outsider’s eye that makes me interesting. If I bought into the buyout (that's essentially the pitch my old world is making), then I’d be just another person fighting for tenure or CNZ funding. While Weeded Out was funded by me and team weed. 💚 - Well, I am fighting for CNZ funding, but only in the abstract: I’ve never had a project that was ideal for funding, and that’s because most of my good ideas are movie ideas. As I like to type, part of being a social critic is being at a remove from society: if I felt happy and fitted in everywhere I went, then I’d have nothing to complain about; only when the cannabis stuff started to flow did I find the vibe that I’d been searching for. - I like the RNZ vibe, though: I reckon I fit in well here, though I’m still easing into it. For my coworkers - yes, I’m really shy: that’s why I built such an OTT persona. Since I started becoming infamous, I've become shyer. 🔊👍 - Fun note: yeah, the song cycle was pretty much the chick version of garage rock. Particularly once I sang over the synths, but that was the general vibe: Lauren’s really into rock, and she brought that to the piano part.