Why do I keep repeating the same things?
- Amanda Riddell
- Feb 6, 2024
- 1 min read
Well, because, since 2018 I've moved up in the world several times, and every time that I do that, then nobody knows anything about me.
That's not something that giving me a million bucks would solve.
But screening the Dakumentary for real as a roadie totally would. That's a dream of mine. - I miss my underground artist days, though. That was so much more fun than this. So for me, editing the Dakumentary is very bittersweet. I miss those days, back when we had the hope of the referendum; that was something positive to cling to, and it took me several years to get over that narrow defeat. I'm very self-aware of my madness. Like, I realise what I do has real ramifications, but at the same time if I wasn't able to make a peace with my own insanity, then I'd be dead and that's taboo in our society. That door has been opened by ACT, though. Assisted dying is now legal in Aotearoa, and that's an area which might become more contested in the future. I predict mass suicides in the 21st Century, though. That's something prophetic for those who are interested in my theory of how I think humans will react to climate change. I forsee water wars; I forsee mass suicides and declining birth rates; I forsee culture wars becoming real wars. These aren't things that have appeared in my Shipwrecked script, but that's some more background info for the setting.