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Why do I keep repeating the same things?

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    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.


 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Feb 06, 2024

As for RNZ: look, my solution is for me to buy the same types of clothes the lady journos wear.

Though honestly, I thought my attire for the temp job was totally appropriate. I mean, it wasn't like I was customer-facing or there every day of the week. -

I got the vibe that people wanted some colour in the office, and that's how I was hired.

The purple dress is the direction that my mature style is heading. I like colourful patterns, but leggings really aren't my style. That's not typically a trannie move, though twinks do wear those sorts of things. My jeans were awesome, and I miss them, but that was a total deviation from my usual trousers…


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Amanda Riddell
Feb 06, 2024
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More on that mass suicides idea: what about if there was this nature cult that took the idea of heaven on earth really literally, said that by destroying the planet we were destroying heaven, and then they killed themselves to preserve it? This is for the global news section of the movie, which is another missing segment. The death ceremonies are these really peaceful, creepy things. This could be a story...

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