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Why the change of heart?

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jun 2, 2023
  • 1 min read

Well, in 2021 I was pretty selfishly focused on myself and while I was following politics, with Covid happening my research of old music and NZ culture was my main focus. Plus I was fairly sure that well-known people were stalking me, and wanted to show off how much of a cineaste I am... I'd say I was delusional, but clearly I wasn't and that's somewhat scary to me. But honestly, my original intent was to find another queen to play Tina. That was my plan, and the cartoons were just something that randomly happened. How was I to know that the posterise effect was so effective on phone camera footage? - As for the change of heart re: attending Parliament -- well, I'd been during 2018 on a few occasions while we made the High Tea documentary .. I'm not sure why I started attending sporadically during 2022: maybe Gary reminded me? I think I attended in 2021 as well... I remember a rainy day with Ricardo and Erica Stanford talking about migrants and people with partners overseas -- I forget which year that was. I'm not coming to Parliament to woo Chloe.


It's nice that I can see her, but honestly I started coming regularly because I thought it was impressing my RNZ bosses and I love writing the reviews. Plus Debbie impressed upon me that it was an election year, and that we (Gary and myself) should come regularly. 👍


 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jun 02, 2023

I think I liked Chloe more as an imaginary relationship than the real thing. Though perhaps that's just me looking back on 2021 with rose-tinted glasses as it was a really good year for me with my EP and the original songs. Plus I had a wonderful movie marathon of lots of my favourite movies during 2021. I remember that fondly, but I'm finding it difficult to recapture that energy. I wasn't editing a film then, while now I'm sure all the directors know what I mean when I say it's hard to watch movies when editing a movie. I'm mostly listening to music and watching old Simpsons episodes atm. But I'm slightly embarrassed about my taste in music, and cringing at…

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jun 02, 2023
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