Amanda Riddell
Captain Planet
Never seen it. Mum wouldn't let me watch Dragonball Z. I was pretty into Pokemon and Digimon.
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Amanda Riddell
Nov 11 min read
Kvetching
People have become so 'concerned' about my feelings for Sondheim or Don or Chloe, yet nobody even asks me about my feelings regarding...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 311 min read
activist to organiser
That's what people really want me to do. Like, AMPP is a joke, but for reals I think that the organisers are starting to follow my antics....
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 311 min read
Legacy thoughts
Well, I think the Dakumentary pretty much sets me up as the Howard Ashman of the AI revolution. All that mix of traditional stuff with...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 311 min read
The commodification of rock
Well, the idea of doing festival gigs or touring as a freak says it all: rock has become commodified and isn't really a place for...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 311 min read
Gareth Farr
He's the other New Zealand musician that I'm often compared to, alongside Jack Body and Don McGlashan. I've never studied with him, but...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 311 min read
Another bad poem
Unusual phrases From daily life. Recontextualised by precious punctuation. Gimmicks Like This That Make People Think They're Smart. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 301 min read
All the SWOTs
That are watching ahead and binging the shows so they can feel smug ... that's the part of the channel that I hadn't really anticipated. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 291 min read
Il lavoro dei pazzi
Waking up each morning, With a fuzzy brain. Feeling the pain of those Quetiapine pills. They help me sleep, But I feel dead inside....
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 292 min read
On the state of the news
Well, it's pretty bloody awful. From 2025, we'll be in a radically different environment. Like, my career in journalism started in 2018,...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 292 min read
To Tory
Look, you tried to teach me a lesson, but it backfired and now I'm teaching you. How can you possibly still have this idea in your head:...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 281 min read
Question Time: a glossary
The Prime Omelette = Chris Luxon (The Prime Minister) Chippy = Chris Hipkins (Leader of Labour) The Pink Skull = David Seymour (Leader...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 281 min read
Re: West Side Story
I'm quite proud that Steven ripped me off. Like, it was all technical bits and pieces, rather than taking our plot and/or our characters....
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 281 min read
What is Weeded Out: the script about?
It's about two guys who flat together, a dope dealer and a musician, and their friends. What's it 'really' about? The Wellington that...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 273 min read
Wellington Stories
I watched the trilogy again now that I'm advertising it. Overall, it's quite good, but there's enough flaws in each film to drag it below...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 261 min read
Let's not pathologise my childhood
Did Tim Shadbolt discuss his childhood in Bullshit and Jellybeans? Not really. So, why should I dissect my teen years in Just Like...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 263 min read
Why did the English aristocracy speak French?
More stuff from the Italy website. 7th of September 2002: 8 years old. I honestly have no idea whether the stuff that my brother and I...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 262 min read
More Italy photos
Some of the links are broken, so here's some more photos, including the neighbourhood that we lived in. Most of these are from 2003, but...
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