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Amanda Riddell
Feb 19, 20231 min read
A dark joke
Possible way of promoting NZ film to overseas investors: "you can't buy a house here, so invest in our movies." 👍
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 18, 20231 min read
Book layout ideas
It's not just the comic strip which I have re: images. I have my series of stills too: https://www.pinterest.nz/amandamichelina1994/encou...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 18, 20234 min read
Real chat
Ok, do you really want to change your name, Chloe? Because yeah, I could see changing my name to Amanda Michelina. I haven't decided yet....
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 16, 20232 min read
Why I refuse to play Tina
I'm not changing my accent. I speak the way I speak, and that means I refuse to be told "I'm American" - NO, I was born and raised in...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 16, 20231 min read
If a tree falls in the woods...
I check my views - nobody reads my blog. The gimmick of my blog is that I write as if the world is listening (as some might remember from...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 16, 20231 min read
accent chat
I have the rhythm, but not the twang, of American accents. It’s primarily a cultivated NZ English accent, but yes it’s partly...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 15, 20232 min read
I don't care what the pros think
I thrive on independent learning. That’s the upside of being homeschooled when I was little, plus having encouraging parents who...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 15, 20233 min read
Defending my song
It contained no references to the vaccines or vaccine mandates. Not even a single line of the lyric referenced that. I said that the...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 15, 20232 min read
It's not a tantrum
It’s essentially civil disobedience, and I gave some very valid reasons why I’m stubbornly refusing to be in the opera. 1. I've never...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 12, 20232 min read
Why Polanski is different to Woody Allen and Michael Jackson:
1. He took the rap. 2. Yeah, he roofied an underage girl, but Caravaggio killed a guy, and Artaud + most of the French famous artists...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Friends are people who take me as I am
Have lunch with me, persuade me IRL or FUCK OFF and RESPECT MY DECISION. IT IS NO. The opera company must BACK OFF. Red Scare must BACK...
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 10, 20231 min read
about the trains
My buddy Nick is moving up the ranks at Metlink, and I hope he doesn't mind me publishing this explanation about the bus replacements: ...
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