No, I won't play for big crowds.
I'll try it in that playlist .. I get why you think I should, but I have a sense it'll feel unwieldy.
hmm... I'd still rather get chloe recapping the important parts. Or Tamatha or Tory: someone Green at any rate.
And no, I utterly refuse to do any stage work. If you're looking for explanations as to why I do what I do, I think the films explain themselves.
I don't want to film any of the artsy people: that's not really the sort of doco I'm interested in. I prefer real stories to arts stories (which are PR).
I'm not here to promote Wellington: I'm ultimately on social media to change laws, and I don't think the arts docos are like-for-like support.
What I want is a whole lot of stoners coming out and drawing from that experience in their own stories, rather than hijacking my idea.
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The only really unique thing about my script is that it treats weed dealers and druggies as normal people, while usually they're the butts of jokes.
Anyone could humanise their own dealer friends .. it's just a style of storytelling, rather than a particular set of characters.
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That's what I sense from the notes: none of the rich/high-brow people are particularly interested in the characters I created, but they love the scope.
Fine, do your own thing. I don't want to make that movie, it's just not interesting, particularly now that I have this doco that's taking shape.
I'm working in non-fiction atm, so it's not really in me to change gears. I'm not interested in my make-believe because real shit is happening.
It's a lot easier to write a short story as stress relief than to try and plan a movie: that just adds stressors, and that's not healthy for me.
I feel more useful covering the cyclones for work than I feel yammering about my screenplays.
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It won't make a huge difference to switch to a vaporizer. It's this entire 'growth mindset' that I'm opposed to.
I think there's something somewhat eugenic about the way the music schools (in the generic sense) treat bodies.
This idea that constant improvement is desireable is why people burn out from those degrees.
I see my old friends surviving with a pipe, so I don't see the point of the vaporiser.
Look, I know I'm smoking; I'm aware it'll probably shorten my lifespan, but I'm betting on my health.
My father's family is long-lived, and I suspect I'll live for ages regardless of how I eat, sleep, drink or drug.
My Mum read this japanese philosophy which said that the will to live is what makes people live long lives.
Right now, feeling fat feels good. I'm sick of unhealthy beauty standards that make me fast intermittently.
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But for those who love performing, simply respect that I do not. I have always despised performing, and everyone will back that up.
I like playing for myself: I'm not particularly keen to share, but the tapes circumvent that.
Hence I could make a great movie like the Transtasia from all the best bits, but I couldn't give that as a gig .. no way, can't remember half of it.
I'm not interested in doing covers, and I'm not interested in the song cycle as drag. Other people could do that, but I'm not keen.
Again, I'd much rather watch the song cycle than sing it, and that's the answer: find another tenor (or a woman).
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No short films. I'm not adapting my short stories: stop asking.
If you want to adapt them, ask me.
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I resent this idea that I 'dressed up like the terrorist'. No, my films were explicitly about cannabis reform. I wasn't subtle: I plugged the cause.
It had nothing to do with that: and honestly, I didn't even think the In E video was about that - I was far more worried what Michael Norris would think, not the government.
But again, it's just an image (and wasn't one of the dude) -- people made their own story, which is (again) something I developed for years as part of my art. It's interactive! -
People like to immerse themselves in my story world, but as the author, I've still got critical ideas about how I'd like people to interpret my story. It's annoying to 'talk' to the fans. I realise that I shot myself in the foot by making the persona interactive, but yeah I'm not really keen to have loads of comments on my page .. that's a part of Chloe's day that I imagine must be super-tedious. I'm preferring having a smaller page, though I miss the Ad reach slightly .. it's pretty similar to the Riddell Productions page, but the targeting isn't as good and FB isn't letting me get as granular as when I was building that page.
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