I DONT FEEL AWESOME

AT ALL

but I have started a new, 30-day blog.

www.thirtygoodthings.blogspot.com

cool words

You're a beautiful and violent work

with a skinny neck of a chinese bird

in a fading ancient painting

i am not interested in ANYTHING

Phony con carne.

I planned to do go see a few shows that have opened up during the past couple of days today but then decided I couldn't be shitted going into the city so then I planned to do a crapload of nothing today. And I did that, but feel strangely unfulfilled. I wonder why... I did just make a vegetarian chilli con carne which I feel is a bit of a fake because all it is is canned tomatoes, mexican chilli beans, more beans, corn, peas and spices and curry powder. Is that a phony con carne? I don't know.

Sleeping is making me ache now. This is awesome. My cheap crappo futon bed already would induce wah complaints from anyone I shared it with because it's so lumpy and hard and I never denied that it was lumpy and hard! I just preferred it over my single mattress because it's a double and I sleep like a starfish. But srsly doods. Lately, I have been trying to sleep and have literally ended up with red marks on my hip from it pressing against the mattress. That's not coo'. Last night I slept not good and today I feel like I have swam a marathon. When I haven't.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I feel pathetic for all of the reasons there are to feel pathetic this day.

And I love The Cool Kids and Midlake.

The worst part is over now, get back on that horse and ride

The title is no reference to anything tonight, friends. Just listenin' to The Shins is all.

Ahh. I have done a couple of shifts in 1000 Pound Bend Gallery over the past few days. It's been nice surrounding myself in local art and 'needing' to be up to date on the happy haps of the exhibition scene in Melbourne. Today after my shift, Lauren and I went to a pop up cafe by Broadsheet. Broadsheet is a Melbourne zine of sorts, I'm not sure how often it's published, but it's basically a 'what's going on in Melbourne re food, coffee, art, shopping' and it's a good read always. Like a little newspaper but with exciting stuff. So they had a pop up cafe in the city as part of Melbourne Food And Wine Festival and it was virtually a collaboration of Melbourne's best coffee blends. It was open for 14 days (today was the second last day-lucky) and each day they would have a different blend, like Seven Seeds or Proud Mary, Dead Man's Espresso etc. Today was Market Lane. Market Lane is a famous coffee shop at Prahran Market off Chapel Street and they roast their own coffee and junk. And it was a delicious coffee. And a rad set up. We took a photo of each of us on Lauren's disposable to use up the last couple of shots.

There is so much on. I think that this Thursday I'm going to go to see City of Paranoia at the Croft Institute. City of Paranoia is a film about London street art and the Croft Institute is a bar down an alleyway off Little Bourke Street in the city and it's themed like a high school science lab. I've been meaning to venture there since I moved to Melbourne but haven't yet. I think this may be my chance, folks.

Tonight I ate lots of red grapes.

I bought a couple of pullovers tonight for $9 each- a marle grey one and a lilac one and I'm going to screenprint on them tomorrow night, but I'm not sure what quite yet. I'm thinking

"DO

WHAT

YOU

WANT"

Or an homage to one of my all time favourite RnB songs of the '90s, No Diggity by Blackstreet:

[front] no diggity

[back] no doubt

I'm wearing the grey jumper now and it is getting me so, so psyched for winter. I know I will definitely complain about it being so cold once winter actually hits, but I really quite enjoy dressing for winter. And also I like soup.

Lately...

Everyone, I love tea.

In other news, Summer has well and truly wound down. Most of my peeps are back at uni now, the weekdays are less full and were, for a second, becoming a little monotonous. But I saved that. More on that later.

I've been doing some cool stuff lately. Last week my friends Mikael and Liam hosted a now monthly event called Foovies- food and movie/s at their place. They live out in a big house which is connected to a school where Mikael's parents teach international students. Last time we got merry on tequila but I've been having an alcohol-free 30 days, which finishes up on March 13, so I didn't drink at this Foovies but it was equally as fun. This time we got to hang out in the school. We had the whole property to ourselves pretty much, which was completely awesome. It felt like, did you ever love primary school so much and being around your friends at school was so awesome that you sometimes wanted to sleep over at the school with everyone? Well it was like doing that! It was just a maze of different classrooms with desks and whiteboards and linoleum and posters. So strange. So all the boys got really drunk and loud and vomitty and I got three hours sleep. It was fun.

I've attended a few dinner parties with my Eagle girls and made some delicious salad and just generally had a loud, excited time.

A couple weeks ago we had a party to celebrate us signing the lease on our apartment for another year and we had so much fun! Lots of singing and rapping and punch. Lots of punch for everyone. But not this sober sally.

So anyway you guys, I got a srs case of the boredoms during the first week of everyone going back to uni. I found myself completely disposable to everyone; just sitting around working 15 hours waiting for someone to maybe call and ask if I could cover their shift and jumping at the chance just for something to do. So I got sort of active and applied for a job to be an usher at The Arts Centre and asked to volunteer at a cafe/bar/raw art space in the city called 1000 Pound Bend and applied for a copywriting job to do on the side. So I have my first shift at 1000 Pound on Sunday morning and am really excited. I'll be manning the gallery, selling the artwork and generally saying hi to everyone. I'm so excited to meet people and be surrounded by peeps who are stimulated by the same thing I am. On Sunday there are markets on in the art space where people sell vintage goods, clothes, shoes, cheese, photography, lamps, anything. So it should be really fun.

I had a group interview for the usher job yesterday and it was pretty fun meeting people, but it was really hard to tell how well I went. There were about 30 people in the interview and all of the interviewees were really pokerfaced about it all. I know that it didn't go badly at all, but it's just a matter of whether there were lots of other people who are better equipped for the job than I. Fingers crossed!

Last night, I went to the semi final round of Secret Wars, an underground street art battle held between two street artists. They have 90 minutes, one blank panel, black textas and black paint and they let loose on the panels and are judged by two secret judges hidden in the audience and whoever wins advances to the next round. I saw the last round in January, which was a battle between Drewfunk and Braddock and Drewfunk came out on top. He's a Malaysian artist who does a fair bit of street art around Melbourne and works in Blender Studios in the city. But last night he was against an artist called Ken Taylor who is a graphic designer also and has designed a bunch of tour posters for the likes of Bob Dylan and Sonic Youth and Ken Taylor did this rad painting of a vulture waiting to feast and then in this awesome gothic script he wrote 'and the great bird waited to feast on the bones of drewfunk'. It killed. My bottom is seriously sore tonight though from sitting on cement for four hours last night. urg.

I went to the St Kilda esplanade markets tonight with my friends Callum, Katie and Sarah. I know Callum from college in Canberra, actually. We met a

t the aftercast for the play I directed because he was friends with my actors and then we saw each other at college after that a bit. Then at my party, he randomly turned up. He's moved down to Melbourne to go to RMIT and is friends with my friend's sister who lives down here now too. Funny. So we wandered around the markets which was lovely and then had dinner and lots of laughs.