Day Two - YouAreHere writer-in-residence

It is only the end of day two, but already I have heard Matty Ellis and Waterford sing from a Mixtape, and witnessed lots of quite good questions get finished by a man in a bathtub who was wearing undies. Who wears undies in the bath? “I do.” would likely have been the answer, maybe with some pointing and an eyebrow. It was good, I wish my friend Bela Farkas had seen it.

Photo from YouAreHere, I felt I could steal this 'cause I'm the writer-in-residence and I hope they don't mind. Imagine that guy is Bela Farkas watching a man in his undies in a bathtub.

I heard more from Chiara Grassia and Nat Clark about their upcoming Canberra Zine Emporium (CZE) when I went to the YouAreHere Festival Breakfast. You can read something about CZE by following this link. You should go to the Emporium, you will not only find zines you may hear music like this.

Giz Medium will be teaming up with Bridget to become VÉLOCIRAPTOR (the accent is important) at the Canberra Zine Emporium.*

As a result of the YouAreHere Festival Breakfast I have been investigating Zine Bands. The breakfasts are almost every day of the festival, you may go to one then decide to investigate something.

I also heard from Lindsay Lohan in her space prison ship, I have never seen a Lindsay Lohan movie, not even the Herbie Remake, and I love Herbie movies, and I liked the poster. But not this YouTube clip, which may explain why I did not see the movie.

I don’t know why Lindsay Lohan is in prison. But I am glad I saw this with Doubting Thomas.

Finnigan had the words “Destroy A Child” painted on his chest, I’m not going to explain any of it, wait for the video. I am glad I saw this with Doubting Thomas, I wish Bela had seen it.

There was more, and there are things coming up. Tomorrow morning you can crush opponents in poker while eating their pancakes, or just pile their pancakes up around you as you win hand after hand after hand after hand of poker. You can also roll about in the piles of pancakes you win. The event is called Pancakes and Poker. You play for pancakes in the Pancake Parlour.

And Mall Stories 2013 will be released, download that when you can.

And Sunday is Australia 2050; you should go to the event and tell the CSIRO what you think about the now and the future, read a bit about that here.

* This may be to do with Secret Gig II. I may have out investigative journalised the people running that gig.

Pots, Nails and Australia 2050

I continue as YouAreHere writer-in-residence; this time with Part One of an interview between El Lukio of One Pot Punk Rock and me as YouAreHere writer-in-residence. 

Watch the below video to learn how to cook a Puttanesca.

One Pot Punk Rock Puttanesca

Since the El Lukio interview I have discussed Talon Salon with its writer Michele Lee, and met with Dr Nicky Grigg to learn a lot about the Australia 2050 event to be held at the ANU Food Co-op. Those two interviews are forthcoming. Discussing Australia 2050 with Dr Grigg has definitely been a highlight among the people I have so far met to discuss upcoming YouAreHere events.

As part of my research for the above interviews I discovered Beans and Cornbread fight.

Beans and Cornbread

Did not get to the bottom of if Tippi Hedron is the "Godmother" of Vietnamese nail salons.

Godmother Tippi Hedron

And found an interesting website called The Conversation, which sounds suspicious to me, mainly due to an article where you can find this quote:

“Everyone will have a genetic profile at birth that will reveal, to a large extent, what diseases they might be prone to during their lifetimes.

This will help health facilitators – everyone will be assigned one of these – ensure individuals take appropriate care of themselves and that that those diseases to which they are prone ( from their genetic profiling ) can be detected early or that preventive measures can be maintained through out life .

The information will be linked to an individuals health savings account, which will provide the payment mechanism for health and wellness care.” – Peter Brooks

Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman

The Converstation is where you will find several 2050 scenarios, and the conveners of Australia 2050 at the ANU Food Co-op are forthcoming contributors.