Won't hurt a bit - Stray
STRAY is about random adventure and escape. STRAY is about pretending that Melbourne is Ferris Bueller's Day Off and that fun and money aren't mutually exclusive. STRAY is cheap hijinx, cheap dates and the outings you could be planning while you're actually watching Video Hits on a weekend at 11am.
Handball
OMG remember handball? How much fun was handball? I don't mean the Eurotrash handball that looks like water polo minus the water, but the kind you used to play in school, between periodic mania for marbles, pogs, tazos, bottle caps, huffing paint, Blink 182 and lying about who you'd fingered at Laurie Milligan's house.
Portable presents: REFINERY29
Piera Gelardi and Philippe von Borries have excellent names. They are also very clever, and are the two key people behind one of New York's most forward thinking online fashion publications, Refinery29.
Followed by millions every month, Refinery29 caters to an international fashion audience through a range of online avenues including designer shops, interactive trend reporting and style guides.
Taxi Tips
So here's the situation. You're a cool young thing, you've been out on the town cruisin the strip with your own two feet, maybe you found someone to cruise and strip with, maybe you didn't, but it's time to go home and you need a cab cause you're drunk (which is still cool no matter what the government tells you).
An Evening with David Sedaris
David Sedaris is a lot like getting drunk on dry apple cider. Which, I am at the moment. It's refreshing, summery, and a lot of fun for about an hour and a half. Then it gives you a headache. So it's very convenient that his fun, refreshing, summer speaking engagement on Monday is only 90 minutes long.
Adventure Park Victoria
Back in the late '90s I had a gig manning the "Tunnel of Terror" waterslide at "Adventure Park" in Wallington. Eight hours a day, five days a week I stood at the top of the slide making sure only one bleating rat-faced kid dropped in at a time, and only after the last little wretch had passed the first bend.
Animal Collective afterparty
Now, if you haven't had enough of the band that Pitchfork would choose over a week of hot dinners with David Bowie, here's something to do after Dead Set tonight. Animal Collective are playing a free DJ set at the Toff! They'll be supported by DJ People, who are in actual fact Guy Blackman and Ben O'Connor.
Victorian Marriage Registry Weddings
When I got married last Friday, two options were presented to me by my father. The first involved a Voodoo custom where a chicken would be laid at my feet while my mother spoke to the devil. The second was running off to Vegas and getting married by Chriss Angel, who would turn my wife into a basket of Ed-Hardy T-Shirts as he handed me a stack of casino chips.
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