Revolver Upstairs, Chapel St, Prahran, Victoria Superthread

[LemonMelon]

Whoops! Is there any chance of a thing happening this week?

Of course, if you're up for it!

 

[The Sad Punk]

You bet your sweet ketut I am

 

[cobl04]

Jason Byrne and Joel Creasy better come home strong on the Great Debate, it has been rubbish so far. No Paul McDermott, no Great Debate.

 

[Axver]

I didn't know they still did the Great Debate.

 

[bono_212]

Apparently it's now not - so - great.

 

[cobl04]

It was the worst one I've seen.

I have been very flat these past couple of days.

 

[bono_212]

What does that mean?

 

[Axver]

I imagine being back home after such a big trip must be pretty deflating?

 

[bono_212]

Ohhhh!

 

[Alisaura]

Post-holiday slumps suck. Plan the next one?

 

[cobl04]

Burning Man 2015.

 

[liamcool]

You've lost your damn mind.

 

[liamcool]

(and it is beautiful...)

 

[cobl04]

This Boko Haram stuff is crushing my soul.

 

[Axver]

Become even more depressed by bringing yourself up to speed with what's happening in the Central African Republic and South Sudan.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Same, as is all the civil war stuff in Ukraine.

 

[cobl04]

Become even more depressed by bringing yourself up to speed with what's happening in the Central African Republic and South Sudan.

I can't, I just can't. I can't read it. I had to stop reading about Boko Haram.

 

[Axver]

I'm kind of glad that when I lecture I can't see much past the first couple of rows, because I'm sure that if I could see all the apathetic students when I lecture about the CAR and South Sudan's spiral towards genocide next semester, I'd be really angry and want to run up and shake every single one of them until they started to care.

I'm still quietly devastated about Darfur, ten years after it broke (especially since it's still a mess!). All that effort and nothing was achieved. I wrote a reflective piece about it last weekend actually. Might bring myself to have another look at it and see if I can get it published somewhere.

 

[cobl04]

You're very eloquent, you should send things like that the likes of The New Daily, Guardian, etc. With your credentials you'd be surprised at what you can get published and they would probably even pay (like TND did for me)

 

[Axver]

I've been thinking about it. I've actually got a couple of pieces lying around and I really should do something with them. Had my eye on the Guardian, but the New Daily is a good option too.

Wouldn't mind getting something in the Age one day, just so I can go next door and buy my own work.

 

[bono_man2002]

Is anyone up for seeing Future Islands at the Corner in July? I'm keen, but I'm not 100% sure where I'll be at that time.

And/or Ingrid Michealson goes on sale next week, but that's not till September.

 

[cobl04]

I'll pass, for now.

This is copypasted from someone from the Socialist Alternative who I am now hate-following on Facebook after Q&A

For all their many faults, Boko Haram have destroyed the lives of an insignificant fraction of the world's children in comparison to the US empire and its Australian wingman.

Please contemplate that for a minute before contributing to a yet another campaign against yet another evil black organisation in the third world.

!

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Yeah, the point is correct however very inappropriate at this time.

There are times to discuss imperialism but in this case that is not the time.

 

[The Sad Punk]

I hate it when people turn disasters into pissing competitions.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

It falls too much into the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' void and although I'm obliged to be at least sympathetic towards their party (their video explaining Q&A was good) they really make it hard sometimes.

Also agree with Bonnie's point.

 

[Axver]

I hate it when people turn disasters into pissing competitions.

But my disaster is worse than your disaster and MY OUTRAGE IS GREATER THAN YOUR OUTRAGE!!!!!

 

[Axver]

Also, if we get down to it, Boko Haram is reflective of a strain of anti-education religious fundamentalism that knows no geopolitical or ethnic bounds. A better way to frame the situation is condemnation of that strain (be it Boko Haram or nutters in the US who homeschool their kids so they can teach them the world is 6,000 years old), rather than making some stupid critique of how any condemnation of Boko Haram is hypocritical racist Western imperialism.

 

[cobl04]

I'll shut up after this because I'm out of my depth but I don't know of any recorded incidents of terrorist organisations in the US or Australia kidnapping hundreds of schoolgirls, amid many other hyper-violent atrocities.

 

[LemonMelon]

Take this depressing shit to the Australia thread.

 

[The Sad Punk]

some good news of personal matter: My studio group is moving into a studio/gallery space in the middle of the city next to an Irish pub and we can do whatever the fuck we want with the building. also can't remember if I've broken the news here but I'm gonna be an aunty.