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Now you!
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Be daring - choose your favourites, and enact them. Do it.
Now you!
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Be daring - choose your favourites, and enact them. Do it.
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Stranger of the Month is a collaborative art project produced and deployed with the aid of a Kickstart Development Grant for Next Wave Festival 2008. Next Wave Associate Producer: Tai Snaith.
Next Wednesday, if you usually wear lipstick or gloss, Don’t. If you usually don’t wear lipstick or gloss, next Wednesday, do.
How to become a writer:
1. Convince yourself that even though everybody is getting their work published; you are the only one who truly ‘gets it’, and that the only reason they’re published is because they are much more motivated than what you are.
2. Learn to use semi colons correctly.
Smile at bum’s, beggars and homeless guys.
Scoop out your spare change for buskers.
Hold doors open for everyone.
Learn the alphabet backwards.
Why? Why not.
have a warm beverage. tell someone you love that you do and why.
Question everything. Including this instruction.
Extend your life range: learn to be a better liar. And not to get caught. Practice on small things, and work your way up. Do the things you want to do, and become skillful at not hurting others in the process.
Learn to like a new food.
Or love, even.
Mine is liquorice.
Don’t wait for governments to tell you what to do.
Take responsibility for your place on the globe.
Start composting.
Re-read Billy Pilgrim’s epitaph from Slaughterhouse Five:
“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt”.