1. to run a vego friendly teahouse with my friend Pete who’s moving back to Melbourne from Japan in December. I know what I would call the place, I know what I want it to look like, I know what food I want to serve and what music would be playing in the background. Pete probably wouldn’t live in Brisbane, Sydney or Adelaide for a long time and I know I could fall in love with Melbourne again, but aren’t there enough cool establishments in Melbourne already? Doesn’t Adelaide need the love?
2. to learn how to screenprint textiles and make bedlinen and teatowels and fabric and bags. I’d like to have a small company that sells this stuff, possibly at idea # 4.
3. to learn the perfect timing for soft boiled eggs so that the yolk is runny and the white isn’t weird and clear, but a just cooked white. I would serve these soft boiled eggs with toast soldiers at my cafe [see #1 and #4].
4. to run a multifunction space which is maybe the same as the first cafe but which also has an ever changing but select range of books, zines, magazines, clothes, records, whatevers that are packed away at night so that the greater space would become a venue for bands and djs.
5. to be braver (see # 1, 2, 4, 6).
6. to write stories and articles which would maybe be published in magazines and websites (see #5).
7. to make more pictures and let more people see them and not just online.
8. to take the first step of making my ideas reality (see #5, 7).
9. to see Spoon, Buck 65, The Paradise Motel, New Buffalo, The Avalanches, reckoning and about a million other bands play again but only reckoning if I was still 16-22 years old.
10. all my friends from around the world to come together in one place and hang out for a bit.
11. world peace and an effective end to climate change.
12. to continue the cross referencing of things I would like but it just got too tricky as they are all really related.
13. really good sex.
14. to live in more countries and learn stuff about what is good there to take back to Australia and implement there. But I realise that I can’t live everywhere and do the more permanent business running things too.
15. to live in Montreal for a while and ideally work in a cool cafe and improve my French and learn more about running a cafe as I already am beginning to know stuff about running a bar.
16. a really good garden which is mainly vegetables and fruit but with some beautiful non-edible things too.
17. healthy, happy children who i get to spend enough time with.
18. for the right people to do these things alongside to eventually turn up in my life and for me to keep them alongside me.
19. to buy beautiful and practical things made by people who love what they are doing.
20. to ride my bike salt again every day.
21. to have more occasions to wear pretty clothes and maintain a pleasant state of inebriation alongside my friends (see #10).
22. to hang out and volunteer at 826 Valencia and to help initiate similar programs back in Australia.
23. to visit Angus Watt’s workshop and help make flags like the ones flying at Womadelaide.
24. to have enough time to do all this stuff and stay alive (pay rent, eat, shower, sleep, poop, relax) at the same time. Why do I feel like there just isn’t ever going to be enough time?

January 17, 2007:

1. to eat well.
2. to build a digital photobooth.
3. to set up an art / comic / zine vending machine from a vintage cigarette machine.
4. to carve a wooden gingerbread mould
5. to visit Portland, Oregon, USA and work out what makes it seem like such a cool city.
6. to make Adelaide even better.

March 22, 2007:

1. to be friends with my ex, Dan.
2. to visit more places at a pace i feel comfortable with
3. more people visiting my place for purposes of creativity and getting fed good food.
4. to make homemade crumpets