The Newtown crowd (where Bret from flight of the conchords grew up) is the free spirited part of the city. Amazing vegan meals, lots of dreads, and strong international community seem to float by here. This past Thursday a friend from my happiness class and I grooved on down to Newtown, backpacks in tow, to support her flatmate at open mic night. What a treasure the night turned out to be! A few crowd members were very high, which made for some nice counter fit enlightened conversation.
“Soooo, what are you expeeecting tonight….want to play a thumb war? ”
The performers were just as entertaining. One man without teeth, who looked very much like an urban pirate, recited poems written on paper airplanes, shooting them into the crowd! An extremely tall young man read an original short story about strange happenings on roller skates. And about 5 dudes with absurd amounts of hair sang songs about chicks they wanted to please.
Newtown is California counter culture, down under style. If you are looking for interesting conversation, long heavily patterned skirts, lots of hair, chai tea, college drop outs and Indian food, head over to Newtown.
I really do attend a class on quantifying happiness. We discuss general happiness theory and learn how to use a statistical software program called Stata to test our happiness hypotheses.
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