Checked out the Creative Sydney lineup yet? I've been drooling over it for hours. It's like a crate of fireworks in a think tank. It's all designed to inspire and push Sydney off the safe-thinking precipice and well into the freefall of hyperinvention. They have presentations, performances, panel talks, and a Block Party built by many spirited hands. They import people like Chris Ying from McSweeney's and Ute Noll from the German photography world. They get their top 10 established Sydney stars to select their top 10 up-and-comers, and then they all get together in a room, triangulate their inner matrices and summon forth the celestial light from 34 of the most sustainable 52 parallel dimensions. Ok, I'm not 100% sure about that last bit. See, I missed last year's festival what with being busy in Europe, but, goddammit, people have been talking about it so much ever since that I feel that I was basically there. Like Woodstock. Needless to say, I will not, on any level, be missing it this time around, when it hits Circular Quay from June 5 to 13 as part of Vivid Sydney.