Introduction / Everything is Connected (And Connections Are Everywhere) Tokyo 1986 – Diary Excerpts Heartfelt Consume Now! For Beautiful Human Life! That Day The Summer Stage In Central Park Watch Out, World! The International Chrysis – A New York City Portrait in Motion Part 4: The Bit That’s Mine Traces Ludlow Street Blues Knock Knock Limbo Ambient Interlude Fresh Eyes: On Looking at Sydney After Some Years Away Divamukti – Yoga for Busy People City of Extremes In The Sky Subway Trilogy Lower East Lingering Sotto Voce Hooray For Macramé An Open Letter To President George W. Bush Ode To Culinary TechnologyHello? Is This Microphone On?War In The BloodstreamOf Mad Dancers and Fairy Circles Write It! Or Else…On A Mission From GodBreath of Life The Handwritten Film Say G’day to the Last Standing Apostles of the Great Ocean Road A London Slash German-ish Azerbaijani TaleSpring In Istanbul – A Personal Dispatch From Taksim SquareThe Missing Pages From Son to Father‘We take no risks at all': a voice from the Spanish flu outbreak The Theatre of Life – Closed Until Further NoticeWould You Like To Buy Some Time?Choose HappinessShining A Spotlight on Jean Curlewis Unstoppable Beauty? The Curious State of Being Alive Notes From Energetic SpacesAlter The Frequency This Is The Way I Go To Bed Alone Phenomenal Human, Thank You Maya Angelou A Triptych Of Deaths In Three Decades Eulogy for Chad CourtneyOne Day FlowersOn Diamonds An Icon In My Living Room Gayle Force CardsI Want The Language of EnergyCome Celebrate With MeThe Kind Of Stillness That Listens Of Celebrations & Creativity In Anxious TimesEpilogueMatthew Curlewis’s decades and continents-wide collection of stories, essays and poems can provoke raucous laughter, heartfelt weeping, and random joyful outbursts – sometimes all at once.Mapping the contours of grief and the delights of living, It Makes No Sense Not To Sit Next to Someone Warm Tonight gathers together Matthew Curlewis’s many years of writing. Criss-crossing cultures and decades – from Sydney to Tokyo, and New York to Amsterdam – Matthew creates a collage as varied and vivid as the times he documents. Whether late-night rollerblading in ’90s Manhattan, performing as ‘Earl Grey’ in Roppongi, or sharing frozen margaritas on the shady back deck of the ‘Ludlow Lounge’ – his Lower East Side party palace, he relishes remembering, finds joy in small moments, and tells those gone too soon, ‘I think of you still’.Reader advisory: mapping the contours of grief and the delights of living, Matthew Curlewis’s decades and continents-wide collection of stories, essays and poems can provoke raucous laughter, heartfelt weeping, and random joyful outbursts – sometimes all at once. As he uncorks his curiosity and engages deeply in ‘what it means to be human’, Matthew illuminates our finest and most sparkling threads of connection: our origins in stardust.