deary me

... I'm weary

apart from staring helplessly at my accrued possessions and sleeping in the afternoon, all I achieved today was a little more clarity on the prospects of an apartment in Paris for two weeks...

Am I wastefully frittering away my last days?

yeah, I guess, a bit...

the live feed has been interupted...

mmm jagermeister. german hospital flavour
new tattoos and eurovision...

nenenene iiiiii looking for a friend today... a better day?
do dododod doooo divine! go france! bearded ladies!
nenenenene

new...
...tattoo

potatoes and doners
kein hamburgers
aber insel affen!

iccups

it's a busy time

hiccups

diddid ew didididew

give the drummer some

we p- owned teh bottle of jagermeister...

I never thought we'd drink that, but there you go... OUCH

(or Adam got a new tattoo & we celebrated)

the hof, the wall, the art, the love

We went to the sculpture park this morning. Like a treasure hunt through wasteland, trying to pick which bits were art. Lucky we had a map. I loved the film by Lars Laumann about a woman who married the Berlin Wall. Yes, apparently. Amazing pictures of her standing in front of it, holding a replica. She felt cheated when her hero* celebrated the demise of her husband, crazy but true. I was transfixed by the blurry footage of The Hof dancing at Brandenburger Tor when the wall came down, in an LED Jacket and piano scarf. Fascinating slice o' history.
*'David Hasselhof, you are nothing without that talking car'.

At KunstWerke yesterday Pushwagner's Soft City was my favourite thing. We have had two days of full time art so really I am quite exhausted. The biennale is officially a bit of a disappointment but afternoon beers and pingpong make everything ok. I really want Melbourne to embrace the public pingpong table. It is SO good. Maybe Mr Feary and Mr Cruickshank can help with that campaign?

We realized we only have 8 days to go in Berlin, everything happens too quick when you are running out of time. In the meantime, some lovely grey art loving creatures camoflaged in their natural habitat.

yay for visitors

Andrea & Cam made me very happy by visiting me in Berlin. Andrea is looking pretty up the duff, in a, you know, glowing 'oh my god, SO beautiful lady' way.
Apart from some blatant coercion to have a baby, it has been SO nice to have close friends to chatter with for a change.

We went to see Alasdair Roberts and Bill Callahan last night. I liked it. Sweet scottish accents make me happy. Bill's voice is amazing even if he gives nothing much away live (cold-blooded old man). Diamond Dancer made my night. Anyways, here is a flying duck by oberbaum brücke.

you're really into that now, aren't you

Yes, I am pretty into Last fm. It's making me happy to listen to lots of music and radio of music I like on demand. Without the pesky radio voices & Ads. Sorry radio people. I love you, I do.

This is my new favourite thing, which Adam just sent me. It's by blu, who is responsible for one of my favourite Berlin murals. I always call it the wormy head, even though it's not wormy. It's a seething mass of little pink people. Kind of wormy people though. Adam also sent me this from the flight of the conchords new series.
Complete with a graph tracking video virus prowess. I do appreciate what Bret & Jermaine have to offer the ladies of the world.

The bearded building is flowering!

stairway to spectrum

Vaguely embarrassing, but um I just submitted my first design to threadless...

Now I have to wait for the teenagers to vote for it. They are vicious and I am a little scared... But you can vote for it too... If you like... Then it might get printed... And then I'd get paid. WOW. Also I could have a stairway to spectrum t-shirt... 7 lovely colours... Click on this little one to vote...

shöne Dinge

Here are some of the pretty things from the last post...




Like I said, I need a large container to bring it all home. Or just take a photo and walk away.

Adam just made a delicious banana cake, so it's tee und kuchen hour. Just prior to tisch tennis hour, to work off the cake ache... PING PONG.

um...

Due to a lack of anything interesting to say about anything (not unusual, I know), I will just tell you some things I saw today. Not even a particularly interesting set of things maybe, but still I liked them. In order of appearance...

Adam

A nice miniature model train scene...

Ostbahnhof Antik Markt; lots of amazing old German childrens books. I need a crate to send them home in.

Lots of drunk old punks sitting with giant dogs & beers outside the station...

Um, then I came home... It looks abit like this...



It has a rather grand entrance... Evened out by the fact that as soon as you walk out onto the street, the vague smell of the sewer has earned it the name sheisse strasse, though granted that is not unusual for many streets in Berlin...

And just now, whilst searching for beard growing time-lapse videos, this video of a man who stuck 1600 toothpicks into his beard. I don't know why, but I was pleased because of the striking similarity to the video I posted here yesterday of the hedgehog...

OK,

Bye!

sorry I missed your party...

I have been enjoying the photos though... Hopefully I can make it next time hey...

Also, I think I want a hedgehog...

getting fresh

Mayday officially welcomed the sunshine, and it's here. The city has been transformed over the last few weeks, so lush and new and fresh. It's green & growing from every crevice and piece of wasteland. Bleak streets are transformed into leafy, friendly boulevards, crammed with tables and people... It's looking lively.

For some quiet we walked in the woods today, wandering around Schlactensee... Picnicking, hunting for mushrooms & building up the courage to go swimming in the lake, next time...

We also saw lots of people walking their dogs with boat shoes & cashmere sweaters draped casually across their shoulders... We didn't raise an eyebrow with paper hats, sticks of power and my hobo picnic bundle.

pretty much it

Losing motivation, it's hit all summery, and have been drinking too much beer and hanging about in parks and playing pingpong.