Album:2012:01-09 Berlin Home Base

I make Berlin my headquarters for six weeks.

Berlin is an interesting city. It's not quite the art house I thought it would be, though Kreuzberg is a great neighborhood. There's many people from not-Germany living in Berlin, and it takes a while for me to realize that just about everyone that ends up hanging out with me is from not-Germany. Evidently the Berliners are not fans of me.

My first Berlin dance,.. Tante Lisbet on Tuesday
(now closed) 		Berlin only has one river,
but I see it everywhere. 		What's wrong with this building?
Beautiful building,
next to ugly building (and the Fernsehturm tower/spike in the back) 		Late night Blues
on Thursday nights (run by Marcus in center) 		Marcus (USA) and Vanessa (France),
good examples of the international aspects of Berlin. Vanessa also looks like Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years. 		Elisabeth is just about the only German
I end up hanging out with. Not the friendliest people.
The inside The front of the kiosk is a party Someone parked a bus
and opened a kiosk. The second floor is games and a mini-cafe. 		The Brussels airport had proper labelling
for it's religious area ("Cultes")
Katheryn (USA) in Hamburg
comes and visits me in Berlin 		Super Dickmann!
(Which is actually delicious) 		Speaking of interesting advertisements. Katheryn on the train,
we're practicing our sex eyes.
In the Rothaus
(the mayor's house) at Alexanderplatz, there's an interesting display of Berlin over the years. 		And the Senate's offices. We go to the zoo,
and I convince a Rhino to come over and say hi. 		Polar Bears.
I have a conversation with the one in front.
And then I talk to some wolves.
Pity the dirty glass. 		They want a smell
of the strange human. 		One by one
a wolf comes over to talk to me. 		And then I have a talk with an Otter.
It seems that the animals in the Berlin Zoo are lonely, because nobody is talking to them.
This happy trotting Bison
really cracked me up, so.. [Video, 35.3M] 		Ride of the Bison
[Video, 16M] 		Giraffe Giraffe
Definitely a lonely giraffe. We see the big cat house
right at closing time. 		And the cats start growling at everyone
to get out at closing. Seriously. It was weird. [Video, 12.9M] 		Post-growling panting.
[Video, 29.2M]
Growling Dave Chinese ping-pong.
Super fun. [Video, 32.2M] 		People start getting eliminated
[Video, 32.7M] 		And I final make it to the final two
a few times. Evidently I'm a natural at Chinese Ping-Pong, until it finally reduces to regular ping pong, which I suck at. [Video, 5.2M]
Panorama of Gendarmenmarkt Square,
from the Konzerthaus to Französischer Dom to Deutscher Dom (Neue Kirche) 		Another Thursday Blues Naomi and Jered (USA,USA)
at Thursday Blues 		My office in Berlin,
plus cat.
The river freezes The new Wednesday venue Ane from Oslo visits! Marcus, Duc, Ane
..and Naomi is still in town. ..and a decent photo of me. ..and a decent photo of Marcus.
Don't we all look handsome? 		Duc's place
My lord.. The birds.
They surround my apartment, Hitchcock fashion. 		Am I the only one revolted
by the fact that Checkpoint Charlie is now next to a McDonalds? Maybe we should give West Germany back. 		One of the last remaining sections
of the Berlin Wall. 		Along the decaying Berlin Wall
[Video, 83.1M]
The best Falafel
I have ever had, in Berlin nonetheless and named, of course, "Falafel" (with Marcus and Elisabeth) 		Berlin Blues Workshop:
Before Musicality class [Video, 42.7M] 		Berlin Blues Workshop:
After Musicality class 		Looking out at the Fernsehturm tower
from right outside my apartment in Mitte.
Just walking down the street,
I run into this histerical videotaping of some commercial of some sort. [Video, 17M] 		Going dancing in Berlin
on my last night. 		I run into a cranky Elisabeth. We get Falafel at "Falafel Dave"
(not 100% true)
Photo album generated by album script from Dave Madison's MarginalHacks on Wed Oct 17 01:56:15 2012