Autumn consolations

[imomus]

It's only me, surrounded by autumn consolations. Moonflower Trellis in the Evening Cool by Morikage Kusumi. Shinto in History: The Ways of the Kami (thanks sarmoung!) My apartment at night, vegetables at the Boxhagener Platz Saturday market, a fish lunch in Sasaya, Prenzlauer Berg. Poster for a dance piece, my apartment by day, ivy on a bench outside Bless.

Consolation for the ears:
My Jazzy Child Breton Drone (from album "I Insist")
Alejandra and Aeron Rioja (clips here, thanks intergalactim!)
Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Je Ne Connais Pas Cet Homme

Consolation for the eyes and mind:
Yokohama Triennale review in Shift
The Grand Tour with Ando, Casa Brutus
Relax "Give Peace a Chance" issue (also being scrutinized by Marxy today).

And although I'm certainly not saying goodbye to Berlin myself, I found the tender farewell to this fabulous city on Geeta's blog moving.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

gosh! Sasaya - how good was that restaurant? probably the most cost-effective japense dinner I had in a while. Alessandro Bosetti (a Milanese born and Berlin based Italian composer) took me there during my too short vacation in Berlin. We had a nice conversation about his projects and the show he had the previous night at the small venue Ausland and that was somehow shocking: he told me that most of fellow musicians in the scene commented after the show that they were confused by the fact that the gig was not clearly sound diffusion, it was not self-evident impro or performance art. According to their judgement there was something aesthetically ambiguous in what he did that night at Ausland. The gorgeous farewell on the blog reminded me of the sense of diffuse politeness, focus on culture et al. that permeates the city but also something vaguely rigid in the city’s cultural life that I didn’t have enough time understand. Gotta go back asap

francesco

[imomus.livejournal.com]

something vaguely rigid in the city’s cultural life

This is true; I was walking around yesterday with Hisae, dressed as in the photo you see above, and radical non-conformist Berlin punks with pink hair were staring at me as if I were a freak!

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

well, the punks conform to the very strict punk esthetics. you get noticed because you don't seem to belong to a group/catagory. (and of course you don't) its like i walk around with a turban in what is the most multi-cultural part of the city here in holland, the immigrants just smile but the dutch people look strangely confused.

thats is until the fake-muslim becomes a wild international trend and gets picked up by H&M and ZARA. (like you can buy fake-punk parafernalia)

[(Anonymous)]

never trust a radical non-conformist Berlin pink haired punk

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[chuckdarwin.livejournal.com]

They all want to be different so they dress the same.

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

and I like the grey jacket you wear above the robe. very beautiful!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I should plug them, because they gave it to me free; it's from Belleville (http://www.belleville-store.de) on the Rosa-Luxembourg Strasse.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

You look like a "friendly darth vader" with that robe.

Where did you find it?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It came to me through a chain of donations and riddances too byzantine to detail here.

[robotar.livejournal.com]

Oooh! You should provide us with a mailing address; I'd like to forward you a few books.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

a life displayed.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

I think you like very monk-like! It suits you. There are some similarities between you and monks... sort of.... You're peripatetic, unrooted geographically but rooted internally, deep thinking, critical of yet engaged in the world, and simple in style.

One question to you: why should autumn require consolotation? I think it is the reward of having made it through summer.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I love this season, actually, and this autumn in Berlin there's been a golden glow; sunny days, hokkaido pumpkins, golden leaves, folksy paper cut-outs by pre-schoolers taped up in windows...

Nothing really to be consoled for, but it's nice to indulge yourself for no reason, isn't it?

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

I thought perhaps autumn was the consolation. That's how I read the title. It is for me, anyway.

[intergalactim.livejournal.com]

"Breton Drone", I can't find that on my copy of "I Insist"...

Glad you like "La Rioja"!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's a secret track at the end of "Salima Sings", the last track. You've got to wait through about 10 minutes of silence before it begins.

[intergalactim.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I know the one. But how did you find out the title?

Appreciation time

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you dont blog on American time, American time sucks.

Wheel

[(Anonymous)]

Intrigued by the wheel on your right. What is the vehicle?

Re: Wheel

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's a secondhand East German push scooter.