first thing about Berlin that has some real bite I can relate to, after so much it's-all-so-great-and-we're-all-so-poor/sexy
the half empty/full beer bottle acompanies every f@cking five minute walk it seems, not just amongst stereotypical alkies. This Sylvestor I saw english speaking hipsters tossing the firecrackers in your general direction as much as lokals.
summer is great but has this element of fakery because it's a heat blanket over all that comes out in winter. The high blocks that reflect and radiate the sun in summer, suck any light in the sky during winter.
I've lived there a lot and am back every month or two, but last time I really felt the strangeness of it is very on the wane due to the fact of everytime you go out you are hearing english language gossip about parties. It's great that there is that space, a city that allows this, as it were, but it's overrun. There was a hilarious Peres Projects press release recently about in winter 'everyone' either haunts the clubs and bars or hibernates- typical classist ageist young'ish expat bullshit- as if the u-bahn is driven by a robot, the falafel is served by another one, and the supermarket shelves stacked by a few more. I have love for the city but i can't say I miss all this.
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the half empty/full beer bottle acompanies every f@cking five minute walk it seems, not just amongst stereotypical alkies. This Sylvestor I saw english speaking hipsters tossing the firecrackers in your general direction as much as lokals.
summer is great but has this element of fakery because it's a heat blanket over all that comes out in winter. The high blocks that reflect and radiate the sun in summer, suck any light in the sky during winter.
I've lived there a lot and am back every month or two, but last time I really felt the strangeness of it is very on the wane due to the fact of everytime you go out you are hearing english language gossip about parties. It's great that there is that space, a city that allows this, as it were, but it's overrun. There was a hilarious Peres Projects press release recently about in winter 'everyone' either haunts the clubs and bars or hibernates- typical classist ageist young'ish expat bullshit- as if the u-bahn is driven by a robot, the falafel is served by another one, and the supermarket shelves stacked by a few more. I have love for the city but i can't say I miss all this.