TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, May 13, 2005

2:13 PM
Posted by jodi rose

back in the net cafe, this place is on a non-stop 80's hits radio station, with an entertaining selection of hits, right now is video killed the radio star, yesterday treated to aha - take on me - and toni basil, mickey as highlights.
can't even begin to talk about how much I love being back in berlin. just feels like life, am totally at home here. haven't been disoriented or lonely, hanging out doing my thing, meeting up with seamus and bianca to play with fionn in the park, or have really good cheap thai food. quarter of the price from helsinki and 5x the quality and freshness.
decided that berlin is a cross between paris and helsinki - the architecture is not as austere as hkl, but more serious than paris, people make eye contact a lot more than hkl, but less in your face hassling than paree.... you get the idea.
my quest to become european is well under way, although caved in this morning for a giant german frustuck, but otherwise living on red wine, cigarettes and coffee - when I can drink it black, then will be truly european :)
writing blurbs for various projects in 2006 and 2007 - lordy this art thing is taking on a whole new dimension, have never been organising that far in advance before. welcome to the world of international artstar excess. coming home to gigs lined up in melb, syd and workshop in adelaide, then concentrating on writing surround sound symphony, book and film script.
but today I am in berlin, it's sunny (interittently) and I have to get further afield than this little square on the map I've become very familiar with. Still it's great to have a neighbourhood again, really missed that in helsinki. and the fuzzy puffball blossoms are in the air again - when I was here 3 years ago in may, they floated through görlitzer park filling the air. the renovation program is far advanced since then too, almost all the apts in prenzlauer berg seem to have been facelifted, mostly painted bright colours but some unfortunate shades of apricot also.
ok, time to contact people and get out into the city.