TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, May 16, 2005

6:00 PM
Posted by jodi rose

berlin
public holiday today, whatever pfingst is.
sleepy sunday morning feeling, at 5pm on a monday. visited kreuzberg, evoked feeling of pointless meandering. kind of listless.
two boys across the street postering an electricity box, with serious wide glue brush, stripy tracksuit top, frayed jeans and rockstar dirty brown hair. a girl pushes one pedal on her bicycle, swings her foot across the seat in a fluid movement and rides off.
the net cafe man is sweeping the floor next to me. dire straits install microwave ovens on the trashy radio.
speaking of trash, experienced the white trash phenomenon at the bar on saturday, very stylin scene, rockabilly meets chinese kitsch. then weekend club, on 12th floor of an old gdr office building in alexanderplatz. great view, minimal 80's german techno which I didn't like until leon pointed out that it was perfect in context, and then got into dance trance for a few hours.
last night caught up with torben, walked around mauerpark and mitte, then watched kill bill 2 with seamus. must be one of the last people on earth to see it. enjoyed the pacing, dialogue, twists in plot and character. the only piece of news that has made it past my bubble is an uprising in uzbekistan, which sounds bloody and serious.
wafting about doing conceptual art of questionable relevance to anything. sometimes remember that it is incredibly privileged and somewhat self indulgent, as art so often is. but hopefully offers more than that. oh well, too zoned out to worry about existential questions today. looking forward to tesla night on wednesday.