TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

5:14 PM
Posted by jodi rose

someone came to the door of my studio this morning, trying to sell life insurance. I find the whole concept bizarre, can you really insure against life? better to take the risk, I think, and jump straight in whatever the end result (which is fairly inevitable, really when you think about it.)

thankfully the jetlag weirdness has lifted, along with the snodge (rob's word for this drizzly pointillist snow that stings a little when it lands on you then melts away quickly) never settles. like.... many of us.

interrogating all my fellow nomadic friends about where and why they are.
the first conversation in transit lounge radio will take place on thursday, with an improvised sound night concurrently in the next room.
the art bar is open from 7, come on down, talk, listen, drink.

jacob has an exhibition opening tonight in new york, listening to broadway.
sounds gorgeous. our conversation by the lake in copenhagen is my first podcast, when the wireless access finally gets fixed and I can laptop.

met up with sara who is here from utrecht every few weeks, and went to the kunstwerke exhibition of fassbinder's berlin alexanderplatz 1929. insane decadent filmmaking, all 15 hours exhibited in episodes projected through this wooden structure and ongoing as one long event.

florian (the bridge guard after me) and kate took me in on sunday night and had some cosy family time, played with leonara's leggo and brightened up considerably. remembering that first week in a new place is always hard.

also this isn't the berlin I dreamed of coming back to. the city has changed so much, even in the last six months, as katie confirms also - somehow that charm it had over me has been diluted by the uber-hipster vibe and constant influx of more and more australian artists. although apparently the germans want us here - according to someone who applied for the kunstler visa (yes, you can get a special artist visa!) but one doesn't feel so special when the place is crawling with other antipodean sound artists...

so, having a few princess moments but on the whole adjusting better now.

after a slow start with the torn mime/interpretive dance, the whole youtube thing has just hit me and have become totally addicted.

a friend sent this wonderful impromptu concert on the paris metro

then I found a follow up to the mime with natalie herself appearing

and finally this wonderfully abstract experimental film

time to go walk along the spree and catch a few minutes of cold air

xxjr