TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

7:20 PM
Posted by jodi rose

I've been talking informally with a few people about vibration and diffusion fields... now time to massage all those words into some kind of coherent shape.

Walking around the streets of Mitte early one morning, I found myself drawn to ones I had never taken before, stumbling across the New Life Shop (I'll take six), and some vibrantly painted collective housing that is hanging in there grimly amidst the almost complete gentrification. Punk really isn't dead in Berlin.

It's an exercise I like sometimes, to flaneur with no particular direction in mind, and literally take whatever path takes my fancy. Something nice about realigning your intuition, and having a break from the constant mad dash from one urgent thing to the next.

Speaking of which, gotta run now, writers group beckons and then an evening to-do list longer than my arm. Uploading bridges for Udo's sound maps is high on the list, also transcribing the interview with Markus for Loop article, and getting my head around diagrams for Singapore. You know how it goes. Nothing nothing nothing EVERYTHING

Very excited on the weekend to wash up at Madame Claude's - another - new bar in Kreuzberg, on the site of old Monster Karaoke. Which I went to once in that strangely hazey first three weeks back in town last September, and have never been able to find again. The first time I had the excellent luck of witnessing a friend who runs an ultra-cool electronica record label, making his karaoke debut with 'Love is in the Air'. He was totally enthusiastic, we all sang along, the crowd went wild. Berlin goes POP!