TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

8:45 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Lost in Berlin after Hotel Chernobyl, gradually finding my way back.
Having a good week so far, great bargains at my favourite fleamarket on the weekend, boxhagener platz, home to all kinds of cool retro-electro junk. Picked up a great 8 band world radio, sony mike, and black wig... all kinds of possibilities. Making plans for the Danube bridge concerts, lining up my local artists in Vienna and Linz - just discovered the two Luka's will be there from Ljubljana, and happy to play if we can find the time! So love having people in my life who turn up again in random places...

Fantastic writer's group last night, had really useful and productive crit on my first draft of Singapore Punk story, which will eventually be a chapter in the memoir. Definitely finding the flow, and tone, good questions from people in the group, about what exactly I mean by punk, and from someone who doesn't know me - who are you and why should I care? Indeed, exactly. Thinking about how to write yourself as a character, and giving more information about context, although the kids liked the mix of detail on people, culture, politics...

Woke up this morning and wrote for 3 hours, now to do that every day. Then another 3 hours.... It feels like some kind of breakthrough, clarity of intention and focus much clearer than before. Need to wrangle a spare computer from someone to work on during the boat trip... anyone? An old laptop lying around... just need word processing and basic audio editing.... beep beep beep transmission over...