Non random sampling episode two.
Posted: December 13, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Berlin, Kreuzberg, neukölln, video Leave a comment »Honestly, I just don’t know what to say. I think I don’t know much.
Sometimes I walk around my neighborhood and some of the sometimes I take my camera. Document the world around me. History repeating itself. Edited for the exciting parts.
I must admit I’m a touch overwhelmed. Just trying to be quiet…trying to listen and see.
I’m writing this with all my might trying to keep it strait, like I don’t want to hear what I have to say, so let’s keep it short, shall we?
I took some video and kept my mind off of other things with editing it around until I found it half interesting.
But it’s not, really.
Reminds me of the trash bag in American Beauty. Pretty cliche shit.
Oh, well. I have nothing else right now to add.
Berlin non-random sampling
Posted: December 2, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Berlin, culture shock, Kreuzberg, market, neukölln, turkish, video Leave a comment »A moving slideshow. Almost everything but the digger and the barking dogs taken near Schönleinstrasse. At least mostly pretty near.
Don’t know how the digger got in there, but I like it.
East-West exchange
Posted: November 5, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Berlin, Berlin Wall, culture shock, Deutsches Demokratisches Republik, Die Berliner Mauer, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Kreuzberg, neukölln, Ossis and Wessis, photos, travel writing Leave a comment »
I’m only on the other side of the river and up the street from where I used to live–maybe a mile and a half away from the old place–of course, twenty some years ago that would have been quite an extreme move.
I’d have had to dig a tunnel out of a fake wall in my cellar, or rig a special compartment under the back seat of an automobile and get an innocent old lady to drive me, or sew together a hot air balloon out of bedsheets, or something.
It would have been epic…if my plot didn’t get exposed and I got shot.
Nowadays, I just hired three Iraqis lads to hump it down the old 4 flights of stairs, load it up in their truck, drive it a few kilometers and hump it up the new 4 flights of stairs. Read the rest of this entry »
Commuting in the Dark and Getting Moved
Posted: November 1, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Berlin, Germany, moving abroad, neukölln, photos, travel writing Leave a comment »
Got my assed kick, my ass kicked and my assed kicked at work.
All week.
And then we got up and cried together…then we got moved.
Got student movers–three Iraqi guys–to do the heavy lifting and we still got our butts kicked.
But the time change gave us an hour extra to play with and the weather was on our side and I sawed some wood and got my sink attached and my shelves hung, and she got her fridge moved and brought me the table that wouldn’t fit in her place…and we got it done.
Well…we still have to get the old place cleaned and painted, but we’re mostly there.
And now I’m tired. Whupped. Read the rest of this entry »
keys to the place
Posted: October 19, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: apartment hunting, Berlin, neukölln, neukoelln, photos, travel writing 1 Comment »
Got me the keys to the new pad.
Now I just need a lightbulb or five. And fixtures in which to screw ‘em. Not a light in the whole place…just bare wires…typical for Germany.
I was lucky the place came with a stove and a kitchens sink. In Germany, the old ’everything-but’ saying goes: you get nothing, not even the kitchen sink.
The irony of that luck is that I already have a stove and a kitchen sink. Now I am the proud owner of two sinks and two electric stoves…but all I really want is a gas stove. Read the rest of this entry »
