had my sister staying for a few days which has been lovely, fooding, boozing and exploring. got to take her around and pretend like i know the place, which she humoured rather well i think. last weekend was pretty epic - spent most of it in berghain again think i got to see radioslave and redshape which was pretty fucking great -though i must admit i can't remember radioslave all that well... then on sunday there was a big free techno festival in the park just around the corner from me so i went on to that which, although it was rainy, was super fun and hada great vibe -there were loads of families and children playing around as the adults grooved to the housemusic, currywurst and cheep beer. man i love this town.
going to have a quiet week as i finally am making some progress making music and doing some writing -its certainly not great but it feels good to be doing some.
as to work it looks really unlikely, so current plan is coming back mid october to save up and apply to loads of internships starting over here in april, so fingers crossed...
i get to see villalobos for pretty much all of next weekend so i'm staying in till then - so so so excited! then jas is coming here 9th-19 so that'll be a ball. happy days.
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Thursday, 21 August 2008
updates
Drinking: Sternburg Export (€o.60 get in!); rum and coke from lidle and wonderful "Mexican Libre" Coctails from a bar called Cake in Kruezberg.
Reading: Henry Miller, William Boyd and the internet.
Travel: old rickety bicycle no.1
Dancing: In Berghain to stuff that sounds like this
watching: I watched Wall-E the other day. it was crap. going to see batman (finally) this weekend.
Missing: the halt bar and all inhabitants there of. Also family and any friends who don't happen to have a drinking problem. and english
Doing: Job hunting (bad); friend making (hard, but getting there); Deejaying (hells yeah); writing (only when drunk, dude - i suck); trying to learn german; getting lost on my bycicle as explore this lovely city; clubbing; sleeping; not sleeping; clubbing. Starting to make my own tracks as well but its a slow process and i don't really have all the stuff i need here. how much would it cost to shipp over my midi keyboard do you think?
eating: badly; sandwhiches, eggs, cereal and kebabs. the kebabs here KICK ASS by the way
well, yeah so life's clicking on by here. work seems next to impossible but i have prospects of a 6 month internship with Get Physical starting in april -so if i get that i'll probably come back to glasgow and work my ass of until then, which would work really well i think. cool. so yeah, let me know what you guys are up to? Also i started posting on conetoaster again if you need some new tunes
charlie x
Saturday, 16 August 2008
superstardj
hey so you should all come over to berlin on my birthday as me and liam are throwing a hijack vs throb night in a gallery. oh yeah. we just need to work out what we're doing and how we're going to get folk to come along to it but fuck,
Throb Hijacks RGB, 26th September @RGB Berlin
Throb Hijacks RGB, 26th September @RGB Berlin
Thursday, 14 August 2008
lost on a bike in berlin
yeah so wow.. that took a long time.
was down in kreuzberg showing emma a few trendy bars. took my bike down all cool and that made sure she was on the right way home. step on my usual tram to avoid a big hill lost concentration for a bit then BAMB i'm in the middle of nowhere and too drunk to use a map properly. fuck i was just flying three sheets to the wind trying to find my way home. trip should have taken just under 20mins. fucking two hours later I'm home sipping a berr and not looking forwards to school tomorrow.
in my defence the tram did say M10 on it and i wasnt the only one confused when it went the wrong way. bastards.
i did get to see the sun set from the roof at weekend though, so that was nice.
was down in kreuzberg showing emma a few trendy bars. took my bike down all cool and that made sure she was on the right way home. step on my usual tram to avoid a big hill lost concentration for a bit then BAMB i'm in the middle of nowhere and too drunk to use a map properly. fuck i was just flying three sheets to the wind trying to find my way home. trip should have taken just under 20mins. fucking two hours later I'm home sipping a berr and not looking forwards to school tomorrow.
in my defence the tram did say M10 on it and i wasnt the only one confused when it went the wrong way. bastards.
i did get to see the sun set from the roof at weekend though, so that was nice.
Monday, 11 August 2008
Well i think i just about survived the weekend. Didn't make it to pan pot on friday which was a shame but no one was up for it so i decided to save my pennies, and after all its berlin -they'll play again!
Primary colours festival was really cool -great location and great music. Sadly it didn't seem to be that busy, i just hope it wasnt a financial failure and that they get to do it again next year. Music highlights were Pantha du prince, Guilliuame and the cotou dumounts and jack the rapper. Other highlights involved dancing to really dark tehno in an actual fucking dungeon
i left that at about 7 and headed for the bpitch control night at berghain which was stupidly busy and not the best crowd in the world in panorama bar so i headed downstairs to the shady depths of berghain to dance with topless butch men to the most blistering relentless techno i've enjoyed for a while. really hardcore physical experience, not to mention a bunch of fun.
one of the many cool things about berghain is the crazy selection of people you meet there, from the evil looking, face tatoo'd, I-have-killed-before-and-will-do-again-if-it-comes-to-it head honcho bouncer who, dressed in full tails signals to his minions with a simple nod or shake of the head whether or not your getting in (you don't argue, really) to the always friendly but often scary cast of vampires, bikers, sexslaves, machomachomen, loving lesbians, trainspotters and of course everpresent hipsters (normaly just up in panorama though.)
the toilets are always quite an experience too.
Primary colours festival was really cool -great location and great music. Sadly it didn't seem to be that busy, i just hope it wasnt a financial failure and that they get to do it again next year. Music highlights were Pantha du prince, Guilliuame and the cotou dumounts and jack the rapper. Other highlights involved dancing to really dark tehno in an actual fucking dungeon
i left that at about 7 and headed for the bpitch control night at berghain which was stupidly busy and not the best crowd in the world in panorama bar so i headed downstairs to the shady depths of berghain to dance with topless butch men to the most blistering relentless techno i've enjoyed for a while. really hardcore physical experience, not to mention a bunch of fun.
one of the many cool things about berghain is the crazy selection of people you meet there, from the evil looking, face tatoo'd, I-have-killed-before-and-will-do-again-if-it-comes-to-it head honcho bouncer who, dressed in full tails signals to his minions with a simple nod or shake of the head whether or not your getting in (you don't argue, really) to the always friendly but often scary cast of vampires, bikers, sexslaves, machomachomen, loving lesbians, trainspotters and of course everpresent hipsters (normaly just up in panorama though.)
the toilets are always quite an experience too.
Friday, 8 August 2008
dust settles
so I've been here about 2 weeks now and i'm sort of getting used to it a bit. i mean, not really but i feel i'm kind of getting a hang of this berlin thing. My flats cool -the shower and kitchen are a sham, but the people are nice. my area is really interesting. I'm right on the boarder between the districts of prenzlaurberg (beautiful and expensive) mitte (center) and friedrichastein (cheap trendy and punk as fuck) though and just below that (a 20 min tram ride) is good ol' Kruezberg.
pretty much everything seems to either be a gallery a club a bar or a cafe so yeah lifes pretty sweet.
Beginning to make some friends who aren't tourists which is good, and have made my first friend whose actually fromberlin. He likes techno and is well hardcore. word.
language course is tough but good for me. at times i get frustrated and feel like i'm at school but if i actually do any work outside of class and am not too hungover i feel like i'm beginning to get somewhere. 2 weeks is really not anywhere near like long enough but if it gives me a base to work from thats something.
got a bit of an insane nosleep weekend lined up.... tonight is pan pot at club 103 then a few hours sleep untill off to this all day techno festival (located in the above castle!) which i'll leave at about 7am to go to the bpitch control night at berghain to see miss ellan allien. bring it on!
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Monday, 4 August 2008
so where were we
well, when did we last meet? did we have fun? i think so... cool.
I'm now all set up in my lovely new flat where the people have really looked after me, got me sorted, got me set. met Guilleuam and kerry fae glasgow today and a feew of their friends whoo live here so thats cool. then got back to the flat and met some folk who are really into the things that i came to this city for so thats really exciting. my flatmates are now arguing about art though so i'm ignoring them and writing this.
got a bike sorted out and a travel pass so i'm no mister mobile oh and i got a german phone and all... you can call me on 017696421244 you maybe need to add some +49 shit infront of it first though but that might not be right so fuck just email me or comment here.
wasn't sure about the deal with having folk here to stay but i've won em over with my scottish charm and whisky so you're all welcome if you bring a bottle of single malt.. Bunnahabhain is preferred. just joking. you can all stay for nought more than a smile maybe.
Started school today. was good. good mixture of hard and easy: Hard cause its ALL in german - no exceptions, easy cause the exercises are like for 4yearolds an that but fuck i think i'll maybe have learnt something in 2weeks.
anyways going to go dj abit now. muchlovetoyerfaces
charlieeees x
I'm now all set up in my lovely new flat where the people have really looked after me, got me sorted, got me set. met Guilleuam and kerry fae glasgow today and a feew of their friends whoo live here so thats cool. then got back to the flat and met some folk who are really into the things that i came to this city for so thats really exciting. my flatmates are now arguing about art though so i'm ignoring them and writing this.
got a bike sorted out and a travel pass so i'm no mister mobile oh and i got a german phone and all... you can call me on 017696421244 you maybe need to add some +49 shit infront of it first though but that might not be right so fuck just email me or comment here.
wasn't sure about the deal with having folk here to stay but i've won em over with my scottish charm and whisky so you're all welcome if you bring a bottle of single malt.. Bunnahabhain is preferred. just joking. you can all stay for nought more than a smile maybe.
Started school today. was good. good mixture of hard and easy: Hard cause its ALL in german - no exceptions, easy cause the exercises are like for 4yearolds an that but fuck i think i'll maybe have learnt something in 2weeks.
anyways going to go dj abit now. muchlovetoyerfaces
charlieeees x
Saturday, 2 August 2008
my flat
I'm living in a room at the back of an artist studio/live in place on the boarder between Friedrichestein and Prenzlauerberg. its a cool flat and the people are lovely. THey've taken me under their wing and looked after me, which is nice. last night we went to an exhibition where i met a a whole load of folk and much fun was had, can't really remember any names though. ah well, same old...
am a bit worried about running out of money as the bank seem to have knocked £500 off my overdraft. i really should have read the letters they sent me. i'm pretty sure i can extend it again but not till after the weekend. it looks like i'm living off whats in my wallet for the next few days, but now i have a place to stay it doesn't matter all that much.
back to berghain again this evening i think... then mobilee are having an outdoor party tomorrow daytime, so if its nice and i'm still awake i might head down there for some sun and techno.
lovely
am a bit worried about running out of money as the bank seem to have knocked £500 off my overdraft. i really should have read the letters they sent me. i'm pretty sure i can extend it again but not till after the weekend. it looks like i'm living off whats in my wallet for the next few days, but now i have a place to stay it doesn't matter all that much.
back to berghain again this evening i think... then mobilee are having an outdoor party tomorrow daytime, so if its nice and i'm still awake i might head down there for some sun and techno.
lovely
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