18.9.10
Berlin.
8:25 PM | 
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Maj
Sylvia and I went to the 2010 Berlin Music Festival last weekend, held at the retired Tempelhof Airport (an amazing venue!) Although the festival ended early both nights it was on, we still had a great time. Some photos:
Something strange: Europeans only know Caribou's latest album (which is alright, but I'm a bigger fan of everything that came before it.) This means they dance like crazy to Swim but stand around like stiffs to Melody Day... lame.
I didn't get to explore Berlin very much, but I plan to go back. (It was nice to be in a German town and understand so much that people were saying around me, but it's a shame my time in the Netherlands dirtied my German. Apparently it happens to native speakers, too: on the train back to Amsterdam, I met a German girl named Lina who worked in an Amsterdam architecture firm for a year, and found that she, too, was mispronouncing all sorts of Dutch words when she got to A'dam, but now mispronounces German words back home. It's worth mentioning that this girl was the bee's knees. She was also coming back from the festival, and she's an architecture student from the Bauhaus design school (how cool is that?!) I'll be showing her around Science Park 904 on Tuesday. :D)
Giant mechanical horse sculpture at the Hauptbahnhof (central station) -- love!
People flying tiny kites in Kreuzberg, near Sylvia's flat. (I'll post a video of them soon.)
Sylvia's bedroom.
Lovely washroom in Sylvia's place.
Sylvia's kitchen.
First night at the show.
Flights!
Sadly, we never got to see Fatboy Slim or 2manydjs perform, but we did catch LCD Soundsystem, Fever Ray, Boys Noize, Soulwax, Caribou, and Hot Chip. Oh, Hot Chip, I love you so.Something strange: Europeans only know Caribou's latest album (which is alright, but I'm a bigger fan of everything that came before it.) This means they dance like crazy to Swim but stand around like stiffs to Melody Day... lame.
I didn't get to explore Berlin very much, but I plan to go back. (It was nice to be in a German town and understand so much that people were saying around me, but it's a shame my time in the Netherlands dirtied my German. Apparently it happens to native speakers, too: on the train back to Amsterdam, I met a German girl named Lina who worked in an Amsterdam architecture firm for a year, and found that she, too, was mispronouncing all sorts of Dutch words when she got to A'dam, but now mispronounces German words back home. It's worth mentioning that this girl was the bee's knees. She was also coming back from the festival, and she's an architecture student from the Bauhaus design school (how cool is that?!) I'll be showing her around Science Park 904 on Tuesday. :D)
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