warschauer str. omy its sunny. scroll down to see the gloomy weather.

















yeah, there is the money shot, if east berlin socialism is you flavor











little protest houses at alexanderplatz























berliners have lots of respect for the greeks who are determined to take matters into their own hands. big up greek movement!














over the river spree on warschauer str. thats berlin winter. freezing, foggy, and humid. the wall would normally be visible, but...winter.







squatter house near my language school in friedrichshain.

on a walk thru kreuzberg

on a fine afternoon i took a walk with fela kuti on the discman. here are some pictures. i would write more but its time for bed!

january

the last picture my camera ever took. At the karl marx house and museum there was a display of his written work translated into many different languages.


i live a block away from templehof airport. now closed,but a massive spot nonetheless. wiki it if you dont know the history. nice for sunsets. the sun only appears at angles in berlin in the winter. you never really see it, only reflections on tall building windows, in the distance, and then for a sweet setting beyond a chain link fence beyond a barren airstrip with large nationalistic architecture-to the right=













this building is old. porta negra. build by the romans. in a town called trier, the oldest town in germany. long time ago. i started buggin when i saw it, walked thru it, etc. then nina starts with" well its not as old as the ruins in italy, but then you go to italy an your all wow its old, but then the italians are all oh go to greece, their ish is mad old italy dont compare." and im like, damn that building is old, nonetheless.
















nope, not ashfield. somewhere southwest of deutsche eck.















ninas brother wolfram was in town. he works with a woman who does accounting for german films. she's tight with wim wenders, among others. this party was cool. good bier and lachs. all of a sudden, nina and wolframs dad calls on the house phone. hilarious.

6-01-09

's cold out here on kienitzer strasse. -9celsius and the russians just cut the heating juice off from the Ukraine, might get colder. began a language course yesterday, good mixed group of people from europe and kazakhstan, vietnam, etc... of course the school, just east of the tilting wall, has the original heater from the late 40's. it snowed the day after new years, covering much of the used up fireworks entrails, making for what appeared to be large snow piles on the corner, with only 2 inches of schnee in actual. eastvillageradio keeps me up wherever i am, fortydeuceradio and queenmajesty show are top notch for 2 hours room clean up sesh. plans for the week include securing a visa, ice skating, and since i found the next to impossible to find herb here in berlin, cilantro, aka grun coriander, chili. germans use lots of commas.