Tuesday, June 1, 2010
May...I thought I knew ya...
That title comes from this thing I started saying when I discover something is quite different than I had previously imagined it to be. Like, May has been really cold and rainy, so I might look out the window and say, "May, I never knew ya," or "May, I thought I knew ya." Is this a thing? It seems so familiar a phrase but I think I'm a few words off. Anyway, I don't really know May or what we did during the month of May. We searched and searched for a new apartment and finally found one that we love. We moved into said apartment. The charming girls Beccah (Brooklyn), Ilana (Ann Arbor) and Sarah (Austin en route to Boston) came to visit Berlin. Our super amazing friends Sam and Roni moved away (sad), but had a spandex themed going away party (awesome). We got haircuts. But they weren't very drastic.
Hopefully I'll think of something else to redeem the last 31 days of our lives.
Hopefully I'll think of something else to redeem the last 31 days of our lives.
Holly Mae's 30th
Holly Mae joined the ranks of 30-somethings and we celebrated at Maria Peligro for some Mexican comida and margaritas. We also went to see Tosca the following Sunday at the Staatsoper Berlin, a beautiful and surprisingly petite opera house in former East Berlin. We dressed-up fancy, then went to the Tiergarten for a ukulele jam/fingernail painting session (they seem mutually exclusive and yet somehow coexist nicely). Time flies when you're playing ukulele, so we had to take a cab to the opera and change into our high heels in the ride over. We made it just in time and enjoyed a lovely evening of Italian arias and intermission pretzels.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
What happened?
What happened to March? We don't really know. It's strangely hard to account for, now that it is April and we see that we have posted nothing since then. The See melted and is now full of swans and pretty ducks. On March 19th we went to Prague to celebrate Alana's 30th and to have a Holly Mae & the Painted Room show with the Berlin band-mates, Sarah and Aurelie. We stayed with friends and in an old-Czech-chic place called the Castle Steps. Then we have been caught up in Berlin Spring and all its uncertain moves back and forth in and out of warm weather, back into cold and clammy, some days fine and bright somedays hailing. We had a charming if we do say so ourselves Easter party, with an egg hunt and a table set up for painting them, with our slender volume of new Berlin friends.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Litzensee
We recently discovered that the low gray field near our house is actually a small See (lake). We realized this after seeing kids skate on it. Now that Berlin has warmed up a little most of the snow is gone, revealing the frozen lake. It is full of leaves and fish suspended.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Quark Poller, Beininstich, Bolle, oh my!
Ok, I may have gone a bit overboard on the pastries, but the lovely and talented Greg is visiting from New York and we'll be screening his film "Fay Lindsay-Jones Story" this evening, and I figured we needed some refreshments as sweet and delicious as he is.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Littlest Crossing-Guard
Cool thing about German traffic signals: When you get the "green" pedestrian cross light, it's an image of little green man wearing a hat and walking, very determinedly, across the street. When the light turns red the man holds both arms out to stop you from crossing.
Bratwurst...sehr lecker!
Here is documentation of a delicious and authentic German meal we recently enjoyed.
Bratwurst, onions, and red cabbage with apples. We boiled the bratwurst in a pan with about 1/2" of water until they were cooked through, and then we browned them for a few minutes with the sauteed onions. The red cabbage and apples is just that. Saute the cabbage with an onion in a big pot, then when the cabbage is soft, add chopped apples, some sugar, salt, pepper and vinegar to taste and cook for another five minutes or so.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Ende januar
Berlin in January this year is all snow, all the time. Ice, snow, slush, hail, then more snow. All the same we get around:
went to LaD.I.Y.Fest last night in Friedrichshain and saw lots of great hair. Thursday we went to a place called Madame Claude in Kreuzberg, for low-fi music with friends/people we want to be our friends. Fantastic lyrics & accents, kind of an outsider artist vibe. Frida Hyvonen meets Jens Lekman meets Daniel Johnston. There was a blonde bespectacled German guy who sang "rock me like a wagon wheel" sans affect. Charmed the pants off us.
The night before that, a reading in English for the so-called ex-Berliner community, which means, counter-intuitively, people who are presently Berliners but exes of something else.
February will be the month of visits from people like you.
I am Martha Rosler
That is not true but I DID do a Martha Rosler-inspired photo tour of a few blocks of Kreuzberg.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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