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back in berlin for the weekend...next week i must travel to essen and aachen....no rest for the wicked...

travelling to Villingen-Schwenningen to meet hansel and gretel...pray for me..

dressed in black laying in the green grass at helmholtzplatz...between couples and families and a dozen pretty girls...reading and writing beneath the blue sky... the air smells of coffee, sweet pickles and dogs...squinting into the sky i can see the contrails of a four engined jet...perhaps flying at the exact altitude of the allied bombers that ravaged this city sixty years ago... and now i...
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a beautiful day in the haupstadt...i am drawing postcards to send to friends....

years later....today i live in berlin...between the rubble and the flowers...candles and kitties...the drowning and the dreaming

the festival ended with herzog's My Best Fiend ....quite touching and beautiful...what a couple of madmen

10/09 IAD > VIE
10/10 VIE > SKG

10/14 SKG > IST via Int'l Coach

10/23 IST > FRA
10/23 FRA > IAD

back to the grind....gee work sux...

i am already planning my next trip out of the empire...

http://www.istanbul.com

back from berlin....my trip was way too short...riding bikes, swimming in the lakes, lots of art and good food...

and i saw a great band

http://www.minipop.de

I have read The Story of the Eye....Bataille is always a pleasure...Tears of Eros is a meditation on the psychosocial impact of the human knowledge of sex and death...

Another decadent delight is Octave Mirbeau's "The Torture Garden"....once called "the most decadent text of the 19th century"...

and the third part of the Karl Valentin festival was delicious - and with sound.......