Greetings, from bumfuck Wilmersdorf
One of the advantages of being out in the middle of nowhere is that it is quiet. Strangely, obviously quiet. Which is good, as I`m exhausted. Maya and I did just about everything two people can do in five days in Berlin and still managed to go to H&M five billion times AND buy gorgeous shoes (Spanish, off Helmholtzplatz, and NOT 139 €). She got the orange open-toed wedges with the amazing profile that I was coveting and I got a pair of very servicable flats that I love, but are decidedly not orange. Tonight will be an early night, hopefully just a movie and some chinese at Good Friends, and then sleep, sweet, sleep. Then two more days in the Hauptstadt, two more weeks in Munich and then back to LA. Fuck. I am not looking forward to that and all the weirdness that will bring, but this week I was reminded how much I like my friends and what it is like to be with smart, insightful people who truly understand that orange wedges are really, when you boil it all down to the essence, a necessity and human right, and I am sure looking forward to being around that again.
Posted by in 15:06:13
Berlin, like Los Angeles, has surprisingly quiet side streets off of the big boulevards. Our hotel is a stone’s throw away from KuDamm, where life used to hustle and bustle during my time in Berlin. These days we see the pendulum swinging massively to the east side of Berlin, which means that even the neighborhood of the famous Schaubühne is now the “middle of nowhere”, bumfuck. For businesses with stamina there will be better days coming, as these penduli have a tendency to swing back.
Question is: who cares, at this point? Certainly not the masses flocking to Prenzelberg for a Saturday night out.
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Damn straight that quality shoes are a basic human right! And by hook or by crook, we’ll track down those wedges for you, or their betters! You are truly the finest Berlin guide that friendship could buy. Loved seeing you in Germany and am eagerly awaiting an LA reunion.