berlin nom sunlight yellow waking up the train into paris words in my dream berlin to paris 031227 ... mon fixing your jacket i told you it was not boring to watch you waking up breakfast smiling on a train into paris we talked over the museum scenes i recognize these and the voices at the zoo a mother with her children i recognize these turn up the volume your funky hostel room so fresh cold with newness a shop you spent too much time in yes i like them any more sumerian scenes? can we pause it while the phone rings? oh the sunlight on the train from berlin the world you were passing through dreaming on a train dreaming the train into paris i saw a different world a different view you filmed the famous smile and standing beside it said it was my own i heard london a piece of scotland you brought me home a copy left for us to watch to see and taste again do tell me more about prague please tell me more about berlin 031227 ... mon you said berlin was the boring part of the video some got up and left after a while i watched it twice i'd watch it again when you arrive i'll ask you -.-how was the road?-.- .-.want to watch some movies?.-. do you remember you fell in love with prague you said you liked the train into berlin the galleries the old and young buildings reconstruction i liked your paris window i could see notre-dame and there were pidgeons the flowers! i sent you money for you i said but bring me back home something anything your trip to europe you gave me i keep it it cannot be destroyed by fire it is a continent a monument it will outlive my name and body 031227 ... mon i said you should have spent more time in germany you could've seen the house 031227 ... mon but you had a ticket for a train from berlin to paris 031227 ... a film by Wim Wenders wings_of_desire 031227 ... lotuseater burn berlin burn 031227 ... epitome of incomprehensibility On the highway leading to the city, "ADHS" is spray-painted in grey and white letters on the underside of a bridge. Unless some other meaning supersedes it, that's ADHD in German. ... A sign near the Berliner Philharmonie says "Matrix" and advertises a party every night. ... There must be somewhere to buy a sunhat in this city, but it's not in a massive grocery store that sells sunglasses and tote bags and leggings and and socks. All of these imply but do not equal the presence of hats. 230609 ... e_o_i Berlin: a great place for not buying hats. (It's okay, I got a cheap one after.) There are a frightening number of hat-selling stores near Checkpoint Charlie, once a major crossing station of the Berlin_Wall. But I didn't want a pricey cap with JFK's head proclaiming "Ich bin ein Berliner," because I'd feel compelled to tell everyone what I know or half-remember hearing about that phrase - how the "ein" maybe wasn't as much of a mistake as some people thought, although the idea of an American president calling himself a donut is inherently funny. Some of the gift shop stuff is in questionable taste. People died crossing the thing. Mostly people trying to escape. A few guards and soldiers. Then again, the Wall was already a big part of pop culture. Slogans were made about it on both sides or on neither. Pink Floyd played some songs. Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissed, and I thought one of them was Nixon for some reason. Postcards have existed for decades. 230615 what's it to you? who go blather from