Friday, April 25, 2008

Phenomenon

Today was cloudy and then sunny.
I've been a little bit sick so I slept in until 1 'clock-ish.
I had eggs and fresh fruit for breakfast. I've been avoiding coffee as it is dehydrating.
I walked to The American Church in Berlin. It's near my house and there is services in English on Sundays and I have been wanting to attend for a while but am always distracted. I want to go this Sunday, but we'll see, as I have promised to spend time with my friends in Berlin late Saturday night. It was a great walk and the area just east of me is full of trees and old buildings. No matter which large city I am in I always think it similar to what I imagine of New York. I've been to New York city, and spent two weeks there, but the New York city I imagine is some romanticized Woody Allen New York city, that doesn't really exist.
I listened to Nathan Lawr and also Wintersleep and cleaned my room.
For dinner I had; a weak but interesting salad and rice, zucchini and carrots...healthy?
I went to a movie with my roommate Jana and her friend Maria (?) I forget her name...
It was a Scandinavian or Norwegian film and it was dubbed in German...meaning no English.
It was pitched in the newspaper as if Ingmar Bergman had made The Big Lebowski.
The film was great and slow and sparse enough for me to understand the spoken moments. It also looked great; like tarnished tiles of old swimming pools or rain stained tin, and every character looked chalked and dusty and acted half dead. My parents would have hated it.
It was called "Das Jüngste Gewitter" (2007), I think, which translates to English as "The Recent Thunder Storm", I think, but the 'international' title is "You, The Living". The real title though, is "Du Levande" from Denmark. It was made by Roy Andersson.

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