Le weekend

Here are some things I did on Friday and Saturday:
Friday, I went for a walk (plus a short subway ride) to Goltzstrasse in Schöneberg, which I like because of the high density of furniture and knick-knack shops...also a cute little bookstore called "Chatwins" specializing in travel lit.
*click click*

Translation: "We don't just want a piece of the pie, we want the whole bakery." Ahem. Fuck yeah. (near the S-Bahn Yorckstrasse)

It's funny, the longer I live here, the more comfortable I am with doing touristy things like taking pictures of neighbourhoods and street signs and the like. I also thought it was really cool that this one graffiti artist's tag appears to be Zeus.

Puppet theatre is a really big part of many German kids' childhoods:


So. many. memories! Also, such a classic.

This neighbourhood also had a really distinctive (and distinctively questionable) space age theme.

Later on in the day was sushi with colleagues, where I ordered fish and natto. Biggest. mistake. ever. but still kind of worth it. Looks like baked beans, tastes sticky, and has an after-taste of coffee. Have you tried it before?

Friday night, I went to an indie concert in Zapata on Oranienburgerstr., and it kind of reminded me of why Berlin doesn't really have the same indie scene as, say, London. Oh, and apparently there was a fire there Saturday night! o___O But still fun!

Saturday, I made pizza from "scratch"...suffice to say my kitchen did not look this pristine when I was done...there was a lot of improvisation involved!

I also watched "Fish Tank", which was absolutely brilliant, but also left me super-super-conflicted. It's definitely a film that needs to be seen to be understood, but essentially what makes it so difficult to watch is that we, as an audience, become entranced by the kind of general direction the film is headed, only to realize that when what was bound to happen eventually happens, it reveals more about our own morality and the weaknesses of our instinct than we are comfortable with. Does that make sense?

Watch the trailer here.