Every true Berliner I meet seems to be one of three things.
A DJ/Student deep into their twenties, a multi-media artist (specialising in nude pottery) who also sings opera, or a writer who funds their rap-poetry with a web-cam glamour modelling job.
A foreign exchange student seems positively tame in this city, where individualism is god. Unless of course your own unique tastes include a positive attitude towards 'mainstream' culture. So much is that word despised here, that on the U-Bahn today, Motor FM (a leading indie-rock radio station) decorated every carriage with 100's of 'do not disturb' style door hangers with the words - 'Pest, Cholera, Mainstream', literally meaning - Plague, Cholera, Mainstream.
I had been warned of this cultural attack by a new friend who works for the station, explaining that the campaign was launching precisely on the day that staff at the overground trains, the S-Bahn, were striking - meaning that the usually spacious carriages underground, felt very much like my old morning commute from Tooting Bec to Moorgate. I hope the old ladies, weren’t too bewildered.
Mind you, they’re probably creating post-minimal techno in their living room.
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Hmm Nude pottery, how interesting...when you say nude pottery, do you mean doing pottery in the nude? Creating the vessel in the form of a nude person? Or simply using bisque because they are too lazy to figure out a glaze?
Berlin sounds very interesting indeed.
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