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i moved to berlin about a year and half ago from los angeles, one of the GREAT food cities on earth which having traveled a fair amount i feel i can say with snobbish authority. with equal snobbish authority i feel i can say the food in berlin SUCKS. i have no idea why. it is relatively diverse and cosmopolitan but somehow the idea of great food has evaded this place. a single bright spot is the Lebanese restaurant Qadmous. even a heart wrenchingly deprived and cynical faux gourmand will be delighted by how fresh, careful, classically presented yet surprising the fare is every time. also, they have good service, another berlin rarity. it is not cheap but considering you are better off cooking at home, the one time you do go out, go for it.
Jun 25, 2024
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Start with the recs from Trippin which is my fav travelling platform. all tipps I also love as a local :)
Check berlinfoodstories on IG and their website for food
my fav bar is Zweiners. explore around hermannplatz in Neukölln, Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg and Nettelbeckplatz in Wedding. getting lost in sun-kissed berlin is bliss!
May 23, 2024
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motto books, hoppetosse, azzam, tempelhofer feld, c/o berlin, döner kebab places - exploring mitte, fhain, kreuzkolln in general
Feb 7, 2024
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that's berlin for you lmao. fun city
May 27, 2024
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streaming music is fucking dumb. it sounds like ass, a person who doesn't know anything about music programs a robot to tell what you should like, it makes music extremely disposable and therefore meaningless and it is 99.99% theft from musicians. however things that are fucking dumb and the music business were made for each other-so if that is what it's going to be, you might as well use a GREAT streaming (steaming) platform. Radiooooo is a map of the world and timeline of decades. you pick a country and pick a decade and music from there and from then will play. 1990s Algeria BOOM! 1940s Brazil ZAP! 2010s Czech Republic BLAMO! 1960s South Korea ZORK! it is curated by music fans not an algorithm and you can set it at slow, fast or weird or all three. if you have to drink poison at least drink bitchin' poison.
Jun 25, 2024
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as a band we have a healthy collection of pedals, not as many as some but certainly an interesting selection. one of the most curious new ones we have is the Lossy by Chase Bliss. There are lots of degeneration pedals but this one specifically emulates shitty early digital/mp3/cdr/internet dying types of sounds. though based on past technology, it is an unsettling device as makes the sounds of our current, failing civilization's most recent problems: an over reliance on inherently bad communication methodologies and representations. it makes sounds that are bad for you but in a charming way. it reminds you that the end is high nigh but the pedal is bright pink so it will be a cutie pie, cartoonish kind of smashy smashy ending.
Jun 25, 2024
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Animalia is novel by French author Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and it may be the best book i have ever read. It is set on a family pig farm around WWI and in the 1980s and is RIFE with disgusting beauty, shocking physicality, unusual astoundingly imaginative turns of events and both wonderful humanity and wonderful inhumanity. the writing is dense but never tedious as are the emotions and feral motivations it explores. i found myself laughing out loud not at how funny it is but at how incredible it is. i wish it were 3,000,000,000 pages long. it is his first work translated into english and my bandmate, who introduced me to it, is learning french just so she can read his other books.
Jun 25, 2024