Of Berlin, animated animals and my mate Harry.
Hello!
I am back from Berlin and pretty much knackered. Now I have as probably only person over the age of twenty finally visited my capital for the first time and I must say... I wasn't too impressed XD I don't know, Berlin is no London, I don't get it.
Plus the hostel was pretty horrible. It was owned by a guy from New Zealand who insisted that I was British even though I told him I wasn't, and howled with laughter at everything I said, calling it "English humour", but then his mood completely changed and he screamed at us and so forth.
Especially the tiny Japanese missuses were scared to death by the end of their stay -.-
But, I do feel very cultured now! I am usually not one for museums, but apparently that's what we came for so I spent ages explaining what the GDR is and what happened during the two world wars on our end and things that are self-explanatory to a Christian, and developed very intricate ways of describing a wide range of German bakery products in Japanese.
I enjoyed myself but I was a bit lonely from time to time, they were speaking to each other in Japanese a lot, and Japanese at native-speaker speed, while I can often follow it, is difficult for me and it felt like I was at uni for 72hrs straight plus it is really hard to say something if you often only get half of what is said and that half involves an in-joke you didn't know about.
Anyway, have some pictures.
The first thing we visited was the Berlin Wall. I myself wasn't interested at all (I know, I'm a bad German), but oh well.
The weather was abysmal for the entirety of our stay, 4 degrees and constant rain. Superb. Maybe that's why I wasn't overly impressed with pretty much everything.
*draws hearts around Jean and Juliette*
The dome is really damn pretty. I took hundreds of pics of it.
Yeah, and beacuse it was really fucking cold I didn't even have to convince the others to go in with me!
Brandenburger Tor, which is completely ovverun on a sunny day (which would be the day I left) and constantly closed off when an important person decides to visit Berlin, and as such this happened twice when I was there, first Beatrix of the Netherlands was over and then Hillary Clinton.
To people living in Berlin I imagine all the tourists and important people can get a tad annoying.
Siegessäule, unfortunately one big building site... like most of the city.
Bundestag/Reichstag, our Houses of Parliamnet, actually made me feel all patriotic.
Potsdamer Platz, two seconds of sun! :D
Memorial for the dead Jews. Jesus was that depressing. I know it's supposed to be, but I had to stop and leave at some point.
Sony Centre! This is where the Berlin Film Festival mostly takes place. Hard to image, but I liked the modern feel of this place.
Taken at the German History museum, purely to giggle at the phallic implications of it all.
University of Berlin! Don't worry it's like my uni, some buildings are really pretty, but most probably aren't.
After the two left me to go to Hamburg and I still had two days until my train home would go (thinking about it, with the money I spent while waiting for that train I might as well have taken the earlier and more expensive one but oh well) I had a total geek out and decided to go to the History of German Film Museum.
I think it's hardly something for people who aren't complete enthusiasts or film students, I am pretty sure that without the background knowledge my studies gave me I would have been bored, but withot that I think I wouldn't have felt like visiting either way.
The arcitecture was amazing! Everything was interesting! I feel so educated now.
I took tons of pictures but I'll only show you a few.
The architecture was amazing! Every room was different.
This is one of the early designs for Metropolis. I literally squealed when I saw it.
More amazing architecture! And me in the middle of it all, taking the picture XD
OMG look it's an oscar!!
...and a Venice lion!!
These are the bottles used in Perfume: Story of a Murderer. the film isn't too good if you compare it to the book, but I still believe it's one of the best that Germany has and I hope you've all watched it &hearts
For some reason firefox doesn't display &hearts anymore. Firefox 4 is a dump, but since I think mozialla is gonna force this upgrade on all users soon anyway, I thought I might as well get used to it now... I'm not happy with it.
I normally don't mind new designs as I think of myself as adaptable enough to navigate new layouts and stuff, but this is uncomfortable.
Another thing I did by myself when my friends left me in Berlin was go to the cinema. I mean I always love going to the cinema, and I can't always expect someone to want to watch all the films with me I want to watch.
Anyway, Berlin has a cinema that shows original versions only, and since I have somehow become a kind of sceptical fan of the fumbly dude aka Jesse Eisenberg, I was dying to watch Rio.
The trailer did help a lot, because when I first saw an ad for Rio back in December I wanted to claw my eyes out because it was in one of those horrible Orange turn-your-phone-off-now ads they always show at the cinema in the UK, and I vowed back then to not set foot into an animated movie again.
Since recently however I have been late to the party concerning all the good stuff like Tangled, I decided to go and catch this one.
OMGWTFHOWSOCUTE askahafgslhalfg.
Seriously, how was this so amazing? Someone wrote on imdb quite correctly that Rio is a romantic formula film. Every film genre has a specific formula that can be applied, and the romantic formula gues thus: Protagonists A and B are pushed together by necessity or chance, first dislike each other, then warm up to each other, and just when you think everything goes well there is an unexpected event often leading to an argument seperating the two, but the argument will be overcome by another unexpected event that can only be solved through their commitment to each other.
It is one of the formulas used in The King's Speech, btw. /nerd cap off
You should see the faces in this film! It really is Jesse Eisenberg as awkward, fumbly macaw, and I'm even starting to warm up to Anne Hathaway, seeinga s I know since the Oscars that she can sing and how her roles slowly endear her to me. There is a lot of great music in thsi film, and when even Jesse Eisenberg sang at some point I was turned to liquid instantly. &hearts
Oh, wait-- [nerd cap on] I bought the best book every in the shop of the film museum: James Bond and physics! There is this professor for applied physics who wanted to find out whether or not the stunts you see in James Bond films are possible in real life and if you would survive them, and it is SO interesting. I'm not a physics kind of person, but it is really easy to understand and entertaining, too.
Another book I recently bought is'The Facebook Effect'. I think I'm seriously contaminated or something, I can't stop reading about corporate machines and business ideas and why people believe facebook is addictive, and I was surprised at the large number of books that come up about facebook when you just use it as a search word at amazon.
There is even 'Facebook and Philosophy'!! /nerd cap off
Speaking of facebook, let me just leave you a link for this The Social Network fic here... which happens to be a crossover with Doctor Who.
Before you run screaming, I don't know why I clicked it either, but this person wrote Eleven perfectly. PERFECTLY It is the best Eleven-voice I have heard in ages, and the plot really works even if you don't know TSN at all.
Fic-wise I have finally started writing the Kinki-fic I still owe my recipient over at arashi_on, and I hope she won't hate me for the fact I wrote an AU... again.
One trick pony, what can I say.
I don't know, right now, at the worst possible time, I really write a lot.
Seeing as I've not been to a single concert this year and we've already got April (yeah I know, worries!), I was lucky enough to get a ticket for Janelle Monae.
I know her music probably won't be your cup of tea, but I have to pimp her because she's basically me.
That's unfortunately for me and my big career in the works (pah), but she looks like me and sounds like me, too, so maybe I'm a creep for liking her.
I found out about her because apple used her album cover because it matches the blue ipod nano XD
While in Berlin I bought my mum Harry Potter 7/I and we looked at all the covers from one to seven and got all melancholic. When my mum said "oh my, you really did grow up with Harry Potter" she strangely reminded me of those tumblr graphics that pop up a lot these days and basically all say the same thing XD
Okay, too much talking. Leaving now.
I am back from Berlin and pretty much knackered. Now I have as probably only person over the age of twenty finally visited my capital for the first time and I must say... I wasn't too impressed XD I don't know, Berlin is no London, I don't get it.
Plus the hostel was pretty horrible. It was owned by a guy from New Zealand who insisted that I was British even though I told him I wasn't, and howled with laughter at everything I said, calling it "English humour", but then his mood completely changed and he screamed at us and so forth.
Especially the tiny Japanese missuses were scared to death by the end of their stay -.-
But, I do feel very cultured now! I am usually not one for museums, but apparently that's what we came for so I spent ages explaining what the GDR is and what happened during the two world wars on our end and things that are self-explanatory to a Christian, and developed very intricate ways of describing a wide range of German bakery products in Japanese.
I enjoyed myself but I was a bit lonely from time to time, they were speaking to each other in Japanese a lot, and Japanese at native-speaker speed, while I can often follow it, is difficult for me and it felt like I was at uni for 72hrs straight plus it is really hard to say something if you often only get half of what is said and that half involves an in-joke you didn't know about.
Anyway, have some pictures.
The first thing we visited was the Berlin Wall. I myself wasn't interested at all (I know, I'm a bad German), but oh well.
The weather was abysmal for the entirety of our stay, 4 degrees and constant rain. Superb. Maybe that's why I wasn't overly impressed with pretty much everything.
*draws hearts around Jean and Juliette*
The dome is really damn pretty. I took hundreds of pics of it.
Yeah, and beacuse it was really fucking cold I didn't even have to convince the others to go in with me!
Brandenburger Tor, which is completely ovverun on a sunny day (which would be the day I left) and constantly closed off when an important person decides to visit Berlin, and as such this happened twice when I was there, first Beatrix of the Netherlands was over and then Hillary Clinton.
To people living in Berlin I imagine all the tourists and important people can get a tad annoying.
Siegessäule, unfortunately one big building site... like most of the city.
Bundestag/Reichstag, our Houses of Parliamnet, actually made me feel all patriotic.
Potsdamer Platz, two seconds of sun! :D
Memorial for the dead Jews. Jesus was that depressing. I know it's supposed to be, but I had to stop and leave at some point.
Sony Centre! This is where the Berlin Film Festival mostly takes place. Hard to image, but I liked the modern feel of this place.
Taken at the German History museum, purely to giggle at the phallic implications of it all.
University of Berlin! Don't worry it's like my uni, some buildings are really pretty, but most probably aren't.
After the two left me to go to Hamburg and I still had two days until my train home would go (thinking about it, with the money I spent while waiting for that train I might as well have taken the earlier and more expensive one but oh well) I had a total geek out and decided to go to the History of German Film Museum.
I think it's hardly something for people who aren't complete enthusiasts or film students, I am pretty sure that without the background knowledge my studies gave me I would have been bored, but withot that I think I wouldn't have felt like visiting either way.
The arcitecture was amazing! Everything was interesting! I feel so educated now.
I took tons of pictures but I'll only show you a few.
The architecture was amazing! Every room was different.
This is one of the early designs for Metropolis. I literally squealed when I saw it.
More amazing architecture! And me in the middle of it all, taking the picture XD
OMG look it's an oscar!!
...and a Venice lion!!
These are the bottles used in Perfume: Story of a Murderer. the film isn't too good if you compare it to the book, but I still believe it's one of the best that Germany has and I hope you've all watched it &hearts
For some reason firefox doesn't display &hearts anymore. Firefox 4 is a dump, but since I think mozialla is gonna force this upgrade on all users soon anyway, I thought I might as well get used to it now... I'm not happy with it.
I normally don't mind new designs as I think of myself as adaptable enough to navigate new layouts and stuff, but this is uncomfortable.
Another thing I did by myself when my friends left me in Berlin was go to the cinema. I mean I always love going to the cinema, and I can't always expect someone to want to watch all the films with me I want to watch.
Anyway, Berlin has a cinema that shows original versions only, and since I have somehow become a kind of sceptical fan of the fumbly dude aka Jesse Eisenberg, I was dying to watch Rio.
The trailer did help a lot, because when I first saw an ad for Rio back in December I wanted to claw my eyes out because it was in one of those horrible Orange turn-your-phone-off-now ads they always show at the cinema in the UK, and I vowed back then to not set foot into an animated movie again.
Since recently however I have been late to the party concerning all the good stuff like Tangled, I decided to go and catch this one.
OMGWTFHOWSOCUTE askahafgslhalfg.
Seriously, how was this so amazing? Someone wrote on imdb quite correctly that Rio is a romantic formula film. Every film genre has a specific formula that can be applied, and the romantic formula gues thus: Protagonists A and B are pushed together by necessity or chance, first dislike each other, then warm up to each other, and just when you think everything goes well there is an unexpected event often leading to an argument seperating the two, but the argument will be overcome by another unexpected event that can only be solved through their commitment to each other.
It is one of the formulas used in The King's Speech, btw. /nerd cap off
You should see the faces in this film! It really is Jesse Eisenberg as awkward, fumbly macaw, and I'm even starting to warm up to Anne Hathaway, seeinga s I know since the Oscars that she can sing and how her roles slowly endear her to me. There is a lot of great music in thsi film, and when even Jesse Eisenberg sang at some point I was turned to liquid instantly. &hearts
Oh, wait-- [nerd cap on] I bought the best book every in the shop of the film museum: James Bond and physics! There is this professor for applied physics who wanted to find out whether or not the stunts you see in James Bond films are possible in real life and if you would survive them, and it is SO interesting. I'm not a physics kind of person, but it is really easy to understand and entertaining, too.
Another book I recently bought is'The Facebook Effect'. I think I'm seriously contaminated or something, I can't stop reading about corporate machines and business ideas and why people believe facebook is addictive, and I was surprised at the large number of books that come up about facebook when you just use it as a search word at amazon.
There is even 'Facebook and Philosophy'!! /nerd cap off
Speaking of facebook, let me just leave you a link for this The Social Network fic here... which happens to be a crossover with Doctor Who.
Before you run screaming, I don't know why I clicked it either, but this person wrote Eleven perfectly. PERFECTLY It is the best Eleven-voice I have heard in ages, and the plot really works even if you don't know TSN at all.
Fic-wise I have finally started writing the Kinki-fic I still owe my recipient over at arashi_on, and I hope she won't hate me for the fact I wrote an AU... again.
One trick pony, what can I say.
I don't know, right now, at the worst possible time, I really write a lot.
Seeing as I've not been to a single concert this year and we've already got April (yeah I know, worries!), I was lucky enough to get a ticket for Janelle Monae.
I know her music probably won't be your cup of tea, but I have to pimp her because she's basically me.
That's unfortunately for me and my big career in the works (pah), but she looks like me and sounds like me, too, so maybe I'm a creep for liking her.
Click to viewI found out about her because apple used her album cover because it matches the blue ipod nano XD
While in Berlin I bought my mum Harry Potter 7/I and we looked at all the covers from one to seven and got all melancholic. When my mum said "oh my, you really did grow up with Harry Potter" she strangely reminded me of those tumblr graphics that pop up a lot these days and basically all say the same thing XD
Okay, too much talking. Leaving now.