one last nice sunday

After waking up at 6 o'clock and not being able to sleep again, decided to check out the goa party announced for saturday evening. It's a goa party and this is Berlin, so it would still be going. Took the Sbahn to Ostkreuz where it was a ten minutes walk to the party location in some old building in Friedrichshain.
Subways and subway stations in the weekend are best entered with a half-litre bottle of beer or a bottle of wine in your hand, as you would stick out immediatly. The fondness of Berliners for glass bottles expresses itself in the fragments of dark brown glass held together by bottle labels literally all over Berlin.
Anyway, the party was still going indeed. The street was completely empty but as I was looking for the street numbers I suddenly heard some high-bpm beat through a ventilation hole and soon after that entered a dark, smokey and hot cellar filled with about 15 dancing people. Bought a beer wich was 3 euro AGAIN (ok, the party was for some good goal, but still a lot of money?) and stayed for about an hour after which I returned to my flat, suddenly feeling very tired and tired of the music which wasn't very good. Still, good to know they do have an active goa scene here as well :)

The reason for the messed up state of my circadian cycle was friday night, for then Monolake and Modeselektor and some other artists which I didn't know about came to the WMF club, which is located right at the Oranienburger Str. subway station. Again easy to locate if you follow your hearing :)

The club consists of two rooms: a main room at ground level and a smaller one upstairs. Heard almost the complete Monolake and Modeselektor sets, which were both very much excellent. Pounding basses, lots of cool people, and all that for a good cause: Energy Allianz, which aims to improve awareness of the climate change. Most people there cared only about the party of course, but hey, can't blame EA for trying and throwing a party like that :)
Beers? 3 euro, yup. No set time listing either, which was annoying. I like to know who the artists are, allows me to check them out later if they are something special.

Went reading in Treptower Park for a couple of hours this evening, the weather was excellent. No wind, sunny, great temperatures. Will be the last nice warm day of the year i guess, predictions give me a maximum of 13 degrees at Friday..
The Park is enormous, by the way - the grass field on the west side of the park must be almost five hectares. The soviet military monuments inside of it are impressive as well. Lots of people were reading, talking, playing at the park, one guy flying a small electric plane around, looked like fun.
Thick rows of trees keep the traffic noise out, clean, very nice place. On the picture you see the Allianz tower, which is illuminated at night and serves as a great landmark. The picture is taken from the park in northern direction.

A couple of days ago, when looking for a wrench (which I didn't find) to adjust the saddle of my bike, I found the apartment owner's stash of grafitti cans. Not just two or three, but a whole box full of them, all kinds of colors. Neatly stashed away toghether with carrying bag and old pair of Jeans.
Did I tell you Berliners are cool? They are.
Those cans are mighty tempting. However, my limited artistic talent would result in something ugly, and I'm not into that idiotic tagging which covers most of Berlin's walls. I don't live here anyway. Maybe I'll make some cool stencil out of a pizza box. We'll see :)