Kreuzberg/ Friedrichshain

My last night in Kreuzberg I met up with Alex and we started walking to a bar in Friedrichshain, where there are alot of young people because of the cheap rent, bars, clubs,etc.On the way we stopped by part of the remaining wall and Alex took some pictures. He's really good at that, his pictures from Italy are beautiful. The wall there is called the Eastside Gallery. People, anyone, can come and paint, spray, or scrawl on it. There are some choice pieces, too. It gets whitewashed every so often, the wall, so people can keep on expressing themselves, or part of themselves.

The bar was in the middle of a cluster of buildings. A skate park deal, a rock wall, and a cafe surrounded it. And everything, all the walls, were decked out. I mean, some of those pieces were painted by brush, and they were hugeeee. One of my favorites was a face that was done in an orange and yellow mosaic pattern. It took up the whole wall of the building. We hung outside the bar on some chairs and waited for the music to start again. There was this German rock band at first and it was pretty kickback, really friendly, lots of interaction with the crowd from the band. More people came later and we danced all night to drum and bass. I love dancing, I can't get enough. And my cute friend couldn't either--defintely in his element. Really good DJing, those guys really knew how to mix things up. When we did take breaks and go back to the outside-area we met these three Irishmen, now living in Sweden ("for the girls"). Stockholm, they said, is cool, yea, yea, but it gets boring afer a while. They'd always wanted to get to Berlin, so there they were. There we all were. They were a wild bunch and one of 'em in particular was super entertaining-- a really effective story teller,and I gotta say, I admire that in people. His friends admired it in him, too. They were all "tell about the time you went backpacking all by yourself and slept on a park bench in Amsterdam," or "tell about the time you met Axl Rose!" One of the other guy told us about some time he spent in Nimbin, Australia. It's a super hippy area, Nimbin, and this guy is really Irish, so the whole Irish take on his experience was hilarious.
"Everybody's smoking pot, right? And I'm sittin there in the corner getting [insert an Irish slang equivalent of smashed], drinking all this beer, 'cause I'm all Irish. And this girl comes up to me from the bonfire, this really hippie girl, long hair..."
"was she cute, then?"
(smiles, waves like 'it's whatever')"...and the next thing I knew we were having sex in this tree..."

Those three guys are pretty cool. They actually have this comedy deal they're launching (I dunno if that's the right word). They enterd it into a contest (The San Francisco Irish Film Festival) where people vote on it. It's moving up. Here's a shout out for them: check 'em out, the series is called "Hardy Bucks" by Chris Tordoff and Martin Maloney...and maybe someone else.

Peace and Love everyone, I need to make a couple more coffee runs before I can take on this Saturday night. Cause last night defintely happend, definitely.

xox