What’s that
500-ish-person-karaoke-in-some-outdoor-roman-arena-type-venue-every-Sunday-in-Berlin?
I will have to wait 3 ½+ hours to perform Piano Man?
…
DONE.
I had Lena (a professional iPhone DP (is that the right film
term?...not a movie star yet…)) record it and am debating putting it up.
See…there’s this one section where I take the note up a
fourth from the traditional interpretation (on “play us a ^SONG^, you’re the
piano man)…
I went for it and it went up a 13th (rough
estimate) in a sort of strangled falsetto
Some people call this cracking.
I call it “My Voice Reaching For The Stars”
Someone did ask me out on a date after I performed so I
couldn’t have cracked-cracked.
Right?
Right?
RIGHT!?!
Berlin was AWESOME! (Finally, a definitive adjective)
Like every new place, the first thought I have is:
“HOLY SHIT I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY, I’M SO LONELY, WHY AM I
TRAVELLING, WHY IS BROADWAY STILL OPERATING WHEN I’M NOT IN NEW YORK, LIFE IS
MEANINGLESS”
But I was wise enough to take the “Anti-Pub Crawl”
Now, for my Grandpa Jack J a Pub-Crawl is where
you pay people to take you around to bars that you could have gotten in for
free BUT between bars they give you a shot of 90% water 10% vodka.
The Anti-Pub Crawl…is pretty much the same thing BUT they
took a small group (some of these things get up to 60-80 people…) to very
non-touristy pubs (a grungy ping-pong pub, a goth pub, a heavy metal club, an
absinthe pub, generic dance club!)
It was awesome and I met some amazing people! …and then they
left the next day so I was back at
“HOLY SHIT! WHY AREN’T I THE NEW SPIDER MAN…” etc. etc. etc.
By the way, speaking of ‘non-touristy’
I don’t care if a place has a lot of tourists!
I am, in fact, a tourist and in that one respect I am not
self-loathing.
SO.
My Berlin activities included:
Brewers 6-hour Walking Tour (Which was amazing! I
misremember so many facts that I can’t wait to tell my 3 friends about when I
get home! I saw a remaining chunk of the Berlin Wall, an abandoned building
that is covered in graffiti and “The largest chocolate store in Europe”)
Ate a CurryWurst and a Donner/ar(sp?) in one sitting
Computer Museum (which is a fancy way of saying VIDEO GAME
MUSEUM. Did I mention that I am amazing at Dance Dance Revolution? I am amazing
at Dance Dance Revolution (relative to the 73 year old man who went before me).
I love video games)
Dali Exhibit (I’m lying…I didn’t have the time. I went into
the gift shop and sat on one of the Mae-West’s-Lips-couch (a plastic version…))
Some lights-sculpture exhibit that was in total darkness
(well not total darkness…that would be a very lazy exhibit. Or maybe just very
modern?)
The Topography of Terror (the best exhibition on Nazis/WWII
along with the Documentation Museum in Nuremberg)
Watched Germany get into the top 8 of the Eurocup while
eating a pretzel
Did pull-ups at a playground (German playgrounds are far
superior to US)
Played Super Smash Bros. N64 at my hostel
Went to an abandoned warehouse electronic dance club and
left after 20 minutes (Classic Gianmarco)
Overall, I’d say Berlin has been the only place I’ve been I
could imagine living (possibly Rome as well…)
I’m off to Hamburg for 2 nights and then…
AMSTERDAM
The green is an arbitrary color choice.
I’m on the train now and I’ll surely be having my 314th
loneliness crisis in 2 hours but for now I am pleasant as a plumb.
Is that a phrase?
On the “WHAT IS GIANMARCO READING??” front
(By the way, is it just me or are these posts becoming
increasingly incoherent?)
I finished the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (it’s only the
first 12 short stories. I’mma do the whole collection when I’m back y’all)
I’m almost done with Diary of Anne Frank
I’m listening to Eddie Izzard’s Stand-up and Bertrand
Russell’s “History of Western Philosophy” simultaneously.
I hope to, by the end of this trip, know everything.
I miss Mad Men.
When does Downtown Abbey start?
Thank you for reading,
I’m over the 1,000 mark…Next stop-1,016!
I miss you all to varying degrees depending on who you are
Love,
Like,
Indifferent,
Loath,
Sincerely,
Gianmarco Soresi
Oh, and as I'm posting this-someone is masturbating in my room. On the top bunk. So much squeaking...
fol (f our lives)
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