• Weather in Berlin: cold
• "All you ever wanted to know about Jews"
• includes the phrase "meta-accelerator"
• Sally Bowles: the bar

Did I mention that I was supposed to spend 3 months in Berlin? And that moving to Kenya put the kibosh on that? I'm just waiting for Berlin to get complacent, then I'll pounce.

Claims to be talking about "the state of electronic music" (stagnant, apparently) but barely escapes the house/techno box. I love house. Love minimal. And if some vital motive force has really disappeared from a scene that's been astoundingly inventive for over twenty (!!!) years, I will mourn. But man, get out of Berlin once in a while, it's a big world.

Related: Slow Listening Movement. Those guys sound burned out. Step back, take a breath. (Of course, those of us without record stores call this "making a virtue out of necessity.")

Soon, dammit.

And a youtube video of an event there ... damn.

AWESOME (my tour guide in Berlin penalized people for using that term)

• where to eat?
• what to do: 1, 2, 3
• Guardian's community I've Been There site for Berlin
• Club der polnischen Versager
• Week12End Club (aww sweet, Prins Tomas on Friday)
• White Trash Fast Food? (does this still exist?)
• EXBERLINER - English-language Berlin mag, says: "now is the time to invest in Berlin", and they're probably right
• pulp mansion sat night? check de:buv
• ilx on what to do