I LOVE my Berliner apartment. My back yard as I said before, is like a little wild zoo. Tonight this gorgeous fox was hanging around so I gave him some food. I hope he comes back, he's so sweet and not at all shy. Like a domesticated dog.
Paramore and You and Me at Six in Berlin
Jeeze, I really hit the ground running this time in Berlin. Day after I landed I was up and at em getting new US passport and a facial, next day massaging Paul McCartney's guitarist, Brian Ray , then saw the show that night (I paid 250 euro for my ticket so I wasn't after a freebie, although I was gutted Paul had no time for a massage).
Next day after Macca show (which by the way was good BUT I could have just watched the DVD I have called Back in the US , live concert footage from 2002 from Paul, which was almost EXACTLY like the show I saw here in Berlin December 3rd, 2009. I mean even the dialog was the same "this is when the band goes away and leaves me alone with YOU" etc. sigh. FUCK!!! I LOVE the Beatles and Paul but had I known the set list and dialog was an exact replica I would have stayed home and slept off a big of this jet lag I STILL have. This below is the best shot I could get from the Macca show:
You can see the set list on my blog of that show HERE
Drummer Zac – only 19 years old and already so successful. This band is going places. Seriously. Check them out:
Singer Josh is a super sweet person (also 19 years old!). This band is from London, keep your eye out: http: / / www. myspace. com/youmeatsix
Paramore was headlining, they are HUGE now. Heard they penned a song or two from the Twilight movie sound track so the crowd was 99.9% young screaming girls lol. The band Paramore are SO down to earth. I got along with the bassist and drummer the best. They are both very chatty and fun. Guitarist was a sweety but very quiet. He and the drummer are brothers. I love meeting young musicians who are ambitious, successful and not into drugs. They will go far, I just have a feeling about these guys. Nashville natives takin' over, yo.
The band You and Me at Six are very popular in the UK and slowly gaining respect in Europe and the USA too. Super young as well, dam I felt old around all these 19 year olds! Hello!! haha. Well I massaged for 9 hours straight apart from the dinner break I had and my fingers were sore the next day, the deep tissue massage I give out is BRUTAL. The clients love it but my fingers are not amused the next day.
Berlin is FREEZING, it is too fucking cold to even snow here. Jesus. Anyway, I am running a slight fever, rather cranky and miss my Jasmine so I will stop moaning now and get to bed
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Setlist from Paul McCartney show in Berlin Dec. 3, 2009
In a hurry now, off to massage a band called PARAMORE. Here is set list from last night's Paul McCartney show, it was HEAVEN!
1. Magical Mystery Tour Play Video
2. Drive My Car Play Video
3. Jet Play Video
4. Only Mama Knows Play Video
5. Flaming Pie Play Video
6. Got To Get You Into My Life Play Video
7. Let Me Roll It / Foxy Lady Play Video
8. Highway Play Video
9. The Long and Winding Road Play Video
10. (I Want to) Come Home Play Video
11. My Love Play Video
12. Blackbird Play Video
13. Here Today Play Video
14. Dance Tonight Play Video
15. And I Love Her Play Video
16. Mrs Vanderbilt Play Video
17. Eleanor Rigby Play Video
18. Band on the Run Play Video
19. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Play Video
20. Sing the Changes Play Video
21. Back in the U.S.S.R. Play Video
22. Something Play Video
23. I've Got a Feeling Play Video
24. Paperback Writer Play Video
25. A Day in the Life / Give Peace A Chance Play
26. Let It Be Play Video
27. Live and Let Die Play Video
28. Hey Jude Play Video
29. Encore:
29. Day Tripper Play Video
30. Lady Madonna Play Video
31. Get Back Play Video
32. Encore 2:
32. Yesterday Play Video
33. Helter Skelter Play Video
34. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Play
Get back to where you once belonged
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So my US passport is about to expire and the embassy closes at noon, so I figured going to get a new passport right after landing in Berlin, while I still have jet lag (I get up ridiculously early the first few days back in Berlin) I should take advantage and do productive early morning things while I still can.
I rushed to embassy expecting a huge line but I was the ONLY one there. They pointed me to the photo-machine and I crammed in there and took this picture above left. I wore a Beatles shirt, but sadly you can't see the logo in the pic. I put this pic on Facebook and a friend decided to help me out and put the Beatles pin into the picture for me, so sweet! Too late for the passport though, as it is already shipped off for processing with the pic from the left. I look so pale like a vampire. Guess my friend added some color to me out of sympathy haha.
US Embassy, Clayallee, Berlin ^
WOW!! This empty eerie lot ^ was once the American PX. I worked there in the shoe department in 1990 when I first moved to Berlin (I moved to Berlin October 1989 actually, right before the wall came down). I only lasted 6 months in the PX as I was in charge of Men's Athletic shoes. Which meant all of my customers were soldiers, as the PX was ONLY for the armed forces. So the British, French and American soldiers all came to me for help finding shoes. I loved it, but the Army wives HATED ME and complained EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY about my clothes: "her navel button is showing!" or "shirt is too tight" "jeans too tight" "shirt too short" etc. They tried sooooo hard to get me fired, even though I increased sales by 30%. I was fired. Fuck them. I hate the military way of thinking anyways. They did me a favor as I tried extra hard to learn German and did so and could finally do massages in German clinics. Movin' on up! What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, baby. These pics were taken with my blackberry, hence the quality..
Paul McCartney is in town OMFG!! I bought a ticket for 250 euro, we shall see what happens. I don't want to jinx anything. I am so happy to have space again, as the apartment in NYC is too fucking small and crowded, it is seriously doing my head in!!! I NEED SPACE DAMMIT!!!
I decided I will start writing my book (again) this Christmas. I will hopefully have some "free" time and start pounding away at the keyboards and see what happens. Yes I brought out a book in 1999, but it was in German and 99% of my humor and personal touch was missing. It sucked!!! So I will start all over and give it a go.
The Ku'damm yesterday ^
Cramming Christmas down the Berliners throats ^
It is FREEEEZING in Berlin right now by the way
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Berlin brothel cuts rates for ?green? customers (my girlfriend Deborah Brown wrote this for AP)
To stave off effects of economic crisis, one bordello gives bikers a discount
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BERLIN – Part of Berlin's red-light scene is going green.
One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door.
"It's very difficult to find parking around here, and this option is better for our environment," said Thomas Goetz, who owns the brothel Maison d'Envie, or House of Desire.
Local residents in Prenzlauer Berg — a part of former East Berlin now home to scores of trendy boutiques, restaurants and clubs — had staunchly supported the Green party in recent elections and have welcomed the bordello's offer to emphasize the environment
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Brothels suffering
The bordellos in the capital of Germany, where prostitution is legal, have seen business suffer with the global financial crisis. Patrons have become more frugal, and there are fewer potential customers coming to the city for business trips and conferences.
But Maison d'Envie has seen its business begin to return since it began offering the 5-euro ($7.50) discount in July, Goetz said.
To qualify, customers must show the receptionist either a bicycle padlock key or proof they used public transit to get to the neighborhood. That knocks the price for 45 minutes in a room, for example, to 65 euros from 70 euros.
Those who arrive on foot, however, are out of luck.
"We haven't found a way for people to prove they have walked here," Goetz explained.
Video of my new flat in Berlin
Off to NYC
Flying in about 7 hours to NYC, will SURELY miss Berlin badly, but I am looking forward to seeing Jasmine and other assorted friends and loved ones. Cross fingers for me that the plane makes it ok, still afraid of flying
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Dr. Dot
Dr. Dot singing ‘TNT’ sept. 29, 2009 with live karoake band in Berlin
Check out this band, they are AMAZING: www.live-karaoke.net
Massage in Berlin
Email me at: info@drdot.com and put "Oliver/Berlin" to reach me fastest. I speak German, English and Italian.
Hi, my name is Oliver. Im born 1979 in New Haven/USA. I live in Germany since I was five years old. I raised in Bavaria and live in Berlin for 10 years now. I began my career in Germany in becoming a Reikimaster 1999 and studied a little time later, what we call in Germany a 'Heilpraktiker'. This is similarly to the Naturopathist in USA. After successfully completing a four year taking education of school medicine, herbs, homoepathics, akupuncture, shiatsu and classical massage I decided to concentrate more on the body work. I love it, because you have direct responses and relievement comes immediately.
Feeling the tension of the muscles while working on them, stretching and pressing where the pain is, adjusting the joints, that's where you come right to the point. There's no need for big explanations and understandings, its just the body of the patient and my hands which work together to find a solution for the problem. Wether it's a diffuse or a well-defined pain, wether its just exhaustion or a concrete issue ('…which is in the tissue'). There can be help. My Massage-Technics are Shiatsu, TuiNa, Deep Tissue Massage, Manual Stretching and Classical Massage. Also Foot-Reflex-Massage, Ear-massage and Cupping.
Best Frank Zappa tribute band EVER to play Berlin, August 13, 2009
