I'm Ines and this is my blog. I'm twenty and I currently live in Berlin, Germany. I love music, art and the simple pleasures of life which is basically what this is going to be all about.
Yes, it’s sorted, I’m moving again in about three weeks. I found a lovely apartment - old building, high ceilings, wooden floors & three separate rooms - in Neukölln and yes, this time it’s going to be a flatshare. It’s weird, I’ve been living on my own for almost three years now & I’m pretty much used being alone and independent. Still I recently felt it was time for a change, I met people I could actually imagine living with and, as trivial as it might sound, I got incredibly bored of my life. Again. As always. I’ve never lived anywhere for much longer than a year since I moved out, I get excited about new things easily but get bored again way too soon.
We still need to paint which is something I’ve never done before but looking forward to for some weird reason. Just as much as I’m looking forward to our massive housewarming party & properly living with other people. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t constantly change my life in some significant way, I’d probably be dead by now or at least at the age of 30 (Just naturally dying at the age of 30 is an idea I’ve had since my early teenage years, maybe because I always thought it’d be too much of a hassle to bear all this for much longer. Or because I was convinced my lifestyle would never be healthy enough to make me survive that long, which was just recently proven wrong by Ozzy Osbourne).
I have mixed feelings about Berlin. I live here, it’s my city at the moment and I certainly like it here. Although Cologne will always have a special place in my heart, I guess I’ve had the best times over here so far. However, I dislike people romanticising Berlin and fooling themselves into thinking that only if you live here you can do whatever you like and be whoever you want to be. And while all this pretentious Berlin romanticism is doing my head in, I really like this Tilt-Shift video of the city by pilpop.
I’m writing this from the train to Rostock from where I’ll take the ferry to Sweden in a few hours to go to Way Out West Festival in Göteburg. It’s been a pretty last-minute decision, planned within 2 hours including phonecalls & a taxi (decadence at its best) rushing me to the station. Packed my bag in 3 minutes - new record, definitely - and will spend this night sleeping on the floor of a ferry. It will be worth it, though, I’ve never been to Sweden before, I’m going to see fucking Iggy Pop for free, my friends are gonna be there djing, it’s Jasmin’s birthday celebrations & will finally be travelling again, something that I’ve missed a lot since moving to Berlin in February.
I only have one pair of shoes but four spare films for my camera which I’m planning on finishing, so expect lots of photos. I’m completely high on travelling adrenaline right now and it’s so funny considering I went to work this morning thinking it’d be an average work day followed by a quiet night in with food & evening telly. And now I’m on my way to catch the ferry to Sweden, woop woop!
Last week we went dumpster diving. For those of you who are not familiar with it, you basically find a supermarket, sneak onto their backyard at night, find the big bins where they throw away all sorts of food and well, take it. I know people who do it because they don’t have enough money to actually buy food and there’s people who do it out of a political motivation to protest against the enormous waste of food in the first world countries. Whatever your motivation is, I think it was shocking to see this huge amount of perfectly eatable food in a dumpster. And this is probably the amount of bread they throw away every single day.
❤ Club Mate - favourite drink of all time, not to mention the caffeine ❤ my new haircut - I’m so glad I finally did the sidecut, I love it a lot ❤ looking for a new flat & hopefully moving soon ❤ rainbows in the park ❤ oldschool black-and-white overexposed photobooth photos ❤ “Adventure is not outside man, it is within.” - George Elliot ❤ going to work early in the morning listening to The Knife ❤ trying out new things ❤ massive flat parties (preferably not at mine, though) ❤ scoom - I buy coffe & food there all the time on my way to work & it’s so tasty ❤ my new silver MTWTFSS Weekday body chain, the most amazing jewellery I’ve bought in ages ❤ free food ❤ Bastian Pastewka’s Kötbullar sketch - PRICELESS. ❤ open air parties ❤ looking for a new flat, although it’s frustrating & so much work ❤ A Lyric A Day - one of my favourite 365 projects ❤ people - I haven’t felt like that in a long time but at the moment I’d say I rather like than hate people in general ❤ Wild Nothing ❤
Today I finally got back to life, I haven’t felt that normal since we left for Melt! Festival on Friday. I said goodbye to Franzi who stayed here for a couple of days, worked five hours and later went to Neukölln where we ate artichokes and had self-made caipirinhas. I also had my sidecut re-done properly, it looks so much better now (12mm, bitch!) and Gabriella was a pretty good hairdresser (she’s had several years of dog experience after all). I took a taxi home - the most decadent thing I’ve done in a long time, right after my going-out-on-Sunday-nights habit and buying freshly squeezed juice at the train station - it was really peaceful to have someone driving you home, with classical music in the background and the pouring rain outside.
I’ve done a lot of thinking this weekend but it all seems to vanish now that I’m back to daily life, or well, back in my normal surroundings that have been my daily surroundings for the past five months now. I try to distract myself and as much as I enjoy this time when things are still kind of settled, it’s worth working hard cause I can’t wait for it to be over and see what comes next. Even if it means that everything will crash down on me. Well all know, if you think it can’t be worse - think again!
Once again, I’m off to Melt! Festival. We already picked up our wristbands at the warm-up party last night so the festival feeling is already there, even if we’re still at home. This time we’re even more organised than ever before, especially compared to the last three years (I can’t believe this is our fourth time already!). I’m a bit scared of the heat and despite the fact that I stayed out till late and haven’t slept a lot (which is probably not the best start into a three-day festival weekend) I’m really looking forward to it.
As usual, Franzi will be taking lots of pictures and we’ll both twitter live here. If you’re there as well, come and say hi! I’m off now to finish packing & listening to this song which pretty much gets me in the mood for anything.
