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Berlin

pretty things to people far away

About Me

I'm a grad student studying and teaching anthropology and theatre in NYC and I have a lot of different interests ... many of which I've listed below!

When I'm not being the very best theatre and anthro nerd I know how to be, I like to spend my time watching live music. I try to document all of the shows I see with words and pictures that I post in my blog. Feel free to have a look there at your leisure. You'll find an eclectic mix of stuff.

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My Interests

Herbs, Palm Reading, Astrology, Evolution, Film, Medicine, Dance, Yoga, Parasailing, Photography

I'd like to meet:

Dave Grohl, Liv Ullman, Stephen J. Gould

You are The Sun

Happiness, Content, Joy.

The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.

Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.

The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the long dark night, Apollo to the Moon's Diana. A positive card, it promises you your day in the sun. Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. As the moon symbolized inspiration from the unconscious, from dreams, this card symbolizes discoveries made fully consciousness and wide awake. You have an understanding and enjoyment of science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Music:

Ambulance Ltd., Anggun, Antonio Vivaldi, Battlefield Band, Beck, Billie Holiday, B52's, Bjork, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Brendan Benson, Bright Eyes, Cardia, Cat Stevens, Charlatans UK, Clannad, Coldplay, CSN, Crowded House, Dallas Brass, Ella Fitzgerald, Esthero, Fall Out Boy, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters, Goldrush, Heart, Hikaru Utada, Incubus, Indigo Girls, Insane Jane, Jane's Addiction, Janis Ian, Jeff Buckley, Jet, Jet By Day, Joe Jackson, John Mayer, Juliana Hatfield, Kasey Chambers, Kings of Convenience, K-os, Level 42, Live, Louis Armstrong, Luka Bloom, Matisyahu, Maxwell, MIA, Muse, Nick Drake, Nickel Creek, Paul Weller, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Phoenix, Pinback, PJ Harvey, Queen, Q-Tip, Radiohead, Razorlight, REM, Sade, Sahara Hotnights, Scritti Politti, Shawn Colvin, Shawn Mullins, Simple Minds, Simply Red, Smashing Pumpkins, Sondre Lerche, Sonic Youth, Soul 2 Soul, South, Spacehog, Spitalfield, Spoon, Squeeze, STP, Sugar, Tears For Fears, Tenacious D, The Balancing Act, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, The Brilliant Green, The Church, The Donnas, The Eagles, The Floating Men, The Honorary Title, The Judybats, The Kin, The Police, The Smiths, The Stems, The Sugar Cubes, The The, Theo Eastwinds, Tommy Heavenly 6, Tonic, Tori Amos, 311, Throwing Muses, U2, Veruca Salt, Walt Mink, Ween, Winona Judd, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, XTC, Yuki Isoya

Movies:

Auntie Mame, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kama Sutra: A Love Story, Chungking Express, Dazed and Confused, Orlando, The Mummy, Secrets And Lies, Royal Deceit, Merrily We Live, The Last Waltz, Private Lives, Waitress, Blood And Chocolate, Howl's Moving Castle, Lost In Translation, Dead Poet's Society, Nancy Drew, The Woman In Black, Rock My World, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Serenity, L'Auberge Espagnole, Friday Night Lights, Scoop, Mystic Pizza, The Pillow Book, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, The Island At The Top Of The World, Marty, Age Of Consent, Young Einstein, A Room With A View, Another Thin Man, Hidalgo, Hairspray (Waters' version), The Motorcycle Diaries, Shanghai Noon, Romeo and Juliet, To Sir With Love, The Bourne Identity, Hitch, The Commitments

Television:

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Cowboy Bebop, Pride And Prejudice, Doctor Who, Take Home Chef, Slings And Arrows, Rick Steves, New York Noise, Hustle, Designer Guys, LA Ink, Kim Possible, Flight of The Conchords, News Radio, World's Most Extreme Homes, Tintin, Firefly, The City Gardener, Ugly Betty, Abarenbo Shogun, Sex And The City, Horatio Hornblower, Globe Trekker, Mexico One Plate At A Time, Odyssey 5, The Gilmore Girls, My So-Called Life, Freestyle, The House Of Eliott, Entourage, The Naked Chef, Best Week Ever, The Soup

Books:

Around The World In 80 Days, Dracula, From Chocolate To Morphine, The Folk Keeper, The Midwife's Apprentice, Birth In Four Cultures, Sextrology, Hotel California, The Nanny Diaries, Three Black Skirts, Wodehouse: A Life, The Sherlock Holmes Stories, My Own Side Of The Mountain, The Witching Hour, A Christmas Carol, The Valley Of Horses, Straight Whisky, The Rogue's Progress, Complicated Women, The Count of Monte Cristo, Laurel Canyon, Persuasion, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Pigman, The Beatles: The Biography, The Love You Make, Maurice, Gia, Outlander

Heroes:

Aphra Behn, P.G. Wodehouse, Madhuri Dixit, Franz Boas, Robin Hood, Tinkerbell

My Blog

Springtime in New York

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Posted by Berlin on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

Hello Hello, Martha

I used to really enjoy watching Martha Stewart Living back, as they say, in the day. I find any tv show that teaches me how to do something new and interesting fascinating, and that was what MSL did ...
Posted by Berlin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:32:00 PST

Yippies With Cupcakes

When I first moved to New York City a few years back and started going to see live music shows along with the theatre shows I normally saw or worked, I'd tell my mother about the artists and bands I'd...
Posted by Berlin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:25:00 PST

Dickens And The Dollar

By all accounts, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are going to be airing a new episode tomorrow for the first time since the writer's strike in November. It's felt like a very long time since I'...
Posted by Berlin on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:51:00 PST

Fatso

Last year at around about this time, I was inspired to look back on and write about 2006 by one of my favorite spoofy tv shows, Best Week Ever. At the end of '06, the powers that be at BWE declared t...
Posted by Berlin on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:39:00 PST

A Conversation With Canadian Musician Giuseppe Cotteli

Giuseppe Cotteli is an imaginative and original Toronto-based musician and artist. The music he creates is intriguingly eclectic and runs the gamut from soaring sonatas to rock-steady reggae rhythms....
Posted by Berlin on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PST

Snow

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Posted by Berlin on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:57:00 PST

Lick It

I am currently in the midst of recovering from a fairly bad cold that I got on the night of November the 10th when I saw Juliette and The Licks and Company at The Blender Theater in New York. I don't...
Posted by Berlin on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:15:00 PST

Surfing The Pool - The Cribs at Union Pool

Union Pool is located on the corner of Meeker Street and Union Avenue in Brooklyn. I didn't know this when I was walking to this venue from the closest subway station wearing and listening to my iPod...
Posted by Berlin on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:14:00 PST

Spiders In My Hair: New Yorks Village Halloween Parade

As is my post-birthday, fall season tradition, I got dressed up again this year for Halloween and joined the Village Halloween parade with some friends. Last year I was a deadly samurai, but this yea...
Posted by Berlin on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:36:00 PST