More Fun in Berlin

Last night, after a full day of seeing stuff, I went to 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' in English, which was a nice dose of home (it's shot in Alberta). My ticket had a row and seat number on it, and when I got there, the theatre was pretty empty. I thought it might be busy because it was cheapy night. By the time of the movie actually started, just under half an hour of commercials in German later (brutal!), my entire row was filled. The theatre wasn't all the way full, maybe only a third, but the ticket people seemed to put everyone together in pockets. Weird. I would have moved to more open real estate, but at that point it would have inconvienced about 15 people, so instead I just shared armrests. The movie itself was quite good. It's one of those slow-paced movies that would bore you to tears if you where in the wrong mood, but I really enjoyed it. One commercial was pretty sweet too. It was this little old German couple sitting around a table, which a cockoo clock above and between them. The clock ticks a bit and eventually the cockoo goes off. Instead of a cockoo, it's a little black rapper fellow who pops out and says 'YO MOTHERFUCKER YO MOTHERFUCKER YO'. What the hell. It was a VW commercial, but that's all I know because the rest was in German. Maybe Jayanti or Toby or Bridget can shed some light for me. Either way, it was a crowd-pleaser.

This morning, I went to the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island. Highlights were the big exhibits, the Ishtar Tor and the Pergamon Alter. Both were stunning and interesting and huge. Another personal favorite of mine was in a tiny backroom that I pretty much had to myself. It was a tiny, ancient squirrel made out of bronze, from Turkey, I think, and of course very old. I can't say more about it than that, because the description was all in German. I'm pretty sure it would have been titled, 'tiny ancient turkish squirrel doing yoga'. Watch for it in the art scene, it's going to be a classic.

I'm off to Dresden! Happy Halloween everyone :)