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Posted by G lib on 2006-12-30 15:54:35 +0000

Back in the USSR!

Today we went to Kunsthaus Tacheles for a visit, while walking around Berlin. Although it doesn't say in this article, Tacheles was apparently a squat for a long time after the Berlin wall came down, before it became an art center. Some parts are nice-- the gift shop, and the cafe', but the rest smells like a squat, that is, like pee, and is covered with graffiti. Check out the pictures if you have a chance. A story from my bro-in-law: In East Berlin, many people fled to the West after the wall came down, as they were worried that the wall would go back up any moment. They didn't go back for a while, so western artists and squatters just moved into these furnished houses, thinking that they had been abandoned. One of the coolest places I've been to.
Posted by G lib on 2006-12-30 16:18:06 +0000
Lorbering-- dupe posts rule.
Posted by MF DU on 2006-12-30 18:58:15 +0000
they do indeed! Thanks for the updates from abroad!
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-12-30 23:53:04 +0000
I wanna read there.
Posted by G lib on 2006-12-31 12:24:24 +0000
Email them. They might be interested. It seems like the place where in the summer, you could just go there, start yelling from your book, and people might or might not listen. In the back, they have an outside bar where you can buy drinks and then go and sit on top of the old bus. The reason why I thought they might be interested is that here are a lot of young punks here. Mum got stuck on a train car with a bunch of them yesterday-- a couple of mowhawks, a couple of geeks along for the ride, black nailpolish, FUCK (in English) written everywhere, pins with a stick figure putting a swastika in a trashcan, yellling and laughing and drinking the German version of PBR. I think they were in some kind of anti-neo-nazi gang, as all of them had anti-stuff written all over their clothes. It warmed my heart. Of course, one of them had a Dropkick Murphy's patch on their sweatshirt, so maybe they were a little young for the Minutemen. Who knows. Maybe you should write a book about Bauhaus next-- that would go over well here.
Posted by G lib on 2006-12-31 13:44:58 +0000
Lobeering again-- (MF DUing?) The bro-in-law and I were wondering if the Minutemen ever played Germany. We looked online and found one show. True? While looking online, he (who had never heard of them) said that there were a lot of German-speaking fans here, even if the punks on the train probably hadn't heard of them.
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-12-31 17:13:46 +0000
The Minutemen played Germany a bunch of times -- they and Black Flag did a big European tour in 1983.
Posted by G lib on 2007-01-01 02:46:15 +0000
where did they play? we were looking for venues, but couldn't find them.
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