Ask, Autumn 2012
I met Ask when I was couchsurfing in Berlin last month. He's a video artist from Norway and lived in an apartment in Prenzlauer Berg while I was staying at a hostel close by in Mitte. I crashed at his place for a few days after, we had many adventures with the strange and wonderful offerings of Berlin nightlife. Drinking cheap wine in the park, dining at expensive restaurants, smoking blunts with a half-crazy Tanzanian guy we met on the street. We accidentally walked into a psychedelic concert at warehouse gallery bar, biked top speed through empty streets in the early hours, and took cheesy photos in the black and white photoautomat booths. He taught me how to ride a bicycle and we were fined by police at an abandoned building site for trespassing. On my last night in Germany we made authentic pork schnitzel for dinner and ate on his balcony by candlelight. It was corny and lame and perfect.
