August 2005

I interviewed Rem Koolhaas today. It was…strange, in only a way that interviewing Rem Koolhaas can be. Partway through the interview, he turned the tables and started interviewing me about what I thought about architecture, which threw me off to say the least. I called my friend and told him about it, and while I [...]

Aside from the music stuff–which is great of course–everything else is heading south, unfortunately. (You can email me if you want the nightmarish details.) This week has been one of the absolute worst in recent memory. So posts here will probably be on the short side, and not as detailed as I’d like. This situation [...]

Superpitcher in Berlin last night? Awesome. I feel like every DJ works harder in Berlin. It’s not easy to impress people here. And DJs really work harder at Berghain/Panoramabar, where the venue’s so massive and legendary and the crowd’s so demanding that you can’t just play any old thing. I’m not actually a huge fan [...]

There’s this cool new German DVD magazine about dance music called Slices. (It’s not a magazine about DVDs; it’s a magazine on a DVD, about dance music.) They give it away for free in record stores here in Berlin. Strangely, it’s sponsored by T-Mobile–I feel ever so slightly better about all the money those bastards [...]