Personal notes based on limited knowledge.
Half journal half guide.
Not definitive, just things I like.
Berghain:
My Berghain success ratio is 2:2. Two acceptances, two rejections. My favorite time of the four was a rejection. My favorite time was at 5:30am and it was early September but the mornings were already starting to get frosty and I walked to Berghain three miles from another club.
Here is what happens when you approach Berghain at dawn: the surroundings start to get industrial and where before you were alone, suddenly, silently, you are tracing in the footsteps of shadowy duos that are materializing in the hazy morning along the peripheries of the outlines of warehouses. You realize that everyone is moving towards the same place. You split from your friend outside the Berghain spätkauf because rumor has it you do better in line if you’re alone.
Here is what happened to me on the morning…
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