Radical geography

Songs

Some songs I am really digging, or continue to dig.

Modern Girl

The Quotidian Beasts

Prom

Prayer in C (LA hipster version but I like the voice clarity in this one)

Prayer in C live

I Wanna Know What Love Is (Kathleen Hanna with/as Julie Ruin)

Middle Fingers

Bunkerpop

There's a million more.

Koln (or, Cologne). 21 Dec

It's in Germany.

On the 30 minute train ride I used the map of the Christmas markets provided by the city to load up the navigator. They were five - each about a 20-30 minute walk apart. I arrived at 11am. My train back to D'Dorf left at 5:30 pm. I could do this.
Not that I am in a hurry. There is always another train. It just cost a bit more to change a booking. If there is a reason to stay longer I will. In this case, however, I saw all I wanted to see. The best market (most original, booths that were different than the ones before) was of course was the very last one.

I liked Koln from the start. Some funky buildings. Unexpected splashes of color. I like any place that hands out paint rollers to one so inclined and says, do your thing.

Do your thing, Kolners.

I veered into a fancy house things place. This lamp intrigued me. I snapped a pic right before seeing the BIG sign saying no photos.

I feel like I got away with something BIG.

Just a play yard at a school but I liked it.

McDonalds, that's a pretty ballsy art choice there.

A window display dedicated to the Addams family. I like the family photos touch.

Dusseldorf, 20 Dec.

 I arrived at the train station late morning, around 11. It was a 20 minute walk to the hostel. I checked in, dropped my bag in the luggage room and fixed the Glass Museum on my navigator. It was raining and the museum a 45-minute walk but to me that is easier than figuring transit. I took few pictures on the way there to avoid delay - I had glass to see dammit. When I left the glass palace there was an hour of daylight left so really this whole paragraph is just setting you up to see some crap photos of some beautiful things I saw in bad light and me with a decent photo editor and crap vision.
All that adds up to something I suppose.

At night I walked through the crowds, tryin to find Christmas.

Found a ferris wheel 😊

Neon benches. All was missing was eighties music.

These are cookie cutters. I looked for a cookie cutter cookie cutter. There had to be one.

Look closely. Look up.

I'm sure I've formed a picture of this very train station while reading a story, somewhere, some time.

Let me explain. In the daytime, I asked what in hell a trpoical oasis was doing in the middle of busy, gray, urban, functional D'Dorf. Then at night, despite the crap photo, I understood. Or, at least I made up my own reason

"Because"