killing denouement

christian marclay’s clocks and photo ops New York Brookyn, I love you, but i think it’s time to leave. Two or so years ago, I found myself wandering around Kreuzberg, with little to no German to my name, and hand signals aplenty. My roommate had booked a flight that was to land within an hour of mine; we were to Spring Break In Berlin! With all of the atmospheric expectations and faintly smug self awareness of the genre. Except—someone chose that day, March 11th 2009 to end their life by jumping into the path of an incoming train. She missed her flight, and I was left shuffling with just the LCD Soundsystem song burnt into a mental loop. and some vegan schnitzel to accompany me.

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