<![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin" - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin" - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> This is my favorite underminer of all time. I can't tell you how many times I think, "BERLIN! BERLIN! BERLIN!" to myself. :)

Maulleigh

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Satirical, this Berlin waxing, yes. But, sad to say (for the U.S.A.), only too true. To live in Berlin today is to know-- deeply, viscerally, unequivocally--that American cities truly suck. Exceedingly. And I don't think anyone should worry about Berlin falling to tired trendyness: one of the most amusing things about hosting American visitors in Berlin is realizing again and again that the essence of the city is lost on these people. American hipsters are, for the most part, completely duped by Berlin's "anti-fashion" ethos: they see only the tawdry, unassuming, unprofessional, socialist-modern facade, and they keep asking you, "so, where's the cool shit?" Has anyone noticed the dogs? The behavior of Berlin dogs alone, in comparison with the dogs in New York, Chicago or L.A., is astounding. Have you noticed this?

Mrqs

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Queen of the Passive Aggressives: Even the color photos are in B&W. It's shades of gray in a tweedy kind of way.

YourGoldKeith

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Zorica: I don't think it was the pronunciation, just the fact that in Berlin donuts are called "Pfannkuchen" but throughout the rest of Germany they're called "Berliners". So no one in Berlin was laughing at him, but the rest of the nation was.

bowleserised is off to the Obamafest

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> here is the lowdown on the hot and heavy Berlin puppet scene:

Berlin's Puppet Regime

William Thirteen

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Transuranic: Probably no one will read this response, but whatever. It was once explained to me that the place name “Berlin” is of Slavic origin. As with many Slavic words, the accent would be on the penultimate syllable — in this case the first syllable: Bér-lin. In German, a word or name like Berlin (say, Corlin) would normally have a final accent (probably because it “feels” like an imported French word?). In fact, however, Germans preserve an aspect of the original Slavic pronunciation by accentuating both syllables more or less evenly, often also making both vowels a similar length: Bér-lín.

iplaudius

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I haven't been to Berlin since '03. I couldn't deal with the viewing platforms in the toilet bowls and all the anchovies in the cocaine.

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Brits also pronounce it Ber-LIN. Just like the Yankedelic cousins. The reason the locals über-stress the first syllable is becuase of the Irish capital: DUB-lin. So the Germans think there's a rule there. And y'know what? If the Germans don't have a rule or a system to guide them, they go into meltdown.

RavenSpeare

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Transuranic: Maybe they're trying to make sure they don't accidentally say "donunt." A German friend just told me that when Kennedy proclaimed "ich bin ein berliner" his pronunciation of "berliner" made it sound, to the German ear, more like he was saying "I am a donunt." That could lead people to think that how you say "Berlin" in English is different from how you say it in German, and so they're trying to "speak English properly" by not speaking like Germans.

Zorica

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I have a huge bias against Berlin, for more or less no reason, because in the on-going war between Bayern and the rest of Deutschland, I chose Bayern. And, just objectively speaking, Munich is a billion times awesomer than Berlin.

sequined

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> i was there in may and seriously; i saw a cello quartet dressed in black and white masks playing "smells like teen spirit" with breakdancers poppin and locking on stage japanese tourists filming. their name? cello mania. mike meyers might as well have been dancing.

chip

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @tracybluth:

Thank you! She started this segment with one of my favorite songs, Jacques Brel's "Jacky."

Beau beau beau et con à la fois.

[www.wnyc.org]

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @square_state: Exaclty. BERLIN was in, like, SO long ago. Things have gone round so far that I think New York might be IT again.

Only because of the SATC movie though.

pufflehuff: now in TINSLEY PINK

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Ja ja, mach schnell mit der art things, huh? I must get back to Dancecentrum in Stuttgart in time to see Kraftwerk.

procrastination_state

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @LolCait:

New that sounded familiar, hey, big literary Spender:

[books.google.com]

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @LolCait:

Knew that sounded familiar, hey, big literary Spender:

[books.google.com]

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @GayatriSpivak:

Thanks. I Am [Not] a Camera and apparently I am [Not] a Thermometer, Either. :-)

[en.wikipedia.org]

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @tracybluth:

Now ya tell me.

@davidbaton:

Brandylachen waren, wo man saß,

auf dem Tanzboden wuchs das Gras

und der rote Mond schien durch das Dach....

[www.basquepoetry.net]

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Three words of riposte: German hip hop.

NYCF

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Mediahohoho: Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're afraid that I just might win.

Products Will Save Me

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I did the BER-lin thing in 2004. Can't believe it's still going on, or even generating a story. Twat-rot is everywhere, but let's try and leave Europe alone. Cuz, you know, it's actually cool and it's way better to keep the ass clowns encaged here anyway.

BaronBo

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I thought at least my suffering was unique.

CrapTractor

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Speaking of Ute (Lemper), she's been hosting the first hour of Evening Music on WNYC (93.9FM) this week, playing Weill songs and old Brecht recordings, and telling fascinating stories. I guess tonight's the last night.

tracybluth

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Haff you kum vor ze Scheisse wideo?

tammyfey

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> The Berlin scene decamped for Tallinn, like, AGES ago.

square_state

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> "Es war das schoenste an die Welt"

DavidBaton

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Seeräuber Jenny: Berlin - and I only know this secondhad - is very warm and pleasant for most of the year. Much nicer than NYC.

GayatriSpivak

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Is everything in black and white in BERLIN? That's how I imagine it.

Queen of the Passive Aggressives

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First, we take Manhattan
Then we take Berlin

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Arundel:

Love is colder than Death, but I suspect Berlin beats them both.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> How vile not to know it's spelled "Weill." But thanks for the photo of Ute Lemper.

Oh, show us the way to the next whiskey bar

Oh, don't ask why.

For we must find the next whiskey bar....

[www.amazon.com]

Click on:

9. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Alabama-Song

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I also want to add that this post made me go out and get the Underminer from the library and read it all in one go this evening, and I am now miserable and suicidal. And, you know, amused, but in a miserable and suicidal kind of way. Thank you, Mike.

philoclea

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I am fond of Antwerp.

Carol Gardens

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @SylviaPlathWasFramed: and Indianapolis is the New York of Indiana!

SchmatSchmaymon

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I hear Erlangen is the Minneapolis to Berlin's Saint Paul.

SylviaPlathWasFramed

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Gayatrispivak: Oh no... you too?

(I'm afraid this post showed me how annoying I must be. But what the hell, Berlin is fucking awesome. And a friend of mine, coming home from a club on New Year's at 11 am, had dwarves in wheelchairs. Seriously. To say nothing of the random naked people.)

I'm waiting until Bucharest takes over the Prague/Berlin torch. Unfortunately, that was a city that really was destroyed.

philoclea

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Up next: The Underminer goes to Qom

SchmatSchmaymon

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Transuranic: If they do, my guess is they're focusing on producing the hard American rrrr so the first syllable sounds as if it's being emphasized. Or they're cold.

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Oh, please. In Helsinki...

hotcheetos

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Arthur Phillips: They're still talking about it in Budapest.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Fuck it, why not. I'll bite. Better than New Haven

GayatriSpivak

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> The morning will come when the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me.

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> zoo station baby

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> the photo is much more interesting than the post. but i like tits so don't hold it against me.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Ha Ha Sound: Yeah, Berlin is so last year (more like 2002, really), but that's a lot closer to now than whatever year New York began the rapid descent into suckitude. You take what you can get. Especially if it comes with little rolls that have sunflower seeds on them.

rosehobart

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> @Transuranic: How do the English say it? Maybe the Brits pronounce it that way, and because many Germans learn British pronunciation in high school, they also do the first syllable thing?

rosehobart

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> I don't know, I miss all the talk about Prague. It is so much more fun to say Prague. And only one syllable to worry about.

Carol Gardens

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> That Fassbinder lifestyle-choice is so demodè. Unfahrvenungen!

I'm writing a poem about it: does "schadenfreude" rhyme with "hemhorroid"?

Arundel

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> As if!

While I find "Ute", Kurt Weil-serenading dwarf accordionists, and dance troups all being completely plausible, BERLINERS DO NOT EAT.

They're simply too real to do so.

sarahjessicaporker

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> life is a cabaret old friend

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> A conundrum: Native English speakers accent it on the final syllable, [ber-LIN]. Native German speakers speaking German also pronounce it [ber-LIN].

However, native German speakers who say Berlin while speaking English pronounce it [BER-lin]. I've got no trapeze artist / cabaret dancer willing to drink tea with me, so perhaps the knowledgeable Gawkerites can 'splain me why this is so.

Transuranic

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Berlin is so last year. The best new place to live and be an artist is Zhezqazghan in Kazakstan.

Don't believe me? Just move there. You'll see.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> You know who else was awfully fond of BERLIN?

CherriSpryte

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> Plus, virgins all!

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA["We Are All Beautiful Losers And Artists And Creators And Puppeteers In Berlin"]]> And also, my money is worth like 80 of yours.

brian griffin

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