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The flight may have been delayed, but now it's arrived...and I will definitely fly with this airline again. Tickets provided by Tegus

who chose brilliantly. Kauwboy and Kid-Thing, strange consonances, not only with the K's: both about blond kids androgynous in the way pre-pubescents are, both with eerie birthday party scenes, both with absent mothers/insufficient fathers....but at the same time completely different in texture. I wasn't surprised to see Richard Linklater's name associated with Kid-Thing, because the film's rhythms and silences reminded me of Slacker.

For more on Kauwboy:

http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20122113#id=20122113

For more on Kid-Thing:

http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20124644

Tegus will no doubt be in charge of ticketing next year, too. Now that I think about it, she was also responsible for our surprise evening of noses-in-basil-trees cocktails, ceviche, hip mullet-sporting German waiter-cum-crackers and cowgirl dancing. Yee-ha. At

You just need to ring the bell beside the unmarked door under the Friedrichstrasse station bridge and you're transported. Something like drinking from the bottle that says "drink me". We certainly did.