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I work quite a lot on workdays. Sometimes I even have to sit in the studio at night in order to update the code for the developed websites on public servers. After all work I want to have enough rest on weekends. So sometimes I go around in the night Berlin.. Then day Berlin.. Then night again. So are my weekend marathons. Little by little I find my favorite places with positive, literate, creative, tolerant, and open-minded people. Last day a friend of mine raised an idea to open a bar somewhere in the city. So today, while my cloths were being washed in the house on the opposite side of the street, I was sitting in Oberholz and brainstorming what a bar should be to be a favorite place for getting together.

• A bar should be located somewhere in East Berlin. Kreuzberg, Friedrichshein, Prenslauer Berg, or Mitte would be right districts.
• There should be no sightboard with the name of the bar (maybe in spite of inside). The visitors would recommend this place to each other.
• There should be benches next to the entrance for sitting down and smoking (personally I don’t propagate killing youself), or for just breathing the fresh car exhaust.
• The furniture inside should be collected from the street. That gives an impression of simplicity.
• There should be elements of street art. The interior could be decorated with graffiti and stickers. Special stands could offer free postcards and freetime magazines for youth.
• There should be some unique creative or totally crazy detail or concept in the interior. For example, you can find the following in other bars of Berlin with distinctive atmosphere: a girl projected on a wall cries in real water down to a sink; furniture attached to the ceiling; the ground floats in a river; monsters frightening in shadows and water-lilies dipped into vases near a bar; etc.
• Wireless internet is inevitable in the area, so that students could write their thesis or sit at facebook, the lovers of science could enhance wikipedia, and the managers of young progressive companies could have appointments with candidates to employees. It’s very important to have enough electricity ports for laptops at each table. Technophiles would probably use internet at nights using their iPhones browsing for information about the best events of the night where they would go after this bar.
• At least one service worker should be of nontraditional sexual orientation. In those cases, some of the visitors are gays and lesbians. Usually, when such people visit a bar, angry ones avoid coming and joining.
• Songs of Nouvelle Vague, Morcheeba, and Kings of Convenience could be played at daytime. Whereas in the evening DJs would play Minimal Techno, IDM, Acid Jazz, and Lounge. Disco of the sixties wouldn’t trouble from time to time too. Have I already mentioned a small dance floor?
• The bar would never be lack of ginger and fresh mint tea, cappuccino or caramel machiato, Club Mate, Fritz Cola, Augustiner beer, Watermelonman cocktail, and absinth.
• The food should be cheap and tasty. Something like pizza or pasta would perfectly fit.

No no. Probably I will never open a bar in my life (except some day in a far future when I turn into a millionaire for the ideas generated and for the influence to the world). But maybe my contemplation will inspire somebody. It’s always fun to gibber!