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assembling my own visa

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2006.02.06

I'm assembling my own visa for a return to Tokyo. It seems that for my employer in Toronto, I'm now accounted for on an overseas visit and there's no job for me to return to (along with no home). I gather that they've been billing the client for my accommodations.

And those accommodations? I decent little B&B in North Vancouver. It's run by a Polish couple and I'm enjoying it. I bought a round of drinks last night for a lesbian couple that married in their native Switzerland are honeymooning here. They told me that in their country there were people who would not celebrate their marriage. I told them to stay out of the Interior!

rand()m quote

For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little — a movie song here or a TV ad there.

—Iggy Pop