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what a difference ten years makes

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

in the air, 2018.07.30

I left the kids with their mother in Japan, today - it's amazing to see how far they've come.

2018: saying goodbye to my daughter

Today: saying goodbye to the daughter who's becoming as insightful as she is headstrong.

2018: fishing with my son

Two days ago; fishing with the ten year old we call the fish vacuum.

Looking back ten years:

2008: holding my baby son

Who are these kids?

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