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now Kamil's off for Manitoba

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2001.07.23

Going back to St. Kitts today (wonder how often I'll be doing that, from now on). It's Kamil's send-off before he takes a position at a University in Manitoba. Hopefully there won't be propane tanks rolling around loose in the vehicle like there were last time I took a rental to Niagara. Looking back, we really shouldn't have brought the fuel when we took Oma's barbeque. Some of the scariest moments of my life, that day in June.

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