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taking off my shoes at the airport

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Calgary, 2002.05.12

It finally happened. They demanded that I take off my shoes for inspection at the airport. Kind of a silly request, when the metal detector failed to pick up my belt buckle or watch, I thought. On the next hop, they didn't even check my largest camera lens. At neither step did they look inside the large zipper compartment on my camera bag. I think it's all for show.

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