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tripod plates are expensive

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.06.25

So I went 'round to a couple of stores yesterday to try to price a new release plate for my tripod. $40. That's about 45% of the cost of a new tripod. Who would have thought that so much cost could be contained in a bit of plastic and rubber with a single threaded screw. Oh, that's right, it's 'photographic equipment'.

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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