journal features

sparrows, so many sparrows

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2003.08.30

I've noticed this summer that there seem to be a hell of a lot of sparrows around. I don't know if it's due to weather conditions being good, or if West Nile is playing a part, but every little patch of grass in the city seems to be teeming with the buggers.

I mention West Nile because the sparrows are apparently carriers, unlike the other bird species which are all dropping like flies. I have to stop writing journal entries about flies.

I have a third date with the blackout girl coming up tonight.

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