journal features

george bush and his fart catchers

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Halifax, 2004.06.26

I saw "Fahrenheit 9/11" with Charlie today. It was an enraging film.

I'd thought that Bush was a self-serving maniac, but I hadn't realized what a basket case he really is. There is one scene where he's shooting skeet: he misses, and petulantly turns to his flunkies and says "Did I hear a 'nice shot'?" Someone obligingly says, "nice shot" between catching farts.

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