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a visit on a whim

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2005.12.23

I decided to visit my family on the west coast on a whim. Because it turns out that with all the insanity I haven't actually taken a lot of time off and I'm about to lose what I do have because it won't roll over. I've invited my new girlfriend Mari to come with me. The visit will only last a week.

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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