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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Tokyo, 2008.09.15

We were walking down a shopping street yesterday and I noticed a pet store. I was carrying Ken at the time, so I stopped to show him the mice in their cages (right next to the street!). He was more interested in a label that had been affixed to the cages. He's always had a curious affinity for labels, even playing with the labels on his plush toyes rather than the toys themselves.

So I showed him a kitten that was in a holding pen behind the store's window. He started to laugh and laugh. Then I showed him the mice again, and he kept on laughing.

He likes animals, I guess!

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