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St. Valentine's Day

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.02.10

In Japan, St. Valentine's Day is a curious affair in which females buy males chocolate. This year, we'll be launching a business.

It's a diamond engagement ring business, and we're essentially ready to go. It occurred to me that Valentine's Day would be a fine start day, something we can use "in the literature" for the life of the company.

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