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chinpunkanpun

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2013.08.26

There's a word in Japanese, "chimpunkanpun"「ちんぷんかんぷん」. According to a dictionary, it means "unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; "all Greek to me"; double Dutch; (something) incomprehensible; babble; gibberish; jargon; gobbledygook;".

I've re-named our kids accordingly.

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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