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Toronto, 2014.12.17

Tonight I met with a friend whose daughter is recovering from a serious concussion. She's doing well, but it's been a long haul and the girl's certainly not out of the woods by any means.

Three reasons to be thankful:

  1. Everyone at home is happy and whole
  2. 2014 was on the whole eventful but not as chaotic and disruptive as other '4 years have been (e.g. death, betrayal, and job loss in '94; job loss and a catastrophe on the home front in '04) - there's nothing to numerical voodoo but it was nice to "break the curse"
  3. I may not know what I'm doing, but it's going well

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