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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.01.28

Our downstairs neighbour has to live with every bump and shout and scrape that we produce. There's only a thin wooden sub-floor and a rather nice-looking but surely sound-transparent cosmetic paneling on top of that. I expect that there are some joists but these do nothing for sound.

So in preparation for Ken's first real birthday party, we took a note and a bottle of wine downstairs to let the tenant know that the party was coming. It seemed the least we could do.

And I have to say, the affair was as noisy as the end of the Earth.

rand()m quote

I'd see the publicity guy come on the set and I'd go hide in the rafters. The crew would be like, ‘I haven't seen him.' And then they'd leave and I'd go back to work. Because that's what's fun: the doing, not the talking.

—Kurt Russell