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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2022.06.25

So it turns out that if you were born in North America between 1966 and 1975, there is a hundred percent certainty that you were exposed to harmful amounts of lead as a child. This would have been compounded by living next to a major highway (as I did from '71 through '78) and having any exposure to small plane engines, which I did from '71 through '91 at a minimum. Those small planes use 20x as much lead in their fuel as cars did at their peak. The average damage to a brain exposed to so much lead, in terms of IQ is 6 points.

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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