A happy-go-lucky English rambler dude goes to New Zealand for a year. Here he interfaces with some of those he left behind and details his nefarious activities. Or summat.
Recently clicked on MP3s - 7th June 2005 The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
Jens Lekman - When i said i wanted to be your dog
The Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting
Teenage Fanclub - Man Made
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Eels - Blinking Lights
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
To celebrate fixing the scanner, i thought i'd share my new most prized possession with the world....A signed Kinky Friedman album!
To the Tedster, from the Kinkster! Oooh!!
I went to see my favourite author at 'The Musician' pub a few weeks ago. An author at a pub? Well, if you didn't already know, the Kinkster is an ex-Country and Western singer, who now writes hilarious crime stories set in New York. Oddly enough, based on a character called Kinky Friedman, who is an ex-Country and Western singer. Well, could you think of a better character to base some stories on?!
He did a brief and very entertaining reading from his new book, as well as knocking out a few of his classic songs, such as the feminist anthem, "Get your biscuits in the oven, and your buns in the bed", with his backing band of Little Jewford and Washington Ratso. As with the other gig i went to at the Musician, the crowd seemed a bit quiet (overawed?) at times, and so the atmosphere did get a little awkward for a short while, until the Kinkster's wit won everyone over and sent the crowd home a lot happier than when they arrived.
After the gig, I managed to pluck up the courage to join the queue to have a chat with the man himself. He signed my cd for me, and I blurbled some stuff about his books having picked me up at times when i was really down in the dumps, to which he graciously, and only slightly sarcastically, replied that his life's work had not been in vain. Wow! - I've had the mickey taken out of me - by the Kinkster!!! (As he would say himself, his books have also been, "A financial pleasure for the Kinkster" too)
