a wee bit of fun

1. Put your iTunes/ music player on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must put down the song name no matter what.

What would best describe your personality?
Lonesome, On’ry & Mean (Waylon... how uncanny!)

What do you like in a guy/girl?
Unknown Blues (Pretty Things)

How do you feel today?
Champagne Like a Lady (Slim Cessna’s Auto Club)

What is your life's purpose?
Picture In A Frame (Tom Waits)

What is your motto?
When My Love Comes Down (Grinderman)

What do your friends think of you?
Bulgar Cigany Horo (Kalman Balogh.... opre!)

What do you think of your parents?
Over You (Echo & the Bunnymen... ha!)

What do you think about very often?
One Line (Polly Jean Harvey)

What do you think of your best friend?
Funny How Time Slips Away (Willie... :( :( :( )

What do you think of your crush?
Sheep (Tiger Lillies... this system is not infalliable)

What is your life story?
Casts A Great Light (Angelus... :) :) :) )

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Feast of Silence (Vas)

What do you think when you see your crush?
Goodbye Desolate Railyard (Thee Silver Mt Zion... wow, my poor “crush”)

What do your parents think of you?
An Introduction to Indian Music (Ravi Shankar.... that’s about right)

What do strangers think of you?
Single Girl (Kossoy Sisters)

How's your love life?
Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow (Joni Mitchell)

What will they play at your funeral?
You Can’t Mistreat Me (Leadbelly)

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Toujours Aimer (Edith Piaf.... surely you mean the wedding I don’t want)

What is your hobby/interest?
Oh You Devil, You (Oliver Brown.... 93 93/93!)

What's your biggest secret?
Rainy Day Woman (Waylon)

What do you think of your friends?
Sons of the Silent Age (Bowie)

What song do you listen to when you are sad?
She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair (Richard Thompson... true enough)

In love?
C’mon, Let’s Spawn (Make-Up..... a HAHAHAHAHAHA!)

What song do you air guitar to?
Fire Dread Dub (King Tubby)

What should be your signature karaoke song?
Mutiny in Heaven (Birthday Party.... DEFINITELY!)

What is your greatest desire?
Waiting For The Moon (Tindersticks)

What does next year have in store for you?
Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave (Morphine... geez, hope I don’t die of a heart attack on-stage)

What's your outlook on life?
The Farmer’s Curst Wife (Pete Seeger)

How will you die?
One For Hope (Akron/Family & Angels of Light)

Do people secretly lust after you?
Over You (Tiger Lillies)

The best advice you will ever get?
Will You Surrender (Mick Harvey)

Photolog: meanwhile, back at the ranch...

I hadn't seen my old pal Kinky Friedman since he left on his European tour in May, so he insisted that I come up to the ranch before I went to Montana. So yesterday I grabbed a bottle of Jameson & hit the road...

Johnson City... home of LBJ & the world's best chicken fried steak. The numbers don't lie!



Outside the Sawmill Tavern in Johnson City:





A beautiful old facade in Fredricksburg:



I finally arrive at Kink's place!



He lives outside of Kerrville, up the craziest, twisty-est road I've ever traveled (and that's including Montana). His house lies within Echo Hill, a beautiful valley where his parents established a summer camp 56 years ago. Here's a view of the camper cabins & the hills beyond:



On the other side of the valley lies Utopia, an animal rescue ranch established by Kinky and Cousin Nancy. It is a Utopia indeed for animals in danger... everyone has a large pen with plenty of runnin' room, food, fresh air & love. If you're thinking of adopting a dog (or the occasional cat, chicken, or gigantic, lazy pig), do consider one of Utopia's.

Kinky has his own pack of dogs... collectively known as the Friedmans, who rule the roost with big loving hearts...




There's little Perky, the matriarch of a venerable age and Chumley, her sweet, quiet son...



...Brownie, who puts on quite a show if you stop petting him, and the famous Mr Magoo.



And Kaw-liga rules them all (until the indian maid returns)



I love staying at Kinky's house...



...where there's copious wood paneling & Jameson, dogs & a pool table and lots of interesting stuff where ever you turn. A collection of masks stemming from Kink's tenure in the Peace Corps in Borneo...



... artifacts of by-gone mystery novels...



...reliable rack storage...



...and a beautiful painting of Kink's father.



I was fortunate enough to witness the blooming of this gorgeous flower...



Kink says that these flowers only bloom once and always at night. The scent of the flower was amazing.

It was another lovely trip up the ranch. Sorry I didn't take any pictures of the Governor himself... stay tuned, Kink's got a lot of interesting things brewing in that feverish brain of his (including things of a political nature). And do check out his latest book, What Would Kinky Do?