There was a rumor

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I have listened to Kinky Friedman’s music precisely once. I was 24 at the time, and was over a friend’s house – well, there were a bunch of us, and we didn’t have anywhere to go that weekend, and there was a neighborhood bar right next door, just in case we got tired of drinking our own booze, and did I mention that I was 24? Well, suffice it to say that it was fairly drunk out when I got introduced to Mr. Friedman’s music; indeed, the word ‘stupor’ could be fairly used, not to mention the phrase ‘baying at the moon’. I have never gone back and listened again, partly because I suspect that it wouldn’t have sounded nearly as good when I was both sober and one decade older but mostly because I also happen to be quite extraordinarily lazy.

However, he is apparently going to run for Governor of Texas in 2006 and my subconscious is apparently making me endorse him, so I had better apparently go out and pick up some CDs, huh? I swear to God, this blogging gig is making my music budget skyrocket…

(Via Tim Blair)

4 thoughts on “There was a rumor”

  1. Kinky is truly amazing. His books aren’t too bad either (I’m not a huge mystery fan).
    He is my college roommate’s role model–the whole “last Jewish cowboy” thing really appealed to a Jew who grew up in a decidedly Christian cowboy town. I look up to him because the word is that he got booted out of the Peace Corps for “going native.” I tell you, the temptation to do so was strong for me once I got on a horse in the Tien Shan (and, it’s well documented that I’m on the record with my desire to conquer Mongolia–I can look to Josiah Harlan for that inspiration though…)

  2. let Kinky rule! it would be nice to see some really great hair in the texas governor’s mansion.

  3. Kinky’s righteous by me. If memory serves he described “Rapid City South Dakota” as the only pro-choice country song ever written.
    An American orignal.

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