An excerpt from my site The Black Keys Fan Lounge: The musical lineage and influence of the Auerbach and Carney extended families on The Black Keys is often over looked. Until now, I don’t think I really appreciated all the connections. It’s easy to acknowledge the mythologised road trips Dan to[...]
July 4th, 2009 - 12:43 am § in Observations
Love The Dingle
A taste of my site Mr Dingleberry: Dingle is sometimes asked why he drinks so much. Dingle usually answers that life is like a stream that he enjoys drinking from. The stream near his house just happens to flow with Heineken. It’s not necessarily the beer for everyone but its Dutch origins remind [...]
July 4th, 2009 - 12:36 am § in Travel
Ways To Travel With A Purpose
An excerpt from a recent article of mine on Travel Generation: On a previous trip to the USA, intoxicated with the ideas, attitude and writing of Jack Kerouac, I made a point of seeing as many Kerouac-related places as I could in my limited time. I schlepped through the bars and streets of New York [...]
July 3rd, 2009 - 11:47 pm § in Writing
Sam Hunt
I was lucky enough to get given this signed serviette from legendary NZ poet Sam Hunt recently. My parents bumped into him in Matakohe, NZ, of all places. They don’t know him, he was just there, and they know I like his poetry. Got to think a poet writing his name on a napkin is [...][...]
