Sunday, April 28, 2013

"I'M DIGGING THOSE KICKS, MATE"


It took me a good minute or two to figure out what this guy was saying, in his heavy Australian accent, as we passed one another on the hill on our bikes. Then it came to me: he was referring to my Giro Joe bike shoes with fluorescent shoelaces.

As I was getting hooked up for another acupuncture session yesterday, I thought to myself, "Digging Those Kicks"--now that's a good name for a band. It would have to be country, with a distinctly Down Under Aussie twang, with 3 guys and 2 women band members. 

As I lay there with my leg twitching wildly, I tried to occupy my mind with thoughts of the Kicks' debut album: "She Stung Me Like a Ray." Here are the tracks:

1. She stung me like a ray when she walked away (Title track)

2. You done me wrong, you red-bellied snake of a man

3. Tasmanian tiger by night, Tasmanian devil by day--she's my reptilian-carnivorous- marsupial love thang

4. Feelin' nothin' but grief here on the barrier reef since you said goodbye

5. Darlin' come back--she was nothin' more than a pickup pick-up

6. Backin' out of this outback triangle of love

7. I should'a ditched that bum a long time ago--he was pure eucalyptus sap

8. You're not the only dingo in the desert

9. My baby's comin' back--she's my boomerang lover

10. Emu emo, Foster lagrimas: I'm cryin' saltwater croc tears in my Aussie beers

11. Tasting tempura with my laughing kookaburra woman

12. His was a cheatin' heart, but he'll always be a sweet pig-footed bandicoot to me