Catch the face

I have been in Argentina now for bout 3 weeks and I can feel me heart screaming at me to stop eating steak. Its difficult not to when its so cheap. I kid you not they are the weight of a small child and I should know, I´ve eaten enough of em. Small children that is.

Spent a night in Salta following the border crossing. Saw a mummified child in the local museum who had been struck by lightning hundreds of years ago and preserved on a mountain top. Got a bus down to Buenos Aires and sat next to Sergio, an engineer who told me about his wife and three girlfriends and how Argentina was “muchas sex” (with actions).

Spent 5 nights in Buenos Aires and could have probably stayed for a year or so. Went to a park with hundreds of stray cats milling about. Saw Eva Peron´s grave at the majestic Recoleta cemetary and splashed out on a proper Tango show which was immaculate.

Clubs dont start until 2 or 3 in the morning so yer need to adjust yer body clock and look the part if yer going out to pull an Argentinian lady friend. Ground work is fairly tough going and even then you´ll be fortunate if yer get a look in. So I heard from Jodie.

We planned to go to the Boca Juniors football match but unfortunately missed it deciding to head further south although ate at a restaraunt “Don Carlitos” across the road from the stadium which was an experience in itself. The place was clearly full of gangsters with henchmen hanging about outside watching expensive cars. The amenable owner proudly explained that the system was to sit down and eat exactly what he decided to bring out to you. The food was impecable and the proud chap shared some stories of the celebrities who had eaten there. Some Maradonna lookie likie tried to sell us a photo opportunity so I gave him some slaver about the hand of god and we kicked him into touch…

I spent the last of my pennies for the month, contributed to the global warming issue and got a flight down to Bariloche to try a bit of skiing. I spent a lot of time eating snow and doing big chin slides but met some interesting people/nutjobs. Played catch the face with Sarah ” what voice?” Moxon which involved a bit of serious gurning and was very silly indeed…

After a week of hanging out in Bariloche, shot over to the other side of Argentina on a road trip across the Patagonian wilderness. We were in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid territory and its a fairly ruthless landscape. Saw plenty of dead dogs, a dead horse, dead horse bones, (got meself a horse tooth for the collection), some ostriches and 6ft wide condors. Unfortunately the boot on the car was broken and we were driving down unpaved roads so it was like being inside a vacuum cleaner.

Near Puerto Madryn we drove to a peninsula and saw whales, penguins, elephant seals and an Armadillo. This is discovery channel stuff! Its the place where the killer whales come out of the ocean and eat the seals as they learn to swim.

After soaking up some serious nature, we drove across to El Bolson, a quiet hippy town in the Patagonian Andes where we ran into some folks from Buenos Aires at the friendliest place I ever stayed at. The Owner Claudio took me to the supermarket to buy our tea and we barbecued a full side of cow, translated bad jokes for each other between spanish and english (with very poor results) and played beatles and shakira songs on our guitars!

After the road trip, took a bus across the border into Chile with Tim from San fransisco and James and Hannah Mafia from the UK and then got on a freight ferry down through the fords and mountains of southern patagonia towards the Moreno glacier.

I finished writing another song but I dont know what its called yet. I think its gonna be about some missed opportunity and the wilderness.

My album is coming out in a week or two and It will be available to pick up from some shops and this very website which is pretty exciting. Its mainly my own work with a helpin hand from a few friends. If yer buy it I hope yer like it. Hasta Luego

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