To have Cris Kirkwood back as the bassist of the Meat Puppets is nothing short of a miracle. The band he founded with his guitarist/vocalist brother Curt in 1980 broke up in 1996 due to Cris’ addiction to heroin and crack cocaine. In the ensuing years, Cris’ life spiraled far out of his control as he lost his wife to a drug overdose and spent 18 months in prison for attacking a post-office security guard. Now, almost four years clean and sober, Cris is gearing up to hit the road in support of the band’s 12th studio album, Sewn Together. Before he does, Cris will spend the week guest editing magnetmagazine.com. Read our new Q&A with Cris and our 2007 career overview of the Meat Puppets.
Cris Kirkwood: “My Dearest Cris, Life is such a strange, fleeting, fragile thing. As I sit here composing this to you, I wonder, ‘How are you? How is your health? Are you happy? Do you have love in your life? I think I hope so. I want to hope so, but I don’t really know you, do I? So maybe I don’t care. As a matter of fact, I’m sure that I don’t care, and quite frankly, come to think of it, I wish you the worst. A pox on you and yours. From hell’s heart I stab at thee, or at least in your general direction. Oh, fair of heart, weep not for love lost, breath in life’s last lungful, and let it go.'” What? Kry-muh-nitt-ly, I just wanted to talk a little bit about how much I love my dog, Horky, and this is what I come up with. Sorry. Anyway, he’s a great dog, getting a little long in the tooth, a pound puppy: part bear, part lion and mostly brown sugar, slightly burned around the muzzle. Woof.
One reply on “From The Desk Of The Meat Puppets: Horky The Dog”
Aww, haha. This makes me think of my old cat Blackie (poor thing, RIP). He lived to be 13, and was me and my brother’s first pet and the coolest cat around. Viva Horky!