It rains 300 days out of the yearĭo you ever think about all the crazy things you’d buy if you could afford them? Like a house in New Zealand maybe? It’s no secret that Anthony Kiedis once owned property in Kaipara Harbour. Shout-out to Rotorua, the real city of love. We broke into a national park and made love at the edge of a mud pit that was a big bubbling cauldron of steam and mud.” “We took a trip to Rotorua, and checked out the giant hot mineral lakes and the mud pits. Julie was her name and they would end up spending the rest of his stay together. As he tells it, he was staying in downtown Auckland when one night “a long haired brunette goddess out of a Kiwi fairy tale walked into the room”. This was 1992, just as the band broke through with Blood Sugar Sex Magik, an album that spawned singles like ‘Give It Away’, ‘Under The Bridge’ and ‘Suck My Kiss’. “As soon as we set foot in New Zealand, I fell in love with the place,” says Kiedis. It’s my pleasure to bring you a small list of things I learned about New Zealand from seeing it through his eyes. The main thing that’s worth sticking it out for is that he mentions New Zealand constantly throughout the book, which is both ludicrous and kind of amazing.Īnthony Kiedis took his devil dick all around our fair country.

Let’s just say I get a bit uncomfortable reading about older guys creeping on 17-year-olds all the time.

It’s a revealing memoir, sure, but it didn’t do a lot to bring me back around.

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