When a lady's got her legs wide open. La-di-da.

Above is Keith Richards' answer to the question, "What is the best thing you've ever seen?"

I thought I'd do a post dedicated to Keith, since he's in the news right now, and "Jesus Christ," he's Keith, and I love him.

For anyone who may not know, Keef is currently newsworthy because of an NME interview he did. Asked about the strangest thing he's tried to snort, Keith answered:

"My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a shit.
It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

YES. AWESOME.
Now, if you've never read a Keith interview, they're often really enjoyable, and I rather appreciate his sense of humor and straightforward manner.
Unfortunately, Keith (or his rather, a Keef representative) has now denied this claim, saying that he was only joking, that the remark was "off-the-cuff."
FYI, daddy Richards, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.
Really though, all that matters is that he said it, and that Keith has probably snorted a number of other questionable things in his time. I don't much mind whether it's true or not, I only love the Keith character more for it.
Keith himself has said that drugs aren't as big of a deal as others make them out to be. And he should know.

Keith was in a spunky mood for the interview.
Some highlights:

There's no roll
"They forgot the roll and they only kept the rock. The roll's the whole damn thing dude, the rock is nothing, deal with it, the roll is king. Unfortunately most cats don't get behind the roll."

things I guarantee I'll never do again are...
2) Climb coconut trees
"I wasn't climbing a tree [when he fell, suffering concussion and subsequently having to undergo brain surgery], I was sitting on a fucking shrub. I was sitting on that shrub again today, but I happened to fall off it the wrong way that day."
3) Be trepanned
"I wouldn't want to do that again. It's having your fucking skull cut open. It's what I had to go through. Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon,
who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. I've got pictures of it mate, yeah. They cut my head, brain, skull open, went in and pulled out the crap, and put some of it back in again. But that's the way it is, I mean, shit, Keith Richards has got to do everything once."

"...Some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral."

"I'm the same as everyone else - same as you, same as everybody, I'm the same old bugger, just kind of lucky. I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years, I mean I was really disappointed when I fell off the list."

My favourite new band is...
"I ain't got any, they're all a load of crap. Everyone's a load of crap...I listen to my shit, baby, Motörhead, reggae, Moroccan music. All kinds of shit."

The band I most wish I was in is...
"The Rolling Stones. They're the only band I care about, I can't wait to get back on the road with those bastards, who happen to miraculously be one of the best bands in the world. I dunno how the hell it happened. I mean you're playing beside Charlie Watts - yeah baby, you've gotta gig on."

The best time I've ever had on drugs was...
"I can't remember. It's those nights you forget, but you know what happened because there are 15 other people telling you that you were hanging naked upside down from the chandelier.
...I mean drugs have got really nothing to do with life. Drugs are there if you want them, and it's not a big fucking deal."

"I was driving through the driveway to Walt Disney studios the other day thinking, 'Jesus Christ, I'm following in the footsteps of Mickey Mouse here.'"

The coolest rock star in the world, ever is...
"Me! I mean, right, it goes without saying really, doesn't it? I mean I don't think I'm cool, it's other people that tell me I'm cool, I'm just being who I am. Just be yourself is all I can say, the rest of it's a fucking joke. 'Elegantly wasted' blah-blah-blah, I've had all of that. If you've gotta be cool be cool with yourself. If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool."

I'll stop playing when...
"I croak....I've had a few brushes with old death, he's kind of a friend of mine, actually, and er, if you hang around me you'll have a brush with it too."

I love this guy.
Anyway, go listen to something by Keith's favorite band, and don't forget about the May 25 release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, in which Keef will be playing a pirate, which is to say, essentially, himself.