Kylie Minogue’s Hot Pants Inspire Literature

Musician/poet/author Nick Cave has released a book called The Death of Bunny Munro, about a womanizing, alcoholic salesman whose actions drive his wife to suicide.  An all-around cad:

“Bunny has been banned for life from three McDonald’s, one Burger King, and thrown out of the Kentucky Fried on Western Road with such force that he fractured two of his ribs.” His libido is where “the sh*t and the fan had their fateful assignation.” Along the way, Bunny does drugs, gets his face smashed in, blows all his money, and encounters a homeless guy in a “Sh*t Happens When You Party Naked” T-shirt.

But Cave contends that when Spinning Around came out, “Kylie’s hot pants were all the tabloids could talk about. I think she has to take a certain responsibility for this novel, by wearing those hot pants.”  In the novel, you see, nothing gets Bunny Munro sparked up like the thought of Kylie Minogue and Avril Lavigne…  

In the acknowledgements, Cave writes, “I would also like to thank Kylie Minogue and Avril Lavinge, with love, respect and apologies.” It’s the least he could do, considering all Bunny’s obscene thoughts about them. “The sexual obsessions that go through the male brain are a kind of mind static,” Cave says. “A man thinks about unreal figures like Kylie and Avril to keep more terrifying thoughts at bay. Like love and intimacy.” Bunny’s particularly obsessed with Kylie’s 2000 U.K. hit “Spinning Around,” which he hears as an ode to anal sex. “That’s the song with the hot pants,” Cave says helpfully. “I’m not sure how Avril Lavigne came about, except that I personally like her very much, and something about her physicality seemed to be the right kind of thing for this character.”

Hilariously, Cave went so far as to write letters of apology to both women, which probably wasn’t necessary.  Did Did Michelangelo write a letter of apology to David?  Did the Scorpions write a letter of apology to the Miami Hurricanes?  Doubtful.  Also, if the novel takes place in the present day, aren’t the character’s mental pin-up girls a bit… 2002?  Fantasize with the times, you know?

Source: RS.