The Monkees

[Bella Fortuna]

I NEED THOSE ALREADY!!!!111111111111111

[Bella Fortuna]

Yeah, he's looking his age, but he still puts on a great show and was an exceedingly nice man.







My five minutes with someone I've always admired and looked up to, and what do I say? "You've gotta admit, you look good in drag." YES, I SAID THAT.

(backstory is he was signing this:)

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[pErvinalia]

Who's the old coot?

[Bella Fortuna]

Me.

[/jokeshortcircuit]

[klr]

Shouldn't he be now calling himself "Silverback"? Or does that only apply to gorillas?

[pErvinalia]

Me.

[/jokeshortcircuit]

Everyone will probably laugh and think how funny your joke was there...

[Tero]

Well, he's got hair. I think I will have more at 70 if I live that long.

Hey, I have copy if Repo Man for him to sign, if he comes here.

Waiting for Hot Tuna to show up here. No hippie festivals nearby.

[Coito ergo sum]

It kind of bothers me that I remember the Monkees from when I was a kid, and I recall them being so young, and now the guy looks so old. Makes me feel old. Yuck. The 70s were not that flippin' long ago!!!! But, then again, they were...

It's weird --

Remember yourself back in the 1970s -- say - 1979. That was 34 years ago. Seems not that long ago, right? (to those of us old timers who were self-aware at that time).

Then, put yourself back there, and imagine 34 years earlier than 1979 -- 1945. Remember how ancient the 1940's seemed when we were young in the 1970s?

Well, to the 20-somethings today, the 1970s are like the 1940s are to us. An ancient time, that looks bizarrely archaic in almost all respects. A time and place that seems almost unreal.

I need to smoke a joint and contemplate this.

Damn you, Michael Nesmith!!!

[klr]

I thought The Monkees were mostly active in the later 1960s?

Agreed though that the 1970s are the new 1940s.

[Tero]

The 1940s were ancient, they had a war and danced to big band swing. We've had rock for 60 years soon.

[Bella Fortuna]

I thought The Monkees were mostly active in the later 1960s?

Agreed though that the 1970s are the new 1940s.

The show went off the air in 1968. Nesmith left the band in 1970, and they broke up entirely in 1971. 1967-68 were their biggest years.

[Coito ergo sum]

I thought The Monkees were mostly active in the later 1960s?

Agreed though that the 1970s are the new 1940s.

The Monkees were definitely active in the late 1960s, but I remember them from the repeats of their TV show in the 1970s, and when you saw those guys in the 1970s, they looked basically the same as they did in the late 60s -- it was only a few years, after all.

That's what makes me feel old. I'm not as old as Nesmith, as he was in his 20s when I was born. But, he was a young man in my living memory. Now he is an old man, nearing the end of it all. That bugs me, because for the first part of my life, old guys were so old that they were pretty much ALWAYS old from my perspective. You know, like when you're in your 20s, a guy in his 60s, was in his 40s when you were born. That seems ancient.

When one contemplates it -- it gives one a sense of mortality when one sees a guy in his last few probable years of life who was young and vibrant in our own living memory. It creates a sense of looming inevitability.

[Bella Fortuna]

Davy Jones is dead... does that help?

[Tero]

Nah, forget this decades shit. I look at the chickadees in the tree. Every day is a lotto grand prize.

(This is what happens when you get old and do not know if there is a decade left or decades in plural)

[Coito ergo sum]

Davy Jones is dead... does that help?