MySpace...the movie...the play

Sure, why not. Tres easy! Myspace the comic, even better. The play would be an ensemble, if you will, creating a live myspace page. It would be a hip, mixed media extravaganza and funny with the right writers. The movie, even funnier and the comic...more do-able.

Not so bad....

Had a great Friday! Took the day off work and got my errands done uber early. I went to visit a friend of mine who lives in this awesome old house where he sells his art and antiques. Took some photos there. Later met up with Cecil who treated me to a divine lunch at Alborz and then we went to get pedicures. FUN! Later I went to pick out frames...LULU Guinness! and Kate Spade!
As for Davy...I'll have to catch him in Vegas or something. Oh well.
In the meantime:
Save the Texas Prairie Chicken...y'all:

Websites of late

Found this website that sells vintage items among other things. I liked the whole flea theme.

For Monkee collectors:
Found this website listing rarities . Looks like a trade deal and it would be cool if he traded cds now but not sure. It's a good reference list though.

Also been viewing, no , make that salivating over things I see on this website. Some friends of mine just got the cutest ranch, loads of ideas flowing but uh...not mine :> Congrats to Brenda and Alonzo! You did good.

Country Mouse, City Mouse

I am very sure that I am a country mouse. I am claustrophobic and have no need for many shopping centers or cosmopolitan accessories, loathe traffic and freeways. A trip to a city every now and then for museums and such would be enough for me. Everywhere I have lived always had a building, old home, some sort of structure that was always multi-purpose to me, serving as sanctuary, art, thinking spot, inspiration,photo subject etc.... When I have visited Museums like the Philadelphia Museum of Art or even the Austin Museum of Art or the Kimball...art museums, I am left feeling just as good and much the same as if I had visited that little neglected corner of the world in x spot in x city or town. Sometimes fine art cannot do for me what a lot of empty, grassy space and sky can or beach. Lately I crave a piece of road I took once in Bracketville, Texas on bike. It was 70 degrees and mid morning and to bike that stretch without a car in sight and vegetation on either side was gold. That's the sort of thing I crave, that's my nectar of life. Not one for the city if I crave space. Houses in cities are small unless you move out then you have to face loads of traffic and freeways to get there. I am so used to living in a place where it takes 8 minutes to get to the other side of town. Small, I know, and I liked that. I liked how you could purchase a modest mansion for less than $180K . Small towns carry a bad rep for many people. Big cities house small minds as much as small towns do. For me, the quality of life in a non-city, non-burb location is worth doing without a few strip malls and concerts.

Rusty Warren in Orbit!

Listening to the lp tonight, birthday gift from Wm. Love Rusty! Oh! reminds me Jack Jones is playing the Suncoast in June. The Suncoast has the best entertainment in Old School Vegas. A night there topped off at the Peppermill is GOLD!

Having a hellacious time trying to upload wedding photos for everyone to view. Wish I could just travel with the album from house to house and visit and show the photos and take orders. I didn't like them so much yesterday for some reason. I didn't think there were enough of all who attended but then today I liked them more and felt the photographer did get most of it. Thanks to others with cameras otherwise a lot would have been lost. I can be anal about the sentimentals:photos of everyone at every moment etc....

Back to Rusty Warren in Orbit....side 2.

Internet nooks and crannies

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Forty years?

Since The Monkees were on television. Good GAWD! As if you haven't noticed already... we have been getting a steady flow of Monkee humor daily, for several weeks.

Still need: Save the Texas Prairie Chicken button and to get busy on the M.Nesmith to be sold this Fall. Not too wild about the wooly he wore in the 2nd season with the 6 buttons.

One Favorite Monkee Romp is this one:

YAY! Thank You Davy Jones!

Got my autographed 8x10 glossy this week.

Same week he appears on Living in TVLand and same month he plays in Dallas and we are sooooooooooo there :>


Ex-Monkee Davy Jones saddles up for a 'normal' life
By BILL DeYOUNG
Scripps Howard News Service
02-MAY-06

INDIANTOWN, Fla. -- Davy Jones embraces the past and cherishes the present, but says his future doesn't include any more Monkees reunions.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the created-for-television, pre-fab four, and Jones, at 60, says he's had enough _ especially after the last reunion, a '97 British tour that ended in acrimony.

"I would not work with those guys again if my life depended on it," says Jones, who was born in Manchester, England, but has owned a home in this rural Florida town for 20 years.

"I can't be responsible for their attitudes and the way they treat people. The way they talk."

Jones is the subject of Wednesday's (May 3) episode of "Living in TV Land" (TV Land, 10 p.m. EDT).

Jones says part of the bitterness from the last reunion came _ in his opinion _ because Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork _ and, to a lesser extent, Micky Dolenz _ think of themselves as rock stars, and not veterans of a popular 1960s sitcom about rock stars. The four rarely agree on anything.

"Get over it, OK?" Jones laughs. "The Monkees is gonna be the Monkees forever and ever. It's going to be like the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges and the Bowery Boys."

Jones performs about 100 solo shows every year and his set is chock-full of Monkees hits and Monkee-esque stage patter.

"I've got friends that I've known for 40 years, and a lot of people that I don't know that talk to me as if they do know me," he says. "Which makes me feel good. I've touched a lot of people's lives. The Monkees touched a lot of people's lives, and I can't destroy that by going out with those guys and having bad attitudes around me."

Jones' extended family may include millions of fans worldwide, but his inner circle is small. Twice divorced, he has four grown daughters and two grandsons _ and a stable full of the best pals a longtime horseman could ask for.

Every morning at 6, Jones drives the 30 minutes from his home to exercise his 12 horses, groom them and clean out their stalls. As a youngster in Manchester, he aspired to become a jockey, and today several of his horses race at Florida tracks _ with someone younger in the saddle.

He spends the summers at a ranch house in Pennsylvania (he also owns an estate in England and an apartment in Los Angeles). The horses make the journey, too.

But, says Jones, what he craves is stability. Something normal.

"I don't want to be Peter Pan all my life," he muses. He loves the fact the locals have gotten used to him turning up in restaurants and grocery stores.

He has applied for American citizenship _ something he says he should've done years ago.

"This is such a beautiful, amazing country; there are so many places you can go," Jones says. "This is where my loyalty lies now ... I want to be American. I've been here since 1962, and everything was given to me. So I want to die an American, 30 years from now."

(Contact Bill DeYoung of The Stuart News in Florida ar www.tcpalm.com.)