Cameron H.

Glad to hear it. I hope he continues to improve

I mean, if things are good, that’s great! No one should feel guilty or anything. We need our personal wins. I’m glad things are going well for you

The 43rd day of Smarchtober

I just wanted to check in with everyone. How are you holding up?

I’m sorry to hear it! I’ll keep your family in my thoughts.

Another favorite:

Yes, but by the time they flopped I feel like they’d already been dragged by “respectable” music critics. It’s kind of like Milli Vanilli’s attempt to record a legit album. The quality doesn’t matter if no one’s going to give you a chance. (I also don’t hate Headquarters) As a band, I think Dolenz has one of the best voices of that era (something Nesmith has said himself), Nesmith and Tork were solid instrumentalists, and Davy was cute. There are worse bands in the Hall of Fame for sure. And I like Nesmith’s writing even if they weren’t exactly “hits.”

One of my favorites:

I’ve always loved The Monkees. I think their biggest hurdle was the insecurity they felt being a “manufactured” band. Of course it didn’t help that that’s what the music critics accused them of. (As far as I know they are still unofficially banned from the Rock Hall of Fame.) The way I see it, a band can get together for any number of reasons. Ripping a tag off a flyer, meeting up at school, or being put together by a television network is really all the same. Either the chemistry works or it doesn’t. They also get a lot of flack for not writing their own music (which they actually did write quite a bit) or playing their own instruments, but that was pretty standard at the time. The documentary The Wrecking Crew is an awesome documentary about the studio musicians that wrote and performed the majority of music in the Sixties. The only difference between The Monkees and those other groups was their fabrication was public.

I will say this, as far as music goes, the first two songs, “Porpoise Song” and “Circle Sky” are the best. I can totally understand why you’d bail though. It’s a pretty confounding movie. From what I understand, the director, Jack Nicholson, and the Monkees got together over a weekend, got super high, recorded everything they said, and that became the movie. My question is: how good we’re those drugs that even after that weekend was over they looked at the script and were like, “Yup, still good.”

I'm pretty sure we may be the same person...

Who’s your favorite Monkee? Mine is Mike Nesmith.

Davy Jones was Rock’s most electrifying hype man...

I have not, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it has a more solid connection. Our movie choices will be limited, but I would love starting Classics up again in some form or another. Honestly, I was hoping Kast would work as I typed in rabb.it the other day and it redirected me there. But I guess not.

The TV movie The Stand might be fun to watch.

I’ve never seen it but I think Omega Man is one...

Paul’s self-quarantine voice gave my post the emotional heft it deserved.

No, you’re good. For some reason they stopped creating threads for this and Unspooled. We’ve all just been taking it upon ourselves to do it. Thank you for doing it

Oh, the episode was good. But, yeah, not a lot of meat on the bones beyond what was mentioned on the show.

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but totally QotD over this. The score is by freakin’ Korn.

But he generally asks their opinions on the phone calls, which is what he’s saying he wants. I also think it’s weird since I feel like it would be far easier for him to pull up Earwolf on his laptop/phone/whatever rather than dealing with phone calls and trying to mix them into the ep. Like, “I can’t look at the forums because I’m not in studio.” LOL But, like I said, it’s not like Blood Wars lit up the forum. It’s not a big deal. We’re barely at two pages and it’s mainly us saying that the other movies (or I, Frankenstein) would have been better picks and Scott Speedman/Stapp conspiracy theories.

Get well soon!

It’s like my mom thinking she can only access her email from work.

Just FYI... (Not that anyone has really had anything to say for this episode. Also, does Paul not have access to the forums anymore??? )