Wibbly-Wobbly and banana peels
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omorkaApparently I only like Christmas carols when they're in another language, preferably one I don't speak. "Gaudete," "Patapan," "Un Flambeau," "Stille Nacht" (but don't even try it in English!), and now "Riu Chiu."
Of course, who's singing it doesn't hurt. I've pointed out before that I really, really like how Micky Dolenz's and Mike Nesmith's voices sound together, and I don't think it's just the ear of puberty, there. A cappella Monkees, four voices, no instruments? Yes, please!
Apparently Micky ended up on several celebrity atheist lists after answering "No," to the Onion A.V. club's interviewer's question of "Is there a God?" They appear to have left out the remainder of the answer - "God is a verb, not a noun." That doesn't make him an atheist; it makes him a process theologian (and probably either a humanist or a newager or both). It also makes him the sort of guy who quotes Buckminster Fuller to impress girls, or at least interviewers.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. There's a small number of guys who were already in their 40s when I went through puberty who were nonetheless crush-objects of mine and whom I would still quite happily bed now, with me approaching 40 myself and them another twenty years or more along ahead of me, should I get the chance. Harold Ramis tops the list, of course, but Micky Dolenz is quite firmly in second place. (That I was crushing on his twentysomething self from the '60s when he was fortysomething in the '80s is an interesting bit of timey-wimey complexity, but life and teenage hormones are like that sometimes.)
He's still got pipes, as does Nesmith. Shame they can't get along, really. With Jones gone (alas! and RIP), there's little hope of the Monkees ever really being more than three brothers in a deep-seated sibling rivalry sharing a stage for a few minutes. Tork's even harder to wrangle than Nesmith is, although he tends to need the money more. Davy was the only one who still got along with the others, and even that not always well. Still, they did manage to share a stage once in a while, in threes or occasionally fours; not all bands from the same time with acrimonious breakups could say the same.
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Can we keep Matt Smith for another season of Doctor Who and get rid of Moffatt instead? No? Just a thought.
Of course, who's singing it doesn't hurt. I've pointed out before that I really, really like how Micky Dolenz's and Mike Nesmith's voices sound together, and I don't think it's just the ear of puberty, there. A cappella Monkees, four voices, no instruments? Yes, please!
Apparently Micky ended up on several celebrity atheist lists after answering "No," to the Onion A.V. club's interviewer's question of "Is there a God?" They appear to have left out the remainder of the answer - "God is a verb, not a noun." That doesn't make him an atheist; it makes him a process theologian (and probably either a humanist or a newager or both). It also makes him the sort of guy who quotes Buckminster Fuller to impress girls, or at least interviewers.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. There's a small number of guys who were already in their 40s when I went through puberty who were nonetheless crush-objects of mine and whom I would still quite happily bed now, with me approaching 40 myself and them another twenty years or more along ahead of me, should I get the chance. Harold Ramis tops the list, of course, but Micky Dolenz is quite firmly in second place. (That I was crushing on his twentysomething self from the '60s when he was fortysomething in the '80s is an interesting bit of timey-wimey complexity, but life and teenage hormones are like that sometimes.)
He's still got pipes, as does Nesmith. Shame they can't get along, really. With Jones gone (alas! and RIP), there's little hope of the Monkees ever really being more than three brothers in a deep-seated sibling rivalry sharing a stage for a few minutes. Tork's even harder to wrangle than Nesmith is, although he tends to need the money more. Davy was the only one who still got along with the others, and even that not always well. Still, they did manage to share a stage once in a while, in threes or occasionally fours; not all bands from the same time with acrimonious breakups could say the same.
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Can we keep Matt Smith for another season of Doctor Who and get rid of Moffatt instead? No? Just a thought.
