I've been on a bit of a Monkees kick lately. Not sure what started it. But I got their song, Shorty Blackwell, from iTunes a week or two ago and it's brought back tons of memories. I put the Head soundtrack in as I went to work the other day.
Some 11 years ago I watched the Oscars and Slingblade lost to The English Patient. I thought it was a travesty and was reading a bit about it on the Internets, this new thing I hadn't really played with to much. I found a message board about the Oscars where people were debating the SB & EP. I put in my two cents and didn't think a whole lot of it. Then, when I went back, this guy from NY who went by "Snake" responded. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I was having a conversation with a stranger a thousand miles away. I was hooked.
The next day or so I went to this Monkees website I'd been on before. It had a chatroom and I went for it. There were a few of us in there, maybe 5 or 6. I can't remember what name I used, but we all changed our names to our favorite Monkee. I changed mine to pete. pete quickly became a permanent fixture in good ol' Monkeeschat. I spent many an hour in Matt's old bedroom on that machine. We talked about everything except the Monkees it seemed. I made lots of great friends there. Some of us got together in Chicago in May or June '97 for MonkeesStock, a weekend of gal time and a Monkees concert.
Then I started also venturing over to Bagism, this John Lennon website. I'd go in that chat as well. It was pretty assanine, but I made some pretty good friends there, too. I even met several of them. One of them I met back on Friday, October 13, 2000. It was the first of many GeekStocks, the last of which I guess started the day we got married.
Sometimes I miss the old silliness of the days of Kretch, Dee, Su, Bren, Budgie, Anna, and Life Wont Wait. But I'm sure as heck glad I'm over that addiction, because that's exactly what it was back then. But if it weren't for Sling Blade, The Monkees, The Beatles, and The Internets, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be in Houston doing real estate with my lovable nerd husband.
**matsu tackles Life**
That makes a good headline. Some things never change.
1 comment:
the first name you used was nebraska, and i was probably dmss at the time--whatever happened to su?
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