Yesterday boogieing with my friends on the dance floor I learned Monkees’ band member Peter Tork passed away. In 2009, he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer causing his death while at a family friend’s home in Connecticut last Thursday.
Tork you may recall was depicted as the goofball of the bunch but I learned he did some songwriting and played a number of mewsic instruments. We rarely heard him sing on the show. Someone mentioned yesterday that he was an established folk singer before landing the TV gig. On his website, he has several albums on CD Baby. I am going to revisit that page to listen to his songs more closely.
In those Monkees’ fame days, my heart was beating for Davy Jones but I did notice, Peter. After all, I am a bit partial to drummers. 😉 Hint…DH played drums back in the day.
Billboard Magazine lists Peter Tork’s 10 Best Monkees Songs. If you’re a fan when time permits you may wish to check ’em out. Thank you for the laughs, the mewsic, and may you be at peace Peter!
The weekend brought a lot of heavy rain causing flash flooding and road closures in our city. We sat at home Saturday watching local coverage. It amazes me the things people will do to get from point A to point B without thought of the risks. A number of vehicles stalled in the flood waters. The thing is in any of those incidents things could’ve gone terribly wrong in nothing flat resulting in a fatality. I did accidentally learn yesterday that a west Knoxville man died after being submerged in the water early Sunday morning. but thankfully no lives were lost that I know. We stayed home since it was pointless and dangerous to be out. I found this clip which shot not far from where we live.
Saturday night we watched a fun old movie on Amazon Prime, Cactus Flower with Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and introducing Goldie Hawn.
Another film we watched for the first time…well, actually we started it a while back to never finish it so we started from the beginning is Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’. The language is a bit crude but we enjoyed the plot and it has a fabulous soundtrack!
I’ve mentioned it before but you may already know it Quentin is from Knoxville. He was born here. In fact, his birthday is next month (March 27th). He moved to LA with his mother went he was four years old but return for a brief time and attended 5th grade in South Clinton. What’s so cool is how Quentin works in his hometown roots into his film scripts as in his 1994 classic hit; once by Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) who tells a young Butch about his grandfather’s watch being bought in a little shop in Knoxville and another time by Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) in reference to meeting a contact in Knoxville, we watched over the weekend. I’m glad we finally got to see the whole thing and as I said we liked seeing it.
I finally reconciled to join the A to Z Challenge (2019 button in right side menu at top) in April on Friday. With that now on the table, don’t be surprised if some post scale backs occur between now and then. You know me with my need to get these posts (mostly my sketch work) done before April 1st and the good mews is I’ve drawn four illustrations so far!
Do I dare try a second week in a row at Eugenia’s Tuesday Chatter poem prompt (MARVEL)?
Little Miracle
@2019 Cathy Kennedy
I marvel at your innocence
your sweet perfume like incense
Staring…
Gaping…
Goggling…
I stare
Ooing…
Cooing…
soothing…
In a sing-song rhythm
Your eyes light up
All smiley face
Tiny giggles arise
Oh, my! I sigh
Applauding the moment
Astonishment
Wonder
I cry
I don’t need to tell you where I got my inspiration for my latest poet expression, do I? 😉 My little Angelina is at that sweet stage of giggling at everything you do. It’s just simply adorable!
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I’m linking up taking a coffee break for some with Random Tuesday Thoughts with Stacy Uncorked and you’re invited to come with and let me remind you to visit again tomorrow for not-so Wordless Wednesday.
