Currently reading: Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville, The Martian by Andy Weir, and Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans against the War by Richard Stacewicz
Currently listening to: Setting the World on Fire by Kenny Chesney featuring Pink
It has been over 10 years with these guys. 10 years.
2017 New Monkees 30th reunion engaged in heavy discussion. From left to right: Me, Larry, Marty, Jared, and Dino. This was the first time I interviewed them as a group. That is my book proposal in front of me. Dino is holding my digital recorder. John was the photographer, lol!
The family and I arrived home last week from our 51 day trip of the east coast. So last week was filled with laundry and cleaning and schooling the boys. Appointments were made, assessments scheduled, and basically just settling in.
Monday comes again and the muses began to rattle in their cages. Time to get back to schedule. Time to transcribe and time to settle in to the voices of Marty, Dino, Larry, and Jared again.
Well truthfully, their voices are never silent in my head and their actual lives are not silent either. They are men in constant motion and again I find myself running after them continuing to capture each momentous moment they are going through.
These guys are consummate dream chasers and dream chasers are rarely satisfied with the day to day activities. Their minds, in many ways like mine, are running for the possibilities, the chances, and the opportunities.
New interviews to transcribe, new events to chronicle, and new emotions and conclusions to carefully jot down.
So off we go again.