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Reinsurance
Date: 2011-05-20 11:14 am (UTC)Re: Reinsurance
Date: 2011-05-20 12:39 pm (UTC)Fair enough...
"There were also women with white wrist bands. They were reserved for board members and the very best sales reps."
I'm just trying to imagine how the female sales reps and board members felt about this...
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Date: 2011-05-20 06:06 pm (UTC)I think hands are probably more important. But once we have working hands and feet and so forth we should have working tails, and all sorts of other body parts humans don't generally come with.
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Date: 2011-05-20 04:09 pm (UTC)In the two years from 1966 to 1968 the music industry had completely changed under the band's feet, and *nothing* they did at that point could have been a hit. And Head fit in with the direction *they* were trying to push in - Tork had invited Jimi Hendrix to be their support act, and had played on George Harrison's experimental Wonderwall album, Nesmith had invited Frank Zappa onto the show, and their 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee TV special featured people like Tim Buckley and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity. The teenyboppers had already left them and Head was a calculated gamble to try to get them an audience with the growing hippie subculture instead.
And while it failed in the short term, in the long term that film probably did more to encourage continued interest in the band than anything else - I paid £50 to see them last week because I'm a huge fan, and I became a huge fan through watching Head. And I'm far from the only one.
(And when I saw them, the second half of the show was introduced by a long trailer for Head and they performed the entire soundtrack album, so they must know that it's overall been good for their career. I certainly can't imagine a tour where they performed the whole of Pool It! going so well...)
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Date: 2011-05-20 04:46 pm (UTC)*frantically blocks everyone on facebook as nerds explode with nigh-sexual pleasure*
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Date: 2011-05-20 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-20 04:51 pm (UTC)And have you read the hobbit recently? It's a pretty camp semi-comedy at times anyway.