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[WernherVonTrapp]

I've heard said that he was quite a "down to earth person" and not self absorbed like so many other music idols. I feel especially saddened at his passing because of the nature of the Monkees music. I know I'm not the only one to feel that this life has been rather disappointing, but I don't think anyone would quite believe the incessant adversity that I've had to endure since my childhood. Through the years,it has made me more stoic and especially suspicious of others (great for my current profession). In other ways it's been a haunting curse that I can never seem to escape from, save through Christ. All that aside, the song "Daydream Believer" is an embodiment of the upbeat, positive, outlook that the Monkees sound generated and also of my resolve in searching out the positive, rather than negative aspects of life, despite it ever being an uphill battle. Hence my despair at the loss of Davy Jones, who happens to have a specific locker named after him. I think all sub simmers could appreciate that.
Anyhow, thanks for sharing that Yooper.

See? Upbeat and positive.

[Wolferz]

Wife 2.0's daughter nearly knocked the little guy (Mr Jones) into the pig poop at the Allentown Fair one year.
Accidentally of course.

[paulhager]

Libertarian-Conservative rabble rouser and gadfly, Andrew Breitbart died March 1 of what appears to be a heart-related problem.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in California at age 54.
"The self-described "Painter of Light," who died Friday at age 54, produced sentimental scenes of country gardens and pastoral landscapes in dewy morning light that were beloved by many but criticized by the art establishment"

[fireftr18]

Wernher, did they get Kincaid's age right. I thought he was some old guy who passed on a long time ago.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Wernher, did they get Kincaid's age right. I thought he was some old guy who passed on a long time ago.

[fireftr18]

thanks Wern.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies:
"Wallace, who won his 21st and final Emmy Award at 89, died Saturday in the New Canaan, Conn., care facility where he had lived the last few years of his life. He was 93."

[WernherVonTrapp]

D!ck Clark dead at 82
D!ckClark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the New Year's Eve countdown from Times Square, has died. He was 82. Spokesman Paul Shefrin said Clark had a heart attack Wednesday morning at Saint John's hospital in Santa Monica, where he had gone the day before for an outpatient procedure. "

[swamprat69er]

Levon Helm dead at 71

http://youtu.be/6jxsCvZoQs4