Yay.

I got the Monkees fics posted in the fic journal. They are accessible from 31_days as well as from my website at http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/daydreambelievin I've been tinkering with the site in some other ways, as well. I've added some more Knockouts.

I keep wanting to write some fic involving Mr. Babbit and showing a kinder side to him. I toyed with that in the long ago past when I wrote the fic Maisie, and someone else explored it in an even more interesting way with a short story about Peter meeting the ghost of Babbit's daughter. After watching Monkee Mother, the idea that popped into my mind was for Babbit to get fed up and really kick the boys out, and they devise a plan to get him to let them back in, which entails them taking turns pretending to be A Christmas Carol-type ghosts who both talk with Babbit trying to find out why he's so harsh with them and show him scenes of the group shivering in the cold to try to guilt him into having mercy on them. The idea amuses me; it would be a lot like an episode of the show.

And the old Monkees albums are being reissued, but it looks like they're minus the awesome bonus tracks. Why?!

This presents a problem concerning the Monkees albums I still do not have. I never wanted the albums that are missing one or more of the guys because I thought I'd feel too sad. But now I want them to have the complete set. Unfortunately, they are very rare. Even used, the prices are often outrageous.

However, Amazon is offering MP3 albums. And I'm sure they weren't there a few days ago. I'm wondering if I should just buy the digital albums of these albums so I can have those songs, instead of waiting for them to reissue as normal CDs. They might not have the bonus tracks if they do rerelease. And the out-of-print copies with the bonus tracks are probably just going to keep climbing in price.

I don't suppose Amazon includes digital copies of the liner notes with an MP3 album....

Ugh.

I hate it when I have weird, creepy, disturbing, and exhausting dreams concerning characters in my fandoms. Right now I can't even remember exactly what I was dreaming earlier, and I'm in no great hurry to do so, either. This on top of listening to clips from all of the Monkees albums missing one or more members and, indeed, feeling sad thinking of them being absent. Although I still want those albums, I think. There are some songs I like on them.

... Oh, I spoke too soon, I'm starting to remember what I was dreaming. I need some brain bleach.

And LOL! That reminds me of Peter actually joking about brain bleach (or was it brain detergent?) in The Card-Carrying Red Shoes. It was priceless.

Actually, maybe remembering what it was will actually help to push it out of my mind. I hope so, anyway.

I finally started to catch up with all the posts in the Tutu comm that I've been neglecting while I worked on the fics for 31_days. And I'm thinking maybe I'll watch some Charles in Charge along with The Monkees later. Yesterday I bought a YGO manga at Borders, so there's that to read too. Yes, back to fully juggling fandoms. I think.