Through The Looking Glass - A Monkees Fan Site, A Monkees Love Site

Happy 12th

Posted on September 12, 2022June 16, 2023 by emilyannawells

Happy 12th, Monkees fans, friends, citizens, lovers!

As many of you know, The Monkees first aired on NBC September 12, 1966. The day before this, The Monkees flew in via helicopter [a very, very small looking helicopter] to Del Mar, CA–renamed “Clarksville” for the day, as part of the promotion–to perform for a prepped audience of screaming, hysterical, teeny-bopper girls. Approximately 400 winners of a radio contest got to hear The Monkees perform live for the very first time, four winners received televisions sets, and an unaired screening of an episode of The Monkees was shown. [Source: Written in Our Hearts]

In honor of this day, I chose to make another Monkees Wallpaper for the Art Page. This one inspired by the Monkees in the beginning, and of course, as you see, the song “Saturday’s Child,” by David Gates. Photographer of original photo unknown–as always, please feel free to let me know so I can credit the source.

Enjoy! 💙

Saturday's Child, Monkees Wallpaper — Saturday’s Child, Monkees Wallpaper

Red Versus Blue

Posted on September 7, 2022June 16, 2023 by emilyannawells

I created two new Micky Dolenz desktop wallpapers. They have been added to the Art Page.

They are using a photo of Micky from the closing credits of The Monkees [photographer unknown–please feel free to inform me], and a photo of Micky I took.

Thank you Sarah “with an H” for inspiring me to try the color blue, and what I am now calling “the lake effect”. 🙂

Going back and forth with the red versus blue made me think of the web series, “Red Versus Blue”. Kudos to anyone who remembers that show… It was so weirdly funny. Sheer brilliance.

Alternative Title

Posted on August 30, 2022June 16, 2023 by emilyannawells

WordPress told me to “Add Title”, and I couldn’t come up with one. So, I added that, for those who get it… If you know, you know.

So yeah, after hell’s deep frost, I am here.

I have decided to have a Monkees site, after all these years. I explain my reasons why more thoroughly in the About page. But to summarize, after Michael’s passing I reflected on a lot of things, and felt this was right.

I am not totally sure what this page will ultimately come to have.

So far I have mostly photo galleries, including some never before seen photos of The Monkees, that I took myself.

I am considering next doing an essay on the Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story movie that is currently on Amazon Prime.

I am building it… As We Go Along…

Speaking of those subliminal messages, in other news, apparently this is a thing:

Micky Dolenz Sues FBI

And frankly, while TMZ is making fun of it, this something I’ve been saying to some degree since 1997–for anyone who remembers my obsession with believing there were secret messages in The Monkees TV show, especially The Christmas Episode. It was even briefly on my old, old website–the Geocities one, in 1998.

Has the FBI been watching me too?

Cray-Zee…

Monkees’ last surviving member Micky Dolenz sues FBI for files on the band, its members USA Today

The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz Would Like a Word With the FBI Rolling Stone