Hiatus

A whole year of blogging about David Cassidy. Whodda thunk?!

When I started "Daydreaming David", I was a few months into my David Cassidy re-discovery journey. Was there enough to his story to provide material for a blog? I really wasn't sure but the urge to express my thoughts about him was too strong and I just plunged - into a public platform, no less. It was supposed to be a private blog but Blogger's permissions did not cooperate and it ended up a case of "The heck with it! Here it is, world, my little contribution to the blogosphere". Live dangerously, that's my motto. Ha!

Would anyone read it? I didn't think too much about that. My thoughts on David were practically overwhelming and I was about to burst if I didn't put them into words. I suppose I could have limited myself to email exchanges with other fans but a blog forced me to write on a fairly regular basis in a semi-structured manner. The wannabe writer in me reveled in that.

So, here I am today, dizzy from the realization that a year has passed since my first post. My obsession has abated. My thirst for all things DC has been quenched. As good a time as any to say, in the words of Keith Partridge via David Cassidy, on Canadian TV, circa 1977, "Adios, kids. It's been lots of fun."* I'll call this a hiatus - a break of undetermined length. Should the urge to share my musings or news about David Cassidy resurface, this blog will still be up and ready. Thank you to my faithful readers and contributors: Singme David, British Fan, Clodyne, SLK, UK Fan, CAO aka Racehorses, MaeB, etc. A special thank you to all those YouTubers who shared his work with us... Cherish David, SumerKis, Catgil, etc, etc.

*Wish this Peter Gzowski CBC interview was still on YouTube. I could embed it here for you all. Instead, here's "Could It Be Forever" because it expresses only too well his fans' sentiments. Once again, thank you SumerKis for another great video.

Mine, All Mine!

"It was through a chance conversation with her Norwegian publishers following her first book that Pearson realised her vague idea of writing about a teenager in love with David Cassidy might be something to pursue. As she recalls, all the women around the table immediately started to talk about their own teenage crushes—apart from one who remained completely silent: "I remember thinking, ‘oh gosh, she thinks this is stupid, girly prattle about some teen idol'—then there was a silence in the conversation and she said, ‘But he was mine'. And I heard that and I thought, okay, you have to write this now.""

From the article by Alice O'Keefe on Alison Pearson's upcoming (and eagerly awaited?) novel I Think I Love You about a 13-year old girl "riddled with teenage angst and nursing a full-on obsession with 1970s heart-throb David Cassidy."

Please raise your hand if you are no longer thirteen but still nursing a full-on obsession with David Cassidy. Ok, so you'd call it a mild obsession? ;-

Pearson's first novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, resonated with a lot of women (almost half a million, if I understand the sales figure correctly). I suspect this one will too. David Cassidy was young baby boomers' most popular idol and they form the largest segment of the population. While most soon-to-be middle-aged women don't want to be thirteen again, I suspect many would enjoy revisiting those heady feelings of a first crush through a novel. I know I certainly did via the internet. If Pearson has fleshed out her young protagonist properly, readers should also recognize their idealism and dreams in her.

Who's pre-ordered the book? (Clever title by the way. Surefire reference for anyone in her target audience.)

Can anyone think of a post-David Cassidy teen idol that would spawn a novel like this?

Here's "I Can Feel Your Heartbeat" because he made our hearts beat quicker (and I recently posted ITILY). The twenty year old version, just as high energy as the first, follows.

I Got Misty-Eyed.

Really. Gotta love this former teen idol's attitude.

"Jones unabashedly embraces his career as a Monkee. "John Lennon once said he didn't want to end up singing his old hits in Las Vegas. Well, I do," says Jones"

The article is hardly recent (1992!), but if Mr. Jones has kept the same frame of mind since: Chapeau, monsieur! Chapeau! Photo from his official website.