Monkee-ing Around The Pad

Jim • 29 • he/him • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ "Oh, I couldn't stand living in a place like this, teehee" #savethetexasprairiechicken

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

[shockyhorror]

Why can’t you young people just accept the devil and be done with it?

[bruceshideout]

The Monkees went to Hell?!

[shockyhorror]

they went somewhere…

[thislovintime]

"If you don’t have a sense of community or a higher power, then you blame yourself, think bad of yourself, so you struggle and try to divert. One form of diversion is entertaining. If you can make those thousands love you, you’ll be all right. In fact, it makes no fucking different. It’s a kick when you’re onstage, but an hour and a half later it starts all over." - Peter Tork, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments In Music Babylon (1996)

“I don’t really have a lot to compare it with, since I didn’t have a normal life going on at the time to which I could refer, but at the time when the Monkees hit, the fame thing was very difficult for me. I thought that kids liked our records and that they came to the shows to hear us play the music. That’s why I go to shows. I couldn’t believe it. I had pathological self value. I really didn’t have a sense of it at all. I didn’t get why. I thought I had been picked almost at random. I didn’t have any sense of myself bringing anything except that character to the Monkees. What I thought they hired me for was that character, and I think to this day that that had a lot to do with it. I didn’t recognize how that sprung forth from whom who I really am. I thought I was faking them out. I thought I was handing them a lie and they were buying the lie — and so how could I value myself? Any time you compliment somebody and they can’t take the compliment, what they’re saying to you is, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ That’s the message that anybody with low self-esteem gives back when somebody compliments them. Which is where I was. All that played into this fame thing. And it plays backwards, too. The reason that I got into the fame game was because I didn’t have any sense of value. I thought, ‘Jeez, if I can get the millions to love me then I’ll be all right.’ I got the millions to love me — and it still wasn’t all right. What a surprise. Ha, ha, ha.” - Peter Tork, Toxic Fame: Celebrities Speak on Stardom (1996)

[blue-magnolias]

finally watched fairy tale.........princess gwen my beloved

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This dark blue embroidered coat is worn on William Campbell as Trelane in Star Trek: The Squire of Gothos (1967) and later worn two times in The Monkees: The Prince and The Pauper (1967), First on old footman and later worn on Joe Higgins as Mike Nesmith in The Monkees: The Prince and The Pauper (1967)

Credit: trekkerscrapbook, Anne81

[magnoliasimmss]

🎶 Me and Michael, solid as they come 🎶

[monkeesmvs]

Peter Tork - Tear the Top Right Off My Head From Season 2, Episode 12 - "Hitting the High Seas"

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

Every once in a while…

… our society reinvents ‘The Monkees’ and those who are aware of this end up having to silently tolerate those who aren’t

[ilovedig]

Child's play

Child's play

Seated inside the boys’ fictitious apartment, which has its own slide and big-screen TV, “Big Time Rush” executive producer Scott Fellows said his inspiration for the series was more the Monkees than “Entourage.”

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

Yes! There’s so many references in it, from what I remember!

It was just frustrating as a kid to be like, “…And it’s inspired by this thing I love! :)” and have everyone around you tell you you were wrong and lame because the thing you like is old.

Same vibe as when ‘I’m a Believer’ got big again after Shrek came out.

Not gonna blame the kids for being kids but I do reserve the right to make jokes about it on Tumblr many many years later

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

Every once in a while…

… our society reinvents ‘The Monkees’ and those who are aware of this end up having to silently tolerate those who aren’t

[fnich-enthusiast]

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

[csny]

#girl

[phyllistines]

actually not ok about this

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

something something, the gender euphoria of realizing I stand a full inch taller than Davy Jones i.e. the first guy I had the age old “be with him vs be him” mental debate about as a young queer boy, and post

[rpftourney]

Best RPF Ship - Round 3 Match 2

Gillovny (Gillian Anderson/David Duchovny, The X Files) vs Jork (Davy Jones/Peter Tork, The Monkees)

Gillovny

Jork

Voting ended onOct 26, 2024

[mickdalena]

STRAIGHT UP JORKIN' IT !!!!!!!!!!!

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

Pictured below: A small monkey clinging to its troop mates when threatened

Pictured below that: A small Monkee clinging to its troop mates when threatened

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

Micky Lore #1: He can hardwire a radio and does pharmaceutical experimentation as a hobby

[brokeboysbeachhouse]

I’m gonna tell the kids I’m not having that this was BBC Sherlock