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i’m exactly like michael nesmith but worse

going to the peter tork freaky canyon in my mind

bumblebeau

petertorkie

happy peter tork thursday !!!

petertorkie

i never want to be a normal girl

lovetechnique

yeah. the monkees suck…. …….cock and balls hahaha

mickymichele

once again thinking about the moment in peter torks screen test where they ask him if guys look at him and say hey what are you doing with that long hair. and what follows is an entire section of peter so clearly thinking about how his fellow man yells queer and fag at him on the street while bluffing for time to come up with something they call him that he can actually say on camera

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Screenshot from footage (via YouTube) featured during Micky Dolenz Celebrates The Monkees.

“The mass media has a tendency to distort. As long as capitalism remains the underpinning of society, what is good will always take a back seat to what will sell. General Motors isn’t concerned with making a quality automobile. Sears isn’t concerned with offering a quality television set. All that counts in a capitalistic society is selling. And to the mass media’s way of thinking, a picture of Peter Tork as a so-called ‘burned-out hippie’ with a beard and long hair implies a hopeless case who can’t lift his hand to his face to get his razor up and who has no interest except in stealing to support his drug habit. If that’s what sells, they’ll print that. The truth of the matter is, my primary concern was and is self-realization in a social setting.” - Peter Tork, Blitz!, May/June 1980 “He took the sixties to heart, and if the failure of the sixties took the heart out of him for a while, he hasn’t let that failure break him. ‘You’ve got to struggle over the material,’ he said. ‘The struggle involved in keeping those people who want what you’ve got from getting it deprives you of the time to really be yourself. Instead of struggling to keep things out of everybody’s hands, if you give what you’ve got – as Jesus said – if you give away what you’ve got, life unfolds for you. And the Catholic church would have us believe that heaven doesn’t happen until after the death of the body. But I report differently. I report that heaven is an experience available in this life. And it comes from giving your shit away. If you give away your heart, your life, your soul, your goods, and live as close to the bone as you can prudently do, and don’t worry about next week, if you live as close to that level as possible, you will find yourself as happy as possible. If you put your faith in the future, you’re going to be chasing something all your life. Put your faith in the present; it’s all right.’” - When The Music Mattered (1984)

#peeeberrrr jesus christ drags cigarette yelps in pain holy hell