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many cases when a post about a very specific thing breaches containment and people reblog it thinking it's just something vague and/or tagging it as something else...... but the most heartbreaking is that one about saying "yayyy" that was specifically about that one article that mentioned that phil ochs said "yayyy" when getting his drink thus inventing the word "yayyy". standing in the corner at a party thinking they don't even know that every yayyy ever said is a phil ochs quote

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i'm sorry to all of the random people whose blogs i go on to reblog their 2013 monkees posts. it is what it is

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micky dolenz can do it all he sings he acts he serves face and hair he's written some of the craziest monkees songs he's a very good photographer idk. he can do anything at all. except pretend to play the drums. and they hire him to pretend to play the drums

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head 1968 wrapped you jumped off the bridge 172 times you landed in the water 41 times you looked in the mirror 2049 times and you saw yourself 0.

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In London, June 29, 1967. Photo by ANL/Shutterstock.

Something from a questionnaire published in Rave magazine (in July & September 1967, respectively): Who are your favorite heroes in real life: “Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz.” - Peter Tork “Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork” - Michael Nesmith

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sometimes he just says it out loud

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Patterns of identifying the actor with the character are disrupted in The Monkees because the character does not subsume the actor and the actor does not subsume the character. An unresolvable tension between fantasy and reality is created wherein we are left not knowing who the "real" Monkees are and who the "pretend" Monkees are. During many of the non-story segments, elements of the boys' personalities emerge that totally contradict what the audience knows about the characters the boys portray; Mike Nesmith's anti-authoritarian feelings and somewhat pompous avant-garde aesthetic, Micky Dolenz's thoughtful and articulate commentary, Peter Tork's intelligence and political awareness, and Davy Jones's wit and working-class background occasionally surface as contradictions to their on-screen personae.

The Monkees and the Deconstruction of Television Realism Laura Goostree

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this gif is just like in head (1968)

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platonic ‘babe’ supercut

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Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz in Flip Magazine, Dec. 1967

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greatest michael and david photos. to me

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before you reblog you must ask yourself: are YOU 🫵 swimming with the fish pond fish looking for oceans in the saltlessness?

i just learned something incredible

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JOAN BAEZ during THE ROLLING THUNDER REVUE TOUR

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