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Me when the dog won't give me her ball back: let me roll it to you, LET ME ROLL IT

Me when the dog wants to go out: I can let you out... but I cannot let you in

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“I’ve got one of those faces,” he told me. “It’s a miserable face, and it just falls like that. I feel O.K. inside. Sometimes I’m feeling grand, but people come up and say: ‘Aaaah, poor Ringo. Doesn’t he look sad?’ It’s a laugh, really; I think I’m a bit on the sentimental side now and again, but that’s all.”

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JOHN: Everybody likes Ringo. Even people that don’t like the Beatles like Ringo. RINGO: Well, I’m ugly but nice. [laughter] RINGO: They’re beautiful but terrible and I’m ugly but nice.

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The Monkeeverse is one of those things that makes less sense instead of more as you get into it. The show spans genres and never has multipart plot lines and yet somehow manages to have better continuity than many shows that rely on ongoing storylines. The show in question is fictional, but the actors share the names. Are they characters or are they people? The lines blur between them, creating an air of ambiguity. People hate them for not being the fictional characters. People accuse them of not being the fictional characters. They are mistaken for the fictional characters. The real men, ordinary men turned television rock and roll gods, are now locked into these personas in the real world. They make a film about killing themselves to escape the machine that forces them to be living comedy caricatures. The movie flops because it isn’t funny. The public doesn’t get why that in itself is ironic. Behind the scenes they fight tooth and nail to be a real band. People don’t believe they play their own music. They will perform these same songs until they die. They are sex and drugs and rock and roll given a G rating and make it through grueling schedules with cocaine. They regularly appear on the show in drag and speak out against the Vietnam war. Hippie ideals and fashion leak steadily into the show, creating even more of a blur between television and reality. They hate being The Monkees. They will always be The Monkees. They will miss being The Monkees. The Monkees will never die. The Monkees are killed on screen. Are the “blooper” clips spliced into aired episodes performed by the actors or the characters? They signed away their names and there’s no difference between them and their brand. With one signature they’ll never be taken seriously again. With one signature they’ll change history. No, as an audience you’ll never get to know how much is real or what all of it really means. It was never meant to be taken seriously. It’s not that deep. It is that deep. Anyway, take a guess whether The Monkees being on an FBI watchlist is a fictional plot line or real life.

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Paul McCartney 1964

“…turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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Finally, someone brings Paul’s vision to life

I’ve Just Seen A Face performed on Canadian television, 1967 (source: thedumbbananas)

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I'm about no pages into 'all you need is love: the end of happiness' and I started crying because I don't know if you heard but Brian died and everything good fell apart

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They should have grown old together in their cable knit sweaters...

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Original trailer for A Hard Day’s Night, released 7th July 1964 - part one (part two)

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Ringo Day is like Boxing Day for McLennonites

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quotes from Harry, Klaus, John, Yoko and Paul

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the way that both john and paul describe 6th july 1957 is soooo “sailor sees girl across crowded dance hall and vows that one day she’s going to be his wife”

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Love you whenever we're together, Love you when we're apart.

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