The “Ditty Diego” session, July 25, 1968.

“Well, I think Head is quite poor… The message of the movie is that we are all trapped, that the Monkees are trapped. That’s not the message of the TV episodes, so I think it’s painfully poor in that respect… The Monkees’ main contribution — the music was the filler — what we did in the TV series was that there was no senior adult figure. It’s something that hadn’t been done and wasn’t done again for decades. It reflected what the kids needed to hear. No authority was good. It was just the four of us making our own way.” - Peter Tork, Newsday, October 1, 2010

Q: “What do you think of the music from the film ‘Head’?” Peter Tork: Well, since I wrote and produced two of the songs myself, I think it’s fine. I did ‘Can You Dig It?’ and ‘[Long Title:] Do I Have To Do This All Over Again.’” - Goldmine, 1982

“My favorite album is actually not ‘Headquarters.’ It’s ‘Head.’ The songs were basically produced by Carol[e] King and she is a magic-touch woman. Coming in a close second is ‘Headquarters.’ ‘Head’ is a wonderful listening experience, and ‘Headquarters’ is a bunch of garage-band musicians. But we had a great time doing it.” - Peter Tork, Kenosha News, August 7, 2005

smooth operator..

terminator and petite maman mommy issues double feature

HEAD (1968) // Directed by Bob Rafelson

Can U Dig It?

Do you know?

Would you care to let it show?

The Warriors (1979)

1991 🎸🎸

*heavy plant metaphors and flowery speech bc I'm a psych/sociology major and this is assuredly my garden to dig my fingers deep into*

I believe that strong seeds can grow in harsh environments. I definitely became strong because my environment was poor. But every time I wilt in the harsher seasons of my life, my rebounding blossoming is more beautiful and wide. I've only seen a fraction of my beauty, and each struggle manifests new growth and a stronger tether to the world. I see so many around me that couldn't fathom how I experience life, can't see or feel the depths of what I do. Because their roots haven't dug deep enough to anchor and tap into that part of living, surviving, and thriving, and what it brings out of you and to you. Like thirsty roots that became strong enough to break through bedrock to reach an underground well.

I see people withering from not having things that don't truly sustain them, because they don't know or understand. They break and bend easily because they aren't hardened like I was. It's difficult for me to understand. I have so much now, but I could still survive and be happy without most of it.

In a lot of ways, I am grateful that I was, and remain, steadfast. If I'd had an easier upbringing, I might be weaker, with different convictions. I cherish who I am.

My son is also a strong seed, but I will always make sure he grows strong, resilient, and flourishing from love, warmth, support, and anything I can do to foster that growth. I am so rich and blessed to give this world to him, and give him to the world. Not a soldier like mama, but as the healer and lover I was meant to be

I have 7 sisters, and we all grew up in the same soil, fighting over resources. Some are barely surviving still. I wish they'd felt what I have. I keep talking my shit but it's not fertilizing them 😂

Head premiered on November 6, 1968. (Edit featuring the two Tork songs - in the studio and demo versions, respectively - and a line from the movie.)

“What’s happening as time goes on is that the movie [Head] is becoming a chronicle of an age. At the time, it was just a chronicle of the Monkees.” - Peter Tork, The Monkees Tale (1985) Q: “What do you think of the music from the film ‘Head’?” Peter Tork: "Well, since I wrote and produced two of the songs myself, I think it’s fine. I did ‘Can You Dig It?’ And ‘[Long Title:] Do I Have To Do This All Over Again.’” - Goldmine, 1982 “The funny thing is that the lyrics [to ‘Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again?’] came to me right out of the air. I was just playing those chord changes on the guitar, and I opened my mouth and that’s what popped out. The song was weirdly prophetic. I had no idea that was going to be my attitude about anything having to do with music when I wrote that song." - Peter Tork, Listen To The Band liner notes (more about "Long Title..." here) “‘Can You Dig It’ is about the Tao. The hook line I wrote in my dressing room on the set [of the television series in 1967]. The chords for the chorus I’d written in college, and [they] had just stuck with me.” - Peter Tork, Head box set liner notes (more about "Can You Dig It?" here) "I think they're ['Can You Dig It?' and 'Long Title...'] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. I thought they were just terrific. He had plugged himself into that whole Stephen Stills connection and was working with those guys. I think they fit the movie better than anything did. When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith, Head box set liner notes “Thorkelson expressed a preference for the Monkees’ ‘Headquarters’ album, because it was the group’s first self-performed album […]. The soundtrack to the [...] movie ‘Head’ also is among Thorkelson’s favorites. ‘It was a little tinny, but back then I guess we were a little tinny,’ he said. ‘That movie will always look good,’ commented Thorkelson.” - The Bowling Green News Revue, May 24, 1979 "'When we made Headquarters, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven,' says Tork. 'My whole goal had been to be a member of a band that worked. The next thing I know we're making a movie and it doesn't have anything to do with the business of being in a band together.' [...] 'There's some weight behind the idea that Bob and Bert wanted to wreck the Monkees, to stop it cold in its tracks,' says Tork. 'I've never known for sure. Bert and Bob might have thought out loud: "Let's kill the Monkees!" Or they may have not thought so out loud but at some unconscious level, they were sick of the Monkees and wanted to do something else.' [...] 'It was a joy seeing a movie being made, but I didn't like working for Bob Rafelson,' Tork says. 'I did what he told me, but I can't say that I ever had any heart connection with him.' His favorite scene, in which he recounts what he has learned from an Indian mystic, was actually directed by Nicholson. [...] Tork has seen Head around 80 times but it took him years to work out why it bothered him so much. In the movie, the Monkees are hoodwinked, bamboozled, chased, assaulted, mocked, trapped in a black box and reduced to dandruff in the hair of actor Victor Mature, before ending up back where they started. In the words of the sardonic Nicholson-penned theme tune, 'So make your choice and we'll rejoice/ In never being free.' 'Most people are dazzled by the psychedelia, and that's fine, but for me finally the point of the movie is the Monkees never get out,' Tork says sadly. 'Which is to say Bob Rafelson's view of life is you never get out of the black box you're in. There's no escape.' So how would a Peter Tork cut of Head end? 'There might have been a scene where we get out,' he says wistfully. 'We jump in the water and get away.'" - The Guardian, April 28, 2011

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Avalance Smutmas Countdown Day 4

Roses are red, violets are blue, when the garden’s in season, Sara and Ava frolic in the glistening dew.

She Chloro-phylls Me So Well

Bare as the cherry tree branches in winter, Sara folds herself into Ava’s fertile lap.

Lush swirled buds spring up into Ava’s palms. 

“Oh, my love, let me sneak through your garden gate and slip into your summery Eden,” she murmurs, the words falling like leaves in autumn.

Sara unfurls, her silken petals glistening with dew. 

Sweet fragrances bloom from Sara’s succulent lotus as Ava scatters butterfly kisses along Sara’s neck. 

Once Sara’s bulb is in season, Ava plants her fingers in Sara’s ambrosia-filled paradise.

Morning glory overcomes Sara, precious nectar cascading from her orchid in a burst of ecstasy. 

The Final Flame 🕯️

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“We’re all just candles in the dark.”

i'm sorry but "He likes digging holes" had me ROLLING that's so funny

he's OVERSTIMULATED