#Pool It!

[thislovintime]

Pool It! was released in August 1987.

“The inspiration [for 'Gettin' In,' which will be explored in more detail later this year as part of a series on this fan page] came to me on West 57th Street one day. I don’t remember the initial form of the piece, but I was charged. I immediately started to make a demo on a dinky little four-track. I had one little synthesizer, it was Casio’s first. It was a genuine synthesizer in that it had an ADSR generator and a primitive sequencer. The reason the bass goes the way it does is that I couldn’t get any lower notes on the keyboard, that’s where it stopped!” - Peter Tork, Listen To The Band liner notes, 1991 Also featured with Peter on lead vocal: “Since You Went Away,” written by Michael Levine. “‘Somebody told me one of the songs sounds like heavy metal,’ Tork said with a laugh. ‘I said, “No it’s just a rave-up rocker.” People think if the Monkees don’t have tambourine and heavy acoustic guitar records, then we’ve abandoned our roots. If it’s a synthesizer, it can’t be the Monkees anymore. ‘To my ears, it sounds like a good, modern record. It’s not very adventurous, not very ferocious or rough. It’s a decent, middle of the road, good pop record.’” - Detroit Free Press, August 24, 1987 “Peter Tork was an amazing multi-instrumentalist. I had no idea! […] Peter was great. I was really, really taken with him. He was full of life and had loads of ideas.” - Roger Bechirian, Tape Op, July/August 2012

[the-mozzarella-brothers]

Peter Tork in The Monkees' video Don't Bring Me Down

[relatablegayshit]

ugh i would kill to see a wider shot of this. look at him go!

[viejospellejos]

Cosas de chinos

[glitter-stained]

Random goon: Hey boss, were you the one to pick that name as an alias? And why this one?

Red Hood : I used to have another name, before... A long time ago. But that person is dead now. I get to choose for myself now, they can't take that from me. I won't let them.

Goon: Huh.

***

Random Goon: Say boss, why do you never take off your shirt in front of us?

Red Hood: Well uh, I actually have that really fucked scar on my chest and I'm not comfortable with...

Random Goon: Don't worry boss, we get it, you don't have to explain yourself to us.

***

Red Hood, high on some toxin: God, I wish my family...

Random Goon (on boss-sitting duty): why not try reaching out to them?

Red Hood: They would never accept me as I am now... They wouldn't agree with my so-called "life choices". Besides, they don't miss me, they miss the person they think I used to be... I wasn't even a man when I last saw them.

Random Goon: Damn boss, that sucks.

***

And then the goons throw the Red Hood a party on trans visibility day and Jason is so confused he straight up cries.

[huariqueje]

Pools - Ann Goldberg , 2017.

Canadian , b. 1970s

Oil on canvas , 36 x 48 in.

[ai-dream]

Poolroom 4.

[lotussgrl]

[foolsocracy]

identity reveals are always fun

[taplaos]

🦆💦💦💦

[sunseabeachpoolbabes]

Very lucky spectators 😻😍😘🥰

[crystalbeastsquidney]

Halloween at the x mansion but it’s just everyone wearing starfleet uniforms. Charles does Not think it’s funny.

Bonus:

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

so we are all just whacking each other with pool noodles on this fine april's day

[suzieloveships]

All or nothing duo strikes again

This looked funnier in my head

[huariqueje]

Blue Stadtbad Mitte "James Simon"  -   Eline Brontsema

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 68.2 x 51.3 cm