✩lachrymose✩

he wanted nothing more than to eat and be eaten to know someone so intimately as to tear them open and be a lone audience to the secrets he'd find inside but instead he sat in his room and wept until the weak morning sunlight alerted him to the obligations of being alive without the means to live

[bowieography]

DB’s handwritten lyrics

Fashion

1980

[coquette-club]

omg....i found a second photo of the arcade lesbians

[burtoo]

Fire Season - Brendon Burton

[sleepwalkmotel]

[uber-nietzsche]

[maisonscene]

“Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.”

– Laura Gilpin

[nevereverletgo]

[thinkingimages]

Adrien Majewski, France, 1898-99

Effluvia from a hand resting on a photographic plate… A magnetiser and well-known healer, Majewski made several series of experiments in 1898 and 1899 to record the magnetic fluid – contemporary accounts mention its rare powers – on a sensitized plate. The photographs were mostly obtained by the process called humid, in which the sensitised plate was immersed in a hydro-quinone bath the side covered with gelatin facing downward. The hand was resting on the glass side of the plate or was held a few centimeters away. The pose generally lasted 20 mins.

[389]

Submerged Table From the Kumpula botanic garden, Helsinki, Finland.

[retropopcult]

Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco, May 1967

[lachrym-se]

friendship makes me more insane than romantic or sexual relationships ever could

[psychedelicway]

[milksockets]

'snow and wind damaged pine trees growing bent thinned out pinned together with metal rods helped by students and friends' grizedale forest, 1985 in a collaboration with nature - andy goldsworthy (1990)

[milkandheavysugar]

Marsha P. Johnson within the crowd at a New York Gay Pride (1982)

[denssonfilm]

[soulmvtes]

girls when they go utterly insane every summer

[dollieheartt]

[puffsaddy]

[papapiusxiii]

From Leonard Cohen’s final letter to his dying muse, Marianne Ihlen. She died in July 2016, and Cohen followed her shortly after, dying in November 2016.

“Well Marianne it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. And you know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.”

— Leonard Cohen