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The Art Of Shadows & Strange Illusions

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Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp 1926

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But now alone I lie

And weep beside the tree

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P O R N O G R A P H Y

The Cure

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Photos: Michael Costiff

Hanging Garden video: Chris Gabrin

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"The Crack Up" by Alexis Petridis (01/08/2003, interview with Robert Smith)

MOJO Magazine UK (The Cure articles)

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Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

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My spine is the bassline

And the top line is the distant past

All that history

All those books have gone

They've been blown away

On a breath of LUST

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No guts, no blood

No brains at all

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The Angels of ashes

Will give back your passions

Again and again

Their light shafts

Will reach through the darkness

And touch you my friend

They'll fly in a mind dance

And blind you with wings

Wrapped in flame

If you're down to an echo

They just might remember

Your name

Scott Walker 'Angels Of Ashes'

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Rosebud

R o p e

Rolled

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H A P P Y N E W Y E A R

Noir Memoirs

Sunset Boulevard, 1950

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〰️ T H E S M I T H S 〰️

David & Maureen (Hindley) Smith

The Smiths: Band Name

David Smith: Moors Murders

Sonic Youth: 'Goo' album cover

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T H E S M I T H S

📀 A L B U M C O V E R S 📀

▶️ Louder Than Bombs (LP)

▶️ The World Won't Listen (LP)

▶️ Girlfriend In A Coma

▶️ The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

▶️ How Soon Is Now

▶️ Shoplifters Of The World Unite

▶️ That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

▶️ Big Mouth Strikes Again

▶️ The World Won't Listen (LP)

▶️ What Difference Does It Make

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T H E C U R E

No one lifts their hands

No one lifts their eyes

Justified with empty words

The party just gets better and better

I went away alone

With nothing left

But f a i t h

▶️ Faith: The Cure (1981) Full album

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The Crystal Gazer

(1911)

Gertrude Käsebier 🇺🇸

From the book The Artistic Side of Photography, 1914

4 ½ X 3 ½ inches. TRRF Collection.

Image used on the cover of the E.P (4 A D)

▶️ The Spangle Maker (1984) Cocteau Twins

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Ansel Adams

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Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park

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Alice Adams

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Biker Couple © Dennis Hopper Trust; courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, 1961 💿 The Smiths: The Best Of (L.P)

Andy Warhol's FLESH. Joe Dallesandro (L) Louis Walden (R), 1968 💿 The Smiths: The Smiths (L.P)

In The Year Of The Pig, directed by Emile de Antonio. Marine Cpl. Michael Wynn in Da Nang, South Vietnam, September 1967

Michael Wynn speaks

💿 The Smiths: Meat Is Murder (L.P)

Alain Delon in "L'Insoumis" 1964 💿 The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead (L.P)

Rock n Roll Times/Rockers by Juergen Vollmer, Hamburg, Germany 1961

💿 The Smiths: The World Won't Listen (Double L.P)

Birds of Britain John d' Green 'Alexandra Bastedo' (actress, writer) 1967 💿 The Smiths: Rank (live L.P)

Orphée by Jean Cocteau. Jean Marais, 1950

💿 The Smiths: This Charming Man (single)

East Of Eden by Elia Kazan James Dean, Richard Davalos, 1955 💿 The Smiths: Strangeways, Here We Come (L.P)

George O'Mara (Adonis), photographed by Jim French (Colt Studios), from Margaret Walters’ book The Nude Male: A New Perspective, 1978 💿 The Smiths: Hand In Glove (single)

Women In Revolt, by Andy Warhol. Directed by Paul Morrissey. Candy Darling, 1971 💿 The Smiths: Sheila Take A Bow (single)

T H E S M I T H S

album cover stars

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K E R o U A C

And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach and which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the Angels dove off and flew into infinity