-The Black Mask-

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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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

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Berlin Children Cheering Airlift Plane

(January 1st, 1948)

A group of German children stand atop building rubble, cheering a United States cargo airplane as it flies over a western section of Berlin. American and British forces have been airlifting food and supplies after Soviet forces surrounded and closed off the besieged city.