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John Cale, Naomi Levine, Andy Warhol, Ingrid Superstar, and Lou Reed, New York City, 1966 by Larry Fink

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pies

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leonard cohen, 1965.

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two things i know for certain. one, john lennon and paul mccartney were gay and two, i cannot make a pie to save my goddamn life

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John Lennon & Paul McCartney during the filming of Magical Mystery Tour at Watergate Bay in Newquay, England | 13 September 1967

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paul linda and jeff buckley backstage at the roseland ballroom in 1995. aka photos that have sent me into cardiac arrest

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Nico and Lou Reed rehearsing at The Castle in Los Angeles, 1966.

Photos by Lisa Law

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The Pazyryk Carpet, the oldest known surviving carpet in the world, 5th century BC. Scythian [3300x3500]

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Leonard Cohen and Dominique Issermann during the “First We Take Manhattan” video shooting.

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photos from a gay rights demonstration in albany, ny in 1971 | photos: diana davies

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WEST BANK, BETHLEHEM.  Young Palestinians throwing stones during a demonstration in December 1988.  Jean-Claude Coutausse.

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like imagine you see a band play at a village fête and you introduce yourself to them bc you think they're cool and you want to be in a band and you impress their de facto leader with being great at guitar so he lets you in the band and you eventually start writing together and become good friends because you bond over the death of each of your mothers and jerk off together and he has this other friend who he's really close with and you just fucking hate him he just gets on your nerves until he dies tragically and your friend receives £100 for his birthday so he takes you to paris and you spend the week taking pictures of each other in matching silly hats and sleeping in the same bed and you keep writing together you keep writing together and you both decide to credit all the songs either of you write to both of you as a shared name and your career begins to take off and you keep writing together and he writes you a valentines day card but takes it back to write a love song on it and you keep writing together and boy your career has really taken off and you're in movies and you're everywhere and you're put on display for the entire world at each others sides and you keep writing together and your cat has kittens and you name them pyramus and thisbe and you give him pyramus the part you played when you performed the rude mechanicals together and you keep writing together and he tries acid and likes it and you try it too and you try it for the first time with him because you don't want him to be alone on a trip and you look into his eyes and you dissolve into him and he gets more into drugs and you like drugs but not as much not like him and you meet a girl shes a photographer and you like her like really like her and you click so much it's noticeable and when your friend sees this he does acid and says he's god and calls up this artist and cheats on his wife with her and he clicks with her too just like that and you go away together with the rest of the band and everything changes and it sucks so you leave and you're writing together less now you write on your own and so does he and boy this girl is really something so you marry her you marry your photographer quietly and out of the public eye and a week later he marries his artist and you still write together a little but it's mostly separate now and you want different things and he plays you a tape of him and his wife having sex and you fall out and you try hard to keep the band together but it's ending and eventually he says quietly that he's leaving the band so you put out in the press that you're leaving first and you sue him and he sues you and moves across an ocean and you write you write alone this time and you write about him and it's mean and he writes about you and it's meaner and you write about other things too but you still write about him and years pass years pass and you run into him and jam and it's like old times it's like nothing happened it's magic and you invite him to write with you and come with you to new orleans and he agrees and he cancels and you dont see him for a long time until you visit his home and spend some time together and as you leave he says think of me every now and then old friend and you go and it's the last time you see him you call him every so often and you call him and talk about making bread and then he's dead and you never got to fix any of it even though you know eventually you would have but you can't now and you keep writing and his demo tapes are sent to you and you keep hold of them and you keep writing and you keep the tapes and eventually you put them to use and you record them and you wait decades to finish your last song with him but you do it and it's called now and then like the last thing he ever said to you in person. and you play bass

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Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty (1970) location: Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah

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Butch lesbian couple at a bar in NYC, 1946.

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“We look for you in the rainbows.“

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realized i might be slightly attracted to someone nearly threw up