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An early demo of Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Only Living Boy in New York” (excerpted from the 1975 BBC series on the duo). I wish this line had made it into the final version!

It's not his birthday but it's almost his birthday!!!!!

the world is directing so much intolerable cruelty and unfairness towards the palestinian people to placate the israeli ego and soothe colonial anxieties, as though they haven't already been trying to rewrite history for 75 years. what makes them think it will work this time? don't they understand that history written in blood is even harder to erase than history written in press releases? do they plan to move on from 13,000 murdered children to a stronger and more secure israel? or are they too stupid to see they're ushering in a fragile and unstable world order of right-wing demagogues with overpowered militaries? that'll work out.

I couldn’t not take the bait. (Everyone go listen to Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. right now please.)

“Before there was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, there was Simon and Garfunkel — an extraordinary, a singular love affair. There is no gay component in the two of us that I am aware of, but the way these two lives wrapped around each other is poetically stunning. From age eleven to today, a span of sixty-four years, Art and Paul have been at work to entertain, win the respect of, and dazzle one another. It worked so well that the whole world pulled up chairs to watch and listen.”

— Art Garfunkel, What is it All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man

do you ever listen to this song and just go so profoundly insane its as if you will never ever recover? do you ever think about Paul simon "half of the time we're gone but we don't know where, we don't know where, the only living boy in new york" and art garfunkel replying with "here i am" in the most haunting harmonies that could fill a canyon? i mean do you ever think about that.

"do you think they ever--" pleaseeee be serious

does anyone else care