Remember When Paul Simon Said No To Doing The Midnight Cowboy Soundtrack

The Paul Simon Song Book, 1965, with a short story by Paul Simon

“Simon & Garfunkel had a peculiar type of groupie. We had the poetic groupies. The girls that followed us around weren’t necessarily looking to sleep with us as much as they were looking to read us their poetry or discuss literature or play their own songs …. I wound up going back to the room and smoking a joint and going to sleep by myself. Most of the time, sometimes not.”

— Paul Simon, quoted by Jon Landau in a Rolling Stone interview (July 20th, 1972)

here's hoping people never stop asking

Happy 54th birthday to the album that permanently altered my brain chemistry.

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[a series of images from an interview with Tove Jansson, who sketches the character Snufkin as she speaks. the captions show the English subtitles: “He’s… a bit soft and sloppy, and he’s looking for new paths to walk. He actually likes landscapes more than people, which of course means that he’s not always very nice to his friends, but they forgive him. It’s quite easy to forgive a Snufkin. Yes, I like him.]

SO much is happening here:

Mystery man Stan Rublowsky, who is never mentioned again

Art getting cornered by the press while changing and then being stuck with them for half of the article

Paul once again mentioning that one time he tried LSD (but leaving out the part where he started hallucinating bugs in the shower)

“Normal looking, except for their hair”

“Rublowsky mentioned that he doubted that Simon owns a suit”

“Carrying the 12-string that he never plays”

“Garfunkel swung his hands around him like an airplane”

Art opening a show with “we’re not much in person”

The Daily Texan, 10/05/67

(the second and third images follow the first column of the first image)

it was never about hamas. not for a single second was any bit of this latest chapter of israels genocide over palestinians about hamas. never let anyone convince you of that. internet was cut off for everyone in gaza. we might only find out the horror of whats happening there right now once its way too late to prevent this already incomprehensible terror from growing into something none of us will ever get to walk away from while we're alive.

Simon and Garfunkel scrapped shots, 60s

hi i know this will flop but

reblog if u like any of this stuff!! i need 2 follow more people

- bo burnham

- dear evan hansen (or like any musicals actually)

- big city greens

- gravity falls

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- 80s music

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- leon lush

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