Arts Sweater Vest (and Paul In General) ?

Art’s sweater vest (and Paul in general) ?

Exquisite.

"When I was fourteen I lay down with you

our eyes misty with urge,

our mouths in open moan

The sun was big in those late afternoons

swollen and red-ripe,

it filtered in stripes on wallpaper

and wet linen.

—Do you know what we are? you said"

Art Garfunkel, What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man

Care to discuss this pearl?

Agreed.

Oh, and the most idiotic love story to ever grace this Earth, that's what they had too imho, and of course none of us can compete. 😌

You’ll never have what they had. Happy Valentine’s Day.

Forever loving all and I mean all of their work, but Parsley holds a special place in my heart.

"Love ruled our lives."

Don't even know why the hell this popped to my mind today, it's so sad and so sweet.

Who will speak at whose funeral?

“When I said: "You’ll outlast me, you live more carefully.” He said: “Write out what you want.” Okay, it’s hard to say I knew him well, He was enigmatic to himself. Which of us was more aware? Which the elder? I was born November fifth. He on October thirteenth – a few weeks premature, you following me? He was born three weeks before me, my dear, But he was a premature baby. Were we both conceived at the same instant? February 5th 1941, the dead middle of winter, In the heart of World War Two Was I born at the right time? For seventy years his arm has been around my shoulder. He’s dazzled me with gifts. I nurtured him in his youth. He brought me into prominence. I taught him to sing. He connected my voice to the world. I made him tall. All of our personal belongings are intertwined. We say it’s exhausting to compete, But we shine for each other. It’s still our favorite game. It goes on, this embrace, whether I speak for him, or he for me. Love ruled our lives. It rules the mourners, And the winner of longevity.“

by Art Garfunkel

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A birthday poem delivered at Paul Simon’s 70th birthday party in 2011, written and read by Art Garfunkel.

Happy 71st Birthday, Paul Simon!

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Transcribed from the BBC 4 radio interview with Art Garfunkel, broadcasted on November 28, 2011.

Hear Garfunkel’s reading.

just crying about The Boxer again

I am once again asking you to forgive me for crying about how The Boxer just contains like an entire universe of  wistfulness and yearning and thwarted hopes in just the vocables, “Lie la lie, lie la lie lie lie la lie.’”