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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)

"We mistakenly believed we were executing unarmed Palestinians instead of real people"

I have to tell you how deeply this image haunts me. I feel like I have a personal relationship with this image. I keep it readily available in my files so that I can occasionally look at it and see it and remember that I didn’t make it up. There is such a complex lore attached to this image which I will freely admit to having made up entirely in my head. but I wholeheartedly believe it to be true, and on the basis of this belief my perception of the world and of Simon and Garfunkel as a duo has been fundamentally and irrevocably changed. Paul Simon was actively crossdressing in the late 50s/early 60s and Paul and Art would go out to clubs as a straight couple. This is not true. But look at that image and tell me that it’s not true. That’s Paul Simon in there.

I found a movie with Artie and I do have questions about the hairstyle….

Ok just saw your most recent rebog - here is my question. What is your hottest take about S&G?

Ha, my hottest take. Let's see.

While I don't really believe Paul and Art were in love like the I'll love you forever marry me kind of love, I am quite convinced they fucked at some point.

They at least kissed...and it led to more lmao. Perhaps they were high or drunk when it happened and then maybe they each tried to deny it, but I cannot believe that in such a close friendship/partnership/thing they had, nothing of a sexual nature ever happened.

Take Art’s poem about all the tequilas he had with Paul for example. He's trying to convince the audience that it's about the two of them trying not to throw up...meanwhile 'tickle of the tonsils' is also slang for fellatio. 😌 So clever with words, our Artie.

Another hot take: Art, Paul, Penny and Carrie had a foursome.

“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

Reblog to make it die faster

oh i'll go NUTS

“We didn’t talk to each other from the ages of 17 to 21… We were best friends. The love affair stopped with a bruise. People fall out. What else is new? I got over it because Paul was so damn good. I ran into him in Queens and he was so funny and smart that I dropped my old barrier, and when we started working together again we knew we were onto something. Paul started bringing the songs to me at Columbia College, where I was studying architecture. I was the midwife, pulling out and cherishing the babies as Paul kept giving birth.”

— Art Garfunkel 

then what's the fucking point