The Cure’s 8th studio album was released on 2 May 1989.

As the band’s commercial success increased, Robert Smith felt the band’s music was misunderstood and that he had not created an album that would endure. Smith wrote more than 30 songs, most of which reflected his depression (which Smith attributed to “the fact that I was gonna be thirty”).

Recording of the album was complicated by founding member Lol Tolhurst’s struggle with alcohol, which led to his dismissal from the band, as well as the label’s displeasure in the finished album, which they complained to Smith was “willfully obscure.”

Takehiko Mizutani, Study on simultaneous contrast from the lessons of Josef Albers, 1927.

Hunter S Thompson

A human brain and spinal cord encased in fluid

Nico in Andy Warhol's film Chelsea Girls (1966)

Rainer Maria Rilke, letters to a young poet

Thomas Theodor Heine, illustration to Knut Hamsun, Slave of love, 1902.

Du und Ich (detail) by Arno Breker, 1940

Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life : NGC 5307, a planetary nebula that lies about 10,000 light-years from Earth, can be seen in the constellation Centaurus. (via NASA)

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not — that one endures.

Friedrich Nietzsche from The Will to Power.

Arno Breker - The wounded

Why is there Being at all, and not much rather Nothing? That is the question.