Across town from Easy Street

Joy Division, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Ian Curtis and Peter Hook, at a concert at Bowdon Vale Youth Club in Manchester, 1979

‘Going Out To Hunt’ 

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G. C. Cox Walt Whitman, New York City 1889

…Give me now libidinous joys only,

Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank,

To-day I go consort with Nature’s darlings, to-night too,

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men,

I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers,

The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn’d by others for deeds done,

I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?

O you shunn’d persons, I at least do not shun you,

I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,

I will be more to you than to any of the rest.

Closer is the second and final studio album by English postpunk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1980 and two months after the suicide of the band's lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis.

Leonard Cohen | Nashville, TN | 1968

Man Ray with Lee Miller

Andy Warhol with Paul Morrissey, Ari Boulogne, Ingrid Superstar, Richard Rheem, Gerard Malanga, Nico, Mary Woronov, and Joan "Tiger" Morse during the filming of "Paranoia" at Kaleidoscope boutique in New York City on November 8, 1966.