Søndermarken Park in winter (1896) by Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864-1916)

Marian Gold developed most of the lyrics while going to a dentist. The theme was based on two friends who were involved in the sordid drug scene of Berlin's Zoo station. The song tells of such lovers who fantasize about being drug-free. The refrain "big in Japan" symbolises this idea of being successful in another world.

Bauhaus students in a circle - Robert Lenz (top), Hin Bredendieck (right), Lony Neumann (bottom) and Hermann (Sven) Gautel

Entrance door with umbrellas, Cy Twombly’s house in Rome, 1965, Horst P. Horst 

Burlington Daily News, Vermont, June 7, 1926

I'm riding the train to the zoo
While i'm writing a postcard to you
But what I wanna write never fits

Welcome to the party, acrylic, 2014

Robert Smith, 1996, by Steve Gullick

The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it anymore. And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.
- Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, Chapter " Tries to Cook and Eat Girl", p. 345.

Tokyo Decadence (AKA Topâzu), Ryû Murakami, 1992

The Damned Soul is a sculpture made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1619 when he was only 20 years old. It portrays a human soul that is damned to hell. The sculpture is made of marble and is carved from the neck up.