I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Times Square and step on it !'
Tom Waits
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Rockford,Illinois 40s
Friday, 31 January 2014
Pick up
I finished my drink quickly and left the bar. I didn't feel like drinking anymore. I crossed the street and waited for my cable car. In a few minutes it dragged up the hill, slowed down at the corner and i jumped on. I gave the conductor my fare and went inside where it was warmer. Usually i sat in the outside section where i could smoke, but i was cold that night, my entire body was chilled.
Pick Up
Charles Willeford
1961
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Joes Bar, Greenwich Village
Berenice Abbott
reblogged from Greeneyes
Thursday, 30 January 2014
To Refill
People empty me. I have to get away to refill.
Charles Bukowski
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Carlisle Bell
reblogged from Darksilenceinsuburbia
The World is Not My Home - part three
Millers Crossing
Undercover Man
Valley of Elah
True Confessions
Blade Runner
Branded to Kill
Place Beyond the Pines
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Driving Wheel
My baby don't have to worry, she don't have to rob and steal
I give her ev'rything she needs, i am her her drivin' wheel
She left me this morning, said she would be back soon
Driving Wheel
(Sykes)
Little Junior Parker
1961
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Dorothea Lange
cafe near Pinochle, Calif
1953
The Sensitive Soul
Beauty of whichever kind, in it's supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allen Poe
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Romy Schneider
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Jazz Noir 9
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I didn't even bother to listen to it afterwards. Got through playing it, packed up my horn and walked out.
Coleman Hawkins
( Recording of 'Body and Soul')
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Coleman Hawkins
Monday, 27 January 2014
Sunday, 26 January 2014
They Call an ill Wind
You know, sometimes a bad memory is like what they call an ill wind. It can blow somebody luck.
Jeff Bailey
Out of the Past
1947
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riding D train 1951
LIFE magazine
Saturday, 25 January 2014
A Successful Woman
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
re-blogged from
Peace pulse path blogspot
In This World
Now as i look around it's mighty plain to see
This wide wicked world is a funny place to be
The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor
And i ain't got no home in this world anymore
I Ain't Got No Home
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen
1988
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Central Station, Memphis
David Williams
reblogged from Soundcheckandthefury
