I never lose. Never really.
(Jef Costello)
Le Samourai
1967
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Le Samourai
Le Samourai
1967
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Le Samourai
Monday, 29 February 2016
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Them That's Got
Them that's got shall have
Them that's not shall lose
God Bless the Child
(Herzog/Holiday)
Billie Holiday
All we Need Do
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
Charles Baudelaire
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M O'Donell
Flatiron NYC
Saturday, 27 February 2016
Must be a Song
It must be a song, played with a curfew-cheating stealth and sung in those butt-strangled voices the old guys had. There shouldn't be any parts for fiddles or horns because the kind of music i mean doesn't live in halls or theaters. It's the personal music those old men talked more than crooned when they were entertaining themselves to fight the loneliness.
Jimmy Cannon
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Archie
New York Post 1955
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The Killers 1946
Friday, 26 February 2016
One Despairs
His mouth open, he fell asleep, because a man always falls asleep in the end. One weeps, one shrieks, one rages, one despairs, and then one eats and sleeps as if nothing had happened.
Georges Simenon
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Art Shay
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Tis Autumn
Old father time checked, so there'd be no doubt
Called on the North wind to come on out
Then cupped his hands so proudly to shout
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Tis Autumn(Nemo)
Carmen MacRae
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Robert Maguire
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Monday, 22 February 2016
At the Very Bottom
Albert Camus
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Double Indemnity
1944
Baby Didn't Know It
I kissed her. A long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead .........
Jim Thompson
Killer Inside Me
1952
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Don't Know Why
I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing i have done is carry a pistol into a movie.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Saturday, 20 February 2016
Soon be Over
The night air had a thick softness and the smell of stale smoke from the factories that had been busy in the day, and the smell of cheap whiskey and dead cigarettes and Philadelphia springtime.
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As matters stood life offered very little aside from an occasional plunge into luxurious sensation which never lasted for long, and even while it happened it was accompanied by the dismal knowledge that it would soon be over.
David Goodis
The Burglar
1953
Friday, 19 February 2016
Wind Cries Mary
After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
The Wind Cries Mary
(Hendrix)
Jimi Hendrix
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Roger Schall
Rue St Julien
Paris 1935
You are Lost
You are free and that is why you are lost.
Franz Kafka
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Lisette Model
New York circa 1940
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Meaning of the Blues .......... 9
Phantom Lady
Angelheart
Thieves Highway
Branded to Kill
The Onion Field
Touch of Evil
Klute
Man Who Wasn't There
Take Aim at the Police Van
Blast of Silence
Hickey and Boggs
Ministry of Fear