Thursday, 30 November 2017

Never Seen Her ...................


       Her face seemed to narrow and lengthen. I had never seen her look ugly before. An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

Ross MacDonald
The Way Some People Die
1951

Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Every Sinner ............. 21

 Sunset Boulevard

LA Confidential

Heat

 Nocturnal Animals

 Odd Man Out

Se7en

 Le Samourai

 Double Indemnity

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Valley of Elah

The Killers

The Onion Field

Monday, 27 November 2017

Cold Saturday Night


         I was in LA in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.

James Ellroy

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6515255/Star-of-the-Noir-an-audience-with-LA-Confidential-author-James-Ellroy.html

Sunday, 26 November 2017

Failure in Deceit


I had some victory that was just failure in deceit
Now the joke's comin' up through the soles of my feet
I been a long time walking on fortune's cane
Tonight i'm steppin' lightly and feeling no pain
Lucky Town
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen

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Brian Tull

Saturday, 25 November 2017

As Cold as the Ashes


The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lovely
1940

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Ruth Orkin

Friday, 24 November 2017

Willeford Covers


Nothing human surprises me.
Charles Willeford








Thursday, 23 November 2017

Every Sinner ............. 20

The Thief

Armee Des Ombres

Detour

 Jackie Brown

Third Man

Get Carter

Out of the Past

They Shoot Horses Don't They ?