Monday, 31 August 2020
Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #35
Farewell My Lovely
The Killers
After Dark My Sweet
The Big Sleep
Rear Window
Out of the Past
Glengarry Glenn Ross
The Honeymoon Killers
Day of the Jackal
They Live By Night
Sunday, 30 August 2020
Saturday, 29 August 2020
A Clear Track
The lights of the city streaked off below him like the luminous spokes of a warped wheel. An indistinctly outlined pearly moon seemed to drip down the sky like a clot of incandescent tapioca thrown up against the night by a cosmic comic. He lit the after-the-dance, while-waiting-for-her-to-come-back cigarette. He felt good, looking down at the town that had nearly had him licked once. "I'm all set now" he thought "I'm young. I've got love. I've got a clear track. The rest is a cinch".
excerpt from
The Bride Wore Black
Cornell Woolrich
1940
https://worldofwonder.net/bornthisday-mystery-writer-cornell-woolrich/Don't Misspell Her Name
Well i've lost my equilibrium, and my car keys and my pride
The tattoo parlor's warm so i hustle there inside
And the grinding of the buzzsaw "what you want that thing to say?"
"just don't misspell her name buddy, she's the one that got away"
The One That Got Away
(Waits)
Tom Waits
Wolfgang Suschitzky
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tomwaits/theonethatgotaway.html
Friday, 28 August 2020
Mosaic Noir #135
True Confessions
The Big Combo
Detour
More Saul Leiter
I never thought of the urban environment as isolating. I leave these speculations to others.
- Saul Leiter
self-portrait
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/freepin/saul-leiter/