Chance Intersections

           I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but there own lack of purpose.

New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
1987

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Night and the City

 

Night and the City
Jules Dassin
1950

I Can't Behold

When there's a yellow moon above me
They say there's moonbeams i should view
But moonbeams being gold

Are something i can't behold
'Cause i was born to be blue

Born To Be Blue
(Torme/Wells)
Chet Baker

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Kate Wiebe
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LA Confidential

Behind the Bar

          The problem is Gustings is not always there. The second time i visited Tujague's, it was as if i had wandered into a different tavern by mistake. The desultory young man behind the bar offered little assistance in narrowing down my drink order. So i fell back on a couple of classics, a rye Manhattan and a French 75.

excerpt from
New Orleans Bartender Returns to his Post

Robert Simonson
2017

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Narrow Margin (1952)

Narrow Margin
Richard Fleischer
1952

Will Not Pass

        We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here i am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time ; this is me, this moment will not pass.

Daphne Du Maurier

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Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun
(Hampton/Burke/Mercer)
Lou Donaldson

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