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Saturday, 28 February 2015

How Much Sin


                       We have all decided how much sin we can live with ......

Nucky Thomson
Boardwalk Empire
2010

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Phenix City





Phenix City Story
Phil Karlson
1955

Friday, 27 February 2015

It Came Undone


It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone 
When i was twenty-one

It Was A Very Good Year
(Ervin Drake)
Sinatra

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reblogged from Amanandhislies

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Did What They Could



His managers sweated
They did what they could
They schemed
And they wheedled -
But it did no good
The months slid by
The title hung high
No pansies need apply
excerpt from
The Set Up
Joseph Moncure March
1928


The Set Up
Robert Wise
1949

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Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Destroy or Infect You


           Cities have characters, pathologies that can make or destroy or infect you, states of mind that run through daily life as surely as a fault line.

Richard Rayner
A Bright and Guilty Place
2009

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reblogged from 
Agirlandagun

Mosaic Noir #48

Bob Le Flambeur

Eastern Promises

Killers Kiss

Z

In Cold Blood

Killer Inside Me

Sunset Boulevard

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Monday, 23 February 2015

Quarrel We Had


When a quarrel we had needs mending
Does it mean that our love is ending
Darlin i need you, lately i find
You're out of my heart
And i'm out of my mind
Round Midnight
(Hanighen/Williams/Monk)
Ella Fitzgerald

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Jack Vettriano

Ricardo Darin

Carancho

Nine Queens

Thesis on a Homicide

The Aura

Secret in their Eyes