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
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
from
Archie
New York Post 1955
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The Killers 1946
Friday, 26 February 2016
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Monday, 22 February 2016
Sunday, 21 February 2016
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
Thursday, 18 February 2016
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