Got Too Crowded

House got too crowded, clothes got too tight

And i don't know just where i'm goin tonight

Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain

There's somebody callin' my secret name

Lucky Town

(Springsteen)

Bruce Springsteen

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Not Good for Us

The bad people want us to have more dough and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what i mean ?

Jim Thompson

The Killer Inside Me

1952

Bring the Water to L.A

Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water.

Chinatown

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Chinatown 1974

Man's Worst Enemy

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Frank Sinatra

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Herman Leonard

Benn Mitchell

Out Here Chasing Dreams

           We're all just a bunch of dreamers with a nickel in our shoe. Why do we come out here chasing dreams that are so hard to catch ? It takes your heart, your guts and your liver just to find the lock, and then 999 times out of a grand you can't find the key.

Robert Campbell

Game of Chance

Life's a game of chance

And you're one of the minor players

Look for what you love

The day to come harbours some

Round Midnight

(Monk/Hanighen/Williams)

Carmen Macrae

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Reached for Something

           My free hand reached for something to hold on to and closed on liquid nothing.

Ross MacDonald

A Man Out of Time

           Late 1960s Los Angeles ultimately provides a kind of purgatory that Walker needs to pick or bludgeon his way through. But although Walker is a very physical presence who metes out some form of violence to many of the characters he meets, as well as a whole range of inanimate objects, he is actually not directly responsible for any of the multiple deaths that pepper the film.

A Man Out of Time
Adrian Danks
Senses of Cinema 2007

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Point Blank
 1967

Cor Jaring

Darkness Take My Hand ............ 25

Wages of Fear

Death of a Cyclist

Hardcore

Gun Crazy

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Night and the City

Dirty Pretty Things

Force of Evil

Crimson Kimono

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All Your Life

            ...... I keep trying, when i remember to, but it keeps getting tougher every year. Like trying to chin yourself with one hand. You can practice off and on all your life and never make it.

Ross MacDonald
The Barbarous Coast
1956

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Bartender You See

Bartender you see this wine that's drinkin' me

Came from the vine that strung Judas from the devil's tree

Roots deep deep in the ground

Bartender
(Matthews)
Dave Matthews Band

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Ethan Hawke

What Doesn't Kill You

Snow Falling on Cedars

Born to be Blue

Training Day

Assault on Precinct 13

Brooklyn's Finest

Don't Explain

Don't Explain
(Holiday/Herzog)
Abbey Lincoln

Not Just at the End

        ...... shadows, rain, urban darkness, blunt seediness and the realization that since not just at the end but at the center of things, are death and other hopeless mysteries, human striving is meaningless. There's something soothing about realizing that all is futile.

Richard Hell
on Kiss Me Deadly
1955

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Little Less Pain

                           We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.

Charles Bukowski

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Looking for Somebody

        When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close.

Alan Furst
Red Gold
1999

More Soleils

Kill Me Again

In Cold Blood

The Killer Inside Me

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Plein Soleil

True Confessions

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The Only Crime

          All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Sophocles

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Richard Keating