I Go to Work

When the moon so long has been gazing down

On the wayward ways of this wayward town

That her smile becomes a smirk

I go to work

Love for Sale

(Porter)

Ella Fitzgerald

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Luke Swank 1934
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More Retro

Carol

The Two Jakes

Dance with a Stranger

The Changeling

 End of the Affair

Thieves Like Us

Public Eye

Two Faces of January

Hard Times

The Funeral

Come Up with a Sum

              In that moment when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. 

Jame Lee Burke

The Glass Rainbow

2010

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Patrick Joust

Mosaic Noir ................... 76

The Set Up

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Pale Flower

Hard Eight

Rififi

All the President's Men

On the Waterfront

Godfather

Pickpocket

The Most Faithful

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart i have had.

Soren Kierkegard

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Beardsandwinewolvesandwhiskey

Robert Wise

Odds Against Tomorrow

The Set Up

Born to Kill

Captive City

I Want to Live

The Body Snatcher

Fear is an Enemy

                Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one's spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

Andrew Vachss

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lighthouse-me

Todd Webb #3

The City Waits

 The truth is the city waits for the right moment to knock you up before it runs you over.

Mehnaz Turner

from

The Night Goes on All Night

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Woundedknee.tumblr.com

Walked All Over the Rules

               Then he closed them, and blew that horn. Lord God of the fishes, how he blew it !  How he loved it, and caressed it, and pushed it up, higher and higher and higher. High C, bottom of the barrel. He took off and he walked all over the rules and stamped them flat.

Charles Beaumont

excerpt from short story

circa 1950s



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Susanne Schapowalow -
Lester Young
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High Stakes

House of Games

Pale Flower

Croupier

Hard Times

Force of Evil

Hard Eight

The Hustler

Cockfighter

Casino

Bob Le Flambeur

Cincinatti Kid