Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Friday 31 August 2018

It's a Wheel


        Well i suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It's a wheel. You get on. You go to the end.

Vivian Maier
Chicago Street Mural

                                      http://www.vivianmaier.com/about-vivian-maier/

Robert Duvall

True Confessions

The Outfit


Godfather II


The Man Who Captured Eichmann

We Own the Night

The Detective

Bullitt

Thursday 30 August 2018

Less Than Love


         We merged our loneliness once again, in something less than love but sweeter than self. I didn't get home to West Los Angeles after all.

Ross MacDonald
The Goodbye Look
1969

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Yale Joel
Adjusting skirt 
in one-way mirror 1946

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Patrick Joust

Wednesday 29 August 2018

Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn
Harold Clurman
1946

Just Dropped By


Memories fall just like the rain, and i remember when
Well don't let me bore you anymore
Cause i'm not quite as lonely as i was before
I didn't want a thing, you know, i just dropped by to say hello

I Just Dropped By to Say Hello
(Feller/Ward)
Johnny Hartman

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Impulse Records
1963

Tuesday 28 August 2018

Don't Come Home


           We spend our lives turning over dirty underwear and sniffing rotten teeth. We go up dark stairways to get a gun punk with a skinful of hop and sometimes we do't get all the way up, and our wives wait dinner that night and all the other nights. We don't come home anymore and nights we do come home, we come home so godamm tired we can't eat or sleep or even read the lies the papers print about us. So we lie awake in the dark in a cheap house on a cheap street and listen to the drunks down the block having fun. And just about the time we drop off the phone rings and we get up and we start all over again.

Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister
1949

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LAPD archive
October 1953

                      https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2494651-the-little-sister

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Garde a Vue
Claude Miller
1981

Monday 27 August 2018

Since the Blues .....


Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on Monday
My Sunday dream's too dry
Black Coffee
(Webster/Burke)
Peggy Lee

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Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Big Lonely City #13

Esther Bubley

Sabine Weiss

Vivian Maier

Roswell Angier

Berenice Abbott

William Gottlieb

Willy Ronis

Louis Faurer

Josef Koudelka

Harold Feinstein

Ferenc Berko

Marcel Bovis

Sunday 26 August 2018

Mosaic Noir #88

Pale Flower

Sexy Beast

Northside 777

Red Rock West

I Walk Alone

Agatha

Killers Kiss

Wheelman

Reckless Moment

Armee Des Ombres

Don't Bother to Knock

Postman Always Rings Twice