Fragments of Noir: February 2020

Saturday, 29 February 2020

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock
John Sturges
1955

https://noirsville.blogspot.com/2016/05/bad-day-at-black-rock-1955-noir-meets.html

When He is Juiced

Any musician who says he is playing better on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced is a plain straight liar.

Charlie Parker

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Jean Claude Claeys
https://www.birdlives.co.uk/addiction

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #7

Dark City

Blue Dahlia

Carancho

Brighton Rock

Chinatown

Death of a Cyclist

After Dark My Sweet

The Sniper

Romeo is Bleeding

Phantom Lady

Music of Chance

Lady from Shanghai

Feux Rouges

The Sleeping City

Postman Always Rings Twice

The Set Up

This World, Then the Fireworks

The Killing

Friday, 28 February 2020

Midnight Lullaby

Sing a song of sixpence, pocketful of Rye

Hush a bye my baby, no need to be crying

You can burn the midnight oil with me as long as you will

Stare out at the moon upon the windowsill and dream

Midnight Lullaby

(Waits)

Tom Waits

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Nina Leen
http://www.tomwaits.com/songs/#/songs/song/89/Midnight_Lullaby/

Thursday, 27 February 2020

Big Lonely City #88

W. Eugene Smith

Erik Holmen

KW Gullers

unknown

Esther Bubley

Christian Montone

Bert Morgan

unknown

Reginald Marsh

Ernst Haas

unknown

Nina Leen

unknown

Fred Stein

Saul Leiter

Max Yavno

Harry Friberg

David Seymour

And when you came into the world you had only one privilege and that was the right to howl. And even if you howled too loud or too long someone or something would come along with a big stick and close your mouth. And it was like that even at the end. So you clench your teeth and you do your howling inside where only you can hear it.

Swamp Sister
Robert Edmond Alter
1961

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436132.Swamp_Sister