Evelyn Hofer

Be Like the Moon

         The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it. The moon does not take anti-depressants or get sent to prison. The moon never shot a guy in the face and ran away. The moon has been around a long time and has never tried to rip anyone off. The moon does not care who you want to touch or what color you are. The moon treats everyone the same. The moon never tries to get in on the guest list or use your name to impress others. Be like the moon.

Henry Rollins

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Classic Fragments 14 - Friends of Eddie C

                    Directed by Peter Yates and still one of the seminal early 70s Neo Noirs. The Boston underworld portrayed by George V. Higgin's classic book suited the world-weary Mitchum in many ways.

Always Starting Over

               There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Lincolns Inn, London 1932
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Standing in Another Man's Grave

Touch of Evil

Millers Crossing

Criss Cross

Memento

Night and the City

Croupier

Cruel Gun Story

Plein Soleil

Chinatown

Nightmare Alley

Vertigo

Armee Des Ombres

La Feu Follet

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Eastern Promises

Spy Who Came in from the Cold

After Dark My Sweet

So I Drink

              .............. i should make a move. I cannot. So i drink. Like any American.

Patricia Highsmith
Diary Entry
August 6th 1953

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Nothing Lonely

           I drove east on Sunset but i didn't go home. At La Brea i turned north and swung over to Highland, out over Cahuenga Pass and down onto Ventura Boulevard past Studio City and Sherman Oaks and Encino. There was nothing lonely about the trip. There never is on that road. Fast-boys in stripped down Fords shot in and out of the traffic streams, missing fenders by a sixteenth of an inch but somehow missing them. Tired men in dusty coupes and sedans winced and tightened their grip on the wheel and ploughed on north and west and home to dinner, an evening with the sports page, the blatting of the radio, the whining of their spoiled children and the gabble of their silly wives. I drove past the gaudy neons and the false fronts behind them. The sleazy hamburger joints that look like palaces under the colours, the circular drive-ins as gay as circuses with the chipper hard-eyed car-hops, the brilliant counters and the sweaty greasy kitchens that would have poisoned a toad.

Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister
1949

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Bar in Sherman Oaks
1955

The Passenger

                                       Oh the passenger
                                       He rides and he rides
                                       He sees things from under glass
                                       He looks through his window side
                                       He sees the things that he knows are his
                                       He sees the bright and hollow sky
                                       He sees the city sleep at night
                                       He sees the stars are out tonight

The Passenger
(Gardiner/ Pop)
Iggy Pop

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Jacques Monory

Robert Ryan - The Man Who Wasn't There

Odds Against Tomorrow

                           Even in broad daylight he seemed cloaked in shadow - Chicago Reader

Crossfire

House of Bamboo

Berlin Express

Bad Day at Black Rock

Clash by Night

The Outfit

The Set Up

Wild Bunch

Day of the Outlaw

I think he had ghosts and what they were i don't know.-

Tim Ryan (son)

Ryan offscreen

Beauty of the Shadows 2

Max Dupain

Andreas Feininger

Francesc catala Roca

Jack Delano

Nat Farbman

Johan Hagemayer

David Moore

Berenice Abbott

Robert Capa

Brassai

Toso Dabac

It Will Chain You

1)  Never trust a cop in a raincoat.

2)  Beware of enthusiasm and love, both are temporary and quick to sway.

3)  If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again.

4)  Never give your real name.

5)  If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look.

6)  Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand.

7)  Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1971

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Bobby Darin

by Guy Peellaert

from The Big Room 

3 Reasons - Criterion Collection

The Unanswered

             I regret nothing. There have been things i missed, but i ask no questions, but i have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered - and that i loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

Ayn Rand

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The Big Heat 
1953

Derek Raymond

       Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have ; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered. It'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

He Died with His Eyes Open
Derek Raymond
1984

        Often talked about as the darkest of all the British based Hardboiled authors, his fiction is certainly not for the squeamish. He produced a number of novels which featured the nameless detective working on cold cases and became known as the Factory series.

He Died with His Eyes Open
The Devil's Home on Leave
How the Dead Live
I Was Dora Suarez
Dead Man Upright