Heat
Thin Blue Line
Touch of Evil
Godfather
Asphalt Jungle
Hopperesque
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Friday, 13 June 2014
Thursday, 12 June 2014
More Men Than Women
Roland Williams sat on a stool at the stainless steel bar of Soul House, his regular place on 14th. There were few patrons here but this was not unusual. It was a dark barewall place that served more men than women, and hardly ever did so in great numbers. It was not frequented by the hip crowd but rather by city dwellers who liked their alcohol and conversation drama free. The jukebox played cuts by the likes of Big Maybelle, Carl 'soul dog' Marshall. Johnny Adams and other artists whose sound had that below-the-Mason-Dixon-line vibe.
What It Was
George Pelecanos
2012
Stealing to be Rich
Stealing to eat ain't criminal - stealing to be rich is.
Andrew Vachss
Neil Libbert
Wall St 1960
via wehadfacesthen
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Back on My Feet
My brother's a machinist in a textile mill
And he makes more money than you ever will
He just got married to a Polish girl
With a space between her teeth
Get me back on my feet again
Back on my feet again
Open the door and set me free
Get me back on my feet again
Back on My Feet Again
(Newman)
Randy Newman
Taxi Driver
1976
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Monday, 9 June 2014
Sunday, 8 June 2014
More Last Words
........No business; no hangout; no friends; nothing. Just what you pick up and what you need. .......
Dutch Schultz
(last words)
Saturday, 7 June 2014
The Paths that Stray
One recognizes one's course by recognizing the paths that stray from it.
Albert Camus
image
Edward Hopper-
original sketch -
Night Office 1940
Friday, 6 June 2014
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Dutch Noir
Rising at 5am, he would write for an hour or two in the mornings before heading for his downtown office and churning out slick copy to sell Chevrolets, a task he detested. Advertising's 'cute, alliterative style' reinforced his taste for clean, simple prose.
Uk Daily Telegraph
Obituaries
Elmore Leonard
Telagraph.co.uk
The Loser
It was 4 p.m when Floyd Patterson got back to the camp, and the shadows were falling on the clubhouse, and on the tennis court routed by weeds, and on the big white house on front of which not a single automobile was parked. All was deserted and quiet ; it was a loser's camp.
from
The Loser
Gay Talese
Esquire magazine
March 1964
reblogged
via thestacks.deadspin.com
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
Monday, 2 June 2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
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Due for release
Sept 2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Scott Frank
(based on novel by Lawrence Block)
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Don't Know Why
Hooker on the corner
Waitin' for a train
Drunk lyin' on the sidewalk
Sleepin' in the rain
And they hide their faces
And they hide their eyes
'Cause the city's dyin'
And they don't know why
Baltimore
(Newman)
Randy Newman
image
Arthur Siegel
Detroit 1942
via Howtoseewithoutacamera
Sins for Breakfast
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
image
Witness for the Prosecution
via Lalalandhistory blogspot
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