Weegee #2

The Outfit

The Outfit

John Flynn

1974

Named Me as the Fool

                                  Almost blue

                                  Flirting with this disaster became me

                                  It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost Blue  

(Costello)    

Chet Baker        

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Criss Cross
Robert Siodmak
1949

Any Street Corner

             At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Albert Camus

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Rear Window
1953

Playing with Shadows

       
        Sundown in the desert beat out any other geography hands down. On the water the sunset would linger, bouncing on the waves, but in the desert there was nothing for the light to hold onto, nothing to trap it, bribe it to stay any longer than absolutely necessary. It ran, fled after the day like a scared rabbit. It was my favorite time of day. I loved it out here, for however long it lasted. I thrived in the liminal time. The grey area between light and dark. Playing with shadows was how i made my living.

from
Disappear
Jaq Greenspon
Las Vegas Noir
Akashic Books 2008

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Las Vegas 1942
Peter Stackpole
via mrsdentonorahippo

Ballads of the City

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cover/Blue Note records

Killers Kiss #2

Killers Kiss
Stanley Kubrick
1955

Blue Valentines

                            She sends me valentines all the way from Philadelphia
                            To mark the anniversary of someone that i used to be  

Blue Valentines
(Waits)
Tom Waits

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Eleanor Parker
Life magazine
via NoirbyNight

Lay on the Fog

            We drove away from Las Olindas through a series of little dank beach towns with shack-like houses built down on the sand close to the rumble of the surf and larger houses built back on the slopes behind. A yellow window shone here and there, but most of the houses were dark. A smell of kelp came in off the water and lay on the fog. The tires sang on the moist concrete of the boulevard. The world was a wet emptiness.
                 
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
1939

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Past Paints the Present

       Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Henry Rollins

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Jack Delano
Union station Chicago
1943

Pope of Greenwich Village

Pope of Greenwich Village
Stuart Rosenberg
1984

Brown's Requiem

            I called Irwin, my driver, and told him to meet me at my place in an hour and to bring coffee - there was work on the line. He was grumpy until i mentioned money. I hung up and looked out my window. It was getting light. Hollywood, below me, was filling up with hazy sunshine. I felt a slight tremor ; part caffeine, part Beethoven, part a last passage of night air. I felt my life was going to change.

Brown's Requiem
James Ellroy
1981

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Wilshire and La Brea
Los Angeles 1937
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We've Lost Everything

                          It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Chuck Palahnuik

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Clayrodery
via DeviantArt

She's the One

                                   I wish she'd just leave me alone
                                   Because French cream won't soften them boots
                                   And French kisses will not break that heart of stone
                                   With her long hair falling
                                   And her eyes that shine like a midnight sun
                                   Oh she's the one
                                   She's the one

She's the One
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen
1975  

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Thomas Scilpoti
Baltimore 1957
reblogged via NoirbyNight

Yield to the Night

Yield to the Night
J. Lee Thompson
1956

Don't Like Mornings

       He finished his drink. 'I don't like mornings either' he said. 'That's why i'm a writer'.

Dorothy B. Hughes

In a Lonely Place

1947

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In a Lonely Place

1950

Conversations with the Dead #2

Heat

 Ashes and Diamonds

Thin Blue Line

Touch of Evil

Godfather

Asphalt Jungle