Lying Awake

Lying awake, it's 4am
It is not too late
To meet my broken bottle date
Lying awake, it's 10am
It is not too late
To turn around and do it again


Thirst
Lori Laupmanis

from
Modern Drunkard Magazine

image Norbert Lossel/ Deviant Art

Anything May Happen

           I ate dinner at Musso's in Hollywood .......... The steak came the way i liked it, medium rare, garnished with mushrooms, with a pile of fried onion rings on the side. I had a pint of Black Horse ale for dessert, and when i was finished i felt good. I had the kind of excitement more prophetic than tea-leaves, that lifts you when anything may happen and probably will.

The Way Some People Die
Ross MacDonald
1951

Tommy Lee Jones

In the Valley of Elah
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Stormy Monday
Executioner's Song
JFK
The Big Town
No Country for Old Men
In the Electric Mist

Classic Fragments 4 - Corridor Glance

            One of the best ever combinations of music and image in a retro Noirish setting.
           Wong Kar Wai's superb In the Mood for Love.

Cincinnati Kid

          The game, like an endless circling bird, moved with a slow inexorable pace toward the center pot of money that grew magically with each dealt hand. Revolving hands of cards accompanied with a musical comment of silver upon silver tossed into the center of the table as the chant was heard, so soft as to be a litany calling, on ghostly assistance and deliverance.

The Cincinnati Kid
Richard Jessup
1963

Bachelor's Wisdom

                          A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Phyllis Diller

image
TJ Scott

Joseph Biroc

Glass Wall

Hustle

Hammett

Convicts 4

 The Detective

Killer That Stalked New York

Run of the Arrow

Forty Guns

Grissom Gang

Garment Jungle

Tony Rome

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

Flight of the Phoenix

Attack !

Emperor of the North

Tempted

I bought a novel, some perfume
A fortune all for you
But it's not my conscience
Hating to be untrue
I asked of my reflection
What is there to do ?


Tempted
(Difford/Tillbrook)

image
January Jones- Mad Men

Nightfall

Nightfall beautifully evokes the world of bus station lockers, casual pick-ups in bars, and newstands hawking out-of-town papers to the homesick : a lonely transient America.

Imogen Smith

Nightfall- Jacques Tourneur
1957

re-blogged from Dreamland Cafe
www.randybyers.net

The Long Goodbye

There was a girl beside him. Her hair was a lovely shade of dark red and she had a distant smile on her lips and over her shoulders she had a blue mink that almost made the Rolls-Royce look like just another automobile. It didn't quite. Nothing can.

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

1953

Gregory Crewdson

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

                                              All alone, the party is over

                                            Old man winter was a gracious host

                                               But when you keep praying

                                               for snow to hide the clover

                                       Spring can really hang you up the most

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

(Landesman/ Wolff)

Frank Sinatra

image Ted Allan
(Sinatra)