Begin Again

                                 Drink from the well of your self and begin again.

Charles Bukowski

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Killers Kiss
1955

Mosaic Noir #35

Postman Always Rings Twice

Reservoir Dogs

Brief Encounter

Memento

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Perfidia

               The store was jinxed. Four heists in one month predicted a fifth heist. It was probably the same bandit. The man worked solo. He covered his face with a bandana and carried a long-barreled gat. He always stole narcotics and till cash.

Perfidia
James Ellroy
2014

Cheap Cut Satin

                                     Cheap cut satin and bad perfume

                                     Showtime is almost here

                                     Teased up by a strip cartoon

                                     Laughing up your sleeve

                                     Sniggering in your beer

                                     He'd seen the bottom of a lot of glasses

                                     But he'd never seen love so near

                                    

King Horse

(Costello)

Elvis Costello 

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Fred Lyon

Barbary Coast

Dark Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas
Mike Figgis
1995

Bright Guilty World

                                                 It's a bright, guilty world.

Lady from Shanghai

1947

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Lady from Shanghai

Dead Man's Eyes

     Because some of them are all right but some of them would steal the money off a dead man's eyes.

Dance at the Slaughterhouse
(Matthew Scudder #9)
Lawrence Block
1991

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Robert McGinnis

Remember Those Cheers ........

                            ' I remember those cheers

                             They still ring in my ears   

                             After years, they remain in my thoughts'

Raging Bull

1980

                       

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Robert De Niro

Raging Bull

Desert Noir #2

Bad Day at Black Rock

The Hitch Hiker

Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Ace in the Hole

Way of the Gun

The Prowler

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Ticket to Hell

           He felt a sense of loneliness for a moment, an empty need for something he'd never put into words, and never would. The desolation of the vast country was like a symbolic painting of his own life - the boulders, the dry heat - without another soul as far as he could see.

Ticket to Hell
Harry Whittington
1959

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Black Lizard cover

So Walk Tall

                                It's midnight in Manhattan, this is no time to get cute
                                It's a mad dog's promenade
                                So walk tall, or baby, don't walk at all

New York City Serenade
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen

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Dark Suburbs

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William Gedney

Mosaic Noir # 34

Last Seduction

The Killing

Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Spy

Lost Weekend

Reservoir Dogs

Pale Flower

Body Heat

Sorry I Don't Remember ............

Memento

Christopher Nolan

2000

A Cold Feeling Back

              If you put your lips to a police badge
              You only get a cold feeling back
              And if you stroke a .38-caliber revolver
              The .38-caliber revolver absolutely doesn't care

Cornell Woolrich
Strangler's Serenade
1951

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Pulp poem of the week

Most Wanted Man

Painted from Memory

And so this had to be

Painted from memory

Funny, now i can see

How looks can be deceiving

Painted from Memory

(Costello/Bachrach)

Elvis Costello

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John Duprey
8th Ave & 42nd st New York 1964
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Don't Want to Hear

 

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Frederich Neitzsche

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Collateral
2004

The Killing

 The Killing
Stanley Kubrick
1956

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