It's just your opinion man...
All on one night and All for $2.25. |
...but it's also my blog-- so I'm gonna indulge myself and continue on to celebrate some soul brothers (and sister) who...
...unlike some of the names on the poster (left) never came to enjoy as large a following, and hence my eagerness to pay tribute.
B. Traven. Author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Death Ship. Both masterpieces. The Mexican Jungle books ain't chopped liver either. And his personal history is about as strange a mystery as anything ever dreamed up in fiction.
“Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.”
― B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre“Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.”
Benny Carter. "You got Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and my man, the Earl of Hines, right? Well, Benny's right up there with all of them cats. Everybody who knows who he is calls him King--he is a King!" ---Louis Armstrong.
Was recently listening to one of Benny's early versions of I Can't Get Started (Vernon Duke & Ira Gershwin) and whew...it's what dreams are made of.
Was recently listening to one of Benny's early versions of I Can't Get Started (Vernon Duke & Ira Gershwin) and whew...it's what dreams are made of.
Cornell Woolrich. (Also wrote as William Irish) Not everyone's cup of tea cause few like it that strong and bitter, but for the hard core Noir fan, nobody did the inner demons of desperate measures better. Best known for Rear Window (Hitchcock watered it down) and The Bride Wore Black, but lesser known titles like Fright and one on the right surpass those.
"Just two more people sharing a common human experience. Infinite in its complexity, tricky at times, but almost always successfully surmounted in one of two ways: either blandly content with the results as they are, or else vaguely discontent but chained by habit. Most women don't marry a man, they marry a habit. Even when a habit is good, it can become monotonous; most do." -- Cornell Woolrich Angels of Darkness
"Just two more people sharing a common human experience. Infinite in its complexity, tricky at times, but almost always successfully surmounted in one of two ways: either blandly content with the results as they are, or else vaguely discontent but chained by habit. Most women don't marry a man, they marry a habit. Even when a habit is good, it can become monotonous; most do." -- Cornell Woolrich Angels of Darkness
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