BLACK COFFEE

 

There is something primal about a cup of black coffee.  Simple, strong, and gets the job done.  The equivalnet of a punch in the mouth or a shot of whiskey.

HARD TIMES

 

SUNDAY MORING COMING DOWN

THE GREATEST MOVIE SCENE EVER

 

THE DEFINITION OF HISTORY: ONE DAMN LIE AFTER ANOTHER

      “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”  

                Napoleon Bonaparte.

DANGEROUS DAMES PART II

 "She was bad. She was dangerous. I wouldn't trust her any farther than I could throw her. But she was my kind of woman."

—The Band Wagon, "The Girl Hunt"

DANGEROUS DAMES

"The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating."

Henry Louis Mencken

 

THE SUNSHINE HOTEL

 

    If you think that life is tough, love is forlorn, and human nature is more like drinking a three day old cup of black coffee than reciting poetic bliss, then The Sunshine Hotel is for you.  I was browsing my library of noirish films on Amazon Prime last night looking for something deep and dark to go along with my 6 ounce glass of John Jameson and by sheer chance, came across The Sunshine Hotel.  The film chronicles the down and out existence of tenants living in a flophouse in the Bowery section of New York City.  What is a flophouse?  Try a tenement building with 200 rooms, each 4 X 6, renting for $70 a week.  We are introduced to a mix of life's losers:  addicts, transvestite prostitutes, ex-cons, alcoholics, and even a bookish street philosopher.  In their own way, they are all interesting and accepting about their plight in life.  Tragic?  Yes.  But their is something admirable about acquiring a set of survival skills by necessity.  The whole thing reminded me of a Blind Willie Johnson song on video.  Judge for yourself.

                                    THE MIAMI FIGHT CLUB

    The Fight Club is what a gym should be.  Tough.  Direct. No frills.  Sort of like a shot of whiskey or a punch in the mouth.  This place has the ambience of a 1950's noir movie. Dark and foreboding.  The workouts are not easy.  No AC.  No pretense.  You hit the bag for one hour.  Don't talk.  Don't complain.  Don't bother anyone.  

MIAMI NOIR: NOT ALL GLITZ AND GLAMOUR PART II

What Ocean Drive Magazaine 

         Forgot To Show You.