'Proper set of wheels, Billy.'
'Sweet, ain't they. Made for an Arab Sheik, Jimmy.' I add, pressing down a button that allows the top to roll slowly back. 'Bought it from Micksy Martin two weeks ago and he's just been tagged over the Brink's Mat. Last thing I need at the moment is this wrapped...
Isn't it just what used to be called 'speculative' fiction? Not 'realism', but without the common sci-fi ingredients? Calvino's Cosmicomics are very good, by the way.
Glamour's in the eye of the beholder. To some the 'high life' of flash cars, clothes etc is glamourous, but Judas Pig certainly undermines the idea and, as you suggest, makes it all sound soiled and grotty. That's one of its strong points though.
By his standards and those applicable to villainy they were minor league though, presumably? That's not 'racist', just a fact. I doubt very much that they were a threat to his 'crew'.
More than The Beatles? Your ears are never fresh to sounds you've lived with for decades but a revisit can still prompt a spark, at least, where once your head was set ablaze by, in the case of JB, the rhythm and voice. Whilst it's no longer fresh, at least the passing of time proves its...
I used to feel the same but it grew on me over the years and then came the revelatory Complete Jack Johnson release wherein lies some of the deepest Funk attributable to The Man due largely to Henderson's ba-a-ad bass.
JMC was great. Mildred Pierce and Double Indemnity are also recommended if you don't know them. Surely one of the few writers to have so many bona fide classic noirs made from their novels. I wouldn't call them 'pulp' though, just great novels.
Rope - Hitchcock (which I'm sure you've all seen but I rewatched it recently after several years - still entertained by the script, of course and J Stewart, always. There can't be many Hollywood films with Nietzsche and the 'divine' right (via intellect) to kill at their core. The famous Third...
In A Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes (as filmed a few years later featuring Bogart and Gloria Grahame). A good read. Not as hardboiled as Thompson re the inside-the-mind-of-a-killer angle but fine all the same.
That K-punk book. The Joy Division chapter's very good.
I don't know if it's leaked and haven't heard him singing yet. It's not a thought I relish.
Thankfully, he doesn't on E & D which, by the way, ditches samples for drum and bass (no, not that kind), some guitar. Minimal, upfront, powerful backing.
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