It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.
Friday, June 30, 2023
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Noirsville bonus clip
James von Streeter, tenor sax; Teddy Buckner, trumpet; Ray LaRue, piano; Shifty Henry, bass; Al "Cake" Wichard, drums. Streeter portrayed "Fisherman." Henry composed a tune entitled "Dark Shadows," which was recorded by Charlie Parker with the Erroll Garner Trio featuring vocalist Earl Coleman on February 19th, 1947 in Los Angeles for Dial Records
Noirsville Noir Art
James March Phillips |
Signed Above |
Tar Beach - John Sloan |
Signed above |
Kenton Nelson |
Leslie Peterson Sapp
Kenton Nelson |
Signed Above |
Kenton Nelson |
Bhupen Khakhar |
Kamekichi Tokita |
Tar Beach - Mitchell Funk |
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Noirsville Tune of the Week
Andre Williams covers Tom Waits' Pasties & A G-string
Pasties & A G-string
Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp,
I ain't got a quarter, got a postage stamp
Been five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town,
Talking with the old man, sleeping on the ground
Bazanti bootin al zootin' al hoot and Al Cohn
Sharing this apartment with a telephone pole
And a fish-net stocking, spike-heel shoes,
Strip tease, prick tease, car keys blues
And the porno floor show, live nude girls,
Dreamy and creamy and brunette curls
Chesty Morgan and Watermelon Rose
Raise my rent and take off all your clothes
With trench coats, magazines, a bottle full of rum,
She's so good, make a dead man come
Pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot
Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze
Wrinkles and Cherry and Twinkie and Pinkie and Fifi live from Gay Paree
Fanfares, rim shots, back stage, who cares, all this hot burlesque for me
(scat)
Cleavage, cleavage, thighs and hips
From the nape of her neck to the lipstick lips
Chopped and channeled and lowered and lewd
And the cheater slicks and baby moons
She's a-hot and ready, creamy and sugared
And the band is awful and so are the tunes
(scat)
Crawling on her belly, and shaking like jelly,
And I'm getting harder than Chinese algebrassieres
And cheers from the (hmm) compendium here
"Hey sweetheart" they're yelling for more
You're squashing out your cigarette butts on the floor
And I like Shelly, and you like Jane
And what was the girl with the snakeskin's name?
And it's an early-bird matinee, come back any day,
Get you a little something that you can't get at home
Get you a little something that you can't get at home
It's pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot
Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze
Popcorn, front row, higher than a kite, and I'll be back tomorrow night,
And I'll be back tomorrow night
(scat)
Monday, June 26, 2023
Noirsville Neo Noir Images of the Week
Anne Francis - Honey West |
Deposit Photos |
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Sharon Tate - Unknown |
Luc Kordas |
Coney Island Embrace - Harold Finestein |
Eva Manez |
Viva DeConcini - Unknown |
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Curtis Mayfield in Studio 54 - NY News photo |
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Vintage Trailers |
Girl On A Train - Unknown |
Daisey Dukes - Unknown |
Smile for the customers - Billy Howard |
Coffee House Beat Scene NY- 59-60 |
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Strange Encounters - Harold Finestein |
Typical small town bar scene during an Elks party - George Strock |
Vancouver - Unknown |
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Hustling for drinks at an Atlanta strip club - Billy Howard |
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Trash & Vaudeville 96 East 7th, East Village, Manhattan - Unknown |
How Noir of her - Unknown |
Luc Kordas |