
Police and Thieves. Junior Murvin, who died yesterday at age 64. 1976.
If for some reason you’re only familiar with the title track to the above LP via The Clash’s way inferior cover, take a few minutes and marvel at the original.

Police and Thieves. Junior Murvin, who died yesterday at age 64. 1976.
If for some reason you’re only familiar with the title track to the above LP via The Clash’s way inferior cover, take a few minutes and marvel at the original.
Posted in music, on your sleeve, we are the dead

Brigitte Bardot, Fritz Lang (with his back to camera), Michel Piccoli and Jack Palance in Contempt. Godard. 1963.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American visitors.
Above, Tupac, flanked by Danny Boy and Suge, pardons a turkey in a parking lot somewhere in California. 1995.

Larceny and Forgery at 23. Arrested September 2, 1911.
Posted in context, smooth criminal

Elliott Gould and Jennifer Bogart. Circa 1973.
Posted in cinema, context, cute couple alert

Almira Sessions, Joel McCrea and Esther Howard (and that cute little kid in the row behind them) in Sullivan’s Travels. Sturges. 1941.