Wednesday, August 10, 2016

road to nowhere, part 3


for part two, click here

for part one, click here or here





raindrops
raindrops
raindrops

windshield wipers
windshield wipers
windshield wipers

it’s got to be here someplace

veronica lake
veronica lake
veronica lake

my pal wouldn’t give me a bum steer

old house on the hill
old house on the hill

a flash of lightning lit up the old house on the hill

is that the place
is that the place

it’s a place

veronica lake

laird cregar
laird cregar
basil rathbone

john carradine
john carradine
john carradine

the man who broke the bank at monte carlo

the count of monte cristo

captain kidd
captain kidd
captain kidd

we will wait until the heat dies down

sydney greenstreet
sydney greenstreet
charles laughton

wheeling west virginia
cleveland ohio
gallup new mexico

joan bennett
joan bennett
joan bennett

fresno california
yuma arizona
tijuana mexico

gary indiana
gary indiana
harvest moon

slowly up the hill
in the rain
in the mud

veronica lake
joan bennett
gloria grahame

from the shelter of the gardeners hut buck watched the buick crawl up the hill

marie dressler
marie dressler
margaret dumont

pa whipped sis every night but it didn’t do any good

come on, son, try your luck
five balls for one thin dime
just one thin dime

how many cars had he seen crawl up the same hill

raindrops
raindrops
raindrops

you’re a swell kid

hollywood and the pulps developed this curious patois because they could not show the way rough men - and some rough women - actually talked

basil rathbone
basil rathbone
lon chaney, jr

james cagney
james cagney
humphrey bogart

finally making it up the hill

the light over the door went on

pa whipped sis every night but she still ran away the first chance she got

she had the hoochie coochie in her soul

gallup new mexico

come in
come in
come in

travelers are always welcome

joan bennett
joan bennett
joan bennett

albert einstein
albert einstein
albert einstein

edward teller
edward teller
edward teller

the men with their soot-stained faces stared at her breasts as if they had never seen such a sight before

watertown new york
utica
syracuse

gallup new mexico

winona arizona, a small unincorporated community east of flagstaff

norbert weiner
norbert weiter
claude shannon

are you going to sit there all night

you were the one who wanted to get somewhere

dream of riding through the night forever

windshield wipers
windshield wipers
windshield wipers

veronica lake
veronica lake
cleveland ohio


part 4



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