March 15, 2009

percentage of survival (1)


"the gold tooth paid for the funeral no doubt"









without a pot to piss in






















increasingly sanctifying numbers in prison








































WORKED NINE DAYS ALTOGETHER LAST WEEK




















coming and going is
no laughing matter






3 comments:

Andy Rector said...

--"the gold tooth...": Alfredo in THE RABBIT HUNTERS (Pedro Costa), 2007.

-- chaplin street graphic pasted on sealed enterance at Sunset blvd. and Gardner st. in Los Angeles.

-- Chaplin, 1917, color autochrome photo.

-- "Numbers sanctify", from MONSIEUR VERDOUX

-- João César Monteiro in AS BODAS DE DEUS, 1999

-- Chaplin and Keystone Cop cartoon - Appeared on the cover of Cahiers du cinéma no. 262-63,, 1976

-- the jury/congregation of THE PILGRIM (Chaplin) 1923.

-- 'Jerome Littlefield' (Jerry Lewis) suffering from 'neurotic identification empathy'. DISORDERLY ORDERLY (Tashlin), 1964.

-- 'Worked 9 days altogether last week' -from service worker 'Stanley Belt' (Lewis)in THE PATSY (Lewis), 1964.

-- THE PILGRIM (Chaplin) 1923.

-- VAI E VEM ('Come and go', Monteiro), 2003.

-- UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel), 1929

-- Young man tags LA MTA bus on which Mayor Villaraigosa was having a photo-op in South Los Angeles, 2008. LA TIMES.

Anonymous said...

Andy, a very eloquent collage, but you failed to mention, just before
"coming and going is no laughing matter", Murnau's "Nosferatu".
Miguel

andy said...

thank you for catching that, Miguel. NOSFERATU indeed it is.

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