#I Walk Alone

[blabbershere]

Walk on your broken foot and leave no trace of your hand on anyone's shoulder.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[filmnoirfoundation]

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this edition, we discuss “Le Trou”, “The Killers”, “I Walk Alone”, as well as the noir credentials of “The Whistler” film series and “Man in the Net”. We also answer the question, “Who do you think was the best overall film noir actor?” We wrap up the show discussing what we’ve been reading and watching including the Ripley novels, Lars von Trier’s “The Kingdom”, “Joker: Folie à Deux”, and  revisit “The Substance” from Eddie’s P.O.V.

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[black-arcana]

Tarja - Live at Wacken Open Air 2022

[burtlancster]

Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott in a publicity spread for I Walk Alone, 1948.

[vietlad]

Kirk Douglas as Noll "Dink" Turner in I Walk Alone (1947) dir. Byron Haskin

[movieposters1]

[fucked-up-brain]

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me, and I walk alone.

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[sosooley]

S E X Y M E N

I walk alone (1948)

[vintagehollywood1]

Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott in I walk alone 1947

[mobilerafie]

Body Art

I love Drax so much! Dave Bautista is the man!

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[green-day-unofficial]

Is that the weed pride flag /j

Companies trying to seem supportive during pride month: Love is love!!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

My aromantic ass:

[burtlancster]

how come you know so well how to take care of a beat up guy?

[cawcky-musings]

I wander through the restless streets Where dreams collide and shadows play In every heartache, a lesson beats Guiding me along the way With every heartbeat I rise and fall Yet through the pain I’ll stand my ground In this city I’ll hear every call And I'll find the strength that can’t be drowned