Chungking Express (1994), dir by Wong Kar-Wai.



On 13 March 1974, a drunken Sam Peckinpah caused a commotion during the American Film Institute’s celebration of James Cagney, when he began heckling Jack Lemmon. Peckinpah later got into a fight with a bartender at the event and had to be physically removed from the proceedings.

According to friend Kris Kristofferson, Peckinpah had been sober until the day before the AFI event, but began drinking and Kristofferson begged him to “pace himself.”

🇮🇹 The Italian airforce gives a big emotional lift to their nation with Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma (let no one sleep) and where lyrics say venceremos (we will overcome). They have their planes dramatically facing and overpowering the single plane (virus) with their National Flag! @COVID19Up

Fallen Angels, Wong Kar Wai, 1995

Keep in the darkness and need to die
To see my face and collapse in red
Everyday I'm loosing time, reading my brain
And collapse in red

Keep in the darkness and need to die
To see my face and collapse in red
Everyday while I'm coming home, I see you again
Collapsing in red

Something wrong
Liberty was hard
But Sunday everything's okay
All systems intact
On your chest

Rachel Goswell - Slowdive - CBGB April 7, 1994

A depressive man standing by a country pond in the pouring rain - not helping his state of mind (1869)

Never quite as it seems

When you woke up this morning everything you had was gone. By half past ten your head was going ding-dong. Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes, like a voice telling you there was something you should know. Last night you were flying but today you’re so low – ain’t it times like these that make you wonder if you’ll ever know the meaning of things as they appear to others; wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers. Don’t you wish you didn’t function, wish you didn’t think beyond the next paycheck and the next little drink? Well you do so make up your mind to go on, ’cos when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.

And when the lights go on again all over the world
And when the boys come home again all over the world
Rain and snow will be all that fall from out of the sky
A kiss won't mean goodbye when Johnny comes marching home

Iggy Pop and David Bowie in Russia, 1976.