LIFE, 1965
…as he lay trying desperately to put poetry, ambition, and Fanny Brawne out of his mind, suddenly an early thrush had appeared…
Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats
“More Than a Feeling” – Boston
“There’s the thrush again…”
Tag: cars
Astrophil and Stella
Finnish Museum of Photography, “Autoja ylittämässä salmea lossilla…” (1959)
I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try
Our horsemanships…
—Sir Philip Sidney, “Astrophil and Stella 49”
One Way Love
“You always look so cool,” she repeated.
cf. Ide Collars Advertisement (ca. 1922)
“Who wants to go to town?” demanded Daisy insistently. Gatsby’s eyes floated toward her. “Ah,” she cried, “you look so cool.”
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
“You always look so cool,” she repeated.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Suffragette City
I Don’t Wanna Know
LIFE, 1967
Squeeze Left
cf. Ladies’ Home Journal, 1964
Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Detour (1945)
Cruise Control
You Really Got Me
David Falconer, After a long winter without having a smiling service station operator… (1974)
We go cruisin’ so close, the way they did long ago…
Photograph by Daniela Cuevas via Unsplash
and Arnstein Bjone, The Atlantic Ocean Road / Atlanterhavsveien, dashcam video, Norway – YouTube
Take it out to Pomona and let ’em know that I’m the coolest thing around
cf. Cincinnati Magazine (1976)
I’ll Fall In Love Again
cf. B.W. Kilburn Company, Broadway and the great “Flatiron” (ca. 1903) and photograph by Wil Stewart via Unsplash
Mama, Mama, please– no more Jaguars
cf. New York Magazine (1986)
Well I was rollin’ down the road in some cold blue steel, I had a bluesman on the back and a beautician at the wheel…
Two lane highway is takin’ me home, home at last
Andreas Feininger, View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado (1942)
Car On A Hill
I’ve been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show
I’ve been listening to the sirens and the radio
He said he’d be over three hours ago
I’ve been waiting for his car on the hill…
Now where in the city can that boy be?Fast tires come screaming around the bend
But there’s still no buzzer
They roll on
And I’m waiting for his car on the hill…
John Sapiro 