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March 23 - May 8, 2020
it was through the investigator’s eyes that McCaleb first viewed many aspects of the crime.
homicide detectives,
jobs as a skill or a craft, and those who saw it as a mission in life.
speakers for the dead.
avenging angels.
also came to believe that they traveled closest to that unseen edge beneath which lies the abyss.
the analogy of the owl as detective.
the well-practiced play.
‘Number one when it comes to birds going number two.’
Jerome Van Aiken.
Lubbert Das.
the Goodyear blimp
totally eclipsing the sun.
prone to using profanity when under stress.
My name is Lubbert Das.’
“The painter’s name was Jerome Van Aiken.
There’s something about Bosch—something off the page.”
‘I just know what it’s like to be alone and in the dark.’
Court TV
Janis Langwiser
Angels Flight murders.
Donatella Speers?”
Jane Gilley.
“Jack McEvoy.”
Ed Thomas.
the so-called Poet
audition was set for five.
ART Pepper
“Where is God’s hand, where is God’s hand?”
“Art Pepper meets the Rhythm Section?”
Art Pepper and Miles’s side men. Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, Philly Joe Jones on drums. Recorded here in L.A., January 19, 1957.
one classic.
“Straight Life,” Pepper’s signature composition.
Dicks without Dicks.
An old Bob Seger song, “Night Moves,”
“Twisting the Night Away” began playing. The Rod Stewart version.
The whiskey rocks who always had the paint in his hair.
Anchor Steam
the old thirty-three.”
“Rolling Rock.”
the Dollmaker,
A guy like Harry Bosch, he doesn’t believe in coincidences,
the alcohol syndrome.
He doesn’t see the hand of God in things. He sees the big wheel.
You don’t go into the darkness without it going into you and taking its piece.
Archway Studios.
‘I am a god in this town, Detective Bosch. You don’t fuck with the gods.”
Mystery Bookstore in Westwood.”
a small printing by a small publisher.”
She spoke with him by phone or in person every day of the shoot.”
