joan crawfod in johnny guitar (1954)
— Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, David Foster Wallace (via ourcatastrophe)
it’s in the eyes….
The Duchenne Smile: Emotional Expression and Brian Physiology II
http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/publications/1990/the%20duchenne%20smile.pdf
“A candy-coloured clown they call the Sandman tiptoes to my room every night…”
Roy wrote and recorded this song in 1963, three years before his wife, Claudette was killed in a collision with a semi-trailer truck, and five years before his two eldest sons died in a fire in his Tennessee home. Stoic and tender behind dark sunglasses, Roy always gives me the impression of someone who had already seen and suffered his own ends and had chosen to glide through them again for the love of the beauty of the defeat.