lock thread, do not start new one until january.
― kenan, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmm... poll...
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
no one cares abt cutty n kenans sandy vaginas
― jhøshea, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and alex's vagina too no one gives a fuck abt that
― jhøshea, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
damn and heere i thought my vagina was omitted purposefully
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
he's right, I do kinda have that not-so-fresh feeling
― kenan, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
j/k guys i totally care abt yr vaginas even if theyre not in such great shape
― jhøshea, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
aw
― cutty, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
if you really love me you'll go fetch that red towel
― kenan, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
let me be the 1st to say: eeewwww
― jhøshea, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
my work here is done
― kenan, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"thread killin creepy kenan"
― jhøshea, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
places where the word "vagina" doesn't magically become funnier and funnier every time you say it: Knocked Up, ILE
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah well you probably have a slightly different perspective since you like have one and it is full up w/sand
― jhøshea, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
woops... erm... poll?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck. I've had season 4 saved for weeks. Was burning it for a friend and accidentally deleted episodes 11-13. Started retorrenting them this morning. Was 75% finished, and then Demonoid went down. Not a good day. None of the other torrents I can find seem active. Don't suppose anyone could hook me up with a sendspace link or something? Webmail if you can help.
― caek, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Failing that, does anyone have a Youtube link to that scence in season 1 where they just say "shit" for like three minutes.
― caek, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
haha someone just sent that to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM
ill sendspace those for you but not right now cause im out the door.
― jhøshea, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Yo try tvt0rr3nts if you're not against upl0ading to d0wnl0ad.
― Leee, Friday, 9 November 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
jhoshea u my hero xpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 November 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
wait does s5 not start until next october?? did i miss that?
― daria-g, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
oh duh, january. sorry. !!! can not wait
― daria-g, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
they just took hbo offa my stolen cable
haha - ours, too. we're having a bit of a crisis over this.
― lauren, Saturday, 10 November 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i knoooow - channel 65 where u go wtf i miss u dan marino!
― jhøshea, Saturday, 10 November 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
eh those shits are too big for sendspace - what site allows 300mb+ files?
― jhøshea, Saturday, 10 November 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
megaupload.com. Thanks very much for even trying! It's not the end of the world if I have to wait for a DVD though, so don't waste hours over it. tvt0rr3nts has it, but it wants to bust my balls before I download anything.
― caek, Saturday, 10 November 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been sitting on this news for 2 months and it's been torture to have to keep it under wraps, but the official announcement is finally here:
Greetings, Wire Fans...
After years of anticipation, The Wire Soundtrack will finally be released on January 8th, 2008, on Nonesuch Records. We are currently in the very final stages of production of the record, and I can say without reservation that the project is everything I always hoped it would be. It turns out David Bither and Bob Hurwitz at Nonesuch are huge Wire fans, and they have given us incredible support and creative freedom to do the record the right way. It includes many of the show's most important musical signatures, including several versions of Way Down In The Hole, all of the season-end montage songs, a great selection of Baltimore club and hip-hop, The Pogues, Stelios Kazantzidis, a selection of dialog scenes from the show, and the theme music "The Fall" which I composed and so many have asked for over the years. It also includes a gigantic deluxe booklet stuffed with photographs, and liner notes by David Simon, George Pelecanos and Jeff Chang.
I will post more details and a full track list in the near future on my blog, The Ten Thousand Things. Until then there's a bit more info at the Nonesuch blog here:
http://journal.nonesuch.com/journal/2007/11/nonesuch-to-rel.html
I wanted to send this out directly, as so many people have asked me for information about the music over the last few years. And in case you were wondering, Season 5 is finished and continues the tradition we have all come to expect from The Wire; the season premiere will be Sunday January 6th.
Here's looking forward to January!
Cheers,
Blake Leyh Music Supervisor, The Wire
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ bl✧✧✧@blakel✧✧✧.c✧✧ www.blakeleyh.com www.tenthousand.org
And here is the announcement on the Nonesuch site:
Nonesuch to Release Music from Five Years of "The Wire"
Nonesuch is pleased to announce the January 8, 2008, release of the first soundtrack from the critically acclaimed, Peabody Award–winning HBO series The Wire. That's two days after the series kicks off its fifth season. It also marks the first time music from the David Simon–created show has ever been collected and released as an album.
The Wire: " ... and all the pieces matter" will include several versions of the show’s opening theme song—Tom Waits’s “Way Down in the Hole”—as performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Neville Brothers, and DoMaJe, a group of Baltimore teenagers. To listen to DoMaJe's take on the song, click here.
The disc will also feature a number of tracks from the Baltimore club and hip-hop scene that have never appeared on a major label release, including Rod Lee’s “Dance My Pain Away,” Tyree Colion’s “Projects,” Diablo’s “Jail Flick,” Mullyman’s “The Life, the Hood, the Streetz,” and “What You Know About Baltimore?” by Ogun featuring Phathead.
Other songs include “Oh My God” by Michael Franti, “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” by Paul Weller, “The Body of an American” by The Pogues, “I Feel Alright” by Steve Earle (who also has an acting role on the series), Solomon Burke’s “Fast Train,” and the show’s closing theme, “The Fall,” composed by The Wire music supervisor Blake Leyh.
Some of the most memorable dialog from the program’s five years will also be included on the record. The CD booklet will feature essays by the author and series writer George Pelecanos and the noted hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang.
Over the course of four seasons, The Wire has developed a portrait of Baltimore through the themes of education, the war on drugs, the decline of the working class, and the role of political leadership in addressing urban problems. The Wire will use its fifth and final season to examine mass media’s impact on the city.
Slate has had this to say about the series:
... surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America ... No other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of great literature.
The first three seasons of The Wire are currently available on DVD; the fourth season will be available beginning December 4, 2007—a month before the fifth and final season’s premiere on HBO. You can pre-order Season Four now at the Shop at HBO.com.
For more information on the series, visit HBO.com.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh awesome. I might buy season 4 even though it's already on my hard drive, watched and rewatched. (This is the part where I would usually say that it's my favorite season, but I will refrain.)
― kenan, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm waiting for the inevitable complete series boxset.
― Leee, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/news/story/0,,2209888,00.html
^ profile of bunk as he puts on "waiting for godot" in the 9th ward
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
five new promos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVB-d7tWIII http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPflEzVBSq0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uMd2HCcQ_c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIsYWcHbwLU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhryZsvU6E
― antexit, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
- *Barack Obama* tells *TV Guide* that his favorite TV character of all time is *"SpongeBob SquarePants, because SpongeBob is the show I watch with my daughters." ** *His favorite TV shows of all time are * M*A*S*H* and *The Wire.*
if it wasnt already clear that we neeeeeeed this man to be president, well there it is.
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
man, that makes me smile for real.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
LET MCNULTY BE MCNULTY
― milo z, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
oh this season is gonna run deep
(lol mcnulty leaning on the pay phone talking on his cell)
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
omar explosions
― cutty, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I just started watching season 3 on HBO on demand. Never seen it before. Two episodes in and I'm sold. I'm also pretty lost, but getting the hang of it. HBO's running seaon 4 on demand starting in december, so, oh shit, I guess I won't be able to watch all of season 3 by then!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
knuckle down -- it can be done.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
wau @ obama wire shoutout
― sleep, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
it can be done. easily. i just rewatched the first season, for the hell of it, in a matter of days. i fucking love this show.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
last I checked S3 will be On Demand until December 10th (at least from my cable provider). i'm in the middle of rewatching S2 via Netflix, and will probably just rent S3 next too, since I want to hear the commentaries and other DVD stuff you can't get On Demand. i doubt i'll squeeze in the first four seasons before S5 starts, but i might try.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
can't do it! I'm working today, working all day tomorrow. Even if I start watching at 7pm fri, I could only get 3 or 4 episdoes further before they switch to season 4! MAYBE just maybe it'll be on demand a bit into december. I have to say, the recap at the beginning of season 3 was hilarious, so confusing.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i watched 1-4 in about a month so you can definitely do all of 3 before 4 starts on demand, dan! i believe in you!
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
dan - are you planning on sleeping??? that's your problem, right there!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
the real problem here is: i don't have cable, much less hbo. how am i going to watch season 5!?
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
dan: dvds tehresa: torrents
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
and dan u should really start from the beginning - so much more rewarding
not to mention that if you get through season 3 you'll see some stuff that you wont want to have seen when watching season 1
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
that's true, but at the same time, if you were going to pick up on the show at any point other than the beginning, S3 is probably the best place to start.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, carcetti, you know he's about to do something really heinous
am i the only one who's sick of the constant 'mcnulty is a drunk asshole' stuff? that is by far my least favorite part of the show
― daria-g, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link