Bodie doesn't like stop-and-frisk: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/wire_actor_protests_nypd_stop_and_frisk_policy_hey_havent_i_arrested_you
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 21 June 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
This is p silly but
http://screen.yahoo.com/the-lego-wire-29977908.html
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-mccullough-portrayed-in-the-corner-dies-of-apparent-overdose-20120803,0,624618.story
sad. he was also lamar, brother mouzone's assistant in the wire
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/9/21/1253548370617/Lamar-and-Brother-Mouzone-001.jpg
― am0n, Monday, 6 August 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vr2dRh0inA
david simon appearance here. i like a lurid documentary generally.
― goole, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://davidsimon.com/deandre-mccullough-1977-2012/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 August 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― schwantz, Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
that's making me really really sad. r.i.p. deandre.
― Clay, Thursday, 9 August 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Just read that, totally heartbreaking. I had sort of similar thoughts sometimes about people I wrote about. Like, am I really doing them any good? A great story and a happy story can be really different things, and as a reporter you just learn to shrug it off and not worry about what happens to those people tomorrow. Or if you're super-dedicated and talented like David Simon, you can keep paying attention to them and build a whole world out of it. But you still don't control their lives or their stories.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 11 August 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0nkKdkLqc
― am0n, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
^worth the watch
― The muted sensation feels amazeballs. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/09/the-wire-was-really-a-victorian-novel/261164/
Most people know The Wire as the HBO police drama set in Baltimore—an intricate five-season exploration of the brokenness of the inner-city's war on drugs, education system, politics, and policing, and one of the most lauded television shows of all time. Fewer people know that it was originally a Victorian serial by the almost forgotten writer H.B. Ogden. Such, at least, was the claim of Sean Michael Robinson and Joy DeLyria, who created a virtuoso analysis of Ogden's work and an airtight argument as to why The Wire, with its serial format, moral message, and sympathy for the downtrodden, was quintessentially Victorian, and could never be reproduced in our own time. They accompanied their text with drawings (by Robinson) from the original Wire, including a striking depiction of Omar Little walking down a London street as urchins scatter around him.Robinson and DeLyria's essay appeared on my blog, the Hooded Utilitarian, and quickly went viral. A year later, powerHouse books is publishing an entire novel/critique/parody called Down in the Hole: The unWired World of H.B. Ogden, out this week. The book resets numerous scenes from The Wire in a 19th-century London setting—whether it's D'Angelo, Bodie, and Wallace discussing processed chicken parts, or McNulty and Bunk investigating a crime scene while spewing colorful Victorian slang. DeLyria and Robinson also analyze the serial's structure, themes, and canonicity—and provide a copious helping of new illustrations I spoke to the two last month about H.B. Ogden and The Wire.
Robinson and DeLyria's essay appeared on my blog, the Hooded Utilitarian, and quickly went viral. A year later, powerHouse books is publishing an entire novel/critique/parody called Down in the Hole: The unWired World of H.B. Ogden, out this week. The book resets numerous scenes from The Wire in a 19th-century London setting—whether it's D'Angelo, Bodie, and Wallace discussing processed chicken parts, or McNulty and Bunk investigating a crime scene while spewing colorful Victorian slang. DeLyria and Robinson also analyze the serial's structure, themes, and canonicity—and provide a copious helping of new illustrations I spoke to the two last month about H.B. Ogden and The Wire.
― j., Thursday, 13 September 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
taking the dialogue out of the context of the show and placing it into a cultural context that we see as much more stuffy and restrained as our own creates a very jarring effect that certainly could be seen as some kind of commentary of both.
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=82861
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 September 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/166886_1636489197012_5340783_n.jpg
― thomp, Friday, 14 September 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
I did end up rewatching this, in the middle of season two now
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 September 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
one of my housemates just watched S1-S3-S4-S2. annoyingly, she is a grad student so is home watching TV all the time and I couldn't take part
did come home one night in time to watch the last two docks eps though, <3 Frank Sobotka
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Saturday, 15 September 2012 08:32 (eleven years ago) link
why did she watch it in that order
― Number None, Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
my S2 was on loan and she disregarded my imprecations to wait
― ┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Saturday, 15 September 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
a friend of mine started with S3. It made me so mad
― Number None, Saturday, 15 September 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
haha i went s2-s3-s1-s4-s5, but i was watching them on tv rather than via boxset/internet.
― pandemic, Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTaxGPrg5ew
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 October 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
fuzzy dunlop
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 26 October 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
i'm about four eps into season three
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 October 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
i've been rewatching w housemate (his first time), about 3/4ths through s2, omg frank. "you know what she said?" "what?" "i been flagged. says it says it right there on the computer: do not disconnect for non-payment. flagged. what the fuck does that mean?"
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
WHAT DO YOU SAY, JOHNNY? WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ANY QUESTION?
i take the fifth commandment.
AND IF THEY OFFER YOU IMMUNITY TO TESTIFY AGAINST YOUR UNION BROTHERS?
i don't remember.
DON'T REMEMBER WHAT?
nothing.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
as for fuzzy dunlop, carver's face when the truck runs over the tennis ball is endless lols.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 03:43 (10 minutes ago) Permalink
omg just watched this ep
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 26 October 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
it's a new world, frank. you should go out and spend some of the money on something you can touch. a new car. a new coat. it's why we get up in the morning, right?
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
I like when he tells Spiros to stop being emo and eat some lamb.
― boxall, Friday, 26 October 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
that episode's titanic.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 October 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
okay watch the trailer to the dumfuck RED DAWN remake and tell me you don't see ziggy bopping around in there
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 November 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
I HAVE COMPLETED THE WIRE ON HBO
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
is there anything worth living for now, y/n
yes, watching it again
― small-scale fux with (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
i'm one of those jerks who doesn't have a tv and apologies for not having a tv and not knowing what's going on, and watches "one show at a time" by binging on DVDs. so this is a big moment. now it's time to be the jerk who is picking a new show to watch
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
i am also that person, except i have a tv and all i watch on it is basketball and sometimes the news
but yeah, i remember being super bummed out when season 5 ended. like, now what? i'm on the sopranos now which i also love, but only have like 20 eps left :(
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
Z S watch this you'll feel so awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX1Du7d4gTU
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
uuuuuuugh, awesome video!
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
now it's time to be the jerk who is picking a new show to watch
this is a fascinating time, you feel like a roman emperor giving the thumbs up or down on whether someone will live or die. people are all six feet under, all sincerely, almost pleadingly, & you turn your thumb downwards
― Love Greenwald Hate Torture (schlump), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha.
Z S have you watched twin peaks
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
Watch The Shield.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
There are lots of series to enjoy post-Wire (Justified,Walking Dead,Boardwalk Empire etc) but I can't get past the feeling that I am slumming it and dumbing down.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol schlump
I have watched twin peaks, but at about episode 18 on season two i just kinda stopped.
i don't know what to do. i've heard the shield is good, but not sure i'm up for a show with the imdb description "The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact." directly after watching the Wire! maybe in a year or two.
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
i finally watched some of the bonus features after finishing the final episode and saw that mcnulty is english! felt like discovering samus was a girl again, in a faint desperate echo of childhood discovery kind of way
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Z S you can't go for any cop/police procedurals/crime thingies because they'll just remind you longingly of the wire
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
like you don't want to be that guy who goes to a singles bar and just takes out a picture of his ex from his wallet and looks at it w/ melancholy
you need to go hanggliding or cow tipping
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
hmmm maybe i should download the first season of that show where a wall quickly approaches and you have to slip through the human-shaped cutout
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
or is that like being in the singles bar and playing big buck hunter by yourself for 2 hours
that's like watching the simpsons, there's always time for the simpsons
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
oooh, or maybe i'll go in the opposite direction and start watching Empire every night. and when i go out i'll tell everyone "I'm watching Empire every night, I am so obsessed", and they'll start talking about steve buscemi, and i'll disdainfully cut them off and say "No, I mean Andy Warhol's Empire, of course. It's brilliant".
/intenselook
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link