what your sister really wants is for you to happy
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
she really wants the wire box set; she told me! i have to give it to her
― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i just ordered this.
xposts ha ha!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
buy her a spool of DVD-Rs and invite her to come over and burn your new wire box set any time
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
make her some wire box set cookies
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
xerox the boxset artwork
― shook pwns (omar little), Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:02 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lols this would be awesome
― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
tell her that her edition is actually a super-rare promo copy they sent out to members of SAG
tell her it got stolen
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
one time i bought her a degrassi dvd set that did get stolen. it was a tragedy.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Was it old Degrassi or new-school Degrassi?
― nabisco, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
new-school! she's a child; she's never seen old degrassi.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
children shouldnt watch the wire
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
well by "child" i mean 25 on her birthday
― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
shes older than me! you should give me the wire box set instead
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Did this get posted somewhere already?
5 seasons in 5 mins
― Alba, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i admit i am kind of hoping she already bought herself one. then i will keep it and get you a nice new spool of DVD-R's!
xpost to max
― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm on two episodes a night. Can't stop. So many other things I should be doing, but all I want is more Wire.
― krakow, Friday, 23 January 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
A lot of complaints about the packaging on Amazon. Maybe I'll wait for them to re-package?
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Saturday, 24 January 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I finished all 5 seasons in a week. It was a weird week.
― iatee, Saturday, 24 January 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
We're getting through very slowly due to our schedules. Just about to start Season 5.
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Saturday, 24 January 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e51/burgersub/dukie.gif
― eman, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i received the complete series in the mail today and promptly mailed it to my sister. feeling sad + virtuous.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 5 February 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
My copy came in yest. Horseshoe u r a saint
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 February 2009 02:56 (fifteen years ago) link
omg big hoos you're her sister??
― LOOK WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLA (deej), Thursday, 5 February 2009 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
shh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 February 2009 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
HOOSshoe
― max, Thursday, 5 February 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i dug out this thread only yesterday having only just finished watching first season. 7 years old? fuuuuccck...
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 5 February 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
it's probably been said in this thread, but the date thing is less pressing, in a way, coz the show is or could easily be set in the 80s. loads of stufff in it is taken from stuff in d.simon's book, which was written in the late 80s and refers to loads of pre-1988, even pre-crack wars stuff.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 5 February 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Shamefully, I'm only now finishing season 1 and the 80s thing occurred to me too - most obviously how it all seems so pre-internet: all that lengthy exposition and montages of legwork going round city offices getting the paper trail of businesses etc. Plus, you know, how they are always using lol typewriters and lol tippex.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
(id actually argue that it 'is' set in the 80s, the first season. spoiler but the high-rises were 'in reality' demolished in the (i think) early '90s; in the show they are demolished at the start of series three.)
― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
would they have had pagers on the streets in the 80s tho?
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Stevie - newer technology makes its mark in subsequent seasons in interesting, sometimes amusing, ways.
― Alba, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Whenever I see the pagers I can't help thinking 30 Rock's Beeper King could have made a killing in Baltimore.
"Excuse me, I 'm expecting a call - from 1983."
― Stevie T, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
The only thing that gave me any sense of when episodes were filmed was brand names that they had for the heroin they were selling - WMD, Pandemic, Bin Laden, Brokeback, etc.
― ☺♑ (joygoat), Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
and the whole disposable cell phone thing, I imagine
― miss precious perfect (musically), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was really curious about the police technology in the first season -- I couldn't decide how much it was dated due to Simon's era and how much it was pointedly dated to point up that the department is aging, technologically behind, under-endowed, etc.
― nabisco, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess the combination of those two things is convenient, since pretty much anything will fly
― nabisco, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i always assumed it was the latter viz. the FBI having all the good shit
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, also i feel like the diegetic music in season 1 is pretty late '90s?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
like i feel like i remember black star playing in someone's car+ lucinda williams playing in ronnie's apartment...
― horseshoe, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the credits theme is so lush
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
in one episode Omar is jamming Spearhead 'Rok The Nation (Tuhoe Nation Mix)' in his jeep and i was thinking no way would this guy be down with Franti ha ha
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
there's also that moment in season 2 when ziggy and nikky are searching on MSN for what potassium permanganate is used for and nikky is like, "so you type in questions and it just tells you the answer" and ziggy explains the internet? this seemed like a thing about how some communities were being left behind, rather than exposition for the benefit of the audience or a product of the books/research be old.
― caek, Thursday, 5 February 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry, that was illiterate. you get it though.
obviously it's not 'actually' set in the 80s -- think the first ep mentions 9/11 -- but it is just odd how much stuff, even little stuff, like herc blasting 'theme from shaft', is in the (c. 1990) book. moreover the show 'homicide' is way more NINETIES than 'the wire' was NOUGHTIES if you see what i mean. (i think i just mean they had more arguments about political correctness in 'homicide' really.)
― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 5 February 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
that is true.
― caek, Thursday, 5 February 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
The technology speeds up pretty rapidly by the second series, all that GPS stuff for instance.
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I only watched the show starting about a year ago, so it was fun to be able to tell when the episode was originally aired by the rap songs playing out of cars.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Thursday, 5 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link