"The Wire" on HBO

i prefer s5

lock thread, do not start new one until january.

hmmm... poll...

no one cares abt cutty n kenans sandy vaginas

oh and alex's vagina too no one gives a fuck abt that

damn and heere i thought my vagina was omitted purposefully

he's right, I do kinda have that not-so-fresh feeling

j/k guys i totally care abt yr vaginas even if theyre not in such great shape

aw

if you really love me you'll go fetch that red towel

let me be the 1st to say: eeewwww

my work here is done

"thread killin creepy kenan"

places where the word "vagina" doesn't magically become funnier and funnier every time you say it: Knocked Up, ILE

yeah well you probably have a slightly different perspective since you like have one and it is full up w/sand

hmmm... poll...

woops...
erm... poll?

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.

Failing that, does anyone have a Youtube link to that scence in season 1 where they just say "shit" for like three minutes.

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.

Yo try tvt0rr3nts if you're not against upl0ading to d0wnl0ad.

jhoshea u my hero xpost

wait does s5 not start until next october?? did i miss that?

oh duh, january. sorry. !!! can not wait

they just took hbo offa my stolen cable

haha - ours, too. we're having a bit of a crisis over this.

i knoooow - channel 65 where u go wtf i miss u dan marino!

eh those shits are too big for sendspace - what site allows 300mb+ files?

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.

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

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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.

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.)

I'm waiting for the inevitable complete series boxset.

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

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

- *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.

man, that makes me smile for real.

LET MCNULTY BE MCNULTY

oh this season is gonna run deep

(lol mcnulty leaning on the pay phone talking on his cell)

omar explosions

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!

knuckle down -- it can be done.

wau @ obama wire shoutout

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.

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.

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.

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!

dan - are you planning on sleeping??? that's your problem, right there!

the real problem here is: i don't have cable, much less hbo. how am i going to watch season 5!?

dan: dvds
tehresa: torrents

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

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.