Homicide: Life on the Street: classic or the best show ever created?

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I'm okay.

Dude, you should def. move to Mtl so then I can visit you and s1ocki at once! Either way, I'll hopefully be out that way sometime next year.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll buy you a beer and we'll solve a MURDER together. In a funny way.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Although as someone who moved from somewhere big and oppressive with many opportunities to somewhere smaller and more beautiful with few opportunities - I'd say you might want to chase those opportunities.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Mtl seems to have the most going for it. It has three significant open mic nights (4 if you include the french one, and don't think I'm not considering it) and it's also within reasonable distance of NYC, where my uncle and famous aunt live and could definitely hook me up.
One of my best friends lives in Toronto though, so that would be cool, and he's persuasive, but I have to keep reminding myself not to do shit just cuz other people want me to.

xxxpost.

We can be like Lewis and Kellerman!

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

oppressive¿ xpost

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.savannahnow.com/diversions/images/110802/full_comedian.jpg

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

oppressive¿

maybe I'm overdoing that part, I don't know.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

yes¡ not being able to buy beer at the corner store /= oppressive¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

do you like Homicide, dyson¿

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

the show or the crime¿

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

$725 - Bachelor Apartment = oppressive

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/web%20images/OverboardCvr.jpg

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Spending more than 90 mins UNDERGROUND each day = oppressive

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

the show or the crime¿

both

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

this new image posting bs is oppressive

xpost - both are okay i guess

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I prefer the Kurt Russell/Goldie Hawn version, thanks.

xxpost

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I should probably watch this show.
If you guys are going to solve a crime, I can be the mob snitch who acts all tough at first but quickly cracks under your abusive interrogation.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

You don't look like much of a mobster, St. Nicholas.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

cummon that cover is, like a million zillion times better¡
xxpost

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I reckon I'm going to look more like a convincing homicide detective with age. as long as I don't lose my hair.

Then i guess I could be like Mackey...

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

My name is Nick! That's kind of like a mobster name.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Shut up! I don't even want you to say anything. We dragged you downtown not because we wanted to hear what you have to say, but because we want to send a message to all the lowlife belly-crawlers out there who think they can get away with this. You're not even special, you're just a completely random smokehound who's about to find out what the bottom of my shoe looks like.

xxxpost~!

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

My brother's name is Nick. He is a skinny indie hipster kid from North London. I cannot shake this association.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

when i think of a typical "nick" i think of this goofy pothead friend i used to have who would do dumb-ass things like getting pulled over for smoking a bong behind the wheel and blowing an entire paycheck on k instead of rent¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Why so quiet, Huck?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

you frighten me.

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

REALLY?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

No. But when I saw this thread pop up again, I was thinking about you and the Shield and stuff. And how we don't seem to cross paths that often anymore. And then, hey now!
I was just noticing last night, while watching some of the Emmys, that I don't watch any dramas on TV anymore, although I caught the end of a recent Columbo TV movie earlier last night on A&E and was really excited by it and wanted to watch more Columbo. Peter Falk reminds me a lot of my grandfather.

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are you NEVER on AIM?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Tonight the post-series Homicide movie is on, on Hallmark in the UK. They have scheduled it opposite a brand new networked Sopranos episode, which seems very dumb, as surely that must be broadly the same audience (and the Sopranos is in the same time slot as Homicide's great days, on the same channel). I saw this movie only a few months back, so no contest for me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

How do we feel about the movie, with its sudden and abrupt introduction and acceptance of the supernatural into the previously strictly quotidian continuity?

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Personally, likewarm. And what a bummer about Bayliss.

― savetherobot, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't remember that. I remember being kind of disappointed in the whole thing in general, and the somewhat League of Justice Superfriends quality of gathering up Bayliss et all from wherever they were, and that there was no Ned Beatty (maybe there was, I don't remember), but I do remember being pleasantly surprised by Jason Priestly.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned Beatty was there. He had some really good moments. I thought, in a lot of ways, it was more of a tribute to the actors than to the characters.

― Huk-L, Monday, 20 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I finally picked up the first season DVD set earlier this year. It was pretty good (braugher + kotto + beatty = asfklagklh!!!) but i think I've been spoiled by The Wire. also the last few seasons of OZ were so outlandishly bad that anything having to do with Tom Fontana instantly makes me kinda queasy.

more importantly, did anyone see The Wire's season premier last night??? I was out and couldn't catch it )): but i'm sure HBO will dedicate a metric fuckload of programming time to repeating it in the next week. It's easily the best TV drama i've ever seen (tho that assertion carries little weight since i don't see so many tv shows)

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i missed it, it will be on again either tomorrow night or wed. on hbo and again on HBO2 at some point. I like the Wire but as I've said elsewhere, it's really hard to follow for me for some reason. it's very plot driven and less character driven than Homicide which means if you miss and episode you can get lost pretty quickly. HBO also seems to have not promoted it much during it's first two years on the air and dedicated all their time to the Sopranos and 6 ft. Under, but maybe that'll change with this season.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, i understand HBO's plight tho bcz promotion will only do so much for a show with such a steep learning curve (also it's not a very saleable concept). I'm just glad they're sticking with it, considering that the audience seems to consist mostly of old Homicide fans and, uh, all rappers everywhere.

I've always found it hard to understand complaints about difficulty following the show, I guess bcz I was lucky enough to have seen the first and second seasons in order. The plot-driven nature of it ('it's like a novel... ON TELEVISION' etc bhlahalhglh) is honestly one of the biggest hooks for me, I have zero patience for shows like the Sopranos where NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. i need to give the other Homicide seasons a shot, but for the most part I find the characters on the Wire much more compelling and resonant. (i really shouldn't be comparing the two shows so much, they're entirely different beasts - they just happen to use the same launching pad)

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think Homicide really picks up until after the first season, so yeah, definitely check out later seasons first before giving it the mehhh-of-dismissal.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Seasons 2 through 4 of Homicide are the best, I think. Season 5 might be pretty good. But I think if I had to choose just one, it would be 3. But season two is when the characters really become their own entities rather than merely based-upon the real cops in David Simon's book.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are you NEVER on AIM?

-- adam. (adamr...), September 20th, 2004.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Because it's better that I disappoint by not showing up than disappoint by showing up. Or something like that. Sorry.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i missed all but the last episode of the first season of the Wire, which is why I was confused about parts of the second season.

def. hit the second and third seasons of Homicide, they are transcendent. like I said above, in retrospect, even the much-hated final season was pretty good.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I have the season premiere of the Wire on a preview tape, I don't think it airs in Canada on non-digital TV. Will I be lost?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

probably

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

There is no joy in my life.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

the wire's incredible btw

one thing that really hits me when i watch these (homicide) on dvd now is just how much you can occasionally see the network meddling with it, well before the final season (and not just crossetti getting knocked off either).

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Crosetti DIED! Nooooooooooooooo!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 October 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Yaphet Kotto smoking a cigar and wearing a leather jacket and headband on his day off = classic.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 October 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, that reminded me of Kotto in:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003ETHD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Mucho Classic

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Thursday, 21 October 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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