"The Wire" on HBO

surprise surprise the things i like the most about the wire are when it gets kind of deadwood-y: using the structures of different parts of the drug economy to try to dramatize how things in the "real" economy and "real" politics work

goole - me too!

claims to realism always make me suspicious because a) there's usually an underlying aesthetic presumption that realism is somehow the most admirable of artistic virtues (which I don't agree with) and b) the term means radically different things to different people, so it's a fairly vague signifier. These two things in combination I find particularly annoying

the exposed mundanity at the heart of the drug drama is a beautiful lol xp

xp dayo - i don't recall people telling me I "had to see it" because it was "so real" - just that it was "so good" - so I didn't come at it with those expectations.

― sarahel, Friday, March 11, 2011 12:25 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

looks like we heard different things from different people, no wai!!

David Simon responds to Snoop's arrest

kind of symptomatic of Simon's incurable logorrhea that he felt the need to write a fucking essay about this and tie it into the show's thesis

kinda feel bad for snoop

or demonstrative in his passionate belief in the subjects of his concern (xpost)

it must be weird like being a huge breakout fan favorite star of a show out of nowhere & feeling like maybe your life has turned around in a way that you'd never foresee & then slowly realizing that there's nowhere to really go from there

that too, but i dunno -- i appreciate that he ends it with "I am therefore ill-equipped to be her judge in this matter" but he just climbs on the soapbox in the local media so often at any opportunity that turning a friend/co-worker's misfortune into a rant like this is just a little ugh to me (xpost)

im not 'starting' anything thnx for your input

― deej, Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is kind of amazing its like watching u spin around and around pointing your gun at anyone approaching

his name is his name, yo

kinda like when bodie gets offed

it must be weird like being a huge breakout fan favorite star of a show out of nowhere & feeling like maybe your life has turned around in a way that you'd never foresee & then slowly realizing that there's nowhere to really go from there

just like plenty of scenes involving omar go past what i can tolerate in terms of the violation of the parameters of reality

You know, if you wanted Omar to hew more to the life of his real-world counterpart, he would've lived and hooked up with Khandi Alexander.

http://hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wirepage136.jpg

This is pretty good: http://hoodedutilitarian.com/2011/03/when-its-not-your-turn-the-quintessentially-victorian-vision-of-ogdens-the-wire/

Herc is now following me on Twitter.

Link doesn't work for me, Stevie, looks good. (and pertinently amusing given my blethering last week about Victorian realism/workplaces/The Wire).

I wouldn't worry about it Eazy. They only had one good codebreaker, skinny white dude called Prezlewski or something -- he quit the force after shooting another cop lol. I hear he's teaching at Tilghman Middle!! That'll go well.

I think they had a surge in visitors and must have bandwidth issues. Here's the googlecached version of the article:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OknQr5ux00gJ:hoodedutilitarian.com/2011/03/when-its-not-your-turn-the-quintessentially-victorian-vision-of-ogdens-the-wire/+hooded+utilitarian+wire+victorian+novel&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

ha stevie u beat me

Eric Holder demands another season, "or a movie."

Since when did Reuter start carrying items from The Onion?

The Attorney-General's kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I've spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of The Wire if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition.

So you're saying there's a chance?

well played

no joke

lol actual search result on zipcar baltimore

http://oi53.tinypic.com/10z759l.jpg

wonder if the front fender is trashed

http://www.slate.com/id/2298074/

this (cancelled) canadian show 'intelligence' is pretty hot shit—wire fans might find it interesting/entertaining.

it builds up steam pretty slowly like the wire, and doesn't have all that much love to it, certainly not the sense of humor, nor the sense of locality (i kind of recognize vancouver in it occasionally, but it seems to leave out a lot of the city), but it's pretty non-stop by the end of the first season. (i mean, it it is all the way up to then too, but by the end every 20-second scene seems like it might be the one where the whole thing falls apart.)

oh and it's on netflix instant watch.

the second season has a little bit more of a vancouvery look, although it doesn't seem nearly asian enough and the show seems to never leave the city center.

the main agent mary's #2 turns out to be pretty droll too.

If it's cancelled, does it at least resolve in a satisfying way?

AV Club video on the locations in The Wire.

people really like saying "bodymore, murderland" huh

MURAMORE BODYLAND

― barrymore, murdrewland (J0rdan S.)

classique

If it's cancelled, does it at least resolve in a satisfying way?

nope, not really, but it's reasonable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoaCR0mL4Gg

0_o

for ref

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHT-VOLVFzQ&feature=related

why are you watching icarly, man?

kid's voice is sooo weird

!

i've never seen icarly

thats a really big wire spoiler, in case anyone's never seen it

yeah be sure to keep an eye out for the fat white kid.

he's thinner in the earlier seasons.

wow, amazing that they got away with that