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Any idea which season they're showing over there, Konal M?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

no but it can be found out i expect. are they up to season three now? didn't hear about it until recently. Brooker (on his BBC4 show) spoiled things a bit by talking about what's happened up to this point but brief enough to make watching still worthwhile i'm sure.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Season 3 ended around 17 months ago. Season 4 kicks up in the fall, I think.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

COMMISSIONER: Ladies and gentlemen, what you see on the table in front of you represents our department's answer to a culture of death and drugs. And when an officer falls in this war, others stand ready and carry the fight to the very doorstep of those responsible. Now this is only the beginning, I can assure you. But today, a message has been sent. And believe me, this message is being heard loud and clear, by all those who seek profit and power in the importation and sale of illegal drugs.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Cue Bunk and McNulty cursing and throwing their casefiles across the room.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"A Guided Tour Of The Wire's East Baltimore"

http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=11846

The other day I rode the bus that cuts up north on Gay St. and goes by that American Brewery Bldg and marveled at how insane that building is, it's really beautiful. Had no idea that was the sniper location in Homicide

(as a sidenote, the bus I was on had Blood and Crip graffiti, like "6 poppin 5 droppin" and "Crips 4 Life" and that was all x'd out with Blood stuff and B with an arrow up and C with an arrow down and "5 poppin 6 droppin." The strangest one was a five-pointed star with B-L-O-O-D at each point, and there was also a six-pointed star with a 6 in the middle. I guess Bloods are 5 and Crips are 6? Looked like weird occult stuff almost.)

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Really interesting article, just kind of silly in its hand-wringing over "tourism." Exploring poor and unfamiliar neighborhoods is part of being alive and loving cities. And is there a single actual former or current resident of the Lower 9th Ward who resents people going there to see the disaster? These strike me as news editors' conceits.

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Goddamn it, when is season 3 coming out on DVD?

-- Scott CE (sceldre...), April 21st, 2006 11:55 AM. (Scott CE)

^^^^^^^???!!!

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

hexagram = gangsta disciples/folks (rock blue + mix with crips) + pitchfork/three fingers. don't you listen to rap?

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

six stars and they shine so bright
disrespect my organization and you dyin tonight
take flight to chicago and visit the wild 100s
murders, dopedealin, kidnappins, we done done it
set larry hoover free, that's on a g, my nigga
six poppin, five droppin
we some brothers of the struggle.

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

now we gon start with the southside
where gds and bds and blackstones don't coincide
so, let me be your tour guide
so, when you in a certain area you will know what that hood ride
now let's start with the vulture
where folks throw up the fork sign to niggas they know they close to
at 49th and state some mingle
but just a few buildings north you got bds throwin three fingers
they call that the low
but back on 53rd and state them mcs be running the whole

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

is rap still alive?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Goddamn it, when is season 3 coming out on DVD?
-- Scott CE (sceldre...), April 21st, 2006 11:55 AM. (Scott CE)

I would like to reiterate this question, though I would like to add a "the fuck" after "when" and a "motherfucking" after "is."

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

dk thats dope that you know DA Smart. Those Chi Bangin CDs are classic.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I met this dude a couple months ago who was a friend of william upski wimsatt, the cat who wrote 'bomb the suburbs' and 'no more prisons.' He was telling me about how when Upski went through his 'jew power' phase or whatever he would wear this chain with a star of david around his neck, and he was visiting this guy and he was flipping out, like "William, you can't wear that shit around here!"

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You know Jiggs & Cheeks? (off topic)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

lol Scott

in answer to dk, if not having the foggiest idea what those lyrics are from = not a rap listener, then guilty as charged

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

the first one i had to google and DK's blog came up...its some obscure Z-Ro track. The second one is D.A. Smart, who's from Chicago.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

(Wild 100s is the far south side, as in 100th street - the El stops running at 79th so its the farrrr south side. I have a friend from down there who i barely ever see.)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought Z-Ro was Houston, not Chicago

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

that's the only d.a. smart track i know! that's a great song, though. i put it on a cd i made for ethan.

and it was mr 3-2, not z-ro! z-ro is nominally a crip, mostly out of affil with s.l.a.b. and all the old s.u.c. dudes.

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/govtnames/ro1.jpg

totally bizarre, ro claiming 5-2 hoover and everyhting but being famous for rollin one deep/can't trust nobody/i'm my own gang raps!

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i put my trust is no man, only my motherfuckin block
cause she ain't never let me down before
fuck a gang, i follow my bitch cause she be bustin rounds for ro
unlike my homies cause they phony than a motherfucker
even my broad cause she might be fuckin another brother

damn

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ME AND MY NIGGAS USED TO BE THICKER THAN SAUCE
NOW THEY DON'T EVEN COME TO THE HOUSE
I'M DROWNIN IN PAIN, FEELIN THE PAIN
AND I REALLY DO MISS MY KIN
BUT A MOTHERFUCKER LIKE ME GOTTA FEED MY FAMILY
ONE DEEP I BRING THE PAIN

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and i want to mention da vinci's inquest here cause i love it and i just watched the last episode. it works with the same sort of ideas the same way, especially the last few seasons, municipal politics + a failed community + focusing on the people pitted against each other.

― 333333333333 (33333), Friday, 26 May 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Goddamn it, when is season 3 coming out on DVD?

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3323309

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 26 May 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

0 seeds in 0 peers

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The DVDs are coming out first week in August, I think. I worked on the DVD production, and they've been done for a long while-- HBO's been sitting on them until now, for whatever reason.

― antexit (antexit), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, Deadwood 2 DVD is just coming out now, only a couple weeks before Deadwood 3 starts airing. So, take that as a hint.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Friday, 26 May 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

they've been done for a long while-- HBO's been sitting on them until now, for whatever reason.

i knew it! i guess season 4 airs soon after, is that why they are waiting? otherwise wtffffff

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

and that is dope btw antexit, i envy your job

also this is worth linking to:

Darkroom Productions Takes Baltimore Hip-Hop From Hamsterdam To Hollywood

http://www.citypaper.com/music/review.asp?rid=10233

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

SEASON 3 NOW SEEDING!!!

(are these going to be mpeg files or what? probably some format that can't play on my comp.)

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

when I dled s3 it was divx.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Friday, 26 May 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah season 4 starts in September and I think the season 3 DVDs will be out around the same time, shooting just wrapped a couple weeks ago. I'm finally just about caught up with every past episode, so I'm pretty hyped about the new season, also because I know a ton of people (including Darkroom) who either did music for the new season or have small acting roles in it.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

would dimensions in music have that hamsterdam mix for sale? or mondawmin mall?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, I haven't seen it in either of those places. you can get it from Darkroom's site, though:
http://www.darkroominc.com/Store.htm

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 27 May 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(are these going to be mpeg files or what? probably some format that can't play on my comp.)

http://www.videolan.org/vlc

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 27 May 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

tried that, there was no sound and the picture was messed up

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

it it completely downloaded? apologies if you know this already, but torrents can't be watched if they're only partially downloaded.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 27 May 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

last night i bro'd down with ziggy. as weird a guy as he seemed on the show.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

shit i'll try it again - xpost

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

good 2 go, tnx doods! way waaay better than season 2 so far

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm quite new to The Wire, having gone out on a limb and bought seasons one and two on dvd in April and completely pigging out on them. I'm now absolutely obsessed with it and find myself urging people to watch it and scoffing at their ignorance of what has to be the finest television series if not ever, at least this century so far. I'm a massive Sopranos fan too, but I have to say that this has it beat.

I'm currently watching the re-runs of season three on FX and I'm two episodes away from the end. Fuck knows what I'm going to do without it! I love the way that even the smallest, most peripheral characters (Butchie, Landsman, Clay Davis) are so well fleshed out and even though you know very little about them, their motivations are so clear and believable.

Each scene is a work of genius (maybe I'm piling on the hyperbole, but hey, fuck it), but if I had to pick a favourite, it's Omar in court in season two ("I shot the boy Mike-Mike in his hindparts") when he completely turns the cross-examination on Levy. Priceless. Also, in season three when Cutty is telling Avon that he's leaving the game brought a lump to my throat.

Just wanted to get that off my chest.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Sunday, 11 June 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

> if I had to pick a favourite, it's Omar in court in season two

I also love the aftermath of that scene.

McNulty: "You really see Bird shoot that man?"

Omar: "You really asking?"

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 11 June 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Cutty is so awesome in a Jerome Bettis kinda way.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm starting to watch season 3 a second time, its my favorite so far. i like the guy marlow and the dudes under him, their characters are really understated and believable. how is season 4 gonna top this?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM about Marlo. That scene where the girl that Avon's sent is coming on to him is brilliant. The level of paranoia that's in his head really comes through in the guy's performance. Scary stuff.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Just noticed that the season 3 opening theme is by the Neville Brothers. the end credits music is dope, I never really get tired of hearing it.

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Monday, 12 June 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"got that WMD right chea, right chea"

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Back in SEPTEMBER?!?!?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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