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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2010, 08:23:00 pm »
i try to like their old stuff,
the MBV cover of that one song is pretty good.

but their newer single is great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61rkMv6iF0c&feature=related
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2010, 09:02:24 pm »
I like it.  Jangly guitars and all.

Let the "Holy Crap!  Arkabee!" comments ensue.
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2011, 11:01:57 pm »
A must if you have not already been directed to this by someone else on the internet: On The Wire as a Victorian serial novel:
http://hoodedutilitarian.com/2011/03/when-its-not-your-turn-the-quintessentially-victorian-vision-of-ogdens-the-wire/
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2011, 04:52:17 pm »
Dammit I was just going to post that.

I've seen a couple episodes, but like Ark I've listened to the band a lot more.

Hey Ark, how ya doin?
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2011, 05:15:57 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on March 28, 2011, 04:52:17 pm
Dammit I was just going to post that.

I've seen a couple episodes, but like Ark I've listened to the band a lot more.

Hey Ark, how ya doin?

so so approaching fair to middlin.

you?
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2011, 01:31:02 pm »
Quote from: arkabee on April 01, 2011, 05:15:57 am
so so approaching fair to middlin.

you?

Lot of upheaval right now, but I'm pretty sure I'll be ok.
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #21 on: April 03, 2011, 12:09:48 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on April 01, 2011, 01:31:02 pm
Lot of upheaval right now, but I'm pretty sure I'll be ok.

i am endeavoring to persevere, myself.  would you like a plate, too?
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2011, 08:00:42 pm »
Quote from: arkabee on April 03, 2011, 12:09:48 am
i am endeavoring to persevere, myself.  would you like a plate, too?

Sure!
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2011, 02:03:35 am »
There is a character in the recent movie Cedar Rapids that is a fan of "the HBO series The Wire.".
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2011, 04:25:55 am »
"You slinging bean pies up in this mother fucker?"
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #25 on: October 15, 2013, 06:10:55 pm »
Man, I downloaded this show and just watched the pilot episode and I really, really liked it. Good to know I have entertainment/brain oblivion stored up for some months ahead. Five years from now I'll download Breaking Bad and will let you know what I think of it.
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #26 on: October 15, 2013, 07:55:32 pm »
YEAH! This show is excellent. The author also wrote a great essay about how he was inspired by a book I really enjoy, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Don't get turned off by the kind of slow start to season 2. It ended up being one of my favorites.
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Re: Anyone like the Wire?
« Reply #27 on: October 15, 2013, 08:24:10 pm »
The Wire was a great show. It really got me interested in television again. I don't have cable so I had no idea that television could be so good. Broadcast television had gotten so bad I had stopped watching altogether. The Wire is definitely cut from a different cloth than CSI or Law and Order or whatever.
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