prosthetic knowledge
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Adam Curtis to make TV project inspired by The Wire (via Guardian.co.uk) Adam Curtis, the documentary-maker behind Power of Nightmares, has said he may draw inspiration from hit HBO series The Wire for his next major TV project …
Speaking about ideas for his next project Curtis, whose three-part series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace recently aired to acclaim on BBC2, said he was thinking of examining the links between “managerialism and criminality”.
“I am thinking about doing a series on how managerialism and criminality mirror each other,” he said. “In a series like [BBC2 drama] The Shadow Line or The Wire we see they mirror each other and I’m thinking of doing something like that.”
If I remember correctly, this point was brought up in Freakonomics, discussing how the drugs trade was becoming more business-like and middle class, just as middle class kids were adopting and popularizing the music and look of Gangsta culture.
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Attorney General Eric Holder Demands A New Season of ‘The Wire’ via TIME Newsfeed
I thought this was an April Fools or an Onion headline - but it’s a tongue-in-cheek comment, and very unlikely to happen
“Do another Season of The Wire,” he said to cheers. “That’s actually at a minimum…if you don’t do a season, do a movie. We’ve done HBO movies, this is a series that deserves a movie.” The tongue-in-cheek order came as an audience was shown clips from the show that depicted how children are exploited in the illicit drug trade.
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The Roots try to cover 'Devil Down In The Hole', the theme from 'The Wire' ... -
I want my corners by Kosmograd
It makes sense if you have seen ‘The Wire’
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Another one for ‘The Wire’ fans - look closely ;)
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via atonaldissonance:
I think anyone who loves The Wire will appreciate this.
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Snoop doin Dirt via dvda
From WBALTV:
BALTIMORE — The woman who played “Snoop” on HBO’s “The Wire” was among those taken into custody Thursday in connection with a series of drug raids.
Felicia Pearson was taken into custody as part of a drug trafficking sweep that targeted 79 people, according to I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller.Pearson was taken into custody on a warrant for state charges related to the drug investigation. Police entered her downtown apartment by busting in the door.The investigation covers a drug pipeline that includes Baltimore, San Diego and York, Pa., authorities said. The raids were conducted by hundreds of police officers and federal agents, Miller said.More on this can be found here
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | David Simon Part 1 of 2 | PBS
I’m a big fan of ‘The Wire’, but I only recently found this, an interview with the creator, David Simon. Anyone who is a fan and hasn’t seen this will appreaciate it.
Part 2 is here
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ancient and discomfiting fatalism
Much of our modern theater seems rooted in the Shakespearean discovery of the modern mind. We’re stealing instead from an earlier, less-traveled construct—the Greeks—lifting our thematic stance wholesale from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides to create doomed and fated protagonists who confront a rigged game and their own mortality. The modern mind—particularly those of us in the West—finds such fatalism ancient and discomfiting, I think. We are a pretty self-actualized, self-worshipping crowd of postmoderns and the idea that for all of our wherewithal and discretionary income and leisure, we’re still fated by indifferent gods, feels to us antiquated and superstitious. We don’t accept our gods on such terms anymore; by and large, with the exception of the fundamentalists among us, we don’t even grant Yahweh himself that kind of unbridled, interventionist authority.
-David Simon, in conversation with Nick Hornby, on the secret origins of The Wire
via emmetreads / boldslugger
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Major Crimes Unit by Brandon Schaefer
The Wire - Major Crimes Unit. Whenever I think of retro telecommunications, I think of AT&T from the 80s.
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