Paul: I think I may have found a way to edit the MP3 files that I create for our podcast so that they will show up as podcasts in iTunes just by dragging them in there. I’ll let you know if this pans out.

“You’ve invaded the female nation and spread your democracy.” lol

You could also try deleting the file and in iTunes and then clicking to download it again.

as for it being docudrama, some of the actors are street kids, some of the characters both cops and dealers are based on real people, and some events are likewise based on reality… but it is when the show fragments into thirty threads and never lets up and never succumbs to a formula (main characters disappear for seasons, seasons begin in mid-investigation with no prep). United 93 seems like a good comparison to what is being told in The Wire, likewise in Bloody Sunday… and this should not be confused with camera techniques but how stories are intercut and how there is such a sense of the system failing not out of some evil agenda but carelessness. By the end of the final season I truly felt like I knew Baltimore, that it was more than a show but a real place (seasons dedicated to certain areas of the city).

Obama may have been pandering when he said The Wire was his favorite TV show but I hope not, because a man soon to be president of the US having the capacity to acknowledge the genius of this show makes me feel safe.

Each season of the Wire is like a 13 hour movie, which we say a lot about a lot of TV shows but is especially true here. I dont think of most episodes even as chapters with proper breaks, its simply what happens next, over and over…

So like many movies, each Wire episode can go for a couple episodes like many films, where you’re paying attention but you know its really introducing things and concepts and it will pick up and become more gripping later… I rented all the Wire seasons. I rented disc 1, and never returned to it for months becuase I had been unimpressed with the start… by the end of disc 2 i had to see it through.

The same could of been said about iron man a couple weeks ago but it still pulled in 100 million over the weekend. I still don’t think speed racer will pull in 100 mil but i wouldn’t say its going to bomb, after all its a PG rated family movie.

Iron Man was a solid popcorn flick that handled the material well even though there was nothing overtly original about it.
And Sean, how could you not know that Bridges was the bad guy? It was clear in the trailers and they have him looking like some bad ass brooding motherfucker on the poster.

The problem with Speed Racer and why I think this movie will bomb is because the trailer looks like it was cut together from Star Wars out takes and episodes of Guiding Light. This highly melodramatic acting coupled with epileptic inducing CGI looks horrible and gives you know idea how the film will be.
I also think it will bomb because people don’t give a shit about Speed Racer and people don’t give a shit anymore about The Wachowskis. They’ve been away far too long.

Aannd. The Golden Cumpiss. Fucking genius.