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Old 05-14-2008, 04:47 PM   #9
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Haha, well thanks for the advice. I will go to NYC as a trip of it's own, but I have family in Virginia near DC, so I'd at least go check out B-More. I gotta go to Marlo's spot and the American Brewery Building area...

Dookie, I'm in the process of watching The Sopranos from the beginning and I'm really enjoying it. Not on the level of The Wire so far, but enjoyable for sure, and Tony is a fabulous character. I've never had HBO, so I missed out on all of these shows pretty much until I started getting everything from the net. Never watched Entourage or Deadwood, both of which I heard were good also. HBO owns TV basically...

And yeah, definitely get Season 1 on DVD and watch at least the first 3 episodes in a row to situate yourself with the show. The first episode is more confusing than anything just because you don't know who anyone is -- the show works best when you watch it in large chunks anyway, but it's really disorienting at first because they don't do much introductory stuff...

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Old 05-14-2008, 04:55 PM   #10
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Best show ever, and I say that with 100% confidence. An absolute masterpiece. I've seen the entire series through 3 times and am in the process of watching Season 3 with commentary right now (my friend has the DVDs). I'll buy them as a set when they come out with Season 5, I'm sure... as a sign of respect/love if nothing else.

Can't wait for Simon's next project. I also need to go back and watch Homicide: Life on the Streets, because I missed that show when it was on. If you haven't checked it out, watch The Corner, which was Simon and Burns' mini-series on HBO following the lives of a family in Baltimore -- one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever watched.

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Yeah, I'm kind of obsessed with Baltimore and boarded-up rowhouses now. I plan to go visit B-More to check it out because The Wire made me feel some serious connection to the place.
First of all, Soldier you can kiss my a**. Stop hatin on my city, lol.

In all seriousness, there are a lot of great things about Baltimore but I would agree that a cross country trip just for Bmore would be, well, a waste of money. If you're in the area (northern VA/DC) and have time, drive on up. Hit me up if you want some suggestions.

As for the row houses, those areas are really better seen from a far... or on tv. The Wire is very accurate in a lot of ways. It really is a sight to see though, and pretty sad. I pretty much grew up not too far from where the Corner was filmed. The pockets like that are defining Baltimore b/c that's what's being put out there. It's good to bring light to it but bad that it's the rap the city overall is getting. Honestly, looking for the "bad" areas, you can hit up DC, Philly, etc. and the dynamic is a little different but it's pretty much the same scene.
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If you've never been to the East coast, you should avoid Baltimore completely. The city seriously blows.
I tend to agree with you about the city, but I still like to go to Canton, Federal Hill every once and a while and on a rare occassion Fells Point. But yeah Baltimore is crap.
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Old 05-14-2008, 05:02 PM   #12
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Yeah I feel sorta dirty going to check out a place that's so poor and looking at houses that used to have people in them as some kind of tourist activity due to a TV show. I dunno, in Denver there's not really much of an actual urban residential area -- it's either downtown (rich, full of businesses), suburbs, or little city neighborhoods. The whole area is something utterly foreign to me because of the surroundings in which I grew up -- and I'm interested to see it in-person after being so captivated by it via The Wire.

It's the same reason I love Amsterdam so much -- the design of the city is just so different than I'm used to (they even have rowhouses too, though they're canalhouses out there.. heh)...

It's just hard not to feel attached to the place when it really functioned as the main character in The Wire, which I absolutely adore. I read the god damned Baltimore Sun online every now and then just to see what's up in the city.. haha, pretty sad really.

I gotta ask -- is this actually still on North Ave?


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I havent seen season 5 yet but..... One thing that was so cool thus far is you can see the transformation of mike.....I love how he sticks up for dukie mike was the man
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also out of all the shows Ive ever seen no one has more of a pressince on the screen than Marlo evertime hes on he just wow's me....... everyone should watch this. This is the best way to describe it..... I tried watching it 3 times over the years if you can get past the first 2 episodes your hook line and sinker.
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In all seriousness, there are a lot of great things about Baltimore but I would agree that a cross country trip just for Bmore would be, well, a waste of money. If you're in the area (northern VA/DC) and have time, drive on up. Hit me up if you want some suggestions.
I'm not saying Baltimore isn't worth visiting, but if it's your first time on the East coast, you have Boston, Philly, DC, historical VA (Williamsburg, the president's houses, Jamestown), and some little city of New York.

Baltimore has its place, but if you've never been East, its place is not at the front.
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Best show ever, and I say that with 100% confidence. An absolute masterpiece.
I disagree with you maybe 1 or 2%. The Sopranos noses it out as my all time favorite and this comes from a former near Baltimorian. 100% agreement with you on the masterpiece part.
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