Treme

Since I'm at work I can't verify if this works or not but for those of us who love David Simon shows but don't have cable, here is the first episode streaming:
Treme Ep. 1
 
If you want to download the music from Episode 1 on Amazon MP3 check here: http://www.offbeat.com/playlists. I just posted pretty much everything that was available (just about everything except the closing credits song, My Darling New Orleans by Leigh "Lil Queenie" Harris).
 
I'd like to thank that dj dude for introducing me to Dave Bartholomew.
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Davis wasn't fired from the WWOZ for having a chicken sac'd on the air. No, it was his terrible mic technique?seriously unless that was some kind of miracle microphone his levels would have been all over the map. OK, not that a Simon show dipped into something I have direct knowledge of it's fun to have my moment of hate. Actually, I thought the scene was pretty funny.

So, my take home message from this episode is that the Mardi Gras Chiefs have to be seriously bad ass to earn the right to wear the giant feathered HR Pufnstuf outfit. I don't have an HD set so it was too dark to tell, but did Albert kill that guy? It was pretty dark but it certainly sounded like it, I suppose he'll stash the body in a vacant.

Finally, SLIM CHARLES!
 
Liked it and feel like it's going to only get better.

But, as I've said before, someone needs to off Costello.
 
So, my take home message from this episode is that the Mardi Gras Chiefs have to be seriously bad ass to earn the right to wear the giant feathered HR Pufnstuf outfit.
HR Pufnstuf, really?
 
I hated the scene with the street musician couple. Before they pulled the holier-than-thou attitude on the tourists, I thought they were recent arrival carpetbaggeurs.
 
I thought the same thing, R*ss! But the girl got a pass 'cause a) she wasn't rude and b) she's a cutie pie. Who is she??
 
Costello is in the series because they're trying to recreat an album he recorded in NO after Katrina. Just like the opening 2nd line parade in the 1st episode was to re-create the first one that happened after the storm. They're mixing in some real events into the series.
 
I hated the scene with the street musician couple. Before they pulled the holier-than-thou attitude on the tourists, I thought they were recent arrival carpetbaggeurs.
That scene was so low-budget it looked liked it was filmed on the backlot of Universal Studios. *cue bystanders in the background nodding head to casio keyboard/violin version of the Saints Go Marchin IN*
 
It wasn't a great scene, but it was a very David Simon scene at the same time. I think the episode was just about tourist tension, all as a build up to letting Lester kick ass. Hope the other dude was alright...
 
the dude that Lambreaux kills was played by a friend of a friend.

he told me they spray-painted a piece of hard foam to look like a pipe, and that Clarke Peters actually hit him with it pretty damn hard!

his character is, indeed, dead.
 
This is something I posted on another board, in response to some chest-pumping Texans capping on Louisiana...

As someone who mostly grew up in New Orleans and has spent most of my life since in Texas...y'all have some wack and basically clueless opinions about Louisiana.

Are people in Louisiana technically dumber, drunker, and more ignorant than in other states...probably, yes. Corruption runs rampant, pollution is off the meter, and old school-styled racism persists.

But all that's just on one hand. On the other hand...there is indeed the culture. New Orleans was for quite some time the New York of its day. And that translates today as not just all that great music and food, but the unique way that people of different backgrounds relate to each other. It's the only truly Creole place in the United States.

And just that so many in Louisiana live on swamps. It's a whole different lifestyle than you find among the dryfoots. When I moved to Houston as a teenager, down near Armand Bayou in Clear Lake, I experienced all sorts of similarities to what I had previously been used to down in New Orleans. I saw even more of the same when I would visit Galveston.

I dunno, it's hard to explain but there is something that comes with living in a swampy Afro-French gumbo pot of a place that gives everyone a certain charisma, a joie de vivre, that I have yet to find in other so-called superior places like say California. Compared to the model I grew up on in New Orleans, I honestly wonder what's up with all of these, and I don't mean to insult but I'm just being honest here...half-people that I've been forced to deal with since leaving Louisiana.

Texas of course has its own thing going on, being that it used to be Mexico and it's got its own flavor of cultural goodness. But still, Texans are less opinionated and more prone to frequent strip malls and live in cookie-cutter suburbs and are content to settle on what's popular/common rather than what's really hitting than are their crafty Louisiana neighbors.

But yeah, overall point is that if you are a Texan vigorously hating on Louisiana...you simply just ain't knowing.
 
I hated the scene with the street musician couple. Before they pulled the holier-than-thou attitude on the tourists, I thought they were recent arrival carpetbaggeurs.
I wholly agree. Is it just me or do some of the White characters seem a bit one-dimensional? Just a gut reaction so far. For the most part I am liking it, although I am missing the inherent tension that The Wire's cop show genre had going for it, gave it a lot more momentum than I am seeing in this series so far. But at least it is trying to bring audiences something new, which is certainly welcome.

And I too was confused about if Big Chief killed that dude, but I was distracted a bit while watching it last night.
 
I thought it was pretty obvious that the kid was dead. Lambreaux's body language suggested it, plus, although it was a dark scene, I think they showed the kid was not breathing or moving.

Oh yeah and the street musician chick is this girl, actor slash violinist from NY:

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http://www.luciamicarelli.com/ (website's lame, splash page and a link that takes you to myspace)