So, my bf lives in Baltimore, but he's never seen The Wire... until today.
I've seen it twice already. If you like shows where there is no hero, and everything is fucking messed up, give it a watch.
We might watch Tremé after it.
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Commentary: #NewOrleans' #SouthernDecadence is a #joyous #celebration of #queer #life.
What began 52 years ago as a #moving #party by a group of #friends from the #Treme to the #Quarter quickly became an #iconic #celebration of #gay #culture and #life.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Louisiana #Representation #Culture
NOLA.comCommentary: New Orleans' Southern Decadence is a joyous celebration of queer lifeAs New Orleans begins the 52nd annual Southern Decadence celebration of queer life and culture this year, it is important to stop and remember how important LGBTQ people have been to our city's culture and history. This year's celebration comes at a time when Jeff Landry and other Republicans are openly waging war against queer people, making the 2024 Decadence more important than ever as a symbol to queer people everywhere, especially children in other parts of Louisiana and the south.
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After Re-#Watching #Treme Re-#Reading #TheTinRoofBlowdown
some final thoughts on
Gratuitous Violence Post Katrina;
Whether COOPERATION or COMPETITION is the cultural norm in a country, there will always be a number of people with an extreme commitment to that norm. And nowhere is the social eugenicist’s wet dream of competition more normal than at the carefully constructed and maintained margins of US society.
The wonder is not that overt gratuitous violence exists, but how little there is. It’s not “all guns” - I’d wager policing adds to a great deal of it.
Re-visiting reports that during the first desperate week of Katrina the state ordered police and troops to open fire on looters, I’m reminded of the contrasting response to disaster in Japan, after Fukushima; and the sight of an old man weeping with shame because, after 3 days, he had broken into a house and stolen a bottle of water to take to his dying wife.
How much cognitive dissonance must it take to cling to the idea #Crapitalism is not violence? Not just unfettered capitalism, but an extreme capitalism reliant on government welfare directed solely at mega-corporations, and party crones.
Any god who can’t dream up a better way to order society than deny people even a CHANCE at somehow procuring basic food, shelter, medical care or a god that denies people even hope is a fairly shit god, and probably a god designed by someone with something they value more than other humans
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Re-#Watching #Treme (post Katrina New Orleans)
Review part 5
Found myself then re-#Reading #TheTinRoofBlowdown 2007
author #JamesLeeBurke was born in 1936 so his style and characters are a wee bit dated but I found his story about Katrina riveting all over again.
Tin Roof supplements Treme as a source of insights into all the rorting grifting and political disregard behind the US Federal govt inaction then non-response to Katrina.
Treme has a lot to say about why no one wanted those displaced by Katrina to come back (for a start, those remaining would be more likely to vote republican); and shows how billions were wasted on housing schemes. The Tin Roof Blowdown has the sort of commentary that makes some detective novels so satisfying; Place is a major character, and “the character of that character” is everything.
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Re-#Watching #Treme (post Katrina New Orleans)
Review part 4
Khandi Alexander (Mama Pope in Scandal) plays bar owner La Donna Batiste-Williams in Treme, and if it’s always a treat to see a powerful actor play the part of a strong woman, La Donna’s story will knock yer socks off.
Treme is full of great characters and stories.
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Re-#Watching #Treme set in Post Katrina New Orleans
Review part 3
Theatre
not just Mardi Gras, but a way of life
Special mention to the character DJ Davis played by Steve Zahn who flirts with being the most puerile spoiled white boy in film history (i would hate to live with him/ be his next door neighbour) but keeps being not all bad, especially his love for the political
(next toot we look at the character La Donna played by Khandi Alexander)
Here, finally frustrated with the music business he records “I Quit” - I’m sure i’ve expressed similar sentiments many times. over the years, but less artistically
(language warning)
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Re-#Watching #Treme (great armchair travel as well as entertainment)
Review Part 2
New Orleans is not just music, it’s also;
Food (tho none of it is my cappuccino cos i’m a picky eater)
“Stuffed Mirlitons”? When I learned mirlitons are just chokos I couldn’t help but wonder what chokos ever AREN’T stuffed eating?
Back to the chef character/ food theme; I did see a soft boiled egg that looked edible… until it was ruined by putting it on top of some other stuff
Chef in this show is both good at and passionate about making something a lot of people want, but still struggles to make a living. Chef tries harder and tries different, but learns Crapitalism still sux.
In this brief scene, a discussion on a shrimp boat
Re- #Watching #Treme (4 Seasons)
Review Part 1
(Katrina first landfall was 23 aug 2005)
Story:
Treme Follows several characters (whose paths sometimes cross)
in post-Katrina New Orleans
(a lawyer, a chef, wannabe musicians, established musicians, a businessman, a bar owner, an Indian Chief…)
(Think Altman’s Nashville, but far more entertaining and with much better music)
WRITING & STORY-TELLING AT ITS BEST
The Politics:
So much of the story is politics of Katrina because, well, life IS politics, as much as we’d prefer it wasn’t
e.g. The Hurricane was weather, but the flood and consequences were a man-made, federal f*-up, and the grifting that followed was … more in that vein
Characters:
Even the irritating characters in Treme have redeeming features (all likeable or tolerable - except the cops, of course)
The Music:
The series is set in New Orleans, so of course music drives much of the story, and a lot (tho’ not all) of the music in Treme is Jazz - not my favourite genre, but tbf the genre is a broad one.
Most of the soundtrack ranges from “okay” to “great”. There is even a metal scene 
So, lotta jazz, plenty of Indian (i.e. Native American), some country;
This scene is from an early episode;