That makes me smile.

You're, as always, a special kind of asshole, Corwood, if I can mix 'verses for a minute. It was "Hollywood" with "cocksucker", huh? I may not be a Milch, but I knew that "L.A." in such a spot is not as funny, although I couldn't say why...total instinct.

Also from the episode yesterday?

I loved the scene near the end, with Jane and Charlie talking to Bill's tombstone. It was so touching and heartbreaking. And funny!

That was beautiful, wasn't it?

It was "Hollywood" with "cocksucker", huh?

Well, sure.

so touching and heartbreaking. And funny!

This is why I love Deadwood and The Wire in a nutshell.

Yeah...not just the profanity.

Although Simon said(reach for the sky, motherfucker. I said Simon says.) that he used to get taken out of the story on H:LOTS sometimes because they weren't allowed to cuss like detectives.(I had that as a tag for a while, a quote by him to the effect that "No detective I know could tell that story without swearing at least eight times.")

Just watched The Wire 4.4. God bless HBO On Demand and my kindly friends who have it.

I just finished watching Deadwood Ep8: Suffer the Little Children. GUH! Nothing has quite creeped me out or made me as uncomfortable as Cy's killing Kristin Bell and her brother, since probably Reservoir Dogs. Seriously nervewracking and harrowing scene. The tension was almost unbearable.

And the episode was one of the funniest so far. I also really liked the parrallells and contrasts between Cy's scene with Joanie, in which she begs him to either kill her or let her go, and Al's utterly wordless scene with Trixie. This show has a lot of fantastic wordless moments. Music can be as much about the music you don't play as it is the music you do, and these players play their rests with as much precision as they do their notes.

I just watched the first season of The Wire in 3 days.

Damn, it's admirable.

I admire how panoramic and inclusive it is. I admire its responsible revulsion in the face of violence. And I admire that while it's savvy to the workings of powers, the storytelling never bends to bitterness, the characters are never cynically portrayed nor is there even a touch of nihilism in the way the situations presented.

I suppose it's a consequence of really immersing myself in the show that other things that have passed through my mind are viewed in the light of it. I read about Aaron Sorkin and his romantic fantasies seem more lousy. I read some Annie Proulx and her beatings with the depression stick seem more ham-handed. I watch some Battlestar Galactica and its ADD is even more apparent. Over the last few days, everything is being seen through my why-can't-you-be-more-like-The-Wire? glasses.

So, yeah, it mightn't be the best show I've ever seen but it's definitely the least foolish.

Three days? Wow, that's hard core. (looking at Corwood) Ok, who gets this toaster, bunk? My favorite Presidential metaphor is in 1.1. I compare the Shrub to Snot Boogie a lot. (that was, presumably, unintended by Mr. Simon, but I think he'd be amused.) "Ok, so you knew he was gonna steal because he does it all the time. Why did you let him play anyway?"

"Got to. This America."