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Thoughts on Treme, so far

20 January 2012

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Once again, it is possible to immerse oneself into the magical synthesis of language, people and artifice that is the David Simon city-fiction.  What worried me, before seeing the 80 minute pilot of Treme, is that Simon would stray from the write what you know rule its inarguable that he is a master of all things Baltimore, but tackling post-Katrina New Orleans?
 

I have never been to...
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Still streets

20 January 2012
Ive been enjoying the Felt albums that were recently posted on Map Ref 41 93W, and during some web-based procrastination I read that Lawrence named the band after the word specifically as it is emoted by Tom Verlaine in Venus.  Television stirs in me a whirlwind of adolescent feelings, managing to catapult me back to the late 90s every time I listen to them.  Venus in particular...
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