'Treme' writer David Mills dies of brain aneurysm
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
same guy who did the famous sister soulja interview too iirc
― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
tuba dude might have an unrealistic idea about how much people could or should get paid to be in a cable TV series because he thinks it's a movie tbh. this and The Wire are not really megabudget productions.
― j@ggerlovesmanydudes (some dude), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
When does this actually start?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
11 apr
― rip sarah silverman 3/19/10 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
4/11 for americans (never 4get)
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
11/4 for britishes
― corporal buzztitle (cozen), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I knew David Mills at the University of Maryland and wrote for his Uncut Funk fanzine years ago. Oh I had a few little disagreements with him on some things, but we always talked things though. I just forwarded him something by e-mail a few weeks ago. He wrote some great articles for the Washington Post and wrote for a number of tv shows. Aww man, this is shocking to me. RIP
I was just gonna post this piece about the show-
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-03-30/music/how-treme-can-get-it-right/
THE VILLAGE VOICEMarch 30, 2010
How Treme Can Get It RightDavid Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans'surreal, heart-breaking fact
By Larry Blumenfeld
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, can't believe Mills is gone.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/03/david_mills_emmywinning_screen.html
― ☀ ☃ (am0n), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
goddamn that's fucking sad!
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
man :(
― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
48
terrible thing
― goole, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Mills first tried his hand at screenwriting with an episode of Homicide, written for his old friend Simon. The episode (starring Robin Williams) was named “Bop Gun” in reference to a Parliament Funkadelic song
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Plenty of obits and related pieces on Mills everywhere.
For those worrying about authenticity and getting the right musicians to advise--check out this indepth piece regarding consultations with brass bands and Cajun groups
http://www.offbeat.com/2010/04/01/hbos-treme-to-tell-the-truth/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a terrific article
― Brakhage, Sunday, 4 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
One more Mills (and Simon) piece with links
http://nymag.com/daily/tv/2010/04/david_mills_treme.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 April 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't read this yet
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/heather_havrilesky/2010/04/04/david_simon_s_treme/index.html
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 April 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Pilot episode goes on air at 10 PM Eastern this evening. No access to HBO right now, so no Treme for me, sadly. Anyone going to be watching/liveblogging this?
― Stefanthenautilus, Sunday, 11 April 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
can't imagine anything that would hurt my enjoyment of a show like more than liveblogging it tbh. i'm sure i'll post here after i watch it, though prolly on demand.
― fucka washa hat (some dude), Monday, 12 April 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 u joanie stubbs
<3 u bunk moreland
<3 u john goodman
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 12 April 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 u lester freamon
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 12 April 2010 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
enjoying this liveblog
― fucka washa hat (some dude), Monday, 12 April 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
was it good?
― k3vin k., Monday, 12 April 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not over yet!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 12 April 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
it's quality for sure, with great cast and appropriately great music (mystikal!!!)
first ep's just putting pieces in place so who knows really.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 12 April 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
oh and New Orleans looks like New Orleans
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 12 April 2010 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
steve zahn's character is so fucking annoying you guys
― horseshoe, Monday, 12 April 2010 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
clarke peters is so great
― horseshoe, Monday, 12 April 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, advance reviews said that things would start slow and begin to pick up around eps. 2 and 3.
― Stefanthenautilus, Monday, 12 April 2010 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
um, anyone know where I could find this streaming online?
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 12 April 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Good episode! I had some quibbles here and there but nothing major.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 12 April 2010 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
what's it about?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 April 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone know the song Steve Zahn was blasting out to his neighbors in the premier?
― Jazzbo, Monday, 12 April 2010 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i havent seen it yet, but was it this scene they talk abt in the nyt?
Davis turns apoplectic when his station decrees that he play old New Orleans standards during a pledge drive, songs that he denounces, in cruder language, as the New Orleans “canon.” He defiantly puts on “Buona Sera,” a signature song of Louis Prima, a New Orleans native son. It’s not exactly a radical departure from French Quarter fare, but it’s enough for Davis, who happily sings along, surrendering to the swing and sentimentality.
― just sayin, Monday, 12 April 2010 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
This was an earlier scene, where he's in his house and he put his speakers on his window sill to piss off his neighbors. It was the only song I didn't recognize.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 12 April 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"I taught him everything he knows... about Keynesian economics." Love the Steve Zahn character.
xp Dude, that's "Shake Ya Ass". By Mystikal.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 12 April 2010 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the guy his character is based is even more annoying, trust
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
For better and for worse, it damn sure does.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 12 April 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked it btw, and it'll be interesting to see where it goes post-pilot. so funny to see the rebirth dudes acting.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
But he's not supposed to be captain smooth or something. He's this overly verbose, really passionate, wanna-be-egghead jerk-off, but he really does mean well. It's like he stepped out of a Woody Allen movie into NO.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 12 April 2010 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Dude, that's "Shake Ya Ass". By Mystikal.Thanks.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 12 April 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
he played bouncin' back too. must have had the greatest hits cd.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2010 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
seeing as the thread with the correctly spelled title was locked someone might want to change this one. no accent yall.
― adam, Monday, 12 April 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
ps VAUGHAN'S YALL. i wonder if we will get more business so i will make more money and not have to get a real job.
― adam, Monday, 12 April 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
ya this doesn't show up in search
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Monday, 12 April 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
got it.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 12 April 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
The scene where the Zahn character turns his speakers outwards and blasts dark music at his neighbors made me laugh a lot, because I've actually done that. It was like 14 years ago, and I was turning my speakers to the University of Texas frat house across the street, and I was blasting Nas's "Represent". It was as obnoxious, useless and silly when I did it then as when he did it in the show.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
dark music?
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 12 April 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link