Anticipating Treme aka "Tremé" - David Simon and his buddies do post-Katrina N.O.

clarke peters is so great

Yeah, advance reviews said that things would start slow and begin to pick up around eps. 2 and 3.

um, anyone know where I could find this streaming online?

Good episode! I had some quibbles here and there but nothing major.

what's it about?

Anyone know the song Steve Zahn was blasting out to his neighbors in the premier?

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.

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.

"I taught him everything he knows... about Keynesian economics." Love the Steve Zahn character.

xp Dude, that's "Shake Ya Ass". By Mystikal.

steve zahn's character is so fucking annoying you guys

the guy his character is based is even more annoying, trust

oh and New Orleans looks like New Orleans

For better and for worse, it damn sure does.

i liked it btw, and it'll be interesting to see where it goes post-pilot. so funny to see the rebirth dudes acting.

steve zahn's character is so fucking annoying you guys

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.

xp Dude, that's "Shake Ya Ass". By Mystikal.
Thanks.

he played bouncin' back too. must have had the greatest hits cd.

seeing as the thread with the correctly spelled title was locked someone might want to change this one. no accent yall.

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.

ya this doesn't show up in search

got it.

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.

dark music?

Yeah, it was a joke. "Dark" music.

As if all hip-hop offends all white people. You know, that kinda thinking.

"Shake Ya Ass" is one of the most joyous hip-hop songs I can think of.

And it's also got some nasty to it. It's a great goddamn track.

Haven't watched it yet(Don't have HBO but my folks do and they dvr'd it), but paid my respects to Treme writer David Mills (whom I knew from U. of Md. days on) today at his funeral. David Simon and relatives spoke. Hard to talk about it. Weird karma as well today in that the show debuted last night, that Mills' favorite George Clinton is at the 930 Club tonight, and there was a Washington Post article today on the long-lost Mothership stage set.

whoa, crazy, curmudge!

Wow. RIP David Mills, and sincere condolences to all near to him. I only know his work, but it's very fine work.

i wish lester was a better tambourine player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMlTehYDuBM

cuh did these guys really have to stoop so low to have a ridic comedy snooty english reporter for goodman to spazz out over?

otherwise predictably enjoyable & involving

Nto such a far-fetched proposition, though. Three months after Katrina, every journalist in the world looking to get some kind of angle on the whole godforsaken mess of it. The snooty Englishman was maybe not the most subtle choice, but I'll betcha that came from somebody's true story.

Yeah, it was a joke. "Dark" music.

― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, April 12, 2010 1:21 PM

"dark" music

xposts

Lester was fine with the tambourine. Agree about the English reporter, but also agree the rest of it was pretty good.

http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2010/04/hbos_treme_creator_david_simon.html

as imagined this is a topic for busy discussion at the bar. general feeling is warm tinged with nitpickiness ("you can't just go to the sewerage and water board and pay someone else's bill!"). much teasing of one of the regulars who can be seen standing behind elvis costello in multiple shots.

that is to say: all my post-k carpetbagger friends are clogging facebook with this "i cried SO MUCH god treme is so brilliant!" stuff but actual new orleanians are just happy it's not the big easy 2.

i thought it was good-ish, maybe needing a little more plot, loved clarke peters and wendell pierce and melissa leo and john goodman and khandi alexander, fucking hated steve zahn's character.

though that shit with tower records really did happen. those motherfuckers liquidated the entire local consignment section and didn't give the artists a dime.

Searching for Treme leads to a lot of X-Treme Sports stuff.

yeah, def interested in seeing what the actual plot is

such a trip to hear all these brass band musicians namechecked on tv.

on a super-nitpicky-no-one-cares-at-all nerd level: when wendell rolled up in the second line and the rebirth dudes make fun of him for stealing tyrus chapman's licks, the irony is that the trombone player standing next to him (staff0rd agee) actually played all the parts that you hear wendell playing, and they're totally signature stafford licks. so it would have have been funny & correct to have him accuse wendell of jacking his own licks.

Hopefully the Steve Zahn character is being set up for some horrible fate in an early episode.

i v much appreciate your super-nitpicky-nerd perspective, Jordan!

how bad can this irl davis rogan guy be then? i'm struggling to get my head around it.

i also love to hear jordan's take on all this

though that shit with tower records really did happen. those motherfuckers liquidated the entire local consignment section and didn't give the artists a dime.

― adam, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's fucking cold. like, evil even.

how bad can this irl davis rogan guy be then? i'm struggling to get my head around it.

― r|t|c, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:49 PM

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i wonder if they recorded rebirth outside or in a studio. they did a good job of matching up the footage to the playing, but you can hear kabuki playing trumpet and he wasn't in the scene. hope he shows up later, he's the best brass band trumpet player by far imo.

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xpost good luck steve zahn

Coming to BBC2...when??

HBO ordered a second season of Treme

loving the handheld camera work slipping around the musicians in the second line, really marvelous

great news about the second season reup as well