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Posted on the March 9th, 2008 under TV / Media / Music by Dan

Last week the final episode of David Simon’s The Wire was leaked, I just finished watching it.

I viewed the truncated season with mistrust, Season 4 had been powerful, funny and touching. It was also a dark, horrible slog to get through that ended on the blackest of low notes. I have been surprised at the majesty of these final 10 episodes, their wit, charm, the fact that it being the final season gave Simon licence to go wild, writing beyond even his excellent standards and bringing a fitting conclusion to the show.

I’m here upset not because of anything the show did in it’s final year (Although the regular ‘Where are they now’ montage will cause you to giggle like a child at one characters fate and immediately make you weep at another) but because that is it for ‘The Wire’. Whilst Simon even had characters within the show reading ‘Generation Kill’ - a journalist’s account of the Iraq war dealing with similar themes as The Wire, we must stand solemn and understand that a narrative as exquisite as this comes only once a generation.

104/12 - February 2008

Posted on the March 9th, 2008 under 104/12 (2008), Books by Dan

#1 - Belle Du Jour, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call-Girl by Belle De Jour
#2 - The Further Adventures of a London Call-Girl by Belle De Jour (30/1/08)
#3 - Lessons from the Land of Pork Scratchings by Greg Gutfeld (12/2/08)
#4 - The Naked Jape by Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves (21/2/08)

Reading:
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
It’s Superman! by Tom DeHaven

Up Next:
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
Don’t Feed the Ducks by Liam O’Connell

Purchased:
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Crash by J.G. Ballard
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Old Devils by Martin Amis

Recommended To Me:
The Damned United by David Peace (by Prof. Scott)
The Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Greig (by Katie B)

Anyone else have the feeling that I’m going to have a lot of catching up to do in the Summer? I should have read 20 books by March 1st…