FREN

Garoo


31 may 2009

Just realized I seem to write “fuck” much more often in my blog since I’ve started watching The Wire.

Also, I want to shoot people dead.

Want to know when I post new content to my blog? It's a simple as registering for free to an RSS aggregator (Feedly, NewsBlur, Inoreader, …) and adding www.garoo.net to your feeds (or www.garoo.net if you want to subscribe to all my topics). We don't need newsletters, and we don't need Twitter; RSS still exists.

Frozen to the Touch, 5 years ago:

Omar never swears. How cool is that?

garoo, 5 years ago:

Hadn\'t noticed that he actually _never_ swore (Google confirms it).

But he cool all right.

Frozen to the Touch, 5 years ago:

hehe.

rhino75, 5 years ago:

I keep saying "a'ight" to people, but I don't think I'm very convincing.

garoo, 5 years ago:

But many of the actors are theatre actres from London (I need to find an interview of Idris Elba au naturel), so you should be at least halfway there :)

rhino75, 5 years ago:

:) ) true. But your U.S. accent is still better than mine. There's a good one of Idris in all his London-accented glory on YouTube called (perhaps unimaginatively) Idris Elba Interview on the account of one Omar Little. ..

garoo, 5 years ago:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_pvrS6oMA (contains season 3 spoilers)

Right. He doesn\'t sound very recognizably British to me, like Chuck Bass does in interviews. And he doesn\'t feel much nicer than Stringer Bell, either :)

rhino75, 5 years ago:

I had to check both, obviously. And you're right - Westwick's British accent is definitely stronger, he's got that great drawl going on. It IS a bit disappointing that Idris seems much more interesting as Stringer Bell than as himself - but Omar is still the star of the show for me :)

garoo, 5 years ago:

Interesting? Isn't he mostly one-note scary? :) Regardless of the drug dealing and assassinating, even in The Office it felt like he would break your neck if you looked at him funny. I wouldn't want to meet him, whether in- or off-character :)

Yeah, it's hard to believe that Omar is inspired from real-life characters rather than just a white man's fantasy of a gay cowboy injected into the show to make it cooler and/or more relatable :)

garoo, 5 years ago:

But watching the Idris Elba interview out of context you'd immediately tell he's British?

rhino75, 5 years ago:

hah, you're such a wuss! :)) Yeah, Idris sounds like a Londoner to me, especially when he says "wiv" instead of "with". I now want to go to Baltimore - anywhere that inspired both "Hairspray" and "The Wire" has got to be completely f*cked up (in a good way) :))

garoo, 5 years ago:

Just watched it again to catch it and (1) still don't see it, I guess I'm only familiar with the more stereotypical English accents and (2) damn I don't like that guy, I get an awful vibe from him and I'm glad I saw him in The Office first so I'm able to say it's not just because of his character :)

Yeah, the show makes me want to visit Baldmore like I want to visit Guantanamo. That is, not at all.

Legal information: This blog is hosted par OVH, 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France, www.ovhcloud.com.

Personal data about this blog's readers are not used nor transmitted to third-parties. Comment authors can request their deletion by e-mail.

All contents © the author or quoted under fair use.