tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post577767590838732524..comments2024-02-15T05:08:32.917-06:00Comments on Cliff's Crib: Treme : Week OneCliftonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389032037779987856noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-3481503743101823552010-04-30T13:18:06.968-05:002010-04-30T13:18:06.968-05:00Brilliant. I hope you keep writing about the show....Brilliant. I hope you keep writing about the show. I find it a little too sentimental. And I agree completely that the city is more about music and food. I do like that the producers are focusing on the recovery of the tourism industry with the character and her restaurant. I think it's a little corny that her trusted employer has a Caribbean (Haitian? Jamaican?) accent, tho.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-75936692153699152892010-04-22T11:07:44.529-05:002010-04-22T11:07:44.529-05:00I'm late to the party reading this post but Cl...I'm late to the party reading this post but Cliff baby - YOU NAILED IT! Brothers from New Orleans get down like that for real but ESPECIALLY musicians from the 6th Ward - they practically tear each other to shreds verbally and there is NEVER a fight over it. And women get in it too - calling the men all KINDS of "stank azz bytches!!" and the guys absolutely LOVE IT! Its like terms of endearment. The Dozens here in New Orleans is on a whole other level from any other city I've been in. We're only on episode two now but doesn't look like Simon's gonna touch that. I hope I'm wrong - that is so much a peculiar part of the culture, its really needs a showingRedhttp://www.notesfromneworleans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-66268967380388274002010-04-18T16:06:30.616-05:002010-04-18T16:06:30.616-05:00I'm glad you're bringing up how we're ...I'm glad you're bringing up how we're all too close to it personally to get a clear judgment of it.<br /><br />When I watched the Indian scene I got the whole "you a fucking crazy old man" from the looks his buddy was giving him. His wife was behind him laughing the whole time. <br /><br />However they were members of different tribes and the old man is a chief, I don't see them as being close as your daddy and his brothers would be ya know?<br /><br />I think Simon is walking in a minefield right now and we should be happy for what he gets right and keep in mind that it's a television drama.<br /><br />The one thing that grated my nerves was the "Hubigs" scene. Everyone I know called them "Hubig Pies." But seriously it's not a big deal.Superdeformedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691250420604584391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-57842494764681403752010-04-14T06:37:55.536-05:002010-04-14T06:37:55.536-05:00You're is hilarious and perfect, but it would ...You're is hilarious and perfect, but it would have ended up on the floor because it wasn't supposed to be that kind of moment. Making it comic would have robbed it of its mystic power, the whole ghost thing I wrote about on my blog, not just of Montana but the ghost of New Orleans past stepping out to speak.Mark Folsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16813261450396857232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-44237201267824758722010-04-13T21:40:02.015-05:002010-04-13T21:40:02.015-05:00Thanks Cliff.
That one scene really got me the mo...Thanks Cliff. <br />That one scene really got me the most.<br />I mean, this may sound weird, but it made me think of Ice Cream, soft served. I don't know why. I have a real problem fitting in with people who think they know what it means, yet New Orleans is the first place I felt that that didn't matter --and that was 30 years ago!<br />I'm jus'sayin, you and Jefferey are blogging thoughts I haven't even come to grips with yet. <br />Y'all have read my story. I am not in this story. I just couldn't come back. Blood on the tracks.<br /><br />However, I am planning to come home this year, hopefully this fall, and this portrayal frankly leaves me wretched. I mean... these gentrifiers just don't give a shit for us. That was happening before the Flood and this show seems so hipster... (Ordering Lemon Ice would be sacrilegious????)(I mean goddamn it come on!) like I need to move soon before the real estate gets like Portland or San Fransisco or I'll never be able to afford it.<br /><br />And we have another Season of this to work with...I don't know man, I just don't want to live in a cliche anymore. <br /><br />All that said, I also want to give Simon some room for the reasons you cited. <br />I guess I just expected more actuality. <br />That stupid scene with the Indian Chief really did make me want to puke though. <br />Leigh, I know you're blogging Treme and all, but if Simon had been doing his job on a deeper level, then we would not even have had that scene with the Chief. Cliff would already be writing for Treme. <br />It is one thing to visit this city and get Bit, but another thing entirely to invest a chunk of your life investing in the dream or nightmare whichever comes first so to speak.<br />If you're blogging this then tell Simon to drop the ostentatious references to Gelato and use more Cream.<br />I actually find Hipster Disneyland copying of a culture much more disgusting than the irreal thing: Disneyland.<br />I'm fucking sick of out-of-towners telling me about cool New Orleans.Editilla~New Orleans Ladderhttp://noladder.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-44249459014202607152010-04-13T16:12:43.222-05:002010-04-13T16:12:43.222-05:00So true, so true...I have 6 brothers and every las...So true, so true...I have 6 brothers and every last one of them are like that.alihttp://www.bayoucreole.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-6936507376110906612010-04-13T11:43:15.229-05:002010-04-13T11:43:15.229-05:00Haha! So true. And sounds exactly how the guys I g...Haha! So true. And sounds exactly how the guys I grew up with in da parish talk to each other too.Pistolettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03252937552656138163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-59890721283350524502010-04-13T06:54:45.690-05:002010-04-13T06:54:45.690-05:00Whoops, that's Lambreaux. I need a new keyboar...Whoops, that's Lambreaux. I need a new keyboard - the letters are wearing off.Leigh C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13654596932726420097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-57313652224290077642010-04-13T06:53:59.453-05:002010-04-13T06:53:59.453-05:00The LOOK was already on the guy's face when he...The LOOK was already on the guy's face when he looked at Lanbreaux...he just needed your dialogue to complete it. Yo, David Simon, we got your scriptwriter RIGHT HERE.Leigh C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13654596932726420097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-36488887652678794472010-04-13T03:45:52.241-05:002010-04-13T03:45:52.241-05:00*Like Button* LOL.. yeah man.. I need to see it!*Like Button* LOL.. yeah man.. I need to see it!Bookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00057567319075894582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-8315115878041297192010-04-13T03:12:48.327-05:002010-04-13T03:12:48.327-05:00Oh, yeah, Cliff, your dialog is much better than t...Oh, yeah, Cliff, your dialog is much better than the script. Hey, I'm white and from outa town; but thought the same thing about the Indian standing out there in the dark. (I was in NOLA 3 months after the storm, so I know the Guard would be flying past any minute. By the way, didn't they realize that 3 months after Katrina was "the Holidays?") I think there's a writer vacancy with the show, because of David Mills' passing. I wish they'd hire you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com