Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day.  Here’s the logic for the following series of videos:  You can’t have St. Patrick’s Day without The Pogues.  (Hell.  “They’ll take you from this dump you’re in and stick you in a box/then they’ll take you to a prior and shove you in the ground/but you’ll stick your head back out and shout ‘we’ll have another round,’” while not only my favorite lyric in the McGowan canon is also a top-notch line to howl at a barkeep (a close second in both categories, obviously, is, “Lend me ten pounds and I’ll buy you a drink.”)  So we fire up our lat St. Pat’s coverage with a killer version of “The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn.”  Of particular interst is the late crowd shot of a swirling mass of pogoing Japanese fellows.

I can’t hear The Pogues at this point without thinking about The Wire.  The detective’s funeral from the first season (I think.  I’m right on that one, right?) is one of my favorite scenes from the entire run, at least partially because of the excellent use of “Body of an American.”  I miss Jimmy McNulty something fierce.

I can’t think about The Wire without thinking about Marlo.  While the funeral scene is one of my favorite scenes from The Wire, Marlo and company in jail at the end of season five is one of my favorite scenes in the history of television.  Every time somebody gives me shit at the office, I get in their grill and say, “My name is my name.”  I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip associative trip through youtube.

To close out this week, we’ve tunes got another artist playing the Toronto Island Concert.  I’m stoked to see Pavement, Broken Social Scene and Band of Horses, but I will be showing up early to make sure I catch Timber Timbre’s set.  Last year’s record was great and, I’ll wager, the material slays live.  Enjoy.

Timber Timbre – Lay Down in the Tall Grass

Timber Timbre – Demon Host (Daytrotter Session)