Treme, S01E01, and beyond. Shit, fuck, shit.

How motherfucking awesome is Treme?

All music on the episode comes from a radio, a dj, live, etc... all the music is laced in. Song is so involved within the entire show, and not really a spoiler, but it continues as the series goes on... it reminds me of a Polish tradition... going to Poland with my dad, all they did was get together and sing songs (longer story there... ). We don't have that here.

A great scene of availability. I was about to type this up myself but someone else did it better:

"In the middle of the first episode of David Simon’s New Orleans drama “Treme,” chef Janette DeSautel has run out of dessert. And so, three months after Hurricane Katrina, she sells a customer the packaged Hubig’s pie in her purse, telling her sous chef to “dress it up baby – drizzle something on it.”

It’s the tastiest moment in the show – invoking a collective sigh from the New Orleans diaspora – and one of the most inaccurate. There were no fresh Hubig’s pies in the city at that time. The Simon Hubig Co. Inc., which did not flood but sustained serious roof damage following Katrina, didn’t reopen until the first week of January 2006.

“The fact that all she had in her diner as a dessert item was a Hubig’s pie was completely accurate,” Hubig’s Drew Ramsey tells CNN.com, recounting a time post-Katrina when the packaged pies were one of the only treats in town. “The fact that it was a month or so early was artistic license.”

Download the episodes here.

Here's the music to Treme (first episode, with links to the rest.. ), but honestly watch the series before the music. It's passion with research.

Let's start out nice, slow, mob like, and easy...



More links:
http://thesultanofsarcasm.blogspot.com/2010/04/hbos-treme-creator-david-simon-explains.html
http://treme-jazz.com/tag/hubigs-pie
Good: http://search.nola.com/treme?date_range=all

Love the series, and actually disappointed I need to wait for future episodes.