“Omar Little” wind-up toy by Mister Frothee.
 
One of television’s most multifaceted characters, IMO, is The Wire‘s “Omar Little” played by intense actor Michael K. Williams. In a recent interview with New York Magazine, Williams mentioned the music he would listen to in order to get into character for “Omar.” Their Vulture blog went one step further and asked Williams for his entire playlist.  Apparently, ask, and ye shall receive ‘cos they got the full, hour-long playlist from him.

Williams warns: “I tend to stay away from the Omar playlist … I know where it’s gonna take me.”
 
01. 2pac “Unconditional Love”
02. Nas “Let There be Light”
03. Young Jeezy “Dreamin’”
04. Mary J. Blige “My Life”
05. Lauryn Hill “Oh Jerusalem”
06. Jay-Z “You Must Love Me”
07. 2pac “So Many Tears”
08. Biggie Smalls “Suicidal Thoughts”
09. Young Jeezy “Bury me a G”
10. Jay-Z “Oh My God”
11. Biggie Smalls “Who Shot Ya”
12. 2pac “Against All Odds”
13. Biggie Smalls “Everyday Struggle”
14. Nas “One Mic”
15. Lauryn Hill “War in the Mind”
16. Common “It’s Your World”
17. Lauryn Hill “Mystery of Iniquity”
18. Meshell Ndegeocello “Akel Dama (Field of Blood)”
19. Lauryn Hill “I Gotta Find Peace of Mind”
20. 2pac “Dear Mama”
21. Sun Tan “Sunscreen”

Listen it to in its entirety over at Spotify.
 

 
Thanks, Barb!

 
Actor J.D. Williams is well-known for his role as a drug dealer “Bodie” Broadus on The Wire, but fame can often be a double-edged sword, especially when NYPD officers approach the young actor—who’s also been in Oz, The Sopranos and Homicide: Life on the Street—as if they’ve seen him someplace before… or arrested him in the past!

Perception is everything, isn’t it? Williams spoke out about the NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” policy while participating in the “Silent March” in Manhattan on Monday:
 

 
Via Cynical C

 
All you need to know is OMAR IS BACK!!!

I’m in! Now where do I buy tickets?
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Characters from ‘The Wire’ made into little wind-up toys

Via The World’s Best Ever

From Left to right: Jimmy McNulty, Bunk Moreland, Bubbles, Omar Little, and Kima Greggs.
 
These wind-up toys of the cast from The Wire made me happier than a pig in shit! Especially the “Omar Little”! Mister Frothee designed these lil’ guys and writes on his Flickr page, “They’re each about 2.5 inches tall, and have weird proportions due to the small motors they contain.”
 

“Omar Little”

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Only fans of ‘The Wire’ will get this

Via Super Punch

 
David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, gives a sobering assessment of the future of America in these powerful clips from a 2007 talk at Loyola College.

Simon feels we’re headed for separate Americas, where the “haves” exploit the “have-nots,” and where human beings will lose their value. He faults “raw, unencumbered Capitalism” for making our country numb to the plight of the most vulnerable among us. America makes the wrong choices every time, he says, and unless we change, Simon predicts “we are doomed.”

The man is a genius, and as a writer and journalist, he’s explored the very darkest corners of our fraying “civilization”—trust me, this is really worth listening to… Keep in mind as you watch that this was recorded a year before the world economy did a belly-flop on concrete.
 

 
More of David Simon on the end of the American empire after the jump…

 
Kosmograd linked to this on BB Submitterator and wrote, “I found this in one of my mother’s magazines ...” I’m not entirely sure if this is a real ad or not, but I certainly had a good laugh.

 
Dangerous Minds pal, Steffen Schlachtenhaufen writes:

“My friend and I always thought it was strange that two of our favorite TV shows simultaneously had grocery cart pushing characters named “Bubbles.” A couple weeks ago we managed to get “Bubbles” from “The Wire” together with the actual Trailer Park Boys to see what would happen if their worlds collided.”

Two great tastes that taste great together: “I’m not changing my fuckin’ name, I’m Bubbles, not Goggles!”
 

 
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