I am addicted to The Shield

[Stouffer]

Entire series 1-7 for 40 beans.

 

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[Sugar Ape]

Watching it again for the 3rd time, at the end of season one now. Came across this article about Tomas, the gay lad from the first couple of series, quit acting to become a solicitor and start up a church. Weirdo.

On Sunday, September 18, for the first time ever, the Tivoli Theatre in the Loop will begin renting out its space to a religious congregation: the U-City Family Church.

 

Other cinemas across the country have been doing this for years, including the local Wehrenberg chain (its Des Peres 14 Cine has hosted a start-up church since August).

 

But the venue isn't the most interesting part about the church in the Tivoli. It's the pastor: He's a former Rhodes scholar and B-horror flick actor who now practices law at Bryan Cave. His name is Brent Roam.

 

The 40-year-old Roam comes from preacher lineage. He says his granddad, a boxer and bus mechanic, launched a "hard-core, super-strict" Pentecostal church in Wellston back in 1948.

 

Interpretation of the Bible was literal; movies, dances and baseball games were forbidden. That's how Roam's father once got in deep do-do: He pedaled his bike into the Loop to see a movie. (Yes, at the Tivoli!)

 

But when he grew up, Roam père became a Christian minister himself. He moved to Bridgeton to raise a family, which came to include his son, Brent.

 

While at Pattonville High School, Brent Roam became good at two things: wrestling (he rose to team captain) and questioning the Pentecostal faith in which he'd been raised. After studying at UMSL and Mizzou, he received a Rhodes scholarship. It was at Oxford that Brent Roam became "a complete non-believer."

 

"I was asking questions," he recalls, "and I didn't think religion had good answers."

 

Thus began a peripatetic period of artistry. First, he toured with a theater troupe to India, where he played the Fool in King Lear.

 

Next, he moved to Los Angeles, where he landed some gigs acting in commercials for Kent cigarettes, Mustang and McDonald's. He was cast major roles in horror films such as Toolbox Murders and Tremors 4 and appeared in the first two seasons of The Shield.

 

At the time, he was also singing lead vocals for the alt-country outfit Slydell. He still has the tattoo on his arm to prove it. (After Slydell disbanded, the back-up singers became The Watson Twins; other members joined Beck and Everest.)

 

But for all his success in music and acting, Roam says, he was miserable. He wasn't much into drugs, although he drank some. He felt he had "no moral compass."

 

Then, in 2004, his father died of a rare blood disease.

 

"It was a dark time, to be honest," he recalls.

 

One day at a bookstore, he picked up a copy of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity and flipped it over to the back cover. Anthony Burgess, author of the famously macabre novel A Clockwork Orange, had written a glowing blurb for the book.

 

"I thought, 'If he likes it, I should give it a shot.'"

 

So he did. And what followed was a full-blown conversion experience, which Roam acknowledges "sounds bizarre to folks who've not experienced it."

 

He tracked down a girl who'd come see his band play. Her name was Rebecca. She was nine years his junior, and she'd never left his mind. Within a year, they were married. Roam earned his law degree at Arizona State University, and the couple moved back to St. Louis in 2008, where Roam was hired as a commercial litigator for Bryan Cave.

 

Encouraged by mentors, he decided to "plant" his own church. But he needed a venue. So he approached the management of the Tivoli.

 

"I was a little hesitant," he confesses. "I didn't want to come off as a weirdo. But they put me at ease, and they were far more enthusiastic than I ever dreamed of. And, they weren't doing anything on Sunday mornings anyway."

 

And so an irony came to pass: Where once his father entered and got punished by an intolerant church, Brent Roam entered and created a tolerant one.

 

Services will begin at 10 a.m. every Sunday in the main auditorium, with music performed by The St. Louis Big Band, a horn-heavy swing ensemble (Roam says they'll be playing an "eclectic, soulful mix").

 

The meat of the service, Roam says, will focus on "the core principles that are shared among Christians from every denomination throughout history."

 

The Loop may not seem a natural place for a church: It's where you get a tatt, drop money on clothes, get drunk, pick up a "tobacco" pipe or comics -- in short, it's commercial and hedonistic, with at least a remnant of anti-establishment ethos. What it ain't is a model of Christian decorum.

 

Brent Roam: From Slasher Films to Sunday Morning Salvation at the Tivoli - St. Louis News - Daily RFT

 

I'd do his bird though, she's got that manical religious look in her eyes. Probably filth in bed. Actually, looking at it again she's got a terrifying neck.

 

[Sugar Ape]

Forgot how much I hate this cunt.

 

[Kevin D]

Oh, aye. Right from the off, as well.

[Section_31]

Mara was an act of genius by the writers. How better to break up a bunch of mates by giving the most insecure one an attention-whore bird? That bit where we first meet her, she kisses him in front of them as if to say 'watch this' while they all stand there feeling awkward, we've all been there, but probably when we were 16. So much of the Shield's genius, despite its rep, is its subtlety. Just an incredible show.

[Guest ShoePiss]

I haven't watched a single episode, I might save it for long flights coming up.

[Kevin D]

Scandal | PBS - L.a.p.d. Blues | FRONTLINE | PBS

[Charles Penrose]

About five years ago I drove to a drugs warrant with Kid Rock's Bawitdaba blaring out of my phone on loudspeaker. The rest of the van didn't know what was going down, but I sure did.

 

Sadly, there was no answer at the door and we weren't overly sure of the 'intel' another Officer had collected to swear out the warrant. I didn't want to spoil a nice front door to be honest, and UPVC are a pain in the arse to get into without gassing out on your tenth attempt.

 

Consequently, no-one shot two time and Terry Crowley didn't take a bullet to the cheek.

[Section_31]

About five years ago I drove to a drugs warrant with Kid Rock's Bawitdaba blaring out of my phone on loudspeaker. The rest of the van didn't know what was going down, but I sure did.

 

Sadly, there was no answer at the door and we weren't overly sure of the 'intel' another Officer had collected to swear out the warrant. I didn't want to spoil a nice front door to be honest, and UPVC are a pain in the arse to get into without gassing out on your tenth attempt.

 

Consequently, no-one shot two time and Terry Crowley didn't take a bullet to the cheek.

 

Truly, truly outstanding Chris.

[Iantn]

Been discussing this today and I really wanna rewatch this again soon but I've still got the likes of The Wire, Oz, Mad Men etc to see first. I am half tempted to go back on what I've said about never rewatching a series until I'm up to date on things of supposed quality.

[paulie walnuts]

Now on Lovefilm instant

[Section_31]

Prostitute: "Is this going to take long? I've got a golden shower at 3'o'clock and need to start drinking apple juice to get it the way he likes."

 

Shane: "I'll be right back with a mug book - and a Snapple"

 

Peerless.

[Iantn]

The writing was deffo something I that I loved more the second time through. Think not being drawn in by the rest of the stuff going on allowed me to focus on it and lines like that are just genius.

[Section_31]

You gonna take your hand out of my ass now Mackey?

 

No, and if this tip doesn't pan out - I'm gonna make a fist

[lifetime fan]

Ronnie: Gusano says he likes to burn coal.

 

Shane: Well, with three hotties like that, you tell Santa I've been NAUGHTY!

[lifetime fan]

Forgot how much I hate this cunt.

 

 

 

You would though.

[Kevin D]

Would not, sir.

 

That's how good the writing is.

[Fowlers God]

I'm just waiting for season 5 to arrive. It is fucking awesome. Only started watching it a couple of months back.

[Chairman Meow]

You would though.

 

I would obviously.

 

You wouldn't want to have kids or shit with it though. From that initial strop she had with Shane early doors I'd have told her to fuck off and been done with it.

[Elite]

Goggins makes this show and he's equally as good in Justified.

 

What I liked about The Shield was you had the mix of corrupt, hardline cops and then the Dutch and Claudette doing things properly. Ace.

[Stouffer]

Series.

[Ted]

That last season just left me emotionally fucking shattered.

 

Sorely missed; one of the very very best ever.

[Section_31]

Been watching season 2 again, how class is the police chief? He's hardly in it but when he is he's boss.

 

 

"I've heard about this kind of slick shit of yours, it doesn't work on me".

[lifetime fan]

The whole end game is based on such a simple principle.

 

Never trust women with shit.

 

Blokes keep blokes stuff to themselves.

[Kevin D]

Vic: How we looking?

Shane: If Wagenbach and Billings do anymore jerking off, it's going to be a godamn bukkake party in there.