Colors on the street

Quick observation I had a couple weeks ago -- just to get it on the record:

I was reminded of this when reading the Onion this week and its listing of Neil Young's "Freedom" record as "Best Return To Form After A Hideous Losing Streak (music edition)"

I bought that record probably not long after it came out in 1989? And I'm also a huge fan of HBO's The Wire.

So listen to the opening words of "Rocking in the Free World": Colors on the street/red white and blue... and now look at the very, very first shot of the HBO series (which is repeated in every opening credit sequence in every season, four so far. It is EXACTLY that -- a shot that pans over a blood-stained street, with blue police lights flashing over the crime scene. There are your colors on the street right there: red, white, blue.

I'll bet you anything David Simon, Ed Burns, or at least one of their writers is a bigtime Neil Young fan.