Nothing to do with life

M&M Fanmix

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:55:01 GMT

Hello I just wanted to share this Mike/Meldrick (M&M) fanmix I started a while ago and finished just recently called 'Smoke in Your Eye'.
It's more about the darker side of Mike/Meldrick relationship, Mike's feelings of betrayal in light of season 6 opener (no spoilers here).

Smoke in Your Eyes
X-posted to homi_slash, hlots

Homicide: Life on the Street - The Complete Series (Repackaged)

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:49:36 GMT

Just received this message today from TVShows on DVD.com:

"We've added a release for "Homicide: Life on the Street" to the site. "The Complete Series (Repackaged)" will be released on 9/29/2009. For all the information, you may visit http://www.TVShowsOnDVD.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=9134"

Amazon has it available for pre-order here, currently for $134.99. Excellent news for those who missed the complete set the first time!

H6D: Kyle Secor in Dark Blue on TNT

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:14:07 GMT

Hiya, people! I thought I'd share that Kyle Secor is in the commercial for the upcoming Dark Blue series on TNT -- he's still not listed in the credits on IMDB but his adorable face is unmistakable (and he looks piiiiissed). ;) I don't know what his role is or if he's a recurring character (let's hope!) but the release date of first episode of Dark Blue is listed as July 16 on IMDB so I guess it'll be clear then. The commercial runs a lot on TNT so you guys can check it out, too.

xpost -- hlots.

FIC: Avenue of Changing Dreams

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:35:43 GMT

TITLE: Avenue of Changing Dreams
AUTHOR: Laura Smith
PAIRING: Tim Bayliss, cast
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: Ain't no way for you to fly/with her hanging on your feet
DISCLAIMER: Homicide: Life on the Streets and all the characters therein belong to people who are not me. I make no profit from this, I just like playing with them.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Thanks to inlovewithnight for the beta. I've only seen through S6, so please don't spoil me.

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fanfic - frankentim

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:09:41 GMT

Title: Hickey
Fandom: H:LotS
Author: murderdetective
Rating: NC-17
Ship: Frank/Tim (FrankenTim)
Word count: 2,838
Summary: Single!Frank and Tim get it on in the bedroom.
Author’s note: I had a need for a ^{not so}quick romp in the bedroom, with Frank and Tim.
Disclaimer: If I owned it Mary wouldn't exist, Frank wouldn't have had a stroke, Tim wouldn't have killed two guys, and Frank and Tim would be knocking boots. Do you remember any of that happening?
Beta: The ever fabulous omg_wtf_yeah, and the slave driver kay_greatness.

(There be porn ahead. Ye been warned.)

The artist formerly known as Mike Kellerman

Tue, 05 May 2009 23:40:15 GMT

Okay, so despite Reed Diamond's departure from Dollhouse, I've got to say: watching another actor "be" Reed Diamond's character is a Stanislavsky exercise on steroids.

Ghost of a Chance screencaps

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:50:07 GMT

Howdy. Long time, no see. :) I haven't been very fandom-active lately so I capped the second episode ever (Ghost of a Chance). Yknow, I think I'm getting much better at this. The first time I made caps I made them pretty small and the second set of caps were significantly larger but watermarked. These are much larger and unmarked.

248 Ghost of a Chance (1.02) screencaps: 1280x795 size; Photobucket & Mediafire @ my journal.

Damn, maybe it's just me (it's totally not just me) but everyone looks stellar in the second episode! Foxy, guys, very foxy. That classic first season feel... You'll all understand my appreciative sigh.

☆ Slight tangent: Anybody see the commercials for the new Star Trek movie? -- if anyone wanted to pen some crack Homicide/ST crossovers or fusions I might offer to have your children. LOL. ;)

Henrik Ibsen, eat your heart out

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:44:17 GMT

Been watching Dollhouse reruns on Fox online. How did I not know that Reed Diamond has a major role?

Meta on "The Gas Man" and Supernatural's "Ghostfacers"

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:15:06 GMT

Hello fellow Homicide fans!

I recently posted some meta comparing the episode "The Gas Man" (the third season finale) to an episode of Supernatural called "Ghostfacers". You might be interested, especially if you are a fan of both shows. There are spoilers for both show's third seasons contained in the meta, including major spoilers for each episode.

Here's the link: A Comparison of Outsider Perspectives in Supernatural’s “Ghostfacers” and Homicide: Life on the Street’s “The Gas Man”.

Creating a Homicide website...

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:41:58 GMT

I'm in the midst of creating a Homicide:Life on the Street website and I suddenly realized I need a name for it! I've been looking at episode names, favorite quotes, plays on words, etc, but I have decided to consult with everyone first since I kind of want it to be a pretty interactive website. Does anyone have any ideas they'd like to throw out? I'm open to anything!

-vodka88/easilyjaded

Melissa Leo!!!

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:22:25 GMT

Oscar nomination!!!

So. Awesome.

"DROP ZONE" (1994)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:24:20 GMT

"DROP ZONE" (1994)

I guess that many of you are wondering why I have posted a blog about some movie that starred Wesley Snipes. The reason I did was that I was surprised to find two cast members from "HOMICIDE" in this film - Kyle Secor (Tim Bayliss) and Clark Johnson (Meldrick Lewis).

Secor portrayed an eccentric skydiver who ends up being part of a group that helps Snipes' character. Johnson portrayed a bureaucratic U.S. Marshal. Check it out.

Fic: A Matter of Seconds

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:40:34 GMT

Title: A Matter of Seconds
Author: midtownangel/noveltyoflife
Characters: Det. Mike Kellerman, Det. Meldrick Lewis, mentions of others
Rating: PG
A/N: Set during "Fallen Heroes: Pt.2". Crossposted to workrelated203

Everything happens in a matter of seconds.

The thing about this is that most of the time, one doesn’t think about time in seconds, but rather in minutes and hours, days and weeks, months and years. What amuses him about this is that every now and then, there are those things that one can’t really help but think of as happening in a matter of seconds, because they happen so quickly that if one blinks, they’ll miss it.

Of course, when one is a cop, the odds of this sort of thing happening are raised, quite considerably.

One moment, everything in the squad room was the same way it always was.

Seconds later, it had all been shot to hell.

The drug war that the city’s been fighting is one they’ve been stuck in for a while.

Everyone on the first shift has long since lost track of when it started, or how long it’s been going, mostly because they don’t care. What they care about is finding a way to end it, and at the moment, it doesn’t look like there is a way.

In a matter of seconds, the squad room has quite literally been turned into a battleground. There is blood on the floor, glass from broken windows strewn everywhere.

There are three uniforms lost, two detectives wounded, and the scale of a battle they’ve been fighting for years tipped in favor of the other side.

Baltimore, Mike Kellerman thinks, as he follows the others onto the streets, hours later, is definitely the city that bleeds.

It’s a nickname that the city’s had for years, one of those that came from a police department frustrated with the number of murders they had to deal with.

Most of the politicians in the city try to discourage the detectives from referring to dear old ‘Charm City’ this way, but sometimes, they can’t help it. The names in red on the board are piling up, balanced out every now and then by a name in black, but not very often. The streets are a violent place to be sometimes; they’ve learned this the hard way a few times over, but nothing like this.

Nothing like a few seconds between a detective putting his gun in the bottom drawer of his desk and a suspect going for it and firing before anyone else can react.

The shooting is more an act of desperation than it is of any sort of revenge, and even if it had been one of revenge, Junior Bunk hadn’t gotten anyone that he’d been aiming for months before.

But Junior Bunk is dead now, shot where he stood by Mike, by Tim, and Meldrick, and Lieutenant Giardello, because they’d had no other choice.

It’s funny in a stupid, twisted sort of way, Mike thinks now, how that always seems to go. Your life against someone else’s, a split second between dropping the gun and pulling the trigger, and somehow, that split second is all anyone needs to be caught off guard.

What he wants at this moment in time is some kind of absolution for what he knows he has done, but at the same time, he knows that isn’t likely to come.

So he follows the others, counting down three seconds before kicking another door in, going with the others to yank someone out on the sidewalk. Waiting for seconds that drag into minutes that turn into awkward moments of silence for an answer that they’re not going to get.

The Mahoney family is a dangerous one; this. the shift knows and has known for a few years now. No one wants to talk.

The seconds continue to drag on and as they do, the shift gets farther and farther away from any chance of finding Georgia Rae.

Second shift gets pulled in, to run things from the squad room. In the seconds it took for the shootout to end and the department’s fury to settle over the streets, the case has become a redball. The brass want Georgia Rae Mahoney’s head, and so does the shift; one group for political reasons, the other for personal reasons, because it was their shift, and damned if they aren’t going to go do something about what was done to them.

This, of course, is probably not the best way to go about it, but right now, Mike is starting to think that it’s all they’ve got.

In any case, he knows it’s all he’s got, because the minute he lets go of the cop persona, he won’t be able to function, and he knows this, too.

Graffiti appears on the walls of back alleys across Baltimore as the murder police continue their search for Georgia Rae.

One second, these walls were completely blank, but now they’re filled with spray paint, words that when strung together read ‘Junior Bunk took it downtown’.

It’s a message to the shift, to the police department as a whole: they can fight this drug war all they want, but while one second they could be winning it, in the next, they could be losing.

He spits, once, on the ground in front of one of the walls, echoing Frank Pembleton’s move on the other side of the city, a message in itself. It was a war that Georgia Rae wanted, Gee had said, there in the waiting room, and now it’s a war she’s got.

None of them will be going home until she’s found.

Problem is, they don’t even know if she’s still in Baltimore.

“She’s gotta know her son’s the one who done shot up our squad room,” Meldrick remarks, finally, the first break in the silence that seems to have fallen between them since they rotated back into Homicide. “We ain’t gonna find her.”

“We’re gonna find her,” Mike replies, without looking his partner in the eye, “We’ve gotta find her.”

This in itself, he thinks, isn’t exactly untrue; they do have to find Georgia Rae, but both of them know that this is highly unlikely.

“She probably took off already,” says Meldrick. “We could turn this city upside down, and ain’t none of us would find nothing.”

“Keep on like that and you might be right,” Mike tells him, absently. “Where are we going now?”

There are only so many places left in Baltimore for the shift to go before they’ll finally have to give up.

Somewhere in the back of Mike’s mind, he knows this, but the part of him that took over in the seconds between the last shot and the shift storming the waiting room doesn’t want to admit it.

He can tell when he casts a sideways look in Meldrick’s direction that the other cop doesn’t want to admit this, either, but neither of them say anything about it.

Instead, they go after the others, yet again, to a rowhouse on the other side of Baltimore from where they are, underneath the slim hope that this will be where they find the one they’re looking for.

It took mere seconds for a reaction to flood through the department after the last shot was fired, seconds before the press was in their faces, before the brass came down from their offices, safe on floors above.

Seconds before everything changed, enough that this time, there’s nothing they can do about it.

The seconds pass now, too, more slowly than they did before.

It feels almost as if they’re suspended in time, like they’re not moving forward, but they’re not moving backward, either, and at this present moment in time, Mike is starting to wish that he’d just kept his mouth shut three years before and stayed over in Arson.

But he hadn’t, and now he’s here, because whether or not he’d stayed in Arson, the city would still be fighting a drug war, and the only difference is that because he left, he’s now one of those fighting it. He catches sight of his reflection suddenly, in a window, and looks at it for a split second before looking away, not liking what he sees.

This, of course, is mostly his fault, but he doesn’t want to think about it.

Nor does he want to think about what could happen in the seconds that pass between kicking in another door and entering yet another rowhouse.

This time, all the lights are off.

The place is mostly empty, and it only takes a few seconds for them to determine that there is someone there, and that he is going to run, and of course, they’re all going to go after him.

A few of them disappear around the back to catch this guy should he take that route while the rest of them storm the place, looking for anyone else who might be there.

Upstairs, in one of the empty rooms, is Georgia Rae Mahoney, dead on the floor, murdered by her own men.

The irony of this is not at all lost on anyone, least of all Mike, but he spares a few seconds to think about it before going after the others.

Shots ring out from the back seconds later.

Mike goes tumbling out the back door, falling to his knees briefly beside where Pembleton is, shouting that his partner’s been shot.

There is a series of muffled curses from Mike, and from others, as they chase after the still-fleeing suspect.

Seconds later, the suspect, too, is down, and the shift’s anger is enough that a few of them can’t help but spit on the ground before him, enough that a few of them can’t help but lash out physically.

Above them, lights appear, suddenly, state helicopters, bringing with them too much noise and too much wind and really, too much of everything.

The shift, Mike included, are all too hyped up on their own adrenaline to pay it any attention.

The shootout took place at exactly 6:56 in the evening.

It’s a time that none of the shift are going to forget, even though they want to; one of those times that they can’t forget because three people died and the squad room’s a mess, and no matter how much they say they want to, they really don’t.

Mike has long since lost track of how many seconds have passed before Junior Bunk’s first shot and the shift’s initial reaction. He wonders if he’ll ever be able to figure it out, but then thinks that even if he could, he doesn’t want to.

There is already enough to remember. Too much time has passed for him to want to care how many seconds have passed, and in any case, he knows that he is not the only one who will be counting down the seconds until Bayliss wakes up again.

Finally back in the squad room, he sits on the edge of his desk, looks around for a long while, thinking of how it had been only seconds before the first shot.

When he looks at his watch again, it reads exactly 6:56.

Fic: Learning is Fundamental

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:55:53 GMT

Title: Learning is Fundamental
Author: Kweevil
Characters: Al Giardello, Frank Pembleton, Tim Bayliss, Steve Crosetti, Meldrick Lewis, Beau Felton, Kay Howard, John Munch, Stan Bolander
Genre: Gen/Teamfic
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,750

Author's note: Written for romanticalgirl for Yuletide 2008.

Frank Pembleton took the memo down from the bulletin board and shook it at Giardello...

Fic: Everything Else Is Homicide

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:46:55 GMT

Following likeadeuce's example...

Title: Everything Else is Homicide
Author: Mweevil
Characters: Kay Howard, Meldrick Lewis, Stu Gharty, Paul Falsone, Mike Kellerman, Ed Danvers
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 10,002
Summary: After 3 years on the run, it's time for Frank Cantwell to answer for the murder of Detective Beau Felton.

Author's note: Written for lovelokest for Yuletide 2008.

On to the story...

M.

FIC: Left Behind

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:15:58 GMT

I'm reposting a story that I contributed to yuletide this year. Members should feel free to post or link any HLOTS stories they might have written for holiday exchanges.

Happy (belated) Holidays to all!

Title: Left Behind
Author: likeadeuce aka Karabair
Fandom: Homicide: Life on the Street
Characters: Megan Russert, Tim Bayliss
Description: "When you figure it out, you won't have to do it anymore. And you'll be gone. If I figure it out first, same deal."
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 970
Spoilers: Post-ep fic for season 4, "Sniper 2". So spoilers for both "Sniper" episodes.
Author's Note: Written as a yuletide for inlovewithnight.

FIC: Left Behind

various H:LOTS wallpapers...

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:22:26 GMT

...Don't know how many there are, so I won't post them all here. Rather, they're on my photobucket.

Preview and link beneath the cut...

http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s113/detective_midtown/colorbars%20and%20graphics/wallpapers-HLOTS/

Homicide music video

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:50:16 GMT

Hey, Happy New Years, people!

Lured to Imeem by some funny-as-hell SGA videos I stumbled across this amazing HLotS video! It's so good you really have to see it!! There's some totally-blowing-my-mind stuff in it (like this part where the lyric corresponding to "my colors" is juxtaposed against this shot that's black-and-white save this one colorized portion of the video - I have no idea how that was done but it's just like "Whoa.") Intense. And did I mention good??

Anyway, it's EasilyJaded's Extreme Ways (Bayliss-Pembleton-Kellerman-Lewis-centric)...

Soo good, guys. You need to check it out and comment (on Imeem, of course).

screencaps (gone for goode and the movie)

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:51:07 GMT

Hello, hello! I wanted to tell anyone who cares that I capped the first episode (Gone for Goode) and uploaded all of my movie caps to Photobucket for individual picture perusal (I have to finish capping the movie sometime but I'm just...too unmotivated).
Btw, my goodness, Pembleton is too fine in Gone for Goode...and Bayliss...;p

Screencaps
☆ 321 Gone for Goode - at photobucket
☆ 629 Life Everlasting - at photobucket
or at my journal.

More Holiday Icons

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:39:11 GMT

More Holiday Icons
♥ 3 Due South
♥ 5 H:LotS
♥ 8 Psych
♥ 1 X-files
♥ Special Xmas M*A*S*H suprise!!

Don't tease me this Xmas

♥Merry Xmas♥

11 Homicide Icons

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:09:23 GMT

21 Icons Total
11 Homicide
~~7 X-Files - 3 Due South~~
~~Callum Keith Rennie wall~~

What a wonderful world...

Baltimore Eskimo - Frank/Tim FST

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:58:29 GMT

All right, so here it is. I compiled a Homicide fan soundtrack on a lighter note because the show's not all gloom and it has its upbeat points. I'm an optimist at heart (or at the very least, I'd like to be) so this is my optimistic Frank/Tim Homicide FST. (Lemme know if this is against the rules and I'll take it down.)

( 'Cause when you tell me stupid things like you do I have to change the rules... )

Holiday Text Icons

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:34:53 GMT

♥Holiday Text Icons♥
23 ♥icons♥

♥4 Due South
♥11 H:lots
♥3 M*A*S*H
♥4 Stock
♥3 X-Files

Oh You Tease!

♥Happy Holidays♥

icon post...

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:41:23 GMT

...all of them are H:LOTS-related. There are a few text icons, and the rest are from screencaps I've taken of various episodes from seasons 6&7.

ETA: Edited to fix the broken links...





For the record, I have seasons 5, 6 and 7 on DVD and will hopefully have seasons 1&2 sometime soon, so I should be able to cap everyone except for Megan Russert (not counting her appearance in the s5 two-part finale). If there's someone you want to see more of, let me know. :D

Heroes and Home-boys

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:38:26 GMT

Hey Hey Hey icons coming this way!
♥ 3 Due South
♥ 7 H:LotS
♥ 7 M*A*S*H
♥ 8 X-Files

Heroes and Home-boys