Man in Hightower Netflix

[John Bailey]

Doesn't that song just epitomise the ambivalences of Pynchon's
writing? Condemning the thing, but also satirising the righteous
condemnation of it. And making joyous sport out of the friction... I
mean we've heard P loved The Brady Bunch but is probably no Boob,
except that that's a contradiction and his writing seems aware of it.

We do things that may hurt us. Love people who may be bad for us.
Enjoy entertainments that are in our worst interest and entertain
interests that bring out the worst in us. I feel this is something
Pynchon has always grappled with much better than most, neither
falling into puritan admonishment nor a decadent embrace.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> THE TUBE
>
> Oh ... the ... Tube!
> It's poi-soning your brain!
> Oh yes....
> It's dri-ving you, insane!
> It's shoot-ing rays, at you,
> Over ev'ry-thing ya do,
> It sees you in your bedroom,
> And --- on th' toi-let too!
>             Yoo Hoo! The
> Tube....
> It knows your ev'ry thought,
> Hey, Boob, you thought you would-
> T'n get caught ---
> While you were sittin' there, starin' at "The
> Brady Bunch,"
> Big fat computer jus'
> Had you for lunch, now Th'
> Tube ---
> It's plugged right in, to you!
>
> (Vineland, pp.336-337)
>
>
> I'm watching too much TV too, but the thread simply asked for this song. And
> isn't it amazing how Pynchon anticipated 'Smart-TV?'
>
>
> On 08.12.2015 05:14, John Bailey wrote:
>
> A lot of people are loving Mr Robot (which I haven't seen). In the
> Black Mirror vein I believe.
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And oh yeah I did like Breaking bad but that was another one whose ending
> annoyed me. The penultimate episode worked better as an ending imo. They
> filmed the first season in Albuquerque during my final year at UNM and my
> compatriate played the bratty kid in the first episode so it was a mandatory
> watch. Show got harder for me to watch after moving out of Albuquerque. Was
> like becoming the outsider and seeing the city with a different perspective.
> Was a dirty place for me and it became clearer when recognizing the
> landmarks with a sufficient physical detachment from the place. I dunno, the
> show felt really icky. Great show though overall.
>
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Breaking Bad was superb. I don't know Luther.  Is on Netflix or Amazon?
>
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Perry - What about Luther ? Or The Wire? You didn't like True Detective?
> Or the "recent" BBC Sherlock Holmes shows? I agree about Man in the High
> Castle. Too many of the binge tv series get sidetracked into unimportant
> character stories. (Good to see that Luther is getting a second coming as an
> American series. If its anything like the clip I saw on Late Night the other
> night, it's going to be a good un.)
>
> -Allan in WV
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When it comes to teevee, sopranos and mad men spoiled me. Nothing else
> has really satisfied me.
>
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I couldn't make it through the first episode.
>
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ten episodes in, and just tolerating it. Way too slowly paced and full
> of irrelevant personal drama interactions.  I haven't read the book, but I'm
> sure the plot is more important in the book than it is in this show.
>
> David Morris
>
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