Man in Hightower Netflix

[David Morris]

Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away
about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The
telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston
made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it,
moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal
plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no
way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How
often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual
wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all
the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted
to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the
assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in
darkness, every movement scrutinized.From *1984*
<http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=143>, by
George Orwell
<http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorTotalAlphaList.asp?AuNum=61>.
Published by Unknown in 1948

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:23 AM, 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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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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