Man in Hightower Netflix

[Monte Davis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FppW5ml4vdw

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:10 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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