Man in Hightower Netflix

[Perry Noid]

Ooh that looks good and it reminds me. I also love the TV show The
Americans. It's junk television and totally preposterous at times but very
very entertaining.

On Tuesday, December 8, 2015, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FppW5ml4vdw
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:10 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>>
>>>
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