Man in Hightower Netflix
Monte Davis
montedavis49 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 09:10:57 CST 2015
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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