Man in Hightower Netflix

Tue Dec 8 09:38:13 CST 2015

I can tell you that myself and my friends who were born in the 80s are well
aware that The Americans is utter fiction. To me it's like Bond or George
Smiley.

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

> I wonder about the demographics for The Americans -- i.e., how many 20- or
> 30-somethings are getting their "historical" view of the late Cold War from
> it? I'm thinking of meme complexes such as the Wild West,  or
> "Untouchables" crime in the Roaring Twenties (both quite limited and
> transient in fact, but huge in cultural weight)... or for that matter "24"
> and some other post-9/11 portrayals of the Global War on Something or Other.
>
> I think I was paying attention in the 1980s -- and I don't remember 1% of
> The Americans level of espionage-related violence in and around Washington,
> DC. I thought the whole point of superpower empire was that we got to
> offshore the dirty work to Beirut, San Salvador, Kabul, Luanda, etc...?
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','montedavis49 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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