Man in Hightower Netflix

Tue Dec 8 10:35:22 CST 2015

That's a comfort -- seriously.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I
>>>
>>> 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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