Pynchon and postal regulation

[jesse gooch]

No problem. If you have a VPN on your computer it might work if you connect through the US. Sometimes mine will fool Netflix into thinking Im in Europe and i can stream the stuff available there but not here, but sometimes it catches it and makes me turn off the proxy.

> On Jul 5, 2017, at 7:48 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Must have gone up in the past few weeks. I'm in Australia but can
> probably work out some way around the geoblocking. Thanks!
> 
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:46 AM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fun stuff Richard. Hope you get your stuff soon.
>> 
>> John - Not sure where you are, and that has an effect on what’s available, but MD is on Netflix in the states.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 5, 2017, at 7:32 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I live in a migrant/refugee hub where almost 50% speak English as a
>>> second language, so the library isn't really geared towards arthouse
>>> US films that nobody understood first time around. Good to see that
>>> public libraries seem to made it through the storm of privatisation
>>> and internetting in a lot of areas, though. Yours always sounds like a
>>> first-rate place.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:21 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What about your public library?
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:59 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Good read, Richard, and I laughed out loud a few times. Really gets to
>>>>> the ambiguities in P's novels regarding things like W.A.S.T.E. and
>>>>> whether we're supposed to buy into its libertarian ideals, or whether
>>>>> it's just another dream to be hijacked by the bad Vibes of late
>>>>> capitalism.
>>>>> On a similar note to your postal purgatory, I spent a good part of a
>>>>> recent day trying to find a way to legally watch Lynch's Mulholland
>>>>> Drive. It's not on any streaming services, I can't buy it from
>>>>> Amazon/iTunes/etc in my country, shops are only stocking recent
>>>>> blockbusters, and there are no video libraries left. The only option
>>>>> is to pay $30 for a second-hand copy and wait a few weeks for it to
>>>>> arrive. W, as they say, TF. I used to be able to walk out the door and
>>>>> have a rental copy in my hand within minutes for the price of a
>>>>> coffee. I thought everything was supposed to be so much more
>>>>> convenient now?
>>>>> Of course there's always the pirated download route, but that's hardly
>>>>> proof that the system works.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Richard Willmsen <rwillmsen at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Ending is a bit botched but it was a satisfying rant to write :-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://infinite-coincidence.com/2017/07/05/pynchon-and-postal-deregulation/
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