Pynchon and postal regulation

[John Bailey]

Thanks everyone but I got it sorted, I shoulda said. Found a friend with
it, which is an old fashioned solution I'll admit.

On 6 Jul 2017 1:49 PM, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guess I spoke to soon. Used copies are not so cheap, unless there is one
> in the used bookstore...
>
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Or, I, or one of us, could try to buy a used copy and mail it to you...
>>
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>
>> > On Jul 5, 2017, at 7:51 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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-post
>> al-deregulation/
>> >>>>>> -
>> >>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >>>> -
>> >>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >>>
>> >
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