Pynchon and postal regulation

Thu Jul 6 06:31:47 CDT 2017

Thanks John, glad you managed to get hold of that film with that...scene in
it. There's an interesting discussion taking place in the Facebook WASTE
group about Lynch and Pynchon. He's a director I've never got round to
keeping up with. Too wilfully obtuse, or probably it's just me being lazy.
There's a curious (and actually quite disturbing) aspect of thw internet
ans cultural products, in that if we trust it to look after and make
available music, films, etc we may be making a mistake. If I look at things
I wrote just a ew years ago, most of the links no longer work. The internet
doesn't have a very good memory.

On 6 Jul 2017 06:16, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right on...
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> On Jul 6, 2017, at 12:06 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>> >>>
>>> >
>>> > -
>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>
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