[Monte Davis]

So I guess it's probably too late to insist that Betamax was better?
Whatever... as long as we can all agree that iron oxide and cobalt
particles on mylar deliver a warmth and richness of reproduction that no
soulless pits on a DVD can ever match.

Also, blue lasers give you cancer.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxNMR5t820s
>
> I mean, look at these. Beautiful things. Sight and sound. It's the future
> of yesterday... today!
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My favorite thing about ST were the intro graphics.  Something about the
>> red lines and music was very nice.  Reminded me of a lot of VHS rentals in
>> the early 90s.  The show itself was good but that’s the only intro to a
>> show I’ve paid attention to every time I watched it since I was a kid
>> watching The Simpsons.
>>
>> Can’t wait to see T2.  Read some criticisms of it that said it’s great,
>> but is mostly great because of how well it brings you back into the moments
>> of the original – therefore falling into the “gimmicky nostalgia” area of
>> The Force Awakens, LaLa Land, and (some say) Stranger Things.  Either way,
>> I really enjoyed Porno, the book that came after Trainspotting, and even
>> though it doesn’t sound like it’s based very much on that book, I am eager
>> for it’s American release.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *<owner-pynchon-l at waste.org> on behalf of John Bailey <
>> sundayjb at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 3:42 AM
>> *To: *David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, Pynchon Mailing
>> List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Subject: *<no subject>
>>
>>
>>
>> I really enjoyed Stranger Things on initial viewing but in hindsight it's
>> a show I dug because of the familiar beats it hits, rather than one that
>> dragged me into its own weird world. I was sad to hear that the next season
>> continues the same story instead of treating each season as a new chapter
>> in a shared universe. But I reckon it also found fans who aren't already
>> interested in the stuff it revives (and there are some great performances
>> and scenes and everything, I'm not dissing the show).
>>
>> But nostalgia always feels better first time around*
>>
>> The most Pynchonesque of TV at the moment I reckon is Mr Robot. Paranoia
>> so pervasive it alters the ontological reality of the diegetic frame,
>> multiply unreliable narrators, the invocation of the audience as
>> co-conspirator from the opening line, hyper-capitalism as both succubus and
>> incubus, ones and zeroes falling apart then reforming new logics, the sense
>> that anything can happen at any point and we'll just have to deal with
>> it... Recommended.
>>
>> * The Trainspotting sequel T2 is a rare exception. Never seen a sequel
>> with such a profound relationship with the original (and it's original
>> fans).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:53 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My biggest objection about Stranger Things is that the government bad
>> guys at the beginning become the good guys at the end.  And the Monster
>> story line is so tangential that it barely exists.  This show feels as if
>> it were written by an improv group, with no plan.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:31 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
>> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> "The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since
>> World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground
>> facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions,
>> shall I go on?" (Bleeding Edge, p. 117)
>>
>> In *Bleeding Edge*, the Montauk Project is a significant element whose
>> ontological status remains unclear; considering the novel's architecture,
>> there seems to be a mutual reflecting of 9/11 and Montauk Project.
>>
>>
>> In *Stranger Things*, the Montauk Project is explicitly linked to MK
>> Ultra, which as such was real. The serial's way of telling the story, with
>> its many Spielbergian references to the 1980s, makes the narration more
>> fantasy-like and less political than Pynchon's novel, though.
>>
>> Eleven kills the Monster:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dzQ4_MI3s
>>
>>
>> http://www.businessinsider.de/what-inspired-stranger-things-
>> montauk-project-2016-9?r=US&IR=T
>>
>> > ... We've had fun naming all the movies that "Stranger Things" is
>> paying homage to, but it's equally fascinating to see how it's playing with
>> decades-old government conspiracy theories ... <
>>
>> Do the Duffer brothers read Pynchon?
>>
>>
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