here’s a trick, if you have a predictable daily walk and it’s getting boring: make a mix playlist. specifically pick songs with lots of stereo effects (e.g. “such great heights”, but I’m sure you can’t stand anything off that album cuz you listened it into the ground like two years ago). make two copies of the playlist: one from start to finish, and the other reversed (from finish to start, if you will). if your playback device is digital, disable shuffling. then so take your walk with the forward playlist, but for the walk back, use the reverse playlist AND SWITCH THE RIGHT AND LEFT HEADFONE CHANNELS. it’s awesome. really it is!

anyway yeah. everthing is a loop. this is what I have been thinking of lately, how everything is a loop. when you create something, you create a loop. the loop breaks when the thing is destroyed. you’re a loop: your heart beat and nervous system are controlled by complex waveforms that repeat until you’re dead. your relationships are closed loops. your computer boots into something called a “main loop”, which is a piece of code that repeats itself until you turn the thing off. a contract is a loop. businesses often forge loops between themselves that spin too fast and too hard for their own internal loops to deal with. wheels and hard drives and tape capstans spin. rain evaporates. all that shit. closed loops.

I would say “excuse my pseudophilosophical bullshit”, except you’re reading a blog, which is the sort of place to go when you want pseudophilosophical bullshit, I daresay, yes.

the leadholders at Utrecht and the RISD art supply shithouse are all garbage.

that is all!

-fish

re: loop

“you’ve taken your first step into a larger world.” or someother pretentious bullshit.

how i have thought of this for some time is closer to ‘recursion’, or ‘fractal’/’wavelets’ (elliot waves). hence my attraction to the phi “golden spiral”/”golden mean”.

in norbert wiener’s ‘cybernetics’ field, in this sense researchers often emphasize _feedback_. everything is connected/relative to everything else.

makes me want to go listen to some old ‘orbital’ tracks. “There is the theory of
the Mobius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.”

-z

Have you seen Brainstorm w. Christopher Walken? Me neither, but I’m reading Digital Mantras by Steven Holtzman and he’s talking about how in it “a recording of making love is edited and looped for the experience of a continuous orgasm”.

Only superficially related to your epiphany, but still…. A CONTINUOUS ORGASM! Like…. WHOA!

-A

man, to think i went to some waste-of-time PS1 panel on “loops” a few years ago when i could’ve been more fulfilled by talking about it with my peeps.

you know me, i like-a da loop. there’s even an amazing internal martial art system (pa kua/ba gua depending on yr romanization) the foundation of which is the circle. serious shit.

my shit eats orbital for tea, like a scone. BLADOW.

fish—any word on monday? gimme k-nowledge.
w.

i don’t really have anything to say about loops. but i did want to mention that no one sells the koh-i-noor select-o-matic online … not utrecht, not pearl, not aifriedman, not dickblick. however! utrecht has an Adapto, and it’s yellow!

http://www.utrechtart.com/dsp_view_product.cfm?classID=1717&subclassID=171710&brandname=Kohinoor&Item=38148

yeah, i didn’t think so.

also, i really wanted to get in on this whole “first initial” signature pattern you have going on here. so here:

l.

aaron: send me a link right now please. what is yr fucking email addy anyway?

wendell: yes, if I was about to be banished to a desert island, and I could take either one ‘scutopus’ cd or ten ‘orbital’ brand albums, I would choose yr shit mostdef.

laura: yeah they have those, and they are pretty nice, but not as intimidating as the select-o-matic II, which was one of its best qualities in my opinion: people’d be like, can I borrow a pencil? and so I’d hand them the select-o-matic II and they’d freak out and be very nice w/ it and not even dream of ganking it. I liked that.

-f!

> here’s even an amazing internal martial art system (pa kua/ba gua depending on
> yr romanization) the foundation of which is the circle. serious shit.

the japanese martial art of aikido is often referred to as “the dynamic sphere”. i dig it. if you’re in the northeast sector of the american empire, yamada-sensei is your man; at least learn from someone who learned from him. http://www.nyaikikai.com/

someone drop ‘scutopus’ on me.

-z

postscript:

> -f!

Freakazoid! Freakazoid!
Runs around in underwear
Freakazoid! Freakazoid!

Rescues Washington D.C.
Freakazoid! Freakazoid!
Unless something better’s on TV
Freakazoid! Freakazoid!

His brain’s overloading
It has a chocolate coating
Textbook case for Sigmund Freud
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Check out Dexter Douglas
Nerd computer ace
Went surfing on the internet
And was zapped to cyberspace
He turned into the Freakazoid
He’s strong and super-quick
He drives the villains crazy
‘Cause he’s a lunatic

His home base is the Freakalair
Freakazoid! Fricassee!
Floyd the Barber cuts his hair
Freakazoid! Chimpanzee!
Rides around in the Freakmobile
Freakazoid! Freakazoo!
Hopes to make a movie deal
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He’s here to save the nation
So stay tuned to this station
If not, we’ll be unemployed
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zuzu-g-homie,
i’ll check out that aikido link. i’m currently learning taiji from a kung fu school, but am always down to learn more about other disciplines.

at the moment, irunrap.com->faculty->wendell->all files
OR
conrexrecords.com/scutopus are the best places to get some of my stuff.

BUT i am mostly done with a new techno album. i can float y’all a cd-r of it. (and this goes for my man fish, too)drop me an email, mang.
wendddd.

I wrote a section in my thesis about thes loops of which you speak. I am obsessed with them. Here is a link to the section I copied out, if you want the whole these contact me off blog and I will send you all 60 heart wrenching pages.

read with the “i wanted to graduate” grain of salt.
http://www.onelonelypixel.org/cycles.doc

my kingdom for a rotring 600 series .7mm mechanical.