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Charlotte- thanks for reminding everyone why I started this flame war in the first place. Thank you Charlotte. My homeroom teacher was- well- you know it's funny- I remember only one homeroom teacher- for all of my years of elementary and high school. Mrs. Louvenia Bright. You will find this perhaps ironic- but she was a very quiet person in many ways and she also taught typing- a course I never took. She intrigued me in many ways because she seemed to live her days in the endless loop of moods clearly defined for specific times of the day. She was clear not a spirit introduced to improvisational loop remixing - moreover she'd had to live with the daily agony of the typewriter- a looping device that creates loops so complex that- well - they drive people loopy. It's bad enough that O is just below 0 (zero) and you can often not tell the two apart! But then, the antimusical cruelty of the designers who- I understand- created a design that, though workable, slowed a secretary's fingers enough to avoid problems with old keyboard with the forward jumping keys that would jam if you typed too fast. Thank goodness for this era where letters appear without any major jumping of metal and possible collision on hand edge with a cold branding of ink- rather- we have marvelous features that promote the pure looping of text- we have the repeat function of electronic keyboards- no more constant key pressing for words like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...." or "GRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..." - the lovely letter repeater function! And we also now have the wonderful automatic repeating of the paste function, so that we can write childish things like "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." "SVG's loops are rusty on principle." See how that works? Cool, huh? well, anyway- I always worried about Mrs. Bright. She seemed to think a lot. Worry a lot also. But somethnig about typewriters at the time- and theri limitations- saved her- I think. :) Regards, MIKO -----Original Message----- From: charlotte moorman [mailto:swingsetc_70@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:54 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: you're no longer boring! thanks for all the info on the bay area loopathons. re: my own participation, i don't think i'm strong enough technique-wise to play out of my studio live, yet- i'm working towards my own vcabulary using voice samples with keybd instrumental music and sampled sound effects, and i believe in the direction, but it's still developing. i really don't want to show up at a festival and encounter the "oh, that's nice, needs work though" thing, i want to try and blow minds! or at least make people go "huh?!?" i did have one "pro" gig, i provided background loop stuff for a porn tape! i met a guy from new york who has a porn company at a krimson gig in SF, and he invited me to send some stuff. he was also a composer (big band/orchestral) and he ended up using my stuff in a scene, contract, paid me, etc. so maybe that's one direction for us all to go! haha also, i think that miko is probably really smart (like most of you) and probably lonely in a way that a lot of smart people in smaller communities are (i'm assuming), which is a rare, valuable and grace-given commodity in this hellish, selfish corporate nightmare culture. so i try to just skim his multiple posts, but i would never ask him to leave, that's like telling a cousin at the dinner table to go sit out in the snow overnight just because he talks about his homeroom teacher all the time. we're FAMILY, after all! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2