Back when I was doing my show on KPFT, there was this guy who would call in periodically and analyze the news in an animated, deconvoluted way. His point was that reality was impenetrably convoluted and needed energetic and determined crushing in order to recycle it acceptably. His certainty and absolute focus was disconcertingly accurate, generating an uncomfortable tightening of the space between the ears.
Eventually, when circumstances permitted, he appeared at the station and demonstrated his willingness and ability to completely renew my show helping me to deconvolute it and connect it irretrievably to reality itself. Naturally, I acceded at once to his importunaties, and I have never been the same since.
Nor has anyone else.
I am not competent to describe all his accomplishments. My show on KPFT in Houston was lucky enough to feature his first efforts to force the world to recognize its many shortcomings: a series of short pieces he and his 3-year-old daughter created.
Noramlly I would not mention technical matters to mere civilians such as the reader (you), but his accomplishments in that area are too momentous to ignore. You see, technically, his final products broke every rule I had been trained to observe. They were overmodulated, badly miked, improperly committed to media - in short, they would have been rejected by any reputable organization that used audio as a communication medium.
But since I was doing a show for a Pacifica station and needed to fill out the time, I put them on the air, and thus the world has been exposed to a totally new and effective way of receiving data. The technical 'shorcomings' brilliantly illustrated the content in a unique way rendering it inescapable, sort of like the light on the Mona Lisa. I have never been able to achieve that lucidity in any of my work, no matter how hard I try.
As I noted above, my ability to describe Scooter's work is so limited i won't try. But I do present the URL for almost everything he's done in the audio/video realm. I do not have information on his extensive experience of work on and use of motorcycles. Except he did once tell me that he kept the Norton in the living room so it wouldn't get oil stains on the driveway.
It's much greater to live in an unconvoluted reality.
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