ho huum. mcluhan.

i dont' think we ever really got around to anyone asserting whether or not they found mcluhan's ideas of cool and hot media useful. although, honestly i haven't looked at it enough to really understand it. i'm definitely feeling like my brain is full. go figure.

one of the things that we talked about that was interesting is how we are going to filter all this information into an actual functional education. teri suggested that we subscribe to nettime and empire, and yet i feel like just covering the basics of mcluhan and debord and the others in our postpost digital context in and of itself generates enough substance. eh.

i feel like the big three projects of this semester are in no order of importance:

+ building an organ
+ identifying a way to build a database or field of information that is accessible and updateable for my work.
+ writing alot (see above)
+ taking this idea of the celibrity rag as far as it can go
+ tape operations
+ live performance objects
+ sound
+ sound
_ music
_ sound
+ music

you get the idea.

maybe a database is the way to go. i could get a little mysql thing going. i wonder what the maximum cellsize is. tagging your work becomes pretty essential as well. i need to start doing that.

really another part of this whole thing that i've only barely been acknowledging is that it's hard to be in a new environment and properly contextualize information.

mcluhan mentions the environmental stress reaction cycle = 1. anxiety resistance exhaustion? is that how it goes? i don't know but i just found this on google:
http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/Research/Allostatic/notebook/catecholamine.html

figure 1 is pretty interesting. i wonder what striving means.

anyway. i'm definitely going through the initial anxiety of being in a new environment. bill said something at the beginning of the semester about everything being crazy and that's just the way it is. it's good to know i'm not completely alone.

so look for my fully functioning world of ideas soon. i know i will.