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title: "1101"

meaning: "KŌAN LP-only binary easter egg: ASCII spells scoobert doobert dot pizza slash save san diego: the site URL as a song."

year: 2022
release: "KŌAN"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2wGa9TxP1UvCn1hnfyyV6v"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/kōan/1618191665"

themes: ["KŌAN", "binary", "internet", "San Diego", "easter egg"]

isrc: QZHN32255316
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  01110011 01100011
  01101111 01101111
  01100010 01100101
  01110010 01110100

  00100000 01100100
  01101111 01101111
  01100010 01100101
  01110010 01110100

  00100000 01100100
  01101111 01110100
  00100000 01110000
  01101001 01111010

  01111010 01100001
  00001010 01110011
  01101100 01100001
  01110011 01101000

  00100000 01110011
  01100001 01110110
  01100101 00100000
  01110011 01100001

  01101110 00100000
  01100100 01101001
  01100101 01100111
  01101111

draft: false

---

Track twenty-one on [*KŌAN*](/albums/koan/), **LP-only** fourth movement (with *September*, [*Get the Funk Out of My Head*](/songs/get-the-funk-out-of-my-head/), [*4:20 pm*](/songs/4-20-pm/), [*Miss Disinformation*](/songs/miss-disinformation/), [*to everyone who had a good pandemic*](/songs/to-everyone-who-had-a-good-pandemic/)). Not on the KŌAN A/B/C chapters. Luke solo.

The entire lyric is **7-bit ASCII in binary**, one byte per pair of octets. Decoded:

```
scoobert doobert dot pizza
slash save san diego
```

Read as a path: **[scoobertdoobert.pizza/save/sandiego](https://scoobertdoobert.pizza/)**, the artist site as the song. *Save San Diego* as joke mission statement, the hometown encoded instead of sung. Title **1101** is binary for **13** in decimal, and also reads like a date (**11/01**) if you want a second layer. The track doesn't explain which.

Same KŌAN internet thread as [*All My Friends Live on the Internet*](/songs/all-my-friends-live-on-the-internet/) (friends as packets) and [*High Society*](/songs/high-society/) (delete social media, lose the party invite), but here the payload is literally machine language. A palate cleanser between *September* (cover) and [*Get the Funk Out of My Head*](/songs/get-the-funk-out-of-my-head/).

---