Re: (OT) REJECTING MASS MEDIA CULTURE

[Tony K <bigtonyk@gmail.com>]

This is one of the things I love about this list.  The variety of people and personalities and how nicely everybody gets along.  I own my house (paid off yay!) have lived there for 17 years, have no desire to wander the country, love having 100 channels of shit on the TV to choose from, have more crap than I probably should, and haven't really met a decade I didn't like for some reason.  My parents (and friends) were the hippies of the 60's.  singing protest songs, love beads, really went to Woodstock and all that.  I do find it interesting how the popular media glorifies something (not necessarily in a bad way) that really only a small number of people actually attended and turns it into a mass experience.  I watched a show about Woodstock and I think it was Graham Nash who said if everybody who told him they were at Woodstock were actually there, there would have been about 5 million people in the audience. :)  I think the 60's for the US had quite a few major cultural defining moments.  The pill, civil & womens rights, massively unpopular war, counter culture, drugs... lots of changes and resistance to the status quo.  

Anyway, you guys are great and I love reading this list every day. 

just some random thoughts... I think the cold-meds are kicking in.  wheeeeee..

Tony

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Daryl Shawn <darylshawn@gmail.com> wrote:

Several long hitchhiking trips in the 90's had a huge effect on my view towards having a home base. I realized that I could be pretty rootless on a day to day basis, and didn't need a big home and/or a bunch of stuff to be happy. But I also saw that I could go a bit nuts if I didn't have a break now and then.

Since May of '09, I've used my dad's address as my mailing address, but haven't actually been paying rent anywhere. The initial plan was to tour nonstop, but I soon realized that keeping track of logistics as a solo act/manager/booker was almost impossible without taking time off the road now and then, so I backed it off, instead doing individual tours of a few weeks to a month, staying at my dad's or other relatives in between. I also realized that I don't compose very much on the road, so wanted to take time to keep up writing as well.

Now that I'm seeing somebody in NYC, and am realizing how nourishing it is to keep up with cultural activities including other people's live music, I found that it's important to have a balance between seeing shows, time with my girlfriend, composing, and the ever-tempting road. Rent doesn't seem like such an anchor anymore, and I'm planning to establish more of a home here, while keeping up with touring at a livable pace.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com

   I planned to register my mail by a post box, rent out my flat to
   someone with a regular income and start sleeping wherever I could find
   a free spot for my sleeping bag. All this as a way to lower my living
   costs. But as I started to administrate the setup I was informed by
   authorities that it would be illegal. In Sweden a citizen has to have
   a proper address where you actually live. I guess that's an old
   (obsolete?) law once used to catch bums?

A resident address is needed: it's a part of your Identity Card data even in your country I guess, but your are not costrained to live in the same place you've declared.
I guess you could "legally declare" that you reside in your parent's (or friend's) house and you are still free to live or sleep where ever you want.