I've got this ongoing quest for unrationalized(there's probably an actual word for that), un-industrialized stuff. Not crappy home made crafts, but stuff that I would otherwise buy at the oh-so-rationalized Wal Mart. This is why I like buying products from Threads 4 Thought, Nest (buildanest.com), Ten Thousand Villages, Sway Hearts and local green/eco-friendly stores (though all those places are still pretty rationalized). My favorite, though, is stuff made by myself, or someone I know directly. I like seeing a bunch of different elements beforehand, watching them be sewn, glued, stitched, and taped together, and turned into something useful and fun.
What I realized today is that music totally comes from people; music is bureaucracy-free (that's what unrationalized means in sociology terms)! Not machines, not huge organizations, just people. Even the sound-machine sounds that are infused in all the songs one hears on the radio can't hide the individuality of the drums, the guitar, the violin, the human voice. It's awesome. One can pick apart the different instruments, and it's not machines playing those instruments, it's people! There's a different person behind each sound that goes on. Heck, even DJs are behind those sound machines. Basically all this means that if i, Robot does happen, and we humans lose this time, we'll still be the ones with the music. There's a beautiful process that we miss out on when we're working on just one part of something. It's so rewarding to be able to break stuff down and get it back to the people, and the raw ingredients that make it real.





Lydia