Property is Theft

 I

I really feel for the people with major depression. I can only imagine the suffering people go through where they only get one end of the stick. The bad one. Bipolar on the other hand is really not that bad. Apart from psychosis. That’s pretty scary. It’s also the people you meet along the way. Most people are like ooh homeless people. Well I spent two months in a facility surrounded by mental homeless people. It’s pretty bizarre. What I noticed is that everybody goes through that phase inside where you want to hang onto your possessions and create some personal space. You’re living on top of some other people in the same room and you’re totally mental, but you hang onto this idea that you have stuff. There was one homeless guy who had a crap picture in a frame that he had got form somewhere and that was about it. He carried it around everywhere. I set up shop inside the phone cubicle at one stage and at another stage on a window ledge. That’s why I know Proudhon is talking bollocks when he says Property is Theft. It’s a great slogan and I want to believe it but only at the margins. In the end, humans need a little bit of their own stuff to get along. It’s not just a capitalist thing. 

II

I haven’t written an entry for a while and the reason is I’ve been very busy. Partly with work, which is going well but I have a lot of it, and partly with going out on the weekends, which makes me tired but is also fun. On Friday, I’m going to a live show for the first time in forever. It’s a Brian Jonestown sort of psych band with tambourine and lots of guitars and long hair and flowers etc. Very looking forward to it. I know the leader from the guitar shop here in Zurich. He’s a good egg. I met some people at a meetup, who are going to come along and watch the show with me. Looking forward to a fun time. I also got played on mainstream radio. It’s pretty cool but I’m unsure about the efficacy of radio promo. Seems like a bit of an extravagance. I’ve tried all sorts of promo and my favourite by far is just trying to get reviews through musosoup. Then it’s about trying to get gigs and stuff with the reviews under your belt. I don’t know, it’s obviously cool for some people to have millions of streams or whatever but I’m a bit nonplussed by that. I know nobody reads blogs anymore but it’s nice to hear what musos have to say about my work. It’s gratifying.