Back in ’96 when the World Wide Web was new, my son and I thought it was the funniest thing to see ordinary people have web pages about their lives.
One Sunday afternoon we joked around about setting up a web page for my brother, an alcohol swilling sea urchin diver.
We laughed as we picked out a big background image that would be slow to load and yellow print that would be hard to see, as was custom in those days.
Then we set about to write a poem for the web page. This is that web page– Itcin’ for Urchin 1996 World Wide Web gold.
I just sat down and read your entire site. I’m 17 and going to be building a cabin with a friend this summer and we’re going to commute to the college campus. We will have the luxury of an annex with running water and a bathroom, plus electricity in the annex that I can splice to the cabin.
I was just wondering how you survive without music, if you do, that is. I’m stuck in the city and dream of the cabin life, the simplicity it brings. But I can’t live without my music.
When I first left my home in the city, I didn’t have any music. I learned to enjoy silence over anything.
When I would go visit someone and they turned on some music, I found it annoying.
I remember when some neighbors moved in and started playing their music loud. I thought they were the crassest people for not be able to enjoy silence.
After a few years a bought a laptop and stored some music on it. Then I could listen to music on my laptop. Recently I reloaded the operating system so now I have no music again.
Often when I’m in my cabin without contact with other people, I find even books to be an intrusion.
I bring some music on a mp3 player when I hike but I only listen to it when I start dragging and don’t want to hike..Sometimes it can help motivate me to keep hiking.
I’ve found everything I give up, makes life better.
I have found that better than listening to music is creating it.