[Pops]

Actually Matt, right after dieoff.org, LATOC was one of the first few sites I found explicitly about Peak, and I have recommended you many times.

Thank you.

But see, most any other link submitted here by the owner of the linked site (who gets a tick on his Google-Analytics counter for every hit) gets deleted pretty quick. As I remember there is a way to buy ad space here.

Man, if you have something to share, then share.


BTW, I just did a search here for “LAOTC” and “Life after the” and got almost 30,000 hits.

[Don35]

I agree w/ the Matt's LATOC article. The best part will be the bonding when you actually spend TIME with children. Not money, gifts, toys. Time!! Even the work kids help you do can be fufilling for them and us. As for entertainment, I'd add music (that's what I teach). Learn to play guitar and everybody sing! Every culture before us told stories, taught morals, danced, entertained, etc. with music. Today we listen to someone else make it instead of doing it ourselves. What a shame, what a loss! And music helps young brains develop too.

And Matt I wouldn't sweat the flames. Contribute like crazy regardless!

[Bas]

LATOC was the first site I read back in 2004 I think.....

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '
')BTW, I just did a search here for “LAOTC” and “Life after the” and got almost 30,000 hits.

[IanC]

Personally, I'm excited about localizing entertainment. I have a band playing Celtic and european folk music. This type of music sounds great with no amplification and is very inclusive and dancable. Maybe, just maybe, when people can't get video on demand and other cheap, consumer entertainments, there will be more of an appetite for my kind of music. Even if I can't benefit from it, my children can certainly play the jigs and reels for the people around us...when they aren't working their fingers to the bone to grow food...

-Ian C
Portland, OR

[Revi]

I think we'll all rediscover sleeping when it gets dark, and waking when it gets light again. We'll be so tired that we won't need to entertain ourselves as much. Music will be needed, however.

[rdberg1957]

I've got it! I'll become a singer post-peak when the SHTF. I can make money entertaining the troops!

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 'B')wahahah!

Joking and kidding has always been a good way to kill some time

[peripato]

Sex.

[killJOY]

Fiddle.

(speakers on)

[MattSavinar]

I'm not just randomly submitting content-devoid links like others have done. These actually has highly relevant content. Should I just register as "RandomPeakOiler" so that my presence doesn't ruffle feathers?

I'll just stop posting the links to the content and PO.com will suffer more than anything I'll gain from the 15 or so visitors each post gets.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'I') think we'll all rediscover sleeping when it gets dark, and waking when it gets light again. We'll be so tired that we won't need to entertain ourselves as much. Music will be needed, however.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'I')'ll just stop posting the links to the content and PO.com will suffer more than anything I'll gain from the 15 or so visitors each post gets.

[PraiseDoom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'F')unny about how most of Matt’s posts include a link to his site.

[Don35]

peripato wrote:

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[TheDude]

A favorite topic of mine. Post Peak Music that is, not COC minutia. Most people have a very sketchy idea of what traditional culture was like.

Most singing was a capella, not that they called it that. No strummed guitars. People would sing around the house or out in the fields. Some of these songs have been around for centuries, too.

Ozarks singer Almeda Riddle singing the Banks of the Yarrow, an old song from Scotland.

BA Botkin's books like A Treasury of American Folklore have a good cross-section of information, stories, songs, games, what have you. They're available used very cheap, too.

Instrumental music will be up in the air, I think. People will strum guitars or play violins for a while but what do you do when all of your strings break? Know anybody who can make new ones? I've read about gut stringmaking and it's awfully detailed work. Maybe people will make new metal strings - that actually might be simpler for the time being.
Leftover metal instruments may have more of a future - trumpets, trombones. Woodwinds need an awful lot of pads for their keys though, and need occasional maintenance to work properly. There are simpler remidies though like bamboo saxes with only two/three keys, or the old simple flutes/fifes which are often just a tube of bamboo or cane (similiar to bamboo, it's what you make woodwind reeds out of, also) with some holes punched in it, like the cane fifes you hear in Gangs of New York - that's Otha Turner, from Mississipi.

[peripato]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Don35', 'p')eripato wrote:

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[Don35]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', 'A') favorite topic of mine. Post Peak Music that is, not COC minutia. Most people have a very sketchy idea of what traditional culture was like.

Most singing was a capella, not that they called it that. No strummed guitars. People would sing around the house or out in the fields. Some of these songs have been around for centuries, too.


Instrumental music will be up in the air, I think. People will strum guitars or play violins for a while but what do you do when all of your strings break? Know anybody who can make new ones? I've read about gut stringmaking and it's awfully detailed work. Maybe people will make new metal strings - that actually might be simpler for the time being.
Leftover metal instruments may have more of a future - trumpets, trombones. Woodwinds need an awful lot of pads for their keys though, and need occasional maintenance to work properly. There are simpler remidies though like bamboo saxes with only two/three keys, or the old simple flutes/fifes which are often just a tube of bamboo or cane (similiar to bamboo, it's what you make woodwind reeds out of, also) with some holes punched in it, like the cane fifes you hear in Gangs of New York - that's Otha Turner, from Mississipi.

[catbox]

continue to watch really talented local soccer players go at it every sunday down at the park....fricken great stuff, I don't think soccer will go away, look at the 3rd world......and of course continue to ride the bike, it will be nice to ride on up to Portland from Eugene on I5!...while being chased by pirates!

cb

[I_Like_Plants]

Music - the corp's have just about stamped live, community music out but they haven't won. This will be the best part about the Monster crashing.

As a kid I remember reading, riding bikes, just walking around and beachcombing (walking the trails and foraging would be the same thing) telling jokes, swimming, "hiking" (longer trips like we're gonna go to sacred falls, see ya tonight mom) making stuff like kites, little boats, jewelry, carvings, art, etc.

TV was there, this was the 70s after all but most of it was crap, and the reception sucked. I remember watching The Waltons and thinking they were pretty rich.

[nocar]

Board games like Monopoly and chess
Card games like poker and all the others

nocar