It is funny, you notice some people with interesting things going on in their backyards, and of course inside their houses, but on the outside all of their houses look fairly the same, with standardized streets and all that, and then standardized strip malls surrounding the houses. Typical American suburban structure, you know.
We have these monoculture colonies, with monoculture people that dress and act a certain way in public and go to monoculture jobs and everyone discusses the same monoculture things. But then writhing within these monoculture vessels are all sorts of freaky things. Oh, I've seen it. I know you have too. These freaky things find their expression through all sorts of avenues, but for now they are all carefully contained.
It is a modern way of doing things that is probably not a great way to go about it, but hey. You fly your freak flag when you can I guess.
This isn't the same thing, but I think the underlying impulse holds some continuity, but you had these popular avant garde bands like Sonic Youth who developed these interesting song structures, and these structures became a very popular expression in indie music in particular. But you'd have this standard song structure, you know, this repeating pattern which was catchy and easy to grasp, serve as a departure point for this meandering, unraveling jam that pulls far away from any sense of normalcy.
That's how you do it I guess. Everyone has to do it to an extent. You wear clothes and you act a certain way to subsist in public. You do what is necessary to make at least the average observer in any crowd comfortable. It binds everyone together. Then inside you have all this freaky stuff going on, that sometimes manages to meander out of the inner bounds of your self.
This observation applies more closely to suburban design and psychology, as the cities tend to demonstrate much more diversity and general freakiness, though it depends on the city. But even in the cities there is a limit to public expression. There are much crazier things going on in private lives in general. I guess a lot of it depends on environmental comfort and trust conferred to the people around you that get to witness this bare nature.
