[mplpost] Influences

[k brown]

just

returned home from the land of enchantment

checked my mail,

and now i find myself giggling uncontrollably

at the thought that james gordon might be considered a musical snob.

(and here i was thinking the silly season would never get here).

folk is full of the exceptions that prove everybody else's rules.  my
own fairly useless opinion is that attempting to define folk is actually
harmful.  taxonomic meltdown follows.  much in the same way that
'defining' our country only leads to the doomsayers being able to say,
"see, it can't be done. so give up on it."  and we are ashamed of the
failure and worry that they might be right.  (this weekend al gore told
me that america was the best country ever invented--being surrounded, i
was in no position to argue.)

the right answer is not to answer.

ask what folk programmers are programming, what folk artists are
playing, what folk dj's are spinning.  excellent, useful information.
but reverse engineering a definition from that is just a silly word game
clothed in logic.

what we do deserves better.

see, the bumper sticker was wrong.  it should've simply read

my canada includes





ken brown
kbrown@sentex.net


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