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INCOMPREHENSIBLE_DESIRE

Once upon a time there was
a DJ at KZSU (also a Program
Director, also a Jazz Director,
also one of the early members            He was also half of the
of the Beanbenders crew)...              infamous radio duo:
let's just call him by his               "MC Escher and MC Squared".
airname: Klee.

He played a lot of odd
stuff, leaning heavily on       IMP_PERVERSE
what you might call out-jazz.

Someone I know refused to                         Later: when visiting
believe that Klee actually                        a hill tribe in
liked the kind of music he                        Vietnam, she commented
was playing on the air.                           that their music was
                                                  so weird, it was something
Her first guess was that it was an                like Klee would play.
elitest, obscurist, in-group game,
that he was putting on airs of
superiority while listening to this
high-brow stuff.

To me, it was pretty
obvious she was wrong.

Maybe, just possibly, at some point in his
distant past, Klee might have been
aggressively pursuing weird music for the sake
of achieving some social image or status.

But even if so, I think she
underestimated the way an
appreciation for an artform
for it's own sake can become
internalized though long              UNLIKELY_CONFESSION
exposure, whatever the
initial motivation.

She didn't believe it was possible
he could like the music that he
clearly does like.

                                                  HONEST_JOHN

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