Flutterby™! : childhood taboos

I got an email yesterday from Robert Smith-Hald, someone who knew me back in my grade school days. I was browsing through his musical biography and some bits of my childhood came into perspective. In describing his upbringing he says:

The glue of these types of communities is to lay down lots of taboos. The outside world is bad, henceforth; No TV, no candy, no junk food, no blue jeans, use candles rather than electric lights- and stay way from anything remotely connected to modern culture- and the worst- NO POP music, which includes rock, folk, blues, even most country music. The only music allowed was classical.

My family wasn't this hardcore, but we did trend that way, and a good number of the people who went to the school I went to through 7^th grade were this extremist. I'm not quite sure where I wanted to go with this, other than that if you read that you'll get some clues into why I'm slightly out of sync with the world most people inhabit.

And his music is worth a listen.