I’ve read this entire thread and I still don’t know if y’all made Goopen up or not, and I’m not going to check.

Goopen is actually right in a lot of places but the weird sex stuff really discredits his analysis

What a small world, Prof. Goopen was actually one of my mentors. We had many long discussions about Spontaneous Councillism, and he no longer stands by it.

In fairness, most of the avant-garde jazz groups that came out of Ann Arbor, MI at the end of the 80s were Goopenists. Two of the best known ones have names that are anagrams of “Spontaneous Councilism” (Opossum’s Canticle Union and Numinous Calico Stepson.) In fact I’m pretty sure Jean-Baptiste Frazzwell played at Goopen’s fourth wedding, although I have no idea who the backing musicians would have been, since this would have been before the second Frazztones lineup came together but after the first lineup died of hantavirus.