Monthly Archives: May 2012

Vest Coast

Posted on May 17, 2012 by markweiss86

I have this crude, dorky, mash-up bit where I post two youtube windows here and invite my readers/viewers to open and play both simultaneously. While I should really just be gushing about Best Coast, their hit on Late Night tv … Continue reading →

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Love to love the Donnas

Posted on May 17, 2012 by markweiss86

I’d like to see Brett Anderson, Alison Robertson, Maya Ford and, for old times’ sake, Torry “Go Stanford” Castellano wearing satin dresses and covering this disco classic with a 1990s punk rock oomph:

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Harbaugh monologue part 2

Posted on May 15, 2012 by markweiss86

Two weeks in a row I have done my Harbaugh monologue at the Friday open mic at Philz. The gist of it is that although he is or was an excellent athlete and a successful coach, I have not been … Continue reading →

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Steps in stone(d)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by markweiss86

Steps in stoned That’s David Middlebrook, 2000, “Steps in Stone” in front of the Westin, Palo Alto, says Mark Weiss, who admits to being Windows-aided, although he also saw two Middlebrookses just yesterdaze at Montalvo. Speaking of Montalvo, Beth Custer … Continue reading →

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Weird lucid Sled Allen art dream

Posted on May 13, 2012 by markweiss86

  I had a weird dream this morn. One of those early rising not quite asleep thingies. Like the Kubrick movies, eyes wide shut. It was mostly about Sled Allen the baseball player. He was from the 1920s, Lawrence Ritter-era. … Continue reading →

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Thomson and Brownrigg for JCC benefit in Mountain View shoreline

Posted on May 12, 2012 by markweiss86

I am reading “Kepler’s Dream” by Juliet Bell, a name used by Sylvia Brownrigg, who I’ve known since the fifth grade, at Fremont Hills. Coincidentally, the story is told from the perspective of an 11-year old. Here is Syliva or … Continue reading →

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ikue mori at stanford ccrma tonight

Posted on May 10, 2012 by markweiss86

ikue mori at stanford ccrma tonight i may have her confused with Cheetoh Molly, but it’s cool. http://events.stanford.edu/events/318/31849/ edit to add: meanwhile I was gonna post something about comparing the Freight and Salvage schedule arrived yesterday in my box with … Continue reading →

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News! News! News! News! Reykjavik?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by markweiss86

Yale-educated, Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes of Half Moon Bay has written four books on the science of the history of “The Bomb” — that’s, by my simple math, about 2,000 pages and a half-million words — but by my reckoning, … Continue reading →

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Mort Weiss clarinet player

Posted on May 9, 2012 by markweiss86

My name is Mark Weiss but I was named for Mort Weiss so it kinda shocked me to realize there is a clarinet player Mort Weiss. Check him out: for comparison sake, this is a picture of my grandfather, Morton … Continue reading →

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For Austin’s Kat Edmonson, crowd-source and NPR are ticket to ride

Posted on May 8, 2012 by markweiss86

I heard Kat Edmonson on NPR a few weeks ago and made it a point to suss out her site a bit. As a guy who caught Dar Williams playing for tips, received Jane Monheit’s first autograph (or so she … Continue reading →

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