Two pretty random A&R notes, Vienna Teng new cd and single “Level Up” video and Dan Bern, from Jonathan Demme’s documentary about Jimmy Carter, “Ballad of Jimmy Carter”.

I also spied something about Greil Marcus talking about “The Manchurian Candidate” he first saw at Varsity Theatre in 1962.

I remember first seeing it, alone, when it came out in the fall of 1962, at the Varsity Theatre in Palo Alto, an old-fashioned Moorish wonderland of a movie palace.

Whatever thoughts connected these three points in space, and filled a couple hours surfing around the internet, I cannot begin to recount here.

I was thinking about a “Palo Alto Serf Music” event, my new pet name for the street music event here next month that I am typicalyl hating-on.

Vienna Teng played The Varsity when it was a Borders, and she was doing a free in-store. Dan Bern used to play, probably twice, the house concert series on Amaranta Way in Barron Park, produced by Ray Sliter.

Bonus track:

Here is a Jimmy Carter jingle, from 1976; I distinctly remember seeing this in 1992 at the Carter Library in Atlanta, with my dad and my former roommate Scott Rafshoon, who sang along…