Shooting, Anish Kapoor, 2009, and somehow shaping these upcoming musical events in Palo Alto

Zepperella featuring Gretchen Menn is playing the Guild in Menlo Park.

something between shit and architecture, 2008

PABLO CRUISE AT MITCHELL PARK BOWL SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2 PM

Pregnant, 1992

JOHNNY A AT LYTTON PLAZA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 5 PM

Gunn hosts Paly in football, first meeting of these rivals in 11 years. 

Palazzo, 2022

TAMMY HALL AT JOHNSON PARK SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2 PM

Stanford versus USC in football, later that day, two miles west.

orbit, 2012

STEVE POLTZ AT LYTTON PLAZA, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 5 PM

void, 1989

MADS TOLLING AT LYTTON PLAZA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 TIME TBA (ALSO INCLUDES CHASE ELODIA GROUP TIME TBA)

wing 1990; See also a proverb quoted by Ai wei wei page 67 of us 2011 MIT blog diary: But this time, for some reason, the duck, which was about to be cooked, suddenly spread its wings and flew away.

MARLEY’S GHOST AT LYTTON PLAZA 

DaShawn Hickman group at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass October 2, Sunday.

49ers versus Chiefs NFL football.

BATTLE TRANCE featuring Matt Nelson, Gunn alumnus, Monday, October 31 TBA likely or possibly at Paly’s old Haymarket Theatre, where the manager, Kyle, claims that their old Steinway is the same piano used by Thelonious Monk in 1969. Battle Trance features four saxophones. 

Note: I am indebted here to the article in The New Yorker about Anish Kapoor, born in 1954 and part Iraqi jew, lived briefly in Israel. I saw a piece of his work last week at the SFMoMA with my friend Eric Cohen, himself a UCLA MFA who worked with Frank Lobdell (at Stanford), Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden. Someone punched a whole in the window of my Lexus — it’s Achilles heel, evidently – -and stole my backpack, but then a nice young person at Patagonia here on Alma gifted me a replacement, with what I call “lavender” straps but a gal named Sierra says they are “violet”. Or as Sammy Hagar once said, red, red, there’s no substitute for red. 

Edit to add and excuse the segue but I’m happy for Delbert Anderson of the Navajo nation are bringing his van to Sonoma State in September. I’ve brought one or more secret pop-up shows to listen Plaza and for better for worse there are things that I have deleted from my blog and my event Brite to reschedule and not just because of the pandemic.  “Earthwise” at its worst can mean only human.