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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play

I see a boot by Kara that reminds me of a shoe in a frame by Chagoya

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86
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I pay estimated taxes every quarter for my small Palo Alto music business, but apparently Castilleja School because it packs Palo Alto leadership with insiders, paid $250k by check seven years and three days ago, but cheats We The People out of $5 millon each year

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86
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Remi Woof ‘Hello’ remix or mash up etude featuring empty green bottle

Posted on November 22, 2020 by markweiss86
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Aloha to drummer Amy Cesari from Downtown North Palo Alto

Posted on November 22, 2020 by markweiss86

Although this rock ‘n’ roll drummer has been in the biz almost as long as I have it suddenly dawned on me her story. I knew because Maya told me that when Tori quit the band with chronic illness in … Continue reading →

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Caroline Davis, Covid-ear not concert, solo sax, effects and found protest, 2020

Posted on November 22, 2020 by markweiss86

I am listening to this person do a 35 minute solo sax performance on the internet. Yesterday she led a Lee Konitz program on line with Stanford Jazz Workshop. I meant to go but it came and went. I have … Continue reading →

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Turn of the Stew

Posted on November 22, 2020 by markweiss86

My name’s Stew And I like screw A—- And by **** From on high Or down in front. Uniting Wall Street And Van Brunt Hanging chads or run Jeremy I’m now the long-time kind of guy. On my stake or … Continue reading →

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The Times says these three people are not people but CGI, AI androids or what nots

Posted on November 21, 2020 by markweiss86

I don’t know if I violate copyright by freeze framing or capturing these human type faces in the times story about AI — Havent’ read the small print. Reminds me of Philik K Dick or movies thereof. Reminds me of … Continue reading →

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Six five oh livestreams in the 212

Posted on November 13, 2020 by markweiss86

Rockwood Music Hall of Manhattan is promoting a set of ticketed livestream concerts, with Molly Tuttle and Vienna Teng. What caught my eye here in Plasty is that they are both Peninsula slash South Bay artists. Molly is from Palo … Continue reading →

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Writing about music may be like dancing about architecture—

Posted on November 13, 2020 by markweiss86

But mark morris layla on my cellphone is just one more thing draining the battery

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Two hundred posts later, I wish more people had noticed the free Clarinet Thing concert from June or February

Posted on November 11, 2020 by markweiss86

June: 41 postsJuly: 42 postsAugust: 45 postsSeptember: 33 postsOctober: 28 postsNovember: 15 postsBut I am making sticky something I posted in June, a photo of Beth Custer and I, at her Clarinet Thing concert here in February, and the recording … Continue reading →

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