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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

GPT-3 can suck my left foot

Posted on August 1, 2020 by markweiss86
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Buddhas on their scooters

Posted on August 1, 2020 by markweiss86

  bw every cutie with a booty bought a Coogi   Since it’s Shabbat  I am going to say that Fay Victor reminds me of my friend Victor or he’s really Andrew’s big brother who at 18 flew off a … Continue reading →

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Diptych

Posted on August 1, 2020 by markweiss86

1) Marguerite is my neighbor although I’ve only met her once or twice;2) Jesse her daughter I’ve not quite met, but I know her husband, her kids and her mother in law;Good luck Jesse Fletcher Ladomirak running for School Board! … Continue reading →

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David Foster Wallace on Roger Federer: nearly 14 years ago

Posted on July 31, 2020 by markweiss86

Annealed knees  

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Bill Frisell epistrophy

Posted on July 29, 2020 by markweiss86

Not sure what the word means but it says “Monk” to me and thanks Bill for posting this video.

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COINTELPRO in Palo Alto, fall 1968 legend

Posted on July 28, 2020 by markweiss86

Yoshi Kato in PAW and Almanac has the scoop that the Thelonious Monk Palo Alto live concert produced by Danny Scher then a senior at Paly has been shelved, because of an injunction by Verve’s Record’s rivalry with another label. Not … Continue reading →

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Molly Tuttle Lindsay Lou cover of Operation Ivy ‘Crowd’ VS L. Marie Cook ‘Super Bon Bon’

Posted on July 28, 2020 by markweiss86

  Step aside and let the gals go thru I found this today looking for something else: Bonus track: AJ Lee and Sullivan Tuttle – Molly’s brother, well, they are both former bandmates — live at Mitchell Park, doing Bob … Continue reading →

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San Jose and Blue Note jazz legend, Eddie Gale, 78

Posted on July 28, 2020 by markweiss86

When I met Eddie Gale late in his career I had switched my focus from concert promotion to artist manager for the likes of Henry Butler, John Ellis, Chris Cotton, Laura Price with Laura Chavez, the blue eyed Devils, the … Continue reading →

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Richter, Serra, Ruscha

Posted on July 28, 2020 by markweiss86

    I’m also wondering about: Manifestoes including Cate Blanchett as 15 different artists, Rose B Simpson driving her El Camino Maria down our El Camino from Menlo Park El Palo Alto to San Jose and filming in two directions … Continue reading →

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‘O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend; And of the curveship lend a myth to God’

Posted on July 27, 2020 by markweiss86

We are approaching the centennial of Hart Crane’s epic “Bridge”. Contemporaneous depiction of Brooklyn Bridge, new to me as of Emma Acker’s “Precisionist” show at the DeYoung Museum in 2018: Quirky and superficial but I did correspond with my former … Continue reading →

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