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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

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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Shut up and Dance by Pearl Harbour and the Explosions 1978 Vs The Dance section of Hart Crane bridge poem circa 1923 or 55 years prior

Posted on July 27, 2020 by markweiss86

I thought of Pearl Harbour this morning because I learned she is the sister of the recently deceased gallerist Ed Gilbert. Her biggest song is “Shut Up And Dance”. My smart phone let me play it, somewhat quietly. My wife … Continue reading →

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‘Seether’ Veruca Salt VS ‘Remedy’ Seether

Posted on July 26, 2020 by markweiss86

Apparently Remedy by Seether 2009 is five times more popular than Veruca Salt “Seether”, 52m plays to 9m plays.I never heard it before just now.I bought by wife a dress from J.Foss in Palo Alto with a bunch of cd … Continue reading →

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Hanks, Hanks, ‘Hanks’ VS Oswald, Oswald, Oswald, and Oswald

Posted on July 26, 2020 by markweiss86

I hereby nominate Marc Oswald to the Cubberley Hall of Fame. Marc is a graduate of the school in the class of 1976. They were only three more classes after his to go full-term and a total of 25 classes … Continue reading →

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Vote for ‘SMEK’

Posted on July 25, 2020 by markweiss86
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Now we’re messing with The Kid: Earthwise announces content development deal with Christoffer Andersen of Greaseland Studios for Lions With Wings imprint

Posted on July 21, 2020 by markweiss86

 

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‘Brave Dragons’ VS ‘Dragon Hoops’

Posted on July 19, 2020 by markweiss86

AKA YARDLEY V YANG One guy is a MacFound Genius Grant laureate who wrote a graphic novel 2020 bleeds black and gold of Bishop O’Dowd, the other was a Page Pirate and Gunn Titan, won a Pulitzer has a book … Continue reading →

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Lions With Wings logo reveal

Posted on July 18, 2020 by markweiss86

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A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by one of Donald Trump’s secret police: Now Trump and Chad Wolf are weaponizing the DHS as their own occupying army to provoke violence on the streets of my hometown because they think it plays well with right-wing media.

Posted on July 17, 2020 by markweiss86

US senator and former Paly basketball star Ron Wyden via social media, Thursday, July 16, 2020 regarding Black Lives Matter bw from Anna Eshew newsletter gazing tight For what purpose, and under what legal authority, did the FBI conduct such … Continue reading →

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