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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

Christgau on ‘Hamilton’ VS Jere Daniell, Dartmouth history professor, summer, 1984 on ‘The American Rev

1. Christgau went to Dartmouth; 2. Jere Daniell taught at Dartmouth, many, many years, maybe back to Christgau days, early 1960s; 3. Daniell’s class was on American History, the Revolution; I took this Sophomore Summer, which for me was 1984. … Continue reading

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Jonas Mekas’ ‘Lost Lost Lost’ VS ‘Watchman S1:04

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edit to add: I wrote that in honor of Jonas Mekas’ 97 anniversary of his birthdate. He was a filmmaker and founder of Anthology Film Archives in New York, on Second Avenue, where I briefly volunteered in 2001. I just … Continue reading

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Late for the A(J) – Train: My meeting with AJ Lee at Peet’s in Palo Alto in October, 2019 means that others have known her first for 12 years or more

I DO NOT BELIEVE that the phrase “Like I Used To” is a direct reference to the 2007 Father’s Day jam:  

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Dan Ackroyd ‘We’re on a mission from God’ VS Charlie Musselwhite at the JCC Palo Alto Sunday / Hanukkah

Please join us on Sunday, December 29 for American legend and blues master Charlie Musselwhite and his band at Palo Alto’s Jewish Community Center, a concert presented by Earthwise. The JCC performing art center presents diverse programming of its own … Continue reading

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Dobos Torte VS Tom Dubois

I got this from the Palo Alto Weekly: The motor home parked in front of Chef Chu’s sells special layer cakes, sometimes known as Dobos Tortes, and they have a brick and mortar spot in Los Altos. Tom Dubois, of … Continue reading

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Helen Foley, songwriter and bassist, was my neighbor for the first ten years of her life, a very quiet girl, with big, beautiful eyes

I’m a newbie to the whole Molly Tuttle / Gryphon / Redwood Bluegrass vortex but in it with a passion, so I totally tripped out when I recognized the former little girl from next door, all growed up and plugging … Continue reading

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‘Mendocino County Line’ Willie Nelson Leanne Womack by Bernie Taupin VS ‘Mendocino’ Sir Douglas Quintet by Doug Sahm

Fortythree cds stand out, recent acquisitons or somehow important (more so that the boxes I donated to the Palo Alto library — ironically, I buy cds back from the Mitchell Park library sale, especially when I am loading in a … Continue reading

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Jumpin’ On the TD wagon, only 20 years late to the dance, excuse the mixtape metafollicle — hey, that almos’ means something, (the ditty — don’ say ‘t——-‘)

Bw watchman with me as I become the 3,000th person to see a 12 year old MC Lars live livin’ large video with the emphasis on “12 yo”, yo — I see what I and I did there. If (Antoine) … Continue reading

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The Don’t Call it Frisco Bowl

  I am thinking about the Cal bowl game, against Illinois. So it’s my favorite tax dollar at work — Cal — versus the state I was born in. It’s 2 pm on a Monday — my wife works until … Continue reading

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I’m struttin’ my stuff y’all VS ‘sits…(and) slouches’ (but BIG FUN, nonetheless); or, I am a ‘transparent eye-ball’ VS I have big ears

Thanks for coming, for reaching out and for raising the question about the staging per se of Earthwise Productions at The Mitchell Park Community Center, El Palo Alto Room. I’ve done 10 shows in the room. My plan — although … Continue reading

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