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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

Franklin Bruno VS Billy Gibbons (on the whole cost efficiencies of anti-pgmeneria thing)

Franklin Bruno formerly of nothing planted blue now has a band called the human hearts and a song about cheap sunglasses; which speaks to me as a post baby boomer Gen X indie guy who likes math, more than the … Continue reading →

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Katy Perry please don’t sue my friend Rupa Marya even though you used exotic hand gestures and had blue people before she used exotic hand gestures and Painted self blue

Katy Perry, 2014

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I’ve mentioned Mark Kozelek ten times, now II

And he’s playing The Mitch in Palo Alto on Friday September 27, 2019, Sun Kil Moon. For whatever reason, the first person to purchase a ticket, for 20$ was a guy named Mitchell Park B/w who knew that there was … Continue reading →

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Laura Snapes is an iota

…And I’m certain that by the time anybody reads this, I’ll forget what I was thinking. B/w I told somebody the story recently my version of what I remember reading about a brown woman from the Middle East who worked … Continue reading →

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Joan Baez portrait as a black woman by Palo Alto High school diversity activists VS Pinoy boxer who took Mexican name

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Francisco Guilledo was world champion boxer, but died young and fought using a pseudonym based on the Mexican anti-hero, Pancho Villa. I saw the Joan Baez portrait, a detail of a larger work, at the Paly 100th year reception, in … Continue reading →

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Jeff Parker with Dave King, Scott Colley, Jason Lindner and Marquis Hill

Great show last night at The Stanford Jazz Workshop. Highlights included “Freakadelic” by Jeff Parker, off his Trio cd; and Jason Lindner’s “Monserrati” which he said is about a church on an Andrew hill in Bogota. They are pretty finicky … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Dayna Stephens

COMING TO PALO ALTO, SUNDAY AUGUST 18, 2 P.M. SHOW TICKETS ON SALE, AT EVENTBRITE I had the pleasure of seeing Dayna Stephens at the Stanford Jazz Workshop concert series, at Dink. Because he is coming back to his home … Continue reading →

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New Mariano Rivera Inspired Design

I bought this from Bill peaks while visiting New York City on my honeymoon in September 2018 via New Mariano Rivera Inspired Design

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Cynthia Branvall, ‘Porcelain Medallions’ VS Billy Nayer, ‘Vagina Made Of Glass’ VS Lily He golfer w 234k social media followers VS ‘From Russia With Love’ wrestling match

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  Weiss: This started with, and maybe I should not admit, something triggering a memory of a dirty joke I read in Playboy magazine years ago about a businessman playing golf in Japan but not speaking the language too well … Continue reading →

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Terry and I happened upon Rachael Short’s opening in Carmel

The next morning Duffy and I cane upon some colorful flowers:

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