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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

My Favorite Racists: 1910 Fruitgum Company tribute band

Posted on March 28, 2019 by markweiss86

As a Pollstar subscriber, I do get a lot of spam from smalltime labels and agents about their projects. I had never heard the 1968 novelty single “Indian Giver” until the agent, “Flashback Mgmt” out of Tampa, FL used “Indian … Continue reading →

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Unitas, Matte…Strausser

Posted on March 28, 2019 by markweiss86

Jerry Sorenson mentioned to me that our mutual friend Chris Strausser had joined the Colts. I sent the Colts webmaster a note about the fact that in 1981 Chris was co-offensive player of the year in the Santa Clara Valley … Continue reading →

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Did you mention that your childhood name was ‘Mac’?

Posted on March 28, 2019 by markweiss86

Today I learned that my former Gunn and Dartmouth schoolmate Alan Eagle ‘83 has cowritten a book about the great Bill Campbell, “Coach”.   I’ve written a couple times briefly about Bill Campbell here based on our chance meeting the … Continue reading →

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Chicken Katchadourian

Posted on March 28, 2019 by markweiss86

Served medium rare

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I’m in love with my czar: Queen biopic recut as Peking lame duck

Posted on March 26, 2019 by markweiss86

taking tiger mountain by force

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Marika Anthony-Shaw of Arcade Fire spoke at Pollstar about her activism

Posted on March 26, 2019 by markweiss86
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Talking Cree in the crease

Posted on March 26, 2019 by markweiss86
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Who owns Renty?

Posted on March 26, 2019 by markweiss86

edita: Steal this book: b/w Robert Johnson i’m not the one to talk me w

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‘Bemsha Swing’ by 86 different artists including Charlie Hunter, TJ Kirk and MMW– but I learned it from my then-client Jack Walrath, at the Octopus Lounge in Pacifica, on October 5, 2004

Posted on March 26, 2019 by markweiss86

  And I once wrote about it to a Penn grad student Bethany Klein, who apparently had different ideas of what is “our song”. The song of course is by Thelonius Monk and Denzil Best. It’s a pigeon of “Bimshire”. … Continue reading →

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A short memoir about Louise Erdrich (occassioned by The New York Times Book Review section, interview with author and memoirist Laurie Halse Anderson)

Posted on March 25, 2019 by markweiss86

BLUF: Six minutes into the Glenn Close Jon Pryce thingy about a fake Philip Roth and I sort of want to switch to the Fred Rogers doc while I make a pork stir fry for my wifey; the jumping (not … Continue reading →

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