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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

Duffy, Me and JR in a ’79 Granada Last Week

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  ee The last one is truly as if I were a fashion writer: I’ve mentioned several times, in passing, like in emails, that at Dartmouth in the 1980s, which was LL Bean and “preppy handbook” and conservative, I loaded … Continue reading →

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Born on the South Side, would love to work with Bloodshot

I saw something fly past my info stream today about Nan Warshaw. I met her in 2003 at SXSW when I was shopping three projects involving my then-client Caroleen Beatty. Nan said she knew Caroleen from Bedlam Rovers which toured … Continue reading →

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I’ve used the word ‘memoir’ 65 times here, one-third of which have been since registering for Lynn Stegner’s class

I will have to look into this. I remember it well. You wore blue, the Germans wore black. He said, “but my wife is not in a wheel chair”. Distribution of word “memoir” in Plastic Alto, by year: 2019: 15, … Continue reading →

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Memoir of a crooked ref

I love basketball and I love memoir — I’m taking Lynn Stegner’s famous course — so I cannot resist a quick cut and paste, based on something in the Yahoo feed, about a crooked referee NBA and his memoir from … Continue reading →

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Nine things in the papers

“Harris Resists Easy Definition: Treading Lightly on the Issues as a Top Lawyer” NYT by Kate Zernike “Epic tale of catastrophic change: turmoil wreaked by the Colombian drug trade upends anindigenous Family in a cliche-defying story” by A.O. Scott “Birds … Continue reading →

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Ninety-nine dreams I have had

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I would have had to have started with Sermon on The Mount to have produced as many shows to date, as Earthwise, as Live Nation does in one year

  Me: 300 concerts in 25 years Them: 30,000 concerts each year Earthwise Posters set and checklist (1993-2001) (Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto is or was a concert and artist management company founded by Mark Weiss that produced more than … Continue reading →

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By magic I show you Earvin Johnson’s high school team

Bw I ran into a college classmate who owned $400m worth of Fusion-IO, my brother’s employer, then and now, I think: edit to add: It’s kind of random to go from Magic Johnson to Scott Sandell when the thing should … Continue reading →

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Dude in Pet Store 510 Saw AFI 18 Times

The Jonathan — met at PetCo Albany Saturday, February 9, 2019 -loves his dogs, and the hampsters, and his lady-friend (not pictured, but has the same first name as Billie Joe Armstrong’s spouse) bw GREEN JUMPSUIT PERCUSSION MARTIAL ARTS DANCER … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Hovey murals

I’ve never seen the Hovey Murals, But I did spend considerable time scrutinizing the Orozco Murals  last time I was in Hanover which was six years ago now.  And they recently visited us at art institute to see the Diego … Continue reading →

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