Author Archives: markweiss86

Unknown's avatar

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

I’ll trade you two Mike Mills and five Bob Lawtons for one Jimmy Carter ‘Crisis of Confidence’

Posted on June 11, 2018 by markweiss86

No, thanks Yo la tengo

Posted in art, austistic, chapel hill, ethniceities, film, filthy lucre, words | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Joseph Zirker at Palo Alto Art Center, the former Council Chamber

Posted on June 10, 2018 by markweiss86

Amanda Salisbury, a recent hire in the front office of Palo Alto Art Center, Embarcadero at Newell, did not see the Joseph Zirker show in the small conference room a few years ago, but showed me to Zirker’s work, part … Continue reading →

Posted in art, ethniceities, Plato's Republic, sex, Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

Hey, girl, I guess I’m a housewife

Posted on June 10, 2018 by markweiss86

At 3:26: this pertains to a private or business correspondence between myself and certain industry professionals. also, at Earth day 1993 by bay Area Action, and produced by Jason Coltun before he joing Red Light, Michelle Shocked played this song … Continue reading →

Posted in austistic, Plato's Republic, sex, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hey you 50 plastic alto readers here’s your chance to be among the first 500 in the world to watch the tape of my former concert going buddy Michael McFaul describe his new book and new audiobook last month on “the farm”

Posted on June 9, 2018 by markweiss86
Posted in Plato's Republic, this blue marble | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Big day coming (ramen mix)

Posted on June 8, 2018 by markweiss86

edit to add Barry eisler John Rain novelist eats here  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0gxdQ-Ep8 add: weirdly I did run into Barry Eisler the spy novelist whose books have a hapa spy named John Rain and often take place in Japan, like Ian Fleming … Continue reading →

Posted in ethniceities, music, this blue marble | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Wages of fur

Posted on June 8, 2018 by markweiss86

Luigi and I delivering nitroglycerin to fire on the mountain

Posted in film, filthy lucre, Plato's Republic, this blue marble | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Kudos, Earning’ Chip Fleischer, my freshman dormmate, 25 years of small press publishing: or, getting to ‘forth’

Posted on June 7, 2018 by markweiss86
Posted in ethniceities, filthy lucre, words | Leave a comment

If it’s 7 o’clock that must be Panda Sandoval throwing out a runner from first base foul territory, but if it’s 10:30 that’s Calexico sitting in with Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore, got it?

Posted on June 6, 2018 by markweiss86
Posted in ethniceities, sf moma, sports | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Blue roses benefit with mother hips Jackie Greene and live reading of Tennessee Williams ‘glass menagerie’ to benefit the Stella Brooks

Posted on June 4, 2018 by markweiss86

Degree from Dartmouth finally pays off

Posted in ethniceities, filthy lucre, sf moma, words | Tagged | Leave a comment

Supergravity w. Supertramp ‘Just Another Nervous Wreck’

Posted on June 3, 2018 by markweiss86
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment