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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

Something funny, I cannot quite put my finger on about Tom Brady (Serra) and Julian Edelman (Woodside High) on cover of this month’s Gentry

Posted on May 7, 2015 by markweiss86
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Hey, Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?

Posted on May 7, 2015 by markweiss86

(cut and paste paragraph about Joe Simitian at today’s Los Altos Farmer’s Market, 5-7 p.m. and Saturday in Palo Alto, a.mish — I will check it out if bad grippa is indeed in check) (cut and paste to Jimi Hendrix … Continue reading →

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The Monkey’s got the main line sewed up tight

Posted on May 7, 2015 by markweiss86

Yesterday I posted to Palo Alto Weekly that I voted No on the school parcel tax as a protest against the political machine that chugs along a bit too easily here. Reading furthr into Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip” … Continue reading →

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Kreutzmann book tour hits Frisco May 31, but no Palo Alto deal so far

Posted on May 6, 2015 by markweiss86

this one:

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James Franco, Rachel Kushner and Mark Weiss

Posted on May 5, 2015 by markweiss86

As I was watching a preview of a coming attraction, at Palo Alto Square, before the James Franco Jonah Hill vehicle (meh-icle) “True Stories” I noticed that there is a movie with “Rachel Kushner” as a character name, the movie, … Continue reading →

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Frank Hurley, 1915 >> Valerie Vagoda, 2015 and Shackleton

Posted on May 5, 2015 by markweiss86

>>> Or: Oh! There’s Frozen Chicken in the Freezer, Excellent!! I met Valerie Vagoda when “Striking 12” was at Theatreworks and “Passing Strange” was more current; PS actually might have workshopped at Theatreworks if Public Theatre of New York had … Continue reading →

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Hobbit howls in the 206

Posted on May 1, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add: I interviewed in short this guy later and he told me he has been a hobbit longer than he has been a musician. I was thinking “smoke-stack lightning” a howling wolf reference mixed with whatver it is … Continue reading →

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Journalist John Burks, on his former bandmate, Alden Van Buskirk, jazz pianist (and Monk)

Posted on April 28, 2015 by markweiss86

(Alden Van Buskirk) –Van — was hands-down the best jazz pianist I ever played with, always exciting, always unpredictable– I never was sure he was going, though once we got ‘there’ it was invariably right. Not unlike Monk, of whom … Continue reading →

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I’ve just seen a face

Posted on April 25, 2015 by markweiss86

edita: This is the wall inside Eastern Cafe in Seattle, the International District not far from Wing Luke, where Terry my Terry, Terry Acebo Davis just installed her show. Five-ten Maynard Street. Here is a longer article about seeing faces. … Continue reading →

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It’s funny how falling seems like flying, for a little while

Posted on April 21, 2015 by markweiss86

The colleagues memo, written by alleged moderate or residentialists Karen Holman, Greg Schmid, Pat Burt and “the diplomat” Cory Wolbach, about “city engagement” reminds me of the Steven Bruton song, as sung by Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”: falling seems … Continue reading →

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