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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

People who inscribed my Terman yearbook, in 1977

Posted on December 14, 2014 by markweiss86

I think of the internet as a business tool, not personal, yet cannot help this frivolous and esoteric post. The people who signed my Tiger Tracks: 1. Anna Lee 2. Andy Zenoff 3. Brad Chinn, or maybe Brad Scott, but … Continue reading →

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I have been floated to this thought this hour

Posted on December 14, 2014 by markweiss86

1. I spent two minutes trying to hear a recording made at a show I produced in 1999 at the Cub, over the ambient music and noise in 2014 a Sunday at Coupa in Palo Alto, and I caught a … Continue reading →

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Oren’s mousse best dessert in town

Posted on December 13, 2014 by markweiss86
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Ollie, a dog

Posted on December 13, 2014 by markweiss86
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Neutral Milk, June 2 at Cubberley?????

Posted on December 13, 2014 by markweiss86

Merge Records, celebrating 25 years of not working for you, but working, tips the news that Jeff Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel are going on the road next spring and summer, for a limited run. There is what looks like … Continue reading →

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Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed as “Sugar” on Rumpus

Posted on December 12, 2014 by markweiss86

I’ve been a bit of a hater of Cheryl Strayed but am softening now that I know that Steve Almond has a connection to her. He started the “Sugar” advice column on Rumpus* and then passed that “Torch” to Cheryl. … Continue reading →

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Wild reveals

Posted on December 12, 2014 by markweiss86

“Wild” reveals what some of us have long suspected: that plot is the enemy of truth, and that images and emotions can carry meaning more effectively than neatly packaged scenes or carefully scripted character arcs. I stole that fro the … Continue reading →

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Ed Marinero Talking Blues I mean Bruise

Posted on December 12, 2014 by markweiss86

The supposition is that if I call Murry Bowden the developer, Hanover Industries, in Houston Texas and ask the receptionist “I’m a Dartmouth guy and I want to ask Murry Bowden about ‘Ed Marinero’” would she put me through, would … Continue reading →

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Leonard Frey of 201 Streeter

Posted on December 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Leonard Frey, Dartmouth class of 1949, lived at 201 Streeter, one of the older dorms, in the so-called Gold Coast, west campus, closer to the river, by my sense. When Harry Hillman died, Frey contributed $5 to a memorial fund. … Continue reading →

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I’m not stalking him, he is stalking me

Posted on December 10, 2014 by markweiss86
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