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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

Don’t Weep For Me, the Wepner musical

Posted on July 1, 2014 by markweiss86

  I just watched the replay of a song from “Rocky” the musical on Letterman and it set me to suss around a bit about Chuck Wepner, Sylvester Stallone, the Rocky franchise and this new musical. More to come. I … Continue reading →

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Happy 70th birthday to Jazz guitarist and Gemini Jack Wilkins

Posted on July 1, 2014 by markweiss86

Jack Wilkins is a jazz guitarist celebrating his 70th birthday this weekend at a hit at the Jazz Standard, although he is actually a Gemini. His “Red Clay” cover of a Freddie Hubbard song is also sampled by a few … Continue reading →

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Mark my words

Posted on June 30, 2014 by markweiss86

We picked up one excellent word–a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word–‘lagniappe.’ They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is Spanish–so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds … Continue reading →

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Maria and Popovi versus Maria Popova

Posted on June 30, 2014 by markweiss86

Maria and Popovi are a mother and son set of collaborators who made some of the most coveted San Ildefonso Pueblo Pottery from New Mexico (as we call it), mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. I found a bit from … Continue reading →

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Our Palo Alto pseudo-mandate

Posted on June 30, 2014 by markweiss86

I’ve been meaning to organize my thoughts about Our Palo Alto, and the workshop I attended last week, at the Elks Club. I was seated, via purportedly random processes, at a group of 7 that included insiders Steve Levy and … Continue reading →

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Something about Hannah May Allison

Posted on June 30, 2014 by markweiss86

Hannah May Allison, the Palo Alto and Nashville singer-songwriter, plays Tuesday in Los Gatos, at the historic The Cats. It is a happy hour show, 6 to 9. If memory serves, there will be victuals. Speaking of memory, I am … Continue reading →

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Random Clyde photo

Posted on June 29, 2014 by markweiss86

New York Times today has a random Clyde photo so I will follow suit. by Dave Pickoff. I will edita names of the other 3 players plus some brief explanation of the article this illustrates

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Kristen Strom Getz tribute at Stanford Jazz series

Posted on June 28, 2014 by markweiss86

Kristen Strom will appear at the Stanford Jazz series, performing a tribute to Stan Getz. It’s a matinee, 2 p.m. July 13 Sunday. Info here. The show is at Dink, with tickets ranging from $15 to $35, which actually seems a … Continue reading →

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deus ex machina: sugimoto in sf LAST DAYS

Posted on June 27, 2014 by markweiss86

I chose to interpret this as the invisible hand of God coming down to bring my monumental, but unfinished Last Supper to completion. Leonardo completed his Last Supper over five hundred years ago, and it has deteriorated beautifully. I can only be grateful to … Continue reading →

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Nin Filip photography & philosophy

Posted on June 27, 2014 by markweiss86

In Nan Goldin’s work, it is, redemptively, one of its central themes. Goldin’s art is filled with a generous attentiveness towards the lives of its subjects. Although we might not be conscious of it at first, her photograph of a … Continue reading →

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