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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

Tribute to Jacob Koopee

Posted on May 13, 2014 by markweiss86

Tribute to Jacob Koopee by Barbara Weiss and Mark Weiss Jacob Koopee was a great Hopi potter who died recently at a very young age. I never met him but I have seen several of his masterful works. My mom … Continue reading →

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Blue Melody, Tender Mercies, Ball and Bennett

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Part of my conversational riff or rifflet with Marcia Ball and her crew included name-checking “Inside Llewyn Davis” while speaking to bass player Bennett, who hails from a part of Texas depicted in Joel and Ethan Coen’s film, based on … Continue reading →

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Emma Goldman and the revolution dance

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear … Continue reading →

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Party time with Marcia Ball y’all

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Marcia Ball sat for me three times Sunday. The first time, ok, she was sitting at her piano, cross-legged in a skirt, flapping her flip-flop sandal to the beat, her fingers flying across the board, like two acoma hawks herding … Continue reading →

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Santa Clara red or black?

Posted on May 10, 2014 by markweiss86

In New Mexico, it is customary to ask “red or green?” but it could be just as customary to ask “black or red?” the latter referring to Santa Clara Pueblo pottery rather than to chile. For tomorrow’s new acquisitions, we … Continue reading →

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Fake five with Chet

Posted on May 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I’ve got five minutes to fake my way thru a post about Chet Faker, the Aussie chill-rapper from Downtown Records (Gnarls Barkley >> Brett Dennen), coming to SF’s The Independent next week, before my battery runs down. 1. He’s Melbourne … Continue reading →

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Good not goofy: portrait of the man as a young journalist, summer 1985

Posted on May 8, 2014 by markweiss86

1. 2. 3. From the T&G: LEOMINSTER — A 34-year-old father of three from Leominster is the only suspect in Monday’s hit-and-run accident in which a teenager was seriously injured, police said this morning. The 16-year-old victim’s bicycle was dragged … Continue reading →

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Lenny Breau yesterday

Posted on May 7, 2014 by markweiss86

Is also mentioned four times in Gioia (2012) Lenny Breau (1941-1984 or so, guitarist; born in Auburn, Maine died in Los Angeles but is considered a Canadian and maybe French-Canadian, Arcadian) At this point I would not venture to guess … Continue reading →

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My fullish heartpack

Posted on May 7, 2014 by markweiss86

Shlepping about two stone in my The North Face pack, to Menalto not Ladakh, to sip-and-post, because two ongoing threads merged: Shields and Salerno mention that Salinger’s short story “Uncle Wiggly” was made into a shlocky Hollywood film, Title TBA, … Continue reading →

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Five posts for Cinco De Mayo

Posted on May 5, 2014 by markweiss86

Weirdly, I posted five small items today. I’m gonna reprint them there, back to back. My starting lineup included Mayor Taylor leading off, Lynn Tolman, Otis Taylor, Michael Carney in the cleanup spot, Beth Custer, Terry Acebo Davis, Paul Celan, … Continue reading →

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