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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

SF Mime Troupe post: 2012, 2011, 2014 and counting

Posted on March 26, 2014 by markweiss86

I posted this on some other sight, as a volunteer “community blogger” and am trying to paste it over here, for archive sake: To wit: SF Mime Troupe, an award-winning comedia dell arte political-musical-theatre group from San Francisco, is bringing … Continue reading →

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Protected: Make it tweedy

Posted on March 26, 2014 by markweiss86

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Music is data (work in progress – notepad)

Posted on March 25, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m still the dissident claiming music is the thing coming out of your amp or mouth and not recorded data, but for some reason I am reading up on some of the leading terms and players in that admittedly large … Continue reading →

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Tale of Two Gits: Mia and Ren

Posted on March 25, 2014 by markweiss86

I noticed a week-old New York Times magazine, in my dad’s to-recycle basket, and rifled thru it: the cover story was about Silicon Valley, from the perspective of a grad student working a summer job at a hot new generation … Continue reading →

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5. Jesus Christ was an Only Child (in 600 words, 19 images)

Posted on March 24, 2014 by markweiss86

5. Jesus Christ was an Only Child and probably never spend a Monday late morning early afternoon uploading photos from his stupid cell phone to his spiffy computer and weird blog. Continue reading →

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Two real mothers for ya

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86

JD Optekar is a Dartmouth-trained engineer (class of 1991, Th’92) out of Wisconsin, holding down the guitar slot in and c0-leading a pretty decent regional blues-soul outfit, celebrating a cd release at Buddy Guy’s in Chicago this spring, I noticed … Continue reading →

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Those mother palo alto hips

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Above photo by Andrew Quist in 2011 courtesy of Fast Atmosphere Mother Hips website. Hips are celebrating 20 years as a rock and roll band, and extended family or brotherhood. Off the top of my head, I can think of … Continue reading →

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Tagged Bruce Beasley, Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Mark B. Weiss, Terry Acebo Davis, Joseph Mehling

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86
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Eyeball, beisbol, cristobal and the 29

Posted on March 20, 2014 by markweiss86

1. At Georgia O’Keefe show I visited yesterday at the De Young, the taped tour featured a recitation of Emerson’s famous “transparent eyeball” passage, from “Nature” (1838) — I am nothing, I see all” which made me glad to have … Continue reading →

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It will be interesting to see if these four Palo Altans can indeed carve a livelihood out of these events, and do so without losing their dignity

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Let’s rab. Continue reading →

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