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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

Asian Women Designers Rule at Fashionweek

Posted on February 16, 2012 by markweiss86

Suzy Menkes, of IHT, on Charlie Rose, claims that young Asian women designers, from New York City and West Coast, are breaking out at Fashionweek this year. Sounds good to me. Anna Sui? I have been wearing a lot of … Continue reading →

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Pay No Attention to the Woman Behind the Walls Curtain Glass Castle

Posted on February 15, 2012 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE The So-Called “Innocent Expression” of Jeannette Walls Family History as Memoir of Classroom Text I am pretty much done with Jeannette Walls “The Glass Castle”. I’ve read the lion’s share,  and have a sense of it – stylistically, factually, aesthetically … Continue reading →

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What Can Brown Do For Yu?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by markweiss86

I ran into Steven Brown who was Jeremy Lin’s teammate and main man at Paly. Steven said that they played on Mr. Jim Brown’s AAU team for years, then played separately at JLS vs. Jordan, then reunited at Paly. My … Continue reading →

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7th Grade Bitch

Posted on February 14, 2012 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5h6cLwlt8&feature=related I called Mia Levin (Mudwimin, Frightwig) about Etta James who died recently. I am trying to piece together that Etta James recorded an album in Nashville called “Seven Year Bitch”, in 1989. Then, in early 1990s Selene Vigil starts … Continue reading →

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Grafton versus Selmer

Posted on February 14, 2012 by markweiss86

For a guy who names his blog “Plastic Alto” it is amazing how long it has taken me to get the name straight, Grafton as in “skin graft”. Ornette switched to Selmer after that, which has white enamel. Dig?

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Plastic Alto Top Dozen Posts All-Time

Posted on February 14, 2012 by markweiss86

its’ been a long time been a long been a long lonely lonely lonely 279 no 280 posts time. Rock and blogroll. Continue reading →

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Lin “gunning it out” with Kobe Bryant

Posted on February 10, 2012 by markweiss86

this is my dream being lived out, by jeremy lin. hoop dreams two. the humble hero from harvard leads knicks over lakers 92-85 primetime on ESPN from Madison Square garden. the kid from gunn i mean paly high — that was Joshua Lin at Gunn. Jeremy and Joseph somehow ended up at Paly — state champs. Continue reading →

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Absurd tension for IM

Posted on February 9, 2012 by markweiss86

  edit to add, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012: I went in to Safeway to try to buy the Jeremy Lin Sports Illustrated but instead walked out with The New Yorker because it had a blurb about Doomtree in New York … Continue reading →

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Foothill molehill post

Posted on February 9, 2012 by markweiss86

I don’t have time to actually write either of these but I was seized by two ideas while wandering Foothill College today: one, Janis Stevenson had a notion that Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” was influenced by Woody Guthrie, and two … Continue reading →

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Obscure Ukrainian Radiohead cover via youtube and wordpress blog

Posted on February 8, 2012 by markweiss86

My thought process went: Jerry Hannan>Dan Bern>Matt Nathanson covers>Jonathan Richman>JR covers Leonard Cohen>a skinny chick covers same Leonard Cohen song>I notice her weird name, which looks like my name and email address>Ukrainian pop singer singing Ukrainian song that the skinny … Continue reading →

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