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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

Kepi Ghoulie at first Rockage Fest in San Jose Sunday

Posted on February 7, 2012 by markweiss86

I am psyched to see good ol’ Kepi Ghoulie at the first Rockage Festival in San Jose Sunday. The two-day event for gaming and music is produced by Eric Fanali of Grand Fanali Productions of San Jose. Fanali has produced … Continue reading →

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Wishing a full Ricoh to TPH

Posted on February 7, 2012 by markweiss86

A dozen videos, 359 words, a bonus video or two hidden and a hidden document for an old friend. Continue reading →

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Chocolate Heads is the tops

Posted on February 6, 2012 by markweiss86

Although I watched part of it through the majestic glass and wood doors of old Roble Gym, I could not have been more impressed with Aleta Hayes and Chocolate Heads at Stanford. Earlier, Terry and I ran into Aleta in … Continue reading →

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Books I’ve bought intending to read

Posted on February 6, 2012 by markweiss86

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by J. Agee and W. Evans Instrument on Chronicle books, about guitars and their players, by Pat Graham perhaps Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle A … Continue reading →

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Altoon Sultan farm house and Walker Evans Poloroid SX-70

Posted on February 6, 2012 by markweiss86

My mom and I did the 25 cent tour of the Walker Evans show at Stanford before moving on to bigger and better things: a brownie and dirty chips at the Cantor snack bar, plus a Blueberry Odwalla. I ran … Continue reading →

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This is for Hope and Betsy Hall

Posted on February 5, 2012 by markweiss86

Taking Jordanna Finnegan’s course at Foothill College and reading “The Glass Castle” memoir by Jennette Walls had me thinking of Hope Hall who I met a few times at my concert series when she was in the Stanford Film program. … Continue reading →

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OKGO sell me a Chevy

Posted on February 5, 2012 by markweiss86

As the son of a son of a Chicago-based Chevy dealers, I am pre-disposed and perhaps pre-destined to watch this video, and then go trade in my ailing Toyota for a brand new Chevy Sonic, like the one in the … Continue reading →

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Lera babble coinky synchronicity

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

By LERA BORODITSKY The Gallery Collection/Corbis ‘The Tower of Babel’ by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. (Please see Corrections & Amplifications below.) Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the … Continue reading →

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Dressed to the nines

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

That’s a mixed metaphor –“Dressed to the Nines” — to the extent I am talking poker. This is a tribute to local hero Phil Hellmuth and his winning the 1989 World Series of Poker against Chan using a relatively weak … Continue reading →

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Daydreaming of Andre Dubus in a baseball boxscore

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

Beth Custer and I rolled thru Noe Valley and stopped, momentarily — not sure stopped is the word, since we swarmed the bookstore more likes bees than not — and I walked away with two books, Octavio Paz poetry (but … Continue reading →

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