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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

Clare Rojas at Paule Anglim

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

It was Kim Chun who told me about Clare Rojas and her music under the name Peggy Honeywell Clare Rojas Piecemeal January 4 – 28, 2012 Reception: January 7, 4 – 6pm Swann’s Way, 2011   acrylic on linen, 49″ … Continue reading →

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Genes of geniuses: cousins Helen Sung and Joyce Yu-Jean Lee

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

A little birdie tipped me off to these two women on the rise in their respective artistic fields, Helen Sung, of New York by way of Houston and Austin, a piano player who has recorded for Sunnyside and Steeplechase, and … Continue reading →

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I’m a little piece of leather, don’t you know!

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

stella brooks was a little piece of leather and a piece of work. just ask: woody guthrie, marlon brando, tennessee williams and moe asch. Continue reading →

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Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em, brothers

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

(Michael Pitre, of Port Arthur, Texas and The Boom Boom Room San Francisco, 1967 -December, 2011 — he was the guy who could bridge Stephen Jackson with Fela Kuti and will be sorely missed). David James his bandmate sent along … Continue reading →

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warm weather warning; or war mw e ther ; or wah hoo wah

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by dartmouth. starving, seussical, naked sink date wrestling, power booting — who could forget these crisp hanover january mornings? roaming the negro streets at dawn looking for c and a pizza. preppy duck-booted hipsters — or were they Hopsters — riding the if not hydrogen juke box then cold weather research station kiewit buzz moloch moloch mousilauke. I am with you in Rutland, Alden Van Buskirk! Or at Cafe Du Nord on 1/26/12 Continue reading →

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Lisa Fay Beatty (1964-2011)

Posted on January 2, 2012 by markweiss86
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Superchunk Meets Dan Pritzker Silent Satchmo Boychik

Posted on December 31, 2011 by markweiss86

(Play both of these simultaneous for full FX; with apologies to Ken Vandermark, Jem Cohen, John Corbett, Charles Ives, Trombone Shorty, Ralph Carney, John Zorn “Spy vs. Spy”, Christian Marclay, Mal Sharpe, Charles Mingus “Cumbia and Jazz Fusion”, Wurster and … Continue reading →

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Superchunk meets Richard Serra

Posted on December 30, 2011 by markweiss86

Although I labeled it THIS IS REAL and THIS IS NOT A PRANK,  I doubt the letter I sent to Mac MacCaughan at Merge Records in Chapel Hill, North Carolina will merit serious consideration. I noticed that the found object … Continue reading →

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Watching the VibraSlap (Cake on tv)

Posted on December 30, 2011 by markweiss86

I caught Cake’s performance on late late television with Craig Ferguson of CBS. The performance is of a new song called “Long Time” notably featuring Vince Difiore on keyboard, a vocal chorale sample, over trumpet. I wondered what type of … Continue reading →

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Who can forget those hours that passed like dreams? Sam Rivers (1923-Dec. 26, 2011) at Dartmouth, 1980, 1997

Posted on December 30, 2011 by markweiss86

I just spoke to Erik Lawrence, a reeds player who was in residence at Dartmouth in 2005 but has a longer relationship with Williams today for the first time and one of our probably 50 discreet topics was Don Glasgo, … Continue reading →

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