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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

How deep is the ocean

Posted on November 22, 2011 by markweiss86
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Edelman punt return on Monday Night Football

Posted on November 21, 2011 by markweiss86

This run by Julian Edelman, of the New England Patriots, a former Woodside High and CSM football hero, makes me wish I had done my recent smog check at Frank Edelman’s A-1 AutoTech in Mountain View and Redwood City. Edelman … Continue reading →

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Lethemless Berkeley and Lami@50

Posted on November 21, 2011 by markweiss86

I circled or cruised Palo Alto’s Lytton Plaza this afternoon, not completely unlike Travis Bickle, because I wanted to hear on my car radio the completion of an interview on KPFA featuring the author Jonathan Lethem. I logged, therefore, an … Continue reading →

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Long interview with Jessica Yu, lifted in honor of 148th anniversary of Gettysburg Address

Posted on November 19, 2011 by markweiss86

IDA met up with Yu at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which screened her first feature-length fiction film, Ping Pong Playa. Protagonist opens November 30 in New York City  and December 7 in Los Angeles, through IFC First Take. (which I thought … Continue reading →

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Michael Ballack tribute jack-o-lantern

Posted on November 19, 2011 by markweiss86

ich bin ein ballack although the idea came to be over a hamburger Continue reading →

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Jack Hirshman at Meridian Gallery SF, November 2011

Posted on November 18, 2011 by markweiss86

Although I missed the opening of Kimetha Vanderveen’s show at Meridian, Terry Davis went and snapped this photo of the artist, who is rather shy and probably prefers that it does not show her face. On the other hand, I … Continue reading →

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My first earthquake

Posted on November 18, 2011 by markweiss86

I got this tip from the cousin of My First Earthquake singer and c0-leader Rebecca Bortman, who walks past my girlfriend’s house occassionally here in Palo Alto AND whom I have twice mistaken for someone I think lives nearby but … Continue reading →

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Grass Widow is new to me

Posted on November 16, 2011 by markweiss86

I found my way to this after spending a considerable amount of time on Jamie Stewart’s Xiu-Xiu blog, the connection being is that both projects overlapped on Kill Rock Stars label. Meanwhile, I did also trade voice mails with Madigan … Continue reading →

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Interview with Scott Amendola

Posted on November 16, 2011 by markweiss86

(this is a re-paste of my July post for Patch, regarding Scott Amendola. Scott seems to be in Alabama heading towards Snug Harbor, with Charlie Hunter as I write this, and my faithful canine companion Frida snores on blissfully. Hunter … Continue reading →

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To be young and well-hung in New York: Diego Rivera at MOMA

Posted on November 16, 2011 by markweiss86

I saw in the New York Times the news that five of Diego Rivera’s murals are being reunited for an exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). The murals were part of a show in 1931 that … Continue reading →

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