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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

Big Green blue Romero detail

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

rain or shine, rain or rainer, come rain or come shine Continue reading →

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Art, smarts and ego to the thirty-second power

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

Mateo Romero, Marla Allison and Ryan Singer created a group puzzle-painting for the benefit of Indian Market org. Continue reading →

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Richter’s ‘halo’ effect on Frisell and yours truly

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

best minds of my gen destroyed by microscopes Continue reading →

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The sound of the future, and the look of now: blurry because I’m in a hurry

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

the five hundred dollar no pal o’ mine per hour corporate mouthpiece was actually a robot from another planet, cue the hermann or the herr man, man. Continue reading →

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Burning thing ring of friends, fire and Memphis Bar Mitzvah

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

burning thing and it makes a firery ring bound by wild dao-sire Continue reading →

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Eric Lindley pka Careful at Canter’s on Fairfax

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

i have clean blood i have green blood Continue reading →

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Elliot Randall rocks the med school library

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

Hey kids who rock and roll, rock on, ooh my soul if not my vas deferens; do you wanna touch, do you wanna touch, do you like artist management? Continue reading →

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Frida and the bead goes on

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

what song is it you want to hear? Frida. Continue reading →

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Andre Dubus, fatherhood and pets

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

come on gertie grr, frida, FRIDA. (woof woof). With Christian Bale and Mark Walhberg as Mickey Ward and his entourage Continue reading →

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Messy of Messi

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

messi Continue reading →

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