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Ben Franklin VS Chuck Berry

Posted on January 25, 2021 by markweiss86

One said we have a republic, if we cnn keep it.The other said it’s got a back beat you can’t lose it.Something like that.   @Adobe abode, in terms of my concert series at Cubberley, I did have an artist … Continue reading →

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Amber Navran, reeds and vocals

Posted on January 25, 2021 by markweiss86

I said below that I was going to turn out 500 sax players.Amber Navran of Moonchild, sings, sax — this is a clarinet though. No, sax.In a previous life I had a blue spiral notebooks with the names of 1,000 … Continue reading →

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Streb dancers VS hoop dancers

Posted on January 14, 2021 by markweiss86

Laura Veirs has a new video featuring a young hoop dancer she met randomly; that remined me of my interest in streb dancing. I don’t do streb dancing, mind you, I just sometimes talk about it.I’m kind of a streb … Continue reading →

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Random Mapplethorpe collage

Posted on January 4, 2021 by markweiss86
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Sixty-six images from my past

Posted on January 3, 2021 by markweiss86

To come Mark Weiss addressing City Council, on cable access (the guy in the back, Michael, always talks about fluoride in the water); staff at Ramen Nagi Palo Alto; Aaron Goldberg, piano, Josh Redman, Bing Stanford; ibid; Mark Weiss, a … Continue reading →

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I wish God had let Kara Maria design novel coronavira

Posted on December 22, 2020 by markweiss86
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Candye Kane, truly gifted

Posted on December 7, 2020 by markweiss86

Live your life, play your part. Let the feelings flow from your heart. You can’t change the tide, you can’t change the sea you just gotta be who you were born to be. I wouldn’t be alive now if it … Continue reading →

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Lisa Fay Beatty

Posted on December 5, 2020 by markweiss86

I’m watching the documentary “Hype” about the Seattle grunge music scene, a very 1990s experience, but when the screen flashed to 7 Year Bitch, I thought of my friend Lisa Fay Beatty. Lisa was the guitarist for the Mudwimin, who … Continue reading →

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Baffled ‘bout Utah

Posted on November 24, 2020 by markweiss86

This is Darrell Griffith Dr. Duncan Stein I get that but why would there be a team called jazz in Utah? today’s main stream news had an article about an art installation in the middle of nowhere they don’t know … Continue reading →

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I see a boot by Kara that reminds me of a shoe in a frame by Chagoya

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86
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