Category Archives: art

paint, sculpt, draw, install, conceptualize, in public , in private et cetera

Kate Lee Short the Oculus w. Dave Ellis various

OR TO MY COI MISTRESS Seven p.m. to approximately 7:20 finds me, lweatcdr, as opposed to weat, at Palo Alto Art Center, party for “Hear This” sculpture and rather hip noises, and perchance peeps, then I am off to my … Continue reading

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Terry and I at Cantor lecture imagining dinner

(I will have to update this and despite how it looks –and the vagaries of my handheld — we liked Alyson Shotz and her presentation and did not day dream about dinner. And that is not Terry and I in … Continue reading

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Talking of Kiri te Kanawa

1. I went into Starbucks not Peets because Terry’s brother Gary gave me a gift card of $10 for Channukah. There was $2 left on it, the coffee was $1.80 and I asked the young clerk if I could donate … Continue reading

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Street parade, in Pasadena, NoLa and in my lap

I am writing about three different topics, watching two or three different games, getting ready for a movie and contemplating two unread newspapers, but took nearly 3 minutes to check out Earl King “Street Parade” plus Eric is texting me … Continue reading

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Continued from below, milk tales, witness and Weiss

I have about 15 other items in my bike bag that I meant to tag to the bottom of the previous post “Jello Biafra w. Laura Grace of Against Me: or, Witness by Dave Douglas”. And as Cafe Zoe was … Continue reading

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Weiss fugue

part two edit to add or the next day: although part of this exercise was too so quickly post, and from my mobile device, I did cut from their site this crop, including, if logic holds, Lisa Weiss the violin:

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I recall meeting Lhasa at Amoeba Records in-store, August, 2004

Chatting up the cognoscenti at Pasatono Orquesta’s show reminded me of Lhasa also known as Lhasa De Sela, who sang in Spanish, and who died of breast cancer at age 37. I met her at Amoeba Records and still have … Continue reading

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Fake interview with the black eyed beauty of France

Or, Do you have freckle like a turkey egg? hello, bonjour, black eyed beauty of France, please excuse sil vous plais, that I am writing you via Plastic Alto the obscure blog rather than more directly thru your email account. … Continue reading

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Congrats of Gunn grad Jana Herzen of Motema for her five Grammy nods

Akira Tana, the quarterback of the league-champion Gunn Titans football team, in fall, 1967, or so, is the producer of a cd by Rufus Reid the bassist called Quiet Pride and I just called him to congratulate him or it … Continue reading

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Everybody trip, to see Pasatono Orquesta at Freight tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86U3k1BiKI 1.This joint has 18,000 views: I am also trying to suss out the relationship between Golem, a Jewish New Music Group I saw at SXSW in 2009 and talked to — they were playing with Pura Madre — and … Continue reading

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