Category Archives: austistic

has to do with austin, texas the music capital, the 512, especially south austin, where I spent a month in 2009, slackers the movie, linklatter, austin street spankers, bands from austin who played the cub, crazy heart the movie, near kerrville, austin city limits the show more than the festival, papa mali, and or sxsw

What do you see in this image?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

I see: 1. colors 2. a shape, bunny rabbit? New England state known for leaves turning in fall? 3. numbers, letters, not quite words. Qwerty? Hazbot? Nimby? 4. Is this a reference to Raushenberg, Switters, Walker Evans or what? (it … Continue reading →

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The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten songs, by Greil Marcus and Mark Weiss, or Grweisl Markus

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Call me pathetic call me what you will just don’t call me late to Cibo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvKSPQ9p5Q “America has become amnesiac,” says Henry Giroux, “a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but … Continue reading →

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Spoon NYT Mag by Dan Kois

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Dan Kois profiles Britt Daniel and Spoon in The New York Times Magazine. Nice photos. New cd. Are in SF for big crowded festival but I savor taste in mouth from 1997 intimate taste-maker event I produced here at the … Continue reading →

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I don’t wanna be your hero I just wanna fight like everyone else

Posted on July 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Thank you,  Kerry Yarkin and one other, for diverting the cavalcade of trolls who attacked me on the Weekly’s site, under the back-handed article about entering the race. What Gennady Sheyner strangely leaves out is that I got nearly 6,000 … Continue reading →

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Something about Hannah May Allison

Posted on June 30, 2014 by markweiss86

Hannah May Allison, the Palo Alto and Nashville singer-songwriter, plays Tuesday in Los Gatos, at the historic The Cats. It is a happy hour show, 6 to 9. If memory serves, there will be victuals. Speaking of memory, I am … Continue reading →

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Puzzling evidence in Palo Alto

Posted on June 11, 2014 by markweiss86

  (under construction: time to eat the donuts….)   edit to add: Holy canoli! Did he say “Silicon Valley” at 1:40???

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Where y’at, Jolie? I mean, where you from?

Posted on June 2, 2014 by markweiss86

Four random riffs ripped on Jolie Holland; or Birds Became Boards 1. On Saturday night, performing alone at City Winery and struggling through some stifling sound problems, she sang “The Littlest Birds,” a pleasant folk song she used to perform … Continue reading →

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Birds of Chicago is: JT “Jeremy” Nero and Allison “Alli” Russell

Posted on November 29, 2012 by markweiss86

I caught in a sense Birds of Chicago at Don Quixote in Felton Tuesday night, or it caught me. More to come. THE LIGHT IN ME BOWS TO THE LIGHT IN YOU; or, THEY SEE HORSES, DON’T THEY? edit to … Continue reading →

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For Austin’s Kat Edmonson, crowd-source and NPR are ticket to ride

Posted on May 8, 2012 by markweiss86

I heard Kat Edmonson on NPR a few weeks ago and made it a point to suss out her site a bit. As a guy who caught Dar Williams playing for tips, received Jane Monheit’s first autograph (or so she … Continue reading →

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You Are Plural band at SFMOMA museums

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

I hesitate to call You Are Plural a singular sensation. I caught their set at SFMOMA members party Saturday but could not stay to harass them or buy what looked to be pretty cool little needlepoint patches or somesuch homemadities, … Continue reading →

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