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

Bird omens auger well for The Varsity Theatre 456

Posted on August 14, 2011 by markweiss86

lamping lamping cold cold lamping, counting crows on poles, bat and moles all adds up to the New New Varsity, TLPW 456 in Palo Alto. sho nuff ya dig by any means Elliot Ness is near, dearies. Continue reading →

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Shields and yarns: a review of “Reality Hunger”

Posted on June 11, 2011 by markweiss86

I met David Shields author of “Reality Hunger” and am plugging his book based on that. Continue reading →

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Campy and cubby shirts

Posted on May 31, 2011 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZbearvNxRI I cannot resist a quick post about The Baseball Project, featuring Steve Wynn and Peter Buck, performing last night at the Cubby Bear in Chicago. I believe the first line of above song references the day that Campy Campaneris … Continue reading →

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Dao, digressions, dreaming and diaspora

Posted on May 4, 2011 by markweiss86

I am paraphrasing but in Dao’s chapbook she reveals that when she first came to the U.S. and was living in a refugee camp the other children would shout her name “Tieu-Dao” and she would try to disassociate or self-negate in some way by replying “Not Tieu…Not Dao”… Continue reading →

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Nellie, Ian, Steve and I

Posted on April 28, 2011 by markweiss86

I once barged into an interview that Steve Horowitz of Pop Matters was conducting in the lobby of the Driskill Hotel in Austin during SXSW2009 and put Nellie McKay on the phone with Ian MacKaye and just noticed, two years … Continue reading →

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The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Posted on March 24, 2011 by markweiss86

terry thought the album cover looked more like processed photography than a painting per se, belong
i thought they reminded of superchunk with peggy wang keyboard as laura ballance a bass i said hey is that keanu reeves in striped shirt Continue reading →

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XXI. Baseball “Humm Rhyme Derby” songwriter project for CA/TX

Posted on November 1, 2010 by markweiss86

moonball manny by pernice dan bern barb manning doc ellis Continue reading →

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