Category Archives: chapel hill

the 919, another indie hub, home to superchunk, archers of loaf, merge, mammoth, carrboro, shrimp and grits at crooks corner, the university, where I once saw a raushenberg show, yardleys

Welcome home The Lofts at SodoSoPa!

Posted on December 15, 2015 by markweiss86
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Palo Alto Perry w. Clyde Jones critter (Bynum, North Carolina)

Posted on June 20, 2015 by markweiss86

Lane Wurster took me once to visit with folk artist Clyde Jones, in his Bynum, North Carolina home (Chapel Hill area). I was at the meeting, and in fact shared a table with ex-Mayor Nancy Shepherd and current Mayor Karen … Continue reading →

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Ann Packer and Superchunk: precision author

Posted on June 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I ran into Nancy Packer the other day; she was taking out the trash and I was leaving my parents’ building via the back door. I always get a little kick talking to this very wise women. She is the … Continue reading →

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Henry Butler is no small, Japanese woman although Mimi Jones is a West Indian ram

Posted on March 25, 2015 by markweiss86

I was Henry Butler’s manager, for six months. (blind piano player from New Orleans) Malcolm Papa Mali Welbourne (who actually got his moniker from his reggae days, dubbed such by Burning Spear himself, because Malcolm or Mali had four kids … Continue reading →

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John Ellis LA-story w. Don Ellis ‘Whiplash’

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

Go, John! I didn’t realize. Caveat: “hundreds” of recording credits is a big of a stretch: All Music Guide lists 138 credits which is closer to 42 sessions, still pretty busy dude, because that includes up to 5 each on … Continue reading →

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Neutral Milk, June 2 at Cubberley?????

Posted on December 13, 2014 by markweiss86

Merge Records, celebrating 25 years of not working for you, but working, tips the news that Jeff Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel are going on the road next spring and summer, for a limited run. There is what looks like … Continue reading →

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Cyber-attack on Jon Wurster, Hey-ahh!!!

Posted on December 2, 2014 by markweiss86

A couple days ago a younger person asked me if I had heard of Har Mar Superstar. Of course: kind of writes songs, kind of on a label , had a cameo in a movie, a dance-off. (I had to … Continue reading →

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Schapling and Wurster stole their act from me

Posted on December 1, 2014 by markweiss86

A whiles ago I sent a fake fan letter to Superchunk: Dear Mac- Enclosed is my toe nail. Can you use it as a guitar pick on “Hyper Enough? Thanks. Your biggest fan. Elton X. Schmerk Fairloaf, California I wrote … Continue reading →

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Weiss to appear at Elks Club Palo Alto September 22 at 1:11 p.m.

Posted on August 15, 2014 by markweiss86

Palo Alto City Council candidate Mark Weiss, the minimalist who mixes Ralph Nader with Donald Judd*, will appear at the Elks Club on Monday, September 22, 2014 for exactly one minute, at 1:11 p.m. Twelve candidates will appear at a … Continue reading →

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23 small New Yorker Caroliner Plastic alters

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

1. Abe Rosenthal has a book on the murder of Kitty Genovese, three letters to the editor, regarding something published March 10, 2014; 2. Alynda Lee Segarra, 27, Hurray for the Riff Raff, of New Orleans, part of the American … Continue reading →

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