Category Archives: music

if you can hear it and it does not grate your ears, ambient or intentitional with a story melody or not, major and minor chords, the community rather than the industry if possible; if not the answer then a pretty good guess, and the people who live it; basie miller satchmo and the king of all sir duke

Office versus culture in Palo Alto

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

I am late for the City Council study session on water because I am reviewing the voluminous packet of letters regarding tonight’s later item about a Downtown Cap or a moratorium on office space. I want to chime in, via … Continue reading →

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Chip Conley where r u?

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

I met Chip Conley the day he was touring Uni Ave apropos of his conversion of Casa Olga into The Epithany and Lure +Till. I said I had stayed in his rock and roll dive, The Phoenix in SF. I … Continue reading →

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This is the best link to Cheryl Wheeler gun song

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

Quick back and forth with Nashville music manager and mensch Tony Gottlieb reveals that the best link to Cheryl Wheeler “If it were up to me…” is via Soundcloud. Here. God bless. Cheryl played the Cub back in June, 1998, … Continue reading →

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‘Mr. Mastodon Farm’ w. ‘Guitar’: birds fall w. if i throw my guitar

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

windows 1,418.0* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6_UuYNn4c Birds fall from the window ledge above mine Then they flap their wings at the last second w. this is deep hamlet-type stuffing: If I threw my guitar Out the window, so far down Would I start … Continue reading →

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Can I safely segue from Ape Do Good to Albert Pujols? Superflush w. Bhiman

Posted on March 19, 2015 by markweiss86

(and I’ve fulfilled my bucket list item, I too have Prince Albert in a can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edqJSWflW2U

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Dan Adler for Congress catnip for anti-semites

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoiNPoBhBro Let’s get this straight: I am a small time operative in the music biz, as Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto, since 1994 and I am about 300 miles from LA, 35 miles from SF even, and about $500 from … Continue reading →

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Third Eye Blind July 25 at San Francisco Masonic

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Kudos for Steve Jenkins, my Gunn and Terman schoolmate, for keeping his rock and roll fantasy alive to middle age. I remember Dorothy Bradshaw, my 8th grade drama teacher looking out the window at Steve and a kid named J.T. … Continue reading →

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Cold case: Elijah Wald, “Narcocorrido” (2001) and companion cd

Posted on March 12, 2015 by markweiss86

I bought the Elijah Wald corrido book at Down Home on recommendation of a clerk (whose name I know but I am a little shy about mentioning). Can’t say I read it cover to cover, but I think I got … Continue reading →

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Amazing mural man seeks IPO billions in synesthesia b2b play, in Palo Alto

Posted on March 10, 2015 by markweiss86

Sam Whiting of the Chron had a story about a mural in the lobby of a start-up and said that they don’t mind walk-ups, at 555 College, near Cali Ave (or across from the hole in the ground we call … Continue reading →

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Rachel Garlin ‘Wink at July’

Posted on March 8, 2015 by markweiss86

I texted Rachel Garlin to tell her that Paul Freeman in the Merc and affiliates reviews favorably her new release “Wink at July” and says it’s “warm and wonderful..” which for a text message is an adequate review of a … Continue reading →

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