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

Hey now, you’re a rock star

Posted on March 29, 2012 by markweiss86
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Nellie McKay is Dynamo and Virgin

Posted on March 26, 2012 by markweiss86

Henry Adams wrote a famous essay about a hundred years ago about the dynamo and the virgin. He was observing changes especially technology and his eloquent treatise states that the machines are upsetting the apple cart in terms of the … Continue reading →

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A picture is worth one thousand emails and one (Meredith Valiando commercial)

Posted on March 23, 2012 by markweiss86

I captured Meridith Valiando, a publishing executive with Universal, about an hour ago, while watching Letterman, then cracked upon the laptop for some random post, meanwhile vaguely monitoring now, 45 minutes later, Charlie Rose about “Ad Men” a show I … Continue reading →

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Torry Castellano aka Donna C on the Farm

Posted on March 17, 2012 by markweiss86

from the Stanford Magazine March 2011: WHEN THE DAY ARRIVED last summer for new transfer students to visit Stanford, the sense of anticipation grew. “I am looking forward to meeting the former rock star,” an admissions staffer told Sally Mentzer, who coordinates … Continue reading →

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Robbie Fulks yeah

Posted on March 12, 2012 by markweiss86

The local real estate rag in their celebrity digest mentions a crack up by Drew Carey and the fact purported that he social media-engaged with an “offensive song” by one of my heroes Robbie Fulks. That prompted me to finally … Continue reading →

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review fragment of laura veirs old demo: girl with dragon tattoo

Posted on March 10, 2012 by markweiss86

with thanks to or sorry to ever kipp: Lisbeth Salander I mean Ever picking up a loose thread is that the girl with the dragon tattoo is Noomi Rapace or Karen Orzolek yet it is Laura Veirs who sent me … Continue reading →

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Hold the date for Reading Rainbow May 12

Posted on March 8, 2012 by markweiss86

Hold the date, for Reading Rainbow in the Park. I just came back from a meeting for the second Reading Rainbow in the Park, a book fair for kids and K-12, scheduled Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10 to 3 p.m. … Continue reading →

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New posts bloom mysteriously no strings attached

Posted on February 28, 2012 by markweiss86

As I was writing the below about Noise Pop I recognized Claudia Bloom the violin player and teacher sitting beside me at a cafe, getting farther with her plate than I am. I cannot find her on youtube but seem … Continue reading →

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New sensei boogie

Posted on February 23, 2012 by markweiss86

The usually impeccable Kimberly Chun of Chronicle and Guardian (although she was that much better when we would talk every week or so) made a boo-boo in this weekly’s, in that she seemed to say that Overwhelming Colorfast had become … Continue reading →

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Laurel Nakadate James Franco

Posted on February 22, 2012 by markweiss86

Am I in a coma? How could it have taken me three months too late to imagine a collaboration between James Franco and Laurel Nakadate? Can they “bring it” to Palo Alto? http://11.performa-arts.org/event/laurel-nakadate-and-james-franco One of my nightmares is that, like … Continue reading →

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