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

In Another Mental Universe…LAMI LIVES

Posted on January 10, 2012 by markweiss86

reportage regarding lami@50, mostly by Pinky Kushner, who met Alden Van Buskirk at Washington University in St. Louis and married his Dartmouth friend Peter Kushner, now a scientist in San Francisco: i am forwarding this to a dr. donald miller … Continue reading →

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Ups from Samsom to Brent

Posted on January 8, 2012 by markweiss86

After two hundred forty two years, Samsom Occum, in heaven, finally forgives the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock for making him dress up like a sissy and wave a tin cup like a monkey to raise money from even richer white folks … Continue reading →

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I’m a little piece of leather, don’t you know!

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

stella brooks was a little piece of leather and a piece of work. just ask: woody guthrie, marlon brando, tennessee williams and moe asch. Continue reading →

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Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em, brothers

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

(Michael Pitre, of Port Arthur, Texas and The Boom Boom Room San Francisco, 1967 -December, 2011 — he was the guy who could bridge Stephen Jackson with Fela Kuti and will be sorely missed). David James his bandmate sent along … Continue reading →

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warm weather warning; or war mw e ther ; or wah hoo wah

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by dartmouth. starving, seussical, naked sink date wrestling, power booting — who could forget these crisp hanover january mornings? roaming the negro streets at dawn looking for c and a pizza. preppy duck-booted hipsters — or were they Hopsters — riding the if not hydrogen juke box then cold weather research station kiewit buzz moloch moloch mousilauke. I am with you in Rutland, Alden Van Buskirk! Or at Cafe Du Nord on 1/26/12 Continue reading →

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Lisa Fay Beatty (1964-2011)

Posted on January 2, 2012 by markweiss86
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Superchunk meets Richard Serra

Posted on December 30, 2011 by markweiss86

Although I labeled it THIS IS REAL and THIS IS NOT A PRANK,  I doubt the letter I sent to Mac MacCaughan at Merge Records in Chapel Hill, North Carolina will merit serious consideration. I noticed that the found object … Continue reading →

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Watching the VibraSlap (Cake on tv)

Posted on December 30, 2011 by markweiss86

I caught Cake’s performance on late late television with Craig Ferguson of CBS. The performance is of a new song called “Long Time” notably featuring Vince Difiore on keyboard, a vocal chorale sample, over trumpet. I wondered what type of … Continue reading →

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Tommy Jordan sits in with Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads ‘Howl’

Posted on December 27, 2011 by markweiss86

i saw the best minds of my generation employed by downtown street team Continue reading →

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420 Cambridge

Posted on December 27, 2011 by markweiss86

let’s get to the point, and smoke another joint, cause you don’t know what it means to be reality stoner real estate television satire and then i bumped again i bumped again Continue reading →

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