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

Check “YES!” for Alex Carbonel music and hoops

Posted on December 24, 2011 by markweiss86

La di dah dot tot dah I caught via the tube a live performance on a sports show of a point guard from St. Mary’s University of Moraga, California (East Bay, halfway to Winnemucca), named, and they didn’t even have … Continue reading →

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Skee3 Hendrix tribute ongoing Saturdays at Lytton Plaza

Posted on December 23, 2011 by markweiss86

I was called out of the house Saturday evening by the syren call of live music coming from  Lytton Plaza and circled in my car to locate the source, Skee3 doing their ongoing Hendrix tribute. I watched a member of … Continue reading →

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Floating the Palo Alto libraries

Posted on December 23, 2011 by markweiss86

here i am laptop in hand turn my face to the tube; hey, you’ve got to if you are a jew hide yourself on Christmas eve away, especially if the mall makes you small, in the cold water not steve martin way Continue reading →

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Mr. Gore and Me

Posted on December 13, 2011 by markweiss86

there’s a little bit of maria in every post i do Continue reading →

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Nahuatl songs, pictures and translations

Posted on December 11, 2011 by markweiss86

My new friend the poet and scholar John Paige of Oakland gifted me a copy of his book of translations from Nahuatl to English, what most people think of as Aztec. I met John because of my efforts to promote … Continue reading →

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My weekend with Nina Simone; by Lisa Fay Beatty, as told to Paul Motian, Mia Zapata and Charging Elk (in heaven)

Posted on December 9, 2011 by markweiss86

out of the tree of life I think i picked strange fruit. passing strange fruit. passing strange angels. thank you kim chun of the chronicle for mentioning my passing in 72 Hours, on Thursday, December 8, 2011. I was born in 1964 and died in a motorcycle accident in San Bernadino County on November 25, 2011. I was 47 – Lisa Fay Beatty Continue reading →

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Go Down, Roseman

Posted on November 4, 2011 by markweiss86

josh roseman and his jamaican jazz band is coming to stanford so I talked to steven bernstein about his favorite pointy tipped, well I go from Printers Inc to Pyramid of Giza somehow Continue reading →

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Plastissimo Alto: or, don’t walk away from the arts, Palo Alto

Posted on November 2, 2011 by markweiss86

sid meet bethany. bethay meet sid, and sara and karen and jeanne and enrique and ms. rose if not the Roses per se Continue reading →

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Come to think of it

Posted on November 1, 2011 by markweiss86

i want you to want me come to think of it,from my perhaps too orderly subconscious, circa 1980 Continue reading →

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Queen at Winterland

Posted on October 31, 2011 by markweiss86

who can forget those trippy teenage freakouts, in the city, with older freakier people, escaping fro m our parents for a few hours, until they pick us up. Continue reading →

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