Category Archives: New yorks

I am a golden god?

Posted on November 4, 2022 by markweiss86

Enter Claudius, King of Denmark, Gertrude the Queen; Council: as Polonius; and his son Laertes, Hamlet, cum aliis including Voltemand and Cornelius, but also Mark Kozelek, the Strokes, Steve Miller, Casey Likes, Beth Custer, Weird Al, R0bert Plant, ghosts of … Continue reading →

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North Carolina ’tis strange, passing strange

Posted on April 21, 2022 by markweiss86

I just got a short note from director Christopher Burris, who has been teaching and workshopping and producing at a university in North Carolina and I admit I don’t know Greensboro from Winston-Salem other than it is not Asheville or … Continue reading →

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Counting sheep

Posted on December 10, 2021 by markweiss86
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Kelefa Sanneh book VS Xgau review of such; or ‘to get in doors again’

Posted on November 24, 2021 by markweiss86

Bottom line up front as Michael McFaul son of a music teacher would say BLUF: Jeano Edwards and stylist Chloe Grace Press photographed models Baba Chogwu and Temitope Ajayi at the gardens of the Monkey Island Estate hotel, which is … Continue reading →

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Maya Wiley endorsed by key union in NYC Mayoral race

Posted on February 19, 2021 by markweiss86

Maya Wiley was in my advanced Spanish class freshman fall at Dartmouth, which for us was 19lkjdflkasjd, wljslkfjslkfas. Interestingly, she also achieved language proficiency in French as well. So to my mind, hearing of her work in politics I think … Continue reading →

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Pop Smoke shot by shot

Posted on December 31, 2020 by markweiss86

I counted 140 shots in the three minute video for “Dior” by the late rapper superstar meteoric success story or cautionary tale, Pop Smoke. This song was the first song I added to my Apple stream — I pay $10 … Continue reading →

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Tracy Chapman, ‘Baby Can I Hold You’, 1988 and 2020 VS Pop Smoke posthumous New Yorker review, August, 2020

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86

I found a copy of The New Yorker in a free library two blocks from my house and tore out pp 78-79 to read or reread about Pop Smoke. I own a Pop Smoke t-shirt. I bought it on the … Continue reading →

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Six five oh livestreams in the 212

Posted on November 13, 2020 by markweiss86

Rockwood Music Hall of Manhattan is promoting a set of ticketed livestream concerts, with Molly Tuttle and Vienna Teng. What caught my eye here in Plasty is that they are both Peninsula slash South Bay artists. Molly is from Palo … Continue reading →

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Tre Cool, 1994 video VS Ice Weiss, 2020 selfie

Posted on September 29, 2020 by markweiss86
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Below the fold (thank G#^)

Posted on August 4, 2020 by markweiss86
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