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Aloha to drummer Amy Cesari from Downtown North Palo Alto
Although this rock ‘n’ roll drummer has been in the biz almost as long as I have it suddenly dawned on me her story. I knew because Maya told me that when Tori quit the band with chronic illness in her arms that a friend of theirs Amy Cesari played out the remainder of their run.
I didn’t realize until today that she was a neighbor of Maya’s and also was the groovie ghoulies drummer with Kepi, Roach and when Wendy went to work full-time for tower.
She also plays with the Demonics.
Or maybe Palo Altan Amy Cesari was the one who lit a seat cushion on fire and threw it onto the stage during the groovie ghoulies set right before the AFI riot.

Caroline Davis, Covid-ear not concert, solo sax, effects and found protest, 2020

I am listening to this person do a 35 minute solo sax performance on the internet. Yesterday she led a Lee Konitz program on line with Stanford Jazz Workshop. I meant to go but it came and went.
I have a recent post that I mean to edita — edit to add — wherein I am trying to become aware of 501 new sax players, or new to me or old but seemingly new.
I had a notebook, blue spiral paper and wire, wherein I wrote the names and dates of 1,000 sax players, “A Thousand and One Saxophone Nights”. When I got married to Terry Acebo Davis, no relations that we know with Caroline Davis above, she made me throw away about 100 spiral notebooks, she calls it fung shway not to be confused with Fung Fung Fung by Confunction.
Caroline’s show here — I don’t know if she hears the protesters and drummers marching thru the streets of NYC and Brooklyn that intermittently I hear or see — reminds me of when I
—- there’s also somehting by Audre Lord or Lorde not the pop star about “silence” and “control” — and I pivoted or split screened or jumped cut or jump-cutted back to figure out what was going on —
and now I am too smart or too stupid I have muted or stopped the music and not let it roll in the background — or maybe it was literally asking for my attention and to not stop watching — it was upset that I was typing away and not listening — which reminds me that I saw Tim Berne at SF Jazz and stupidly sat in the front row and then took out my phone and started writing him an email — we had never met — and then I remembered that I was actually at a show in the first row and should not be writing on my computer, even to him.
but then tim berne after his song was over — and even though I had already put my phone away realzing my own erroneous ways – scolded me from the stage. So I still have not met Tim Berne but have been scolded by him in public.
But this is about Caroline — sorry for the digression — but I was going to say that Caroline Davis solo sax and effects and maybe or maybe not found street noise or protest for BLACK LIVES MATTER — does she hear what we hear ? — is like when Richard Scheinen in a review of Charlie Hunter Trio at Kuumbwa near Stanford and near Palo Alto said that John Ellis reminded him of Sam Rivers and Gene Ammons and had a special effect to give one of his four or five instruments a “foggy” quality but John said, as I read him the review the next day over the phone, said that Richard was wrong and the so-called effect box was just a wireless pickup.
Caroline Davis i believe records or recorded for Sunny
I think that silence is one of the ways by which we are controlled, one fo the effective ways by which we are controlled. I think silence is one of the ways by which we are controlled.
Turn of the Stew
My name’s Stew
And I like screw
A—-
And by ****
From on high
Or down in front.

Uniting
Wall Street
And Van Brunt
Hanging chads or run Jeremy
I’m now the long-time kind of guy.
On my stake or on his spike
Doctor Murad’s tiparillo
For Mattel or heavy metal
In the bird cage or in the sun
Now we’re talking
its big fun
holy rollers and navarone
take the canolli
but drop the phone
My G spot your ozone
Text and fax it
pepperon’
lots of puns
and homophones
Riffs and licks
and pi and cones
on your couch
or in the van
I’m post minstrel
yes we can
ken (hebrew for yessssss$$)

The Times says these three people are not people but CGI, AI androids or what nots



I don’t know if I violate copyright by freeze framing or capturing these human type faces in the times story about AI — Havent’ read the small print.
Reminds me of Philik K Dick or movies thereof.
Reminds me of writing a poem about 25 years ago about 3D printing Derek Wolcott the poet.
Something else flashed thru me head — oh, yeah, Howard Finster gives or gave funny names to his arch angels or what not specificially in his Coke bottle dimension art pieces.
couple other random thoughts:
the ad agency i once pined for, the CEO fount has a deep fake of him dancing and they used the same tech to have a doritos commercial with good dancing. Clearview.
In the early days of dashboard GPS systems, drivers famously followed the devices’ directions to a fault, sending cars into lakes, off cliffs and into trees.
reminds me, since this is a music blog, about Lake Street Dive which I sometimes call Lake Shore Drive, being from the south side of chicago.
outtro: when you were mine by lake st dive with molly tuttle me so horny.
Six five oh livestreams in the 212
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 Alto while Viena aka Cynthia Shih is from Saratoga and Stanford. I measured 14 miles googlemaps from Ohlone Elementary School, where Maureen Roddy Tuttle still taught as of fall, 2019 to Saratoga High. I’ll go with an even 3,000 miles from here to Manhattan.

More people will notice that the illustration in the virtual flyer has a depiction of Molly without her wig . She is becoming more audacious or more comfortable with not concealing her alopecia. To the geographic point of my headline the advertisement says that Molly will be covering artist from her Bay Area home region. Certainly there will be some Grateful Dead she does walking on the Moon on her new record of covers. She also does rancid song that takes place on to coast but named chicks Lars Fredrickson who is from the South Bay whether she realizes that or not. For a minute there I was fantasizing or fan boy ing that Molly would do a tribute to no use for a name which is from Sunnyvale California. I have a very strained geographic argument that the Rolling Stones she’s like a rainbow has a Palo Alto nexus but I will spare you here. Molly Tuttle represents us well; Her November 2019 show here selling out my new series at Mitchell Park community Center was a highlight of my 26 years is EarthWise productions. It is still an honor to talk her up among people who are not following the story. She is well situated: she has a good indie label compass Records; she is booked by William Morris and in the time I’ve worked with her she traded up to a Uber manager Levitan who works with Lyle Lovett and many others. besides hoping to do another show someday if I can impact her trajectory and/or use her story to show them the waters here in occupied Santa Clara Valley I would argue that she could buy a house here and need not move to Nashville just for cheaper rent . fact the neighborhood around Gryphon stringed instruments is being targeted by developers will be interesting to try to start a musicians village for profit but with a cause in her name or with her followers.
More people will notice that the illustration in the virtual flyer has a depiction of Molly without her wig . She is becoming more audacious or more comfortable with not concealing her alopecia.
To the geographic point of my headline the advertisement says that Molly will be covering artist from her Bay Area home region. Certainly there will be some Grateful Dead she does walking on the Moon on her new record of covers. She also does rancid song that takes place on to coast but named chicks Lars Fredrickson who is from the South Bay whether she realizes that or not. For a minute there I was fantasizing or fan boy ing that Molly would do a tribute to no use for a name which is from Sunnyvale California.
I have a very strained geographic argument that the Rolling Stones she’s like a rainbow has a Palo Alto nexus but I will spare you here.
Molly Tuttle represents us well;
Her November 2019 show here selling out my new series at Mitchell Park community Center was a highlight of my 26 years is EarthWise productions. It is still an honor to talk her up among people who are not following the story. She is well situated: she has a good indie label compass Records; she is booked by William Morris and in the time I’ve worked with her she traded up to a Uber manager Levitan who works with Lyle Lovett and many others.
besides hoping to do another show someday if I can impact her trajectory and/or use her story to show them the waters here in occupied Santa Clara Valley I would argue that she could buy a house here and need not move to Nashville just for cheaper rent .
fact the neighborhood around Gryphon stringed instruments is being targeted by developers will be interesting to try to start a musicians village for profit but with a cause in her name or with her followers.
Two hundred posts later, I wish more people had noticed the free Clarinet Thing concert from June or February
June: 41 posts
July: 42 posts
August: 45 posts
September: 33 posts
October: 28 posts
November: 15 posts
But I am making sticky something I posted in June, a photo of Beth Custer and I, at her Clarinet Thing concert here in February, and the recording of such.
b/w
My blog has somehow been clicked on thousands of times in India recently, plus in 100 other countries. I don’t think they are reading the posts, just clicking on it.
Post-modern exchange with Pam Mandel
Regarding her memoir “Same River Twice” published by Skyhorse Press and distributed by Simon and Schuster. Pam is from Palo Alto, graduated from San Jose State and makes Seattle her home base. Actual title is
The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel.
The interview commenced via text, was cut-and-pasted to email then Sweded by smartphone to blog.
Meanwhile Terry started reading on Kindle but also received via Amazon a hard copy of the actual book. Or two copies, the same book, twice.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:12 PM mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> wrote:
1) Does the medicine I’m taking release this second self? (DeLillo, 2020 p.50)?
I don’t know the sources, plus, I’m not medicated.
2) How might a female in the Oval Office impact the way we think about the female form? Is it truly “oval”?
By “the female form” do you mean the female body? Or something else? Honestly, history shows us that women are also capable of fascism, so I would be more specific with this question. Would Elizabeth Warren have changed the way women are perceived for the better? I think so. Would Mother Pence? Absolutely not.
3) Marshall McLuhan said you cannot step in the same river (once).
Did Marshall McLuhan live in a dry state?
4) How does being an artist (BFA or MFA) inform either your travels or your writing per se?
Art teaches you how to observe and create. Increasingly, I’m not sure it matters what the medium of output is, as long as you are creating. A curiosity about art means I seek out art by others when I travel and take the time to observe it, but hey, I like museums and live music.
5) Terry bought your book and reads parts of it allowed/aloud. As someone who was a bachelor until age 53, I feel reading is the same as marriage; or spouse reading is the same is me buying it, unless I had an inscribed copy.
What’s the question here?
6) Four: do you remember The Varsity Theatre in Palo Alto as a place for movies, music, food, drink or coffee? Did you see The Dead Kennedy’s there?
I do remember this, and no I did not see the Dead Kennedys. I did see Rocky Horror there.
7) Three: which Skyhorse title — out of thousands — troubles you more : Allen, his recent funny memoir; or Belzer, “Dead Wrong” denounced by Southern Poverty Law Center?
Can “both” be the answer here? Because…both.
8) Do you know David Shields i.e. “Reality Hunger”— in terms of domestic violence is a woman more likely to come out so to speak about her herstory in ways she does not confide in her friends or embellish in that, a) memory itself is a type of composition and, b) who would know the difference?! That’s one question.
At the back of the book is a note about memory and its flaws. I didn’t know this about domestic violence, but I didn’t write the book to be an academic work about that topic, nor did I research the topic to inform my work.
9) Have you heard Myra Melford, band of same name? (That’s my last question — until I read more of the book and think of three or nine more)
There’s a reason there are multiple works with this title. It’s ancient, and not surprising it resonates with different people for different work.
Can I interview you for my blog? Plastic Alto. Apropos of “Same River Twice”? Mark Weiss and Terry Acebo Davis
You mean more than this Q&A? 😉
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Outro: by Myra:
(note: Pam Mandel is also a musician — maybe she can jam with Myra Melford in a piano-uke duo someday)
edit to add: Anything processed by memory is fiction.






