Edit to add:
trifecta
I’m only kidding about the janitor actually being an FBI agent, but a lot of the press about Danny’s (Scher) concert with Monk does describe the timing of the event during an era
when MLK had been shot and East Palo Alto had an initiative about rebranding as “Nairobi”. Robin DG Kelley has this in his book on Monk.
Steve Lacy, the first person other than TS Monk to play Monk’s music did a show at Cubberley in 2000 — not quite as historic but I am proud to have promoted that. Also Charlie Hunter had a project called TJ Kirk (formerly known as James T Kirk) where the “T” stands for Monk, that played at Cubberley in September,, 1995: another highlight for me.
We should sort the 11 candidates for 2020 City Council election by how well they know Monk!!!
Monk America Monk Again!!!
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charlie hunter has a thing with Silvana Estrada a jazz musician and vocalist from Veracruz, MX. Their tour got cancelled because the idiots in charge would not give them a visa.
getting back to my almost point: the candidates for Palo Alto City council include:
Rebecca Eisenberg
Ed Lauing
Pat Burt
Cari Templeton
Raven Malone
Greer Stone
Lydia Kou
Greg Tanaka
Steve Lee
And I couple Who I’ve never heard of, young tech types
I’m going, out of fairness, ask each one for a plank on Thelonious Monk. And then i will sort them by their responses.
Silvana Estrada, new cd out produced by charlie hunter:
and later I was sitting at Café Venetia with my bag of clippings in Books and I had bought the chronicle for its article but every Kwong at the Deyoung but it also had a full page obituary Ralph Barbieri and something about Mrs. Bob of Bob and Bob gift shop and a young restaurant tour well my age in San Francisco who committed suicide although it’s possible I knew his widow or his mother-in-law if they were from our synagogue.
I did not know Ruth Weiss the poet but she might’ve been at a Jack Hirschmann event I went to where they hand out a broadside and I talked about prince how and I wasn’t sure if they meant Shakespeare or the picture from the Tigers.
edit to add I forgot to mention that Ruth Weiss was one of the first people to recite beat poetry while musicians improvised jazz and she lived apparently if Sam waiting can be believed at 10:10 Montgomery at the corner of Vallejo between Broadway and telegraph Hill high lived there 40 years later for about three years not the same building across the street. Also Allen Ginsberg later somewhere between Ruth and I Road Howell there or how old they’re in the Palmer itself how old there as a verb in the poem road itself
When I saw “Gap Toothed Women” I called Les Blank to express my enthusiasm and admitted I had a little crush on Dori Seda, who had also done the poster. He sadly shared that she had passed away.
Richard Van Busack in The Metro has a more fleshed out memoir.
And in the ensuing 30 years I have probably brought up this theory – that gap toothed woman are freaky — about 100 times; no other empirical evidence to report, alas.
I bought my best friend a VHS of Les Blank “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe” as an incentive to drop out of Harvard and become a filmmaker but Brian ended up going back to school, and is a neuropathologist.
Actually he is an unemployed neuropathologist so maybe now is the time to get reel. Start with cell phone photos of people you can meet at Starbucks, but at our age we have to be careful not to be called “creepy” — I would have preferred to live in an era where they called us Pygmalions. I think its only creepy if you move slow and mysteriously like a snake. if you are super bold and light you are contagious, not creepy. Hermetic not herpetic. When I was 7 I confused the words “herpes” and “Slurpees” I used to collect reusable plastic cups with pictures of football players, near my grandmothers house, Benton in Santa Clara, off Lawrence. (Actually years later my friend KJ- was found dead in his apartment by his ex, whose sister called me to go support her. That is creepier. More sad than anything. USA has crappy policy on immigrants. We can do better).
So if you are still reaading this, there is a connection between me buying slurpee’s, Dori using food stamps to buy cigarrettes and poor Kevin dying near my grandparents’ apartment complex. There was also a little poodle that would lick my eyelids. I was six years old. Mrs Haney.
I lament I will likely never have the chance to be as good a grand pa as H. nor as good a father as P, though at times he seemed ambivalent. He had a gap tooth, my dad, though it was masked by orthodontics. Kevin and my dad both died of heart attacks though my father was 90, Kevin 27. I think Dori Seda was around 40. Carpe Diem. Shabbat shalom.
OR, DIAL MM FOR MONEY AND MUSIC AND MEMORY
I met Mulgrew Miller in France, when Henry Butler played Xavier’s festival.
He was on my list of potential management clients, but I never had the nerve to ask.
Here is his old business crowd; it sold one more download from ITunes, so many years later — I guess the publisher gets paid at least — I pay $10 per month for all I can eat. (Unless they are waiting to send me a bill for $3,000 per track. It reminds me that in 1975 when computers were new my brother and I went to my Dad’s car agency, Key Chevrolet of Cupertino, CA which is now a Whole Foods and 1 mile from the Apple Spaceship, to use their dial-up computer to play weird simple football games in BASIC at the Palo Alto Schools HP-3000 or HP-2000 computer. The parts manager freaked out that we had run up $100 in toll charges.
He died in 2013. The Times obit said Mark Gurley was his longtime manager:
Mulgrew Miller, a jazz pianist whose soulful erudition, clarity of touch and rhythmic aplomb made him a fixture in the postbop mainstream for more than 30 years, died on Wednesday in Allentown, Pa. He was 57.
The cause was a stroke, said his longtime manager, Mark Gurley. Mr. Miller had been hospitalized since Friday.
Mr. Miller developed his voice in the 1970s, combining the bright precision of bebop, as exemplified by Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson, with the clattering intrigue of modal jazz, especially as defined by McCoy Tyner. His balanced but assertive style was a model of fluency, lucidity and bounce, and it influenced more than a generation of younger pianists.
I meant to say that I am listening to MM live at Yoshi’s on my ear bud on my smart phone, from 2004 but I just downloaded it, while I am typing this, mostly workkng pn sonethintg ele.se. wife calls.
Joc Pederson the Jewish Palo Altan major leaguer and home run hitter, led the Dodgers past the Pads, getting three homers in the series win.
He hit a leadoff home run last night, according to the LA Times.
He had 36 homers last year, his career best.
How many major leaguers have ever had 36 or more homers? I’m guessing 200.
What is his career total? Creeping towards 200.
I have only caught bits and pieces of baseball. Last night I got one pitch of a replay of the A’s. But it was a K.
I’ve been watching a lot of replays, especially of the Oakland A’s my heroes from elementary school.
But who knew Tom Pacorichekt (?) was so tall? He’s six-four. Dodgers of that day in a loss. And it sill hurts Kirk Gibson beating the A’s, in high school.
In 2014 in AAA, PCL he had 33 homers and 30 steals, the first 30-30 in that league since Lefty O’doul. But he has 17 total major leagues SBs and 126 homers. Too many Ks still.
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I was flipping thru some old trading cards and noticed Mets 24-7 who are these guys?
WHO IS 24 ON MIRACLE METS?
WHO IS 7 ON MIRACLE METS?
ED?
I’M GONNA GUESS ED KRANEPOOL AND ART SHAMSKY, BUT WHO IS THE HITTER?

Kendra Smaby class of 2020 plans “to float and drift a bit while I ponder my options”
Considering Air Force, circus or philosophy.
the truth will set us fly.
1) NYT re “Almsot Famous”
2) axstv “Almost famous” paused at 2:31 pm — Lester bangs (hoffman?) and the kid in a cafe in Sd:
3) Stars of David — Peter Green is Jewish? But Ozzy nor his wife are not? Who is the heaviest heavy metal jew? as compared to Islam Heavy Metal; (And it turns out like 30 minutes later that I Donely is Peter Greene not in this book by Scott R Bernarde But there are no hard workers in the book there must be another book to my collection about Jews for example the Kiss guy;)
4) All Music Guide: Black Sabbath p 46, there are 37 entries that start “Black_”; (The only song and it was crazy train which is Ozzy but I came up with something which is the pixies Frank black black sabbath and Ozzie Osbourne)
5) HST Fear and Loathing Campaign Trail; Which for me translates into a picture and page 205 attributed to Annie Lennox from June 1972 which is at least contemporaneous to almost famous the Vincent black shadow witch Hunter calls and experimental prototype of the new Vincent or 1000 mL route the proved out to be so awesomely fast that I didn’t even have time to get scared of it before I found myself coming up on a highway stop light at 90 miles an hour and then it’s getting halfway through the intersection with the wheel both wheel brakes locked I genuinely
6) Brian Edge on Gilman Street literally and figuratively; I find that the mud women played on March 11, 1994 or seven months before they inaugurated my car barely series in October 1994; the merman AFI 15 NJ Church all played earlier that year Mr. T experience if we can substitute punk for Meadow. I find that the mud women played on March 11, 1994 or seven months before they inaugurated my car release series in October 1994; the mermen AFI 15 NJ church all played earlier that your Mr. T experience if we can substitute punk for metal
7) Ben Fong Torres the hits juts keeps on coming Ben Fong Torres; I forget how close I came to anything in this book maybe Joe Sullivan on sly Stone who’s actual name is Stuart like Mark Stewart who is black but not Black Sabbath;
8) I bought the times because of a story on Creem;
9 Ira Kpalan tonite on wfmu andmy equents.
ut my wife took my computer, put it on my desk, various other mischief moving my shit around, but DIN DONT PLUG IN MY COMPUTER.
BUH BYEE….
I Was trying to see if I could write 1,000 words on BS by 4:30 my apointment with my atty.
Mark Weiss
not really a rock pundit, likes music, owns a coputer, too mch tim on my hand — song by Styx or something.
I was also Fant Linda Tillery doing some 1974 crap. David Essex but change James Dean to James Brown.
But with my handy handheld I can at least stream a minute or two of two early Black Sabbath songs 50 years late to the dance But with my handy handheld I can at least stream a minute or two of two early Black Sabbath songs 50 years late to the dance. I thought the guy from all music guide was using the term “butler “as a metaphor I thought the guy from all music guide was using the term “butler “as a metaphor. My neighbor Maya Ford knows a fuck load about Black Sabbath or at least Motley Crue. Who is the heavy-metal bass player who spoke at pole star this year and she knows him and plays his guitar?
this says word count 600 so I guess I have earned by 20 bucks in the fictitious year 2000 depiction of 1970 rock critic fantasia.
edit to ad: Hey kids it’s not too late to root for the famous Sacramento solons what the fuck is a Solon is it a missile military industrial complex and all that? Also they were supposed to be something about baseball earlier today that I described in a private correspondence but I discovered I had in my possession Bud Daly. Or Daley. But don’t delay time is running out you might as well be sledging on the one But don’t delay time is running out you might as well be sledging on the one.

and1 andujar (personal to DJ at WFMU : don’t take drugs
here it is:
CROWE I remember at some point, Billy was on fire. And he said, “OK, I’m on acid, right? Give me something specific. Give me something to do.” And I said, “Well, you’re tingling, you’re feeling it in your hands. It’s like, your hands have a mind of their own.” And he did that thing with his hands, which I just can never get enough of, where he’s feeling the tingly air on his hands, and it’s just like, “I dig music.”
but also — and not that I am not earning $35 for covering Stillwater or Black Sabbath From the comfort of my own couch — but I mean to bone up on this whole Beyoncé thing, too. 
Have not made much progress on Almost Famous, moved 1 min in 1 hr like a 24 hr psycho:
more: I think I figured out how to play or stream “Iron Man” and “Paranoid” while editing this post. Also Eric Cohen son of a Fields Prize winner texted me back to suggest cutting away to a Pinoy busker doing “Nothing Else Matters” two Saturday’s ago, at night on Uni Ave and since I’m a Jew and EC/2 that’s pretty fuckin’ Black Sabbath.
also I promised Satan I’d at least learn the names of the four hoarse men of 1970: Ozzie Osborne, Tommy Iommi, Geezer Butler and Ronnie Del Rio, Jack Del Rio’s kid cuda cuddly brother.
nothing else matters:
lastly —And it is about an hour and a half later and I have my meeting with my attorney and very non- rock and roll matters in about 23 minutes and I’ve only advanced meanwhile five minutes in the world of almost famous but here is Kozelek in some ways it’s all about those like right or Kaplan special K — squared.
so I will send this along to Ira in hopes of having him acknowledge me during his graveyard shift or whatever you call it and I think I have Covid Lakes email something clever not quite a name but more like an intersection in the tenderloin like Eddie with a Y Jones Eddie Jones or something like maybe nowadays he doesn’t actually have a roadie but he likes to advance his own show under a pseudonym or something; and when we were in Bigsur we saw a flyer so he has Groundhogged:
did I already say that instead of 1000 words or $35 or $435 it’s about 700 words and seven photos and a five minute video of a guy playing Metallica song and I will pay Ira or Marc $35 to read this like a Woody Allen character working in a strip club:
I also forgot to say Bill Ward