Spooks take center stage at former downtown art studio

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Nathan Olivera reclining nude, painted at 209 Hamilton in the 60s and now part of the Anderson collection at Stanford Heard a ruckus last week on Friday and follow the parade so to speak of people trying to support families even of Mexicans and Hondurans by pointing fingers at Palo Alto‘s hipster spooks the multibillion dollar unicorn who claimed they were trying to catch Osama bin lot of interaction the spying on us arguably even hearing my voice in real time as I compose, using auto dictation on my super smart

I chuckled and thought of the long time dissent leader Tom Jordan who when I ran for city Council told me that like in the towel of poo I should find a parade and jump in front of it. I tried to explain this to one of the other Marchers is a former mayor.

The group stopped at the corner of Hamilton and Alma and a lady with a megaphone invited a succession of young speakers most of who’s organizations we’re probably know more than the speaker in his or her roommate all of which had weirdly similar names sort of out of something from life of Brian.

I asked to speak in jotted down my name and bona fides or identifications in her hand held which likely was a burner while mine is not parentheses as fate would have it I mine was home charging so at least that day was not being tracked

But if you look it up I am on record as questioning the relationship between the city and this group.

Speaking of art some of the radicals, like raging grannies, made red paint handprints on the sidewalk and even the window of the building. Not Exactly abstract expressionist, Or barely Jackson Pollock.

Ironically this door, once the home of the sons of the Golden West, there is a plaque in the sidewalk, and one of only maybe 10 downtown sides of this group, the spooks, not the radicals, although Bay Area action once health court in the basement of Ross, across from Lytton Plaza.

They never got to my turn starting at four prompt ending at six prompt I was wearing a Rolling Stones T-shirt and was going to say something about using your tongue meaning speak out but not speak friend and enter.

Today I noticed there is no parking here to corner in front of their headquarters and they had parked three fairly large rental trucks to try to screen the protest from the hundreds of drivers going north and south on Alma which means soul  today I noticed there is no parking here to the corner in front of their headquarters and they had parked three fairly large rental trucks to try to screen the protest from the hundreds of drivers going north and south on Alma which means soul

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Tom Franco art installation at 540 Ramona, the last days of Phyllis price upon request:

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Speaking of spooks hey that could be the name of a blog,

 

I started to say that one of my favorite James Franco movies is where he plays a CIA operative I think and he’s going to take out a fictitious version I think not played by the real guy I think I have a real desperate

and1:

Not to blow paranoid winds, But as I stood in front of Dashe Institute for the future actually – it seem like there was a guy there merrily to spy on me and try to tape record my rambling or maybe he just had his own conversation. Wired magazine says the Russians hack anybody who ran for public office in the US even people only got 8000 votes like me; and on the other hand as I was telling the Reds,

And I wrote about it here once, as I passed a group of the Ex military guys I think they said a good morning We know who you are. They have facial recognition software hidden in their hair gel but do they have a machine that can detect bad Hunter Thompson imitators from bad Allen Ginsberg from bad David Foster Wallace from bad the guy who wrote tortilla curtain?

andandand:

Crown point press send word of a book about artichoke recipes which made me ask about Nathan and reprint this image of twin runners:

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There’s also something artsy by someone named Jim Melcher from 1970 for the pics number 25 the first baseman trying to tag out Lou Brock it’s actually a triptych or whatever comes two after that, five:

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Bonus points if you can identify the first baseman number 25 1974 probably nationally

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3M VS 31 M’s

3M, also known as Minnesota Mining, is an 89 billion dollar corporate conglomerate.
The “31 M’s” are the bands booked by Eric Dimenstein and Jim Romeo’s Ground Control Touring of Los Angeles and Brooklyn (but apparently not Chapel Hill or Carrboro) that start with the letter “M”.

The first band I tracked, and booked and at times sort of stalked is Superchunk, whose leader has a name with, yep, two more M’s.

I met Jim Romeo in New York when he worked with Bob Lawton. They called it Twin Towers — this was before the destruction of the World Trade Center. i think they were a part of ICM, a big corporate conglomerate — compared to being “boutique”. I think at one point briefly they were called “Four Three Two One”. Maybe it was Dimenstein who suggested the name change.

Anyhow, the bands that comprise the 31 M’s of Ground Control are:

M. Ward
Mac McCaughan
The Make-Up
Makthaverskan
Malcolm Middleton

There are at least three theories on the etymology of the name. One is that the name Dumfries originates from the Scottish Gaelic name Dùn Phris which means “Fort of the Thicket” Another is that it comes from a Brittonic cognate of the alleged Gaelic derivation (Welsh Din Prys). Dumfries may be the same place as Penprys, which is mentioned in an awdl by Taliesin, and suggests that the first element may have originally been pen, “summit, head” (Welsh pen). According to a third theory, the name is a corruption of two Old English or Old Norse words which mean “the Friars’ Hill”; those who favour this idea allege the formation of a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars’ Vennel.If the name were English or Norse, however, the expected form would have the elements in reversed orientation (compare Clarendon). A Celtic derivation is therefore preferred. Moreover, the Brittonic element drum, meaning “ridge”, and the Gaelic elements druim, which means the same, and dronn-, “a hump”, have all been suggested as an explanation of the first element.


Mamiffer
Marching Church
Maria Taylor
Marika Hackman
Marisa Anderson
Martin Frawley
Mary Lattimore
Mary Timony Plays Helium
Mdou Moctar
Mega Bog
Melkbelly
Merchandise
The Messthetics
mewithoutYou
Midori Takada 高田みどり
MIKE
Mirah
Miserable
Moaning
Modern Nature
Molly Burch
MONO
Monsters of Folk
Mount Eerie
MOURN
The Music Tapes – I think this one actually played one of my shows, at The Cub. Maybe with Olivia Tremor Control.
It would take me the greater part of a day (or part of a great day) to try to listen to all the bands here that I might like, or want to book some day, or go see.

Dial M for music!
MMM, MMM, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM good!

I wonder how many of the Ground Control bands that start with M are from Minnesota? Once Lane Wurster, Chris Eselgroth and myself were walking back to their office after lunch in Carrboro North Carolia,and Lane and Chris chuckled at the site in the window of a toy store or antique store a board game called Husker Du and when I asked what was so funny, they didn’t bother to explain to me. Which would be called “band-splain”.

Who books Bob Mould?

Maybe an alternate title for this essay could have been:
Arab Strap VS Scotch Tape

and1: I’m going to a Niners game Thursday night — only an exhibition — and it reminds me that when I worked at Green Apple books there was a guy named Alan Black from Glasgow and he liked soccer not American gridiron and I took him to the 49ers heyday against the Los Angeles Rams their enemy and rival and Alan said he thought LA might win and everyone laughed at him and sure enough Alan had predicted an upset and guessed right but he wouldn’t take my $20 because we had “disgraced the bet”. I actually parked briefly in front of Green Apple Books just today and snapped a photo of a man my age in striped pants reading from a book from the bargain bin with his legs crossed but standing while a young woman is walking up Clement, meaning north, passed the entrance to the store, while reading from her small screen. Maybe when my phone has more juice I will move that image from there to hereabouts. Foolish. (I wonder if Ground Control has ever booked a small or quiet act into Green Apple Books – they do events there sometimes).

andand:
There’s also a new band with Ground Control called Purple Pilgrims but that’s a horse of a different color:

The first part:
Mac’s vocals sound like Fred Schneider:

Mac would “be fifty two” if he was born in 1967.

andandand: I’d like to start a project called Highlands and Islands, especially if Bob Mould would produce our record and was booked by Frank Riley. It’s 1:41 an M.

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Earthwise Welcomes Molly Tuttle, to The Mitch, Monday, September 30

Gunn High and Berkelee grad Molly Tuttle


Molly Tuttle performs a rare hometown concert at Mitchell Park Community Center, Monday, September 30.
Tickets are $20 in advance at EventBrite.

edit to add: this is selling very briskly. Thanks to Karla Kane of the Palo Alto Weekly for including my onsales in her Fall Arts Preview. It’s the first time in roughly 20 years that Earthwise Productions was anticipated in that way:
— From Earthwise Productions at the Mitchell Park Community Center and Palo Alto Art Center: John Santos Sextet (Sept. 13), Sun Kil Moon (Sept. 27), Molly Tuttle (Sept. 30), Amendola/Dunn/Greenlief (Oct. 11), Tom Harrell Quartet (Oct. 24); Earthwise (link).
There’s also an interview between Karla and Molly later this month.

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Earthwise welcomes September 13 John Santos 6

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John Santos, conga;

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This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the refrigerator that you were probably saving for breakfast, so sweet and so cold forgive me

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12 Galaxies sighted in Palo Alto

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$4,500 smiling Lowden guitar from Gryphon VS $1.45 Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie homage collectible

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$10,000 Used Lexus not included, though some people would trade some car for some guita

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Will pop culture out live Christianity?

Will pop culture out live Christianity? Fuck yes

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‘You’re One’, Imperial Teen (song) VS ‘You’re’ Sylvia Plath (poem)

Drummer Lynn Perko of Sister Double, the Wrecks and Imperial Teen, circa 1996


The writer was auntie to a classmate of mine named Jennifer

Clownlike, sleeping with the enemy.
Nuf sed.

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Hello Lionel Richie from Silicon Valley

I’m a Ludditte, I work in the arts not tech, so I try to refer to this as Santa Clara Valley, not “Silicon Valley”. In this case I am talking about the fact that by buying 6 tickets to see Lionel Richie at Golden Voice Frost Stanford, I redeemed the codes to apparetnetly (sic) have 6 copies of his new album sent to my post office box.
by the way, Liked Joe Russo and being in frost but left early.
Loved the Stones.
Coming back to Frost to see The National, whoever they are.
Bought Willie Nelson tickets for there, get well soon.
Have five onsales of my own. Dayna Stephens rocked or swung the Mitch, Sunday afternoon before Rolling Stones,which is why I left JRAD early, banking my energy.
So Terry — who like me is in the arts and not tech — TMW — Terry Acebo Davis — oh, shit, Pollstar just called and now I forgot — I guess she is cranking Lionel Richie Radio on one of those rip off the artists more than the consumes services so we’ve flashed from Lionel to Eagles to Credence — anyhow it took me only 9 minutes to get 6 copies apparently arriving by snail mail being sent to me not likely by Saturday’s show but we’ll see and edita. But a cd as

edita: said wifey asked me to move a pile of stones from one side of our tiny yard and back so I went to take a shower, so now I am finishing off this post. It took 9 minutes to we hope have 6 cds sent to our PO Box but only 40 seconds to have the same song “Dancing on the Ceiling” to play on my smart phone, via Apple. I pay 9$ each month, unless they are waiting to charge me $20 for each of the hundred or so cds I’ve downloaded. Meanwhile yet sort of extraneous our or her Lionel Ritchie radio is take it easy.

the other thing I wanted to say is that I was tryng to broker an appearnace by the future POTUS Kirsten Gillibrand to make a stage announcement (“I’m going to go all night long for you”) at the Lionel show here Saturday though she arrives on Sunday. So I wrote Bruce Escowitz of Red Light Management who is also a former CEO of a division of Live Nation. So it would be a typical management decision for someone from touring not recordings Big Threee per se to use a cd promotion as a loss leader for concert tickets. Kirsten’s team is more down with Lizzo, managed by Full Stop, Irving Azoff et al. Who also have Sara Baeilles and Meghan Trainor. I still think Dessa is good for Kirsten — there’s a bull in the china shop, there’s a china doll in the bullpen.”
Hey, how about: I’m just a girl>>>I’m just a (sword) in the bull — referencing bullfighting and or bullshit the swamp. No Doubt parody.

This could be a poincare kind of pointy thingy thing >>>>^^^^ , calculating the surface ariola.

b/w I don’t think I know Lizzo but the photo of her hiding in her own flesh folds reminds me of something R.Crumb would come over or come up with. We all need, a wise man once said, something to cream on. And if you want, as John Wooden once said quick Henry, it’s Kareem!

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Twenty-one arts photos from my email feed, butt-to-butt

I invited this singer, shown at her western wear day job, to sit at our table later that day, at Dazzle Denver, for Patty Barber show

I shot this cellist at the father’s day street music event and then months later found her website and realized it was the same person. She’s Jewish and on the rise, if I can think of her name and face

Steve Poltz said that my young friend A– looked a bit like Molly Tuttle, who is appearing at The Mitch on Monday, September 30, tickets onsale at EventBrite on September 1.

the nut graph

Former Palo Altan student, at Cubberley actualy, and Santana Journey co-founder Gregg Rolie

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