Three shows

(picture of Jimmy Stewart from poster of “North By Northwest”)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthwise-welcomes-ethan-iverson-marta-sanchez-tickets-798059676977?aff=oddtdtcreator&lang=en-us&locale=en_US&status=30&view=listing

(picture of a woman holding a book about fish yet I forget why)

(picture of myself, Mark Weiss, of earthwise and Plastic Alto blog, under a painting pointing)

February 9, Friday: Nefesh Mountain, bluegrass with a Judaica bent; at Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium; on sale Tuesday on EventBrite.

February 14, Wednesday: Lizzie No, Americana with a Black tinge; at Palo Alto Art Center — I made a joke about Valentine’s Day and “yes” or “no” — “getting to yes” — from the stage Friday.

April 1 — no joke — dual solo piano sets by Ethan Iverson (Blue Note, the Bad Plus, Mark Morris dance) and Marta Sanchez (from Spain, and New York, played in Earthwise shows in 2022 and 2023)

In the meanwhile, Earthwise is still hibernating for the winter due to a hiatus and side hustle that I am not allowed to discuss in these pages, other than to cryptically state Titans on me, Titans on three!!!

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SUREFIRE CEASEFIRE PLAN FROM COUNTY EXPERTS

Look man top of the world

RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SUSTAINED PEACE AND SAFETY FOR ALL CHILDREN

SANTA CLARA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION RESOLUTION No.

WHEREAS, the Santa Clara County Board of Education is committed to creating inclusive and just conditions where all students, staff members, and families feel a sense of belonging; and

WHEREAS, we cherish our cultural richness and strive to ensure all communities feel respected and heard, including our Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Arab-American, Palestinian, and Middle Eastern communities; and

WHEREAS, the Santa Clara County Board of Education has a long history of embracing social justice and supporting members of our school community who have been, both historically and currently, subjected to racism, discrimination, or marginalization; and

WHEREAS, the Santa Clara County Board of Education adopted a resolution “Denouncing Anti- Semitism” on June 14, 2023 and adopted a resolution “Denouncing Islamophobia” on September 6, 2023; and

WHEREAS, we mourn the loss of 1,200 lives in IsraelAND THE RAPE AND MUTILATION BY HAMAS TERRORISTS OF HUNDREDS OF WOMEN, BABIES AND GRANDMAS and over 25,000 lives in Palestine ACCORDING TO THE MILITANT GROUP WHO BUILDS BUNKERS IN HOSPITALS, including thousands of Palestinian children from October 7 to the present HELD CAPTIVE BY THE HAMAS TERRORISTS, ESPECIALLY SINCE 2006 WHEN ISRAEL LEFT THE REGION, and also throughout the decades of displacement, occupation, oppression, and blockade endured in Gaza and the West Bank; and OTHER PLACES SHUNNED BY EGYPT AND JORDAN;

WHEREAS, the Santa Clara County Board of Education recognizes that this violence impacts students in our classrooms AND FEEL WE HAVE OVEREMPHASIZED THE WHOLE READING RITING AND RTHMATIC THING THAT IS OH SO COLONIAL and encourages all staff to support students by creating environments in schools and classrooms that build empathy OR ARE VERY DIVISIVE  and compassion and promote constructive dialogue OR SINGLE OUT THE JEWS IN A SOFT POGROM — A WORD WE’VE NEVER HEARD BUT WILL LOOK IT UP SOME DAY where no student or staff member feels singled out for their identity, ethnicity or religious affiliation; and CONTROLS THE WORLDS MONEY, EATS BABIES, HAS HORNS, CAN’T JUMP

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, AFER WE WASTE A FEW MORE HOURS OF EVERYONE’S TIME that the Santa Clara County Board of Education recognizes OUR OWN ASSES AS DISTINGUISED FROM OUR CLITS OR FOMER CLITS that many groups within our community have had long and complex histories of trauma, displacement, and oppression, and we are committed to creating safe learning spaces for NEARLY every student by committing to combat Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Anti-Arab racism, xenophobia, and ethnonationalism in all its forms INCLUDING DOG WHISTLES, BLOOD LIBEL; and HERE OR IN THE 20 COUNTRIES FROM WHICH JEWS WERE CLEANSED OR WHERE JEWS WERE CLEANSED FROM;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED AND WHAT WAS THAT LINE ABOUT THROWING STONES, that the Santa Clara County Board of Education believes that peaceful diplomacy HEE HEE I CANT BELIEVE THEY LET THIS SLIP BY is the only SUREFIRE way to achieve these goals and calls for an immediate and permanent humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza AND MAYBE WE CAN NAME A FEW SCHOOLS AFTER MARTYRS, the release of all REMAINING hostages, the safe passage of substantial humanitarian aid MINUS OUR TYPICAL KICKBACK AND VIG to the Palestinian people AND THEIR BILLIIONAIRE ABSENTEE LEADERS IN QUATAR, and the immediate restoration of basic services, water, electricity, and MAYBE WE CAN SEND THEM ALL CELLPHONES SINCE THEY WORK SO GOOD WITH DISINFORMATION fuel access to protect the health and wellbeing of children and families HELD HOSTAGE BY THEIR OWN LEADERS. We demand that US taxpayer funds be used to prevent further loss of life and be invested in our nation’s education system FOR A VERY REASONABLE CARRYING COST

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the County Board of Education at a SECRET meeting held on OR JUST AFTER January 10, 2024, by the following vote: OF PEOPLE NO ONE REMEMBERS VOTING FOR… UNTIL NOW

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10 good thing about Mu (sic)

 

QMC is Quincey, Mark and Christian, Palo Alto Art Center, Wednesday January 10, 2024 by Earthwise


10 good thing about Mu (sic)

There is a song by Bob Marley “one good thing about music”.

Mu is also the letter of the Greek aleph bet. Or Roman?

Mu is somehow related to the number 40.

Sic in Latin also can mean stylistically in prose to call attention to an error or to the precise workding; or something that looks like an error but is not. 

I stated last night at the Doox of Yale and Christian Beck show that this is my 31st year as either a concert promoter or artist manager.

But in terms of 40 — 1984 was a banner year for me. I could be celebrating 40 years or 41st year of something something. 

In winter of 1984, I took time off from Dartmouth— my sophomore winter — after completing four terms of my a.b. degree — to work for the Times Tribune of Palo Alto. 

That was my first full-time though temporary professional work experience. 

I did fine —I covered courts and council, plus some sports.

I dated Carol Hegna, a recent Stanford grad. She was working for Bay City News covering the Russell Glasgall case when I did the same for the PTT.

I did knot no here then, but I have an image of a young blonde Wyomingian on a skate board going thru White Plaza. Sort of like Syd Davis of Montana the rugby player who does not understand Israel vs. Hamas — ok 9 good things and 1 horrible thing. 

This reminds me: 8 good thing, 2 bad: Santa Clara Board of Education Grace Ma and them deliberated or voted what I would prima facie on its face an antisemitic item about Israel. What the fuck does a military response to a terrorist attack seven thousand miles from here have to do with teaching children or preparing them to be part of our community? The act of a non-binding resolution about someone else’s tragedy actually displaces learning and makes Santa Clara county more like Gaza, and Grace Ma more like Hamas.

To the extent that Hamas obviously and apparently and tragically keeps children in darkness. No lux or veritas in Gaza or that meeting item 6P.

Some more good things:

The Peets coffee here in South Palo Alto played Spoon The Underdog which I mistook for billy Joel somehow but it got me talking to a woman next to me whose son runs a hospital in Austin and is taking her granddaughter tot he Texans-Browns playoff, whose line coach is my friend since 7th grade Chris Strausser. 

Tony Levin quartet tomorrow here, plus Saturday at Piedmont Piano which I might take in after all if I go from Gunn-Paly boys JV to the 5;30 show, then back 

3. Tommy Jordan pan drums on flake

Lizzie No, Feb 14; Nefesh bluegrass, Feb. 9; dark in March most likely; big April unveil soon enough. Mu enough. Moon enough, and the stars. 

This is where I came in…my Peet’s. 

A woman knocked over her OJ and I asked her if she had voided her bladder…then I offered to give her my OJ Happy Moose the Mu muse. She declined. But she wasn’t terribly offended either. I guess that’s kind of a nirvana. A bit curt. Cue: 10:21, on to Gryphon to gift Beck the jack.

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Hippo birdie Jenny Lewis

Happy birthday to Jenny Lewis.  Myself I am turning 60 this month Aquarius.  

I’ve seen her exactly once at the Fox theater in Oakland .

Never met Silva met Gersh once or twice.

This is my 31st calendar year as either a promoter or an artist manager.  

I will try to get to San Diego end of February.  I will be at Pollstar exactly one day because I am coaching high school basketball this year.   

I did 60 concerts last year.

My budget probably taps out before most of your roster— I did an early spoon show through Jim Romeo. I can probably have rips or more Britts songs.

Keep on rocking in the free world .

Mazel tov. 

Mark Weiss

Dba Earthwise 

Palo Alto 

(650) HBD-0108

Fucking hate computers I don’t use most of the socials that you do.   I’m hear in Palo Alto as a Luddite punk rock promoter.  

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ONE GOOD THING

Trenchtown rock by Bob Marley. 
The first part is called Mikan Drill, after George Mikan. Works on left and right hands.
Free throw— am getting the riddim back.
vintage Niners 16 Jersey

Johnson Park

him hit me best shot music music
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THREE SHOWS

DOOX OF YALE, CHRISTIAN BECK. WEDNESDAY, JAN 10, 2024

BAND OF BROTHERS LEVIN & LaBARBERA. FRIDAY, JAN 12, 2024

LIZZIE NO WEDNESDAY, FEB 14, 2024

PALO ALTO ART CENTER

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Richard Ford vs Colson Whitehead

coda: You will enjoy true success in whatever you do.

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Seven iconic basketball posts post

I played a fair amount of basketball between ages of 12 and 17 — I was on four teams — one at Terman, three at Gunn. I recall leaving practice at Terman about ten times to sneak in a peak at the Torah in the run-up to my Bar Mitzvah and then Rabbi Sidney Akselrad mentioning that, praising my versatility and saying it reminded him of his youthful fondness for handball. I took a ball with me on trips to Europe and Oaxaca. I played on one more time at the JCC when I was in my twenties — I recall Don Yarkin and Steve Yescies as teammates and leaders (Noodles and I both played for Hans Delannoy). When I met Nick Peterson I discerned that he and Hans were rivals in 1969, which is 55 years ago this winter.

Regarding the NBA, I’m a so-so fan. I have at arms length more than a handful (and less than a box full) of 1975 Topps cards.

A brief take on the above, all “bigs” — that is a recent term for forwards and centers (source: 2023-24 NBA Book A360/Future Publishing Ltd):

Kareem — invented or perfected the sky hook; icon of both basketball and thoughtful modern Islam. I saw him once at LAX;

Mikan — I still practice and sometimes recommend to younger players “The Mikan Drill” which is a succession of left and right hand layups combined with a climbing or leaping action. A skilled player can make 20 layups, 10 each hand, in a Mikan Drill in about two minutes. Takes me four.

Shaq–I remember having a theory that correlates the weather with whether he hit 50 percent or more from the charity stripe. Wishful thinking or magic but not Magic. He met my friend Norzin once in Palo Alto and filmed their interaction. (She thought he was Barkley).

Bob Pettit – I don’t know much about him, actually; there is some footage of him in his prime — off topic, but I also watched Rudy LaRusso my fellow Dartmouthian score 6 points at the NBA 1969 All Star game – -I started following basketball in about 1972. He was with the Hawks in St. Louis. He scored 20,000 points but never dunked. From LSU.

Hakeem Olajuwon — played for only one team, Houston Rockets; or two if you count Phi Slamma Jamma, also known as Houston Cougars NCAA. I recall him as Akeem before Hakeem. And that they said he carried an ice chest with popsickles, which they didn’t have in Nigeria. Makes me wonder: Igbo or Yoruba.

Interlude: I am 6 feet tall, although I am more accurately five foot eleven and one half inches. In 7th grade, for Terman Tigers I once lined up as a center in the zone when Koijane took a blow. By my sophomore year, and meeting Hans it was suggested I need to learn to dribble and move to back court. But I learned a bunch of moves in the paint and near the boards, offensive and defensive. In retrospect, maybe I should have just perfected those inside moves. Or worked harder on the dribble. Light is both particle and wave; Weiss is both too small for forward and too clumsy for guard. Against Buchser – -what is now Santa Clara High gym — in my lone varsity field goal for Gunn in 1980-81, I caught the ball from Alan Ng beating the press in the high post, took one dribble, wheeled and kissed the ball of the glass for two! (The next possession, exactly the same, got fouled, sank two; the third time, missed front end of 1-and-1).

Parrish — people forget he was a Warrior before a Celt.

Karl Malone — the mail man, played against my teammate Lockhart in NCAA. Mike Norman never made the NBA but was an all time great for Saint Francis of Mountain View, then Santa Clara Broncos and worked out at least once at Gunn gym, now known as Bow but not Titan. Titan might change to Lockhart if they ask me.

And1: Stanford beat #4 Arizona the other day, in the breakout game, 28 points for Kanaan Carlyle, whose father I met at Springline dog run. From ATL, like Ja Morant. One and done from the Farm. Hope to catch in person his next set of flow or magic.

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Michael McFaul summary of Israel-Hamas situation

Hamas’s horrific, barbaric terrorist attack against Israeli civilians on October 7 compelled Israel to launch a major war against this terrorist organization in Gaza. Too many civilians have already died, and the war has no end in sight. Here, in the United States, the Israeli-Hamas conflict divided our politics, university campuses, and society, leading to the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Just days after the terrorist attack, I wrote Terrorism Is Terrorism, in an attempt to reconcile the obvious need to denounce this horrific act but also find longer, sustainable solutions to this conflict. This year also revitalized other older conflicts: the Republic of Artsakh ceased to exist, falling under Azerbaijan’s control, and the civil war in Sudan wages as I write. Beyond military conflicts, Turkey, Syria, and Morocco experienced devastating earthquakes. U.S.-China relations continue to simmer, global temperatures set records, and the global democratic recession persists.  

 

Clicking thru leads to:

Last week, Hamas carried out horrific, barbaric acts of terrorism against innocent Israeli civilians, resulting in over a thousand killed, including 22 American citizens. The brutality and scale of their slaughter – including killing grandmothers and babies – was shocking. No previous injustice, prior wrong, or longstanding grievance justifies these heinous actions. Hamas launched its terrorist attacks knowing very well that Israel would retaliate, deliberately triggering more suffering for the people they claim to defend. As an act of self-defense, the democratically elected government has the responsibility to protect its citizens and the legitimate right to use force for self-defense, first and foremost against Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but also in response to other actors in the region – Hezbollah and their Iranian backers – if they try to expand the scope of this war.

In waging its military offensive, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) must abide by international law and minimize civilian casualties and civilian suffering. Hamas must do the same and stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields to protect their terrorists and military supplies.

 

Note: I know McFaul slightly due to the fact that his first two years here he dated a close friend of mine. I’ve seen his book lecture three times and as recently as September said hello to him on campus. I suggested to members of the pro-Hamas tent at Stanford that they try to take his class. or write to him, in the case of A_ who said she is from Angola, to check his take. Last, I said something snide and unfounded by text to a local landlord about the possibility of money laundering here. Palo Alto is 7,000 miles from Tel Aviv but the capital here makes us seem much closer. That also creates noise. 

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Terry and I met Hilda in Martinez on December 12 and we’re so sad to have learned of her passing, while looking at her piano piece at the De Young today

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