Respect to Laura Chavez my former guitar teacher and Foothill College Music 7e, winter 2002 classmate, appearing twice today in San Jose, with singer Nikki Hill, her 3rd such tenure, more soul than blues, I dear say

860D28B1-EC3D-438B-B89E-9B6A9E322ED4There’s a little bit of Laura Chavez in this, and a little bit of this in Laura Chavez, keep in minding that the Blues Resource Center in Los Altos Hills, CA that me, Mike Sult, Janis Stevenson and “Dean Graham” discussed doesn’t really exist outside these pages;

Hi Mark,

I’ve talked to Janis and we’d both like to meet with you
to discuss the archive. Janis recently had knee surgery
and would like to wait another week to allow for more
recovery of her sore knee. She’s looking at her schedule
for the week of feb 21-25. Are you available in the early
afternoon? It would be nice to get together.

Mike Sult

Mike Sult:
Regarding this letter that magically popped out of my
email archive just now:
I’ve actually made some headway about the “blues
archive” I had mentioned below. Mike Kappus of the
Rosebud Agency said recently that I can fish around on
his behalf for a academic institution that would house
his archives. He was the agent for John Lee Hooker,
Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt.

I traded emails about this recently with Janis.

Mark Weiss
dba Earthwise
(650) 322-xxxx

— MikeSult <mikesult@guitarland.com> wrote:

Hello Mark,

(mike responding here)
What a fabulous letter! I’m so glad to hear your
ideas
and willingness to help make it better. I
especially like
the idea of a class concert with a pro headliner and
making the class the basis of an academic center on
the
history of the blues. Janis and I will be discussing
the blues
class during this next quarter, I would love to
include you
in our discussions. These are really terrific
ideas. Thanks.

see you in class,

Mike Sult

 

Dear Janis and Mike:

As the Music 7E “History of The Blues” winds down
and
the panels kick in, I’m suddenly seized with a
brainstorm of ideas regarding your work that I wish
to
share with you.

First of all, I think this is a great class. And I
think it should definitely be re-offered. If I can
be
a resource to you in terms of development of the
class, I’d be glad to do it.

Along those lines, I have an idea: I was
definitely
moved by both the performances by class members and
by
invited guests, such as Futoshi Murioke. As I told
Janis today, I’m hoping to bring in Chris Cotton of
the Blue Eyed Devils (my management client) to sing
some Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson songs as an
object lesson on the influence of Delta and Country
blues. Although I was not able to arrange a visit
from
John Hammond, it is really not that far-fetched of
an
idea. One of my suggestions would be to continue to
go
after special guest lecturers or performers to
augment
the curriculum (which, by the way, I think is
great:
the Wyman book). There’s definitely a lot of blues
people in the Bay Area who might be interested in
coming in to speak to your next class. That’s an
area
I can be useful in, I believe.

My big idea is that I wonder if, as you continue to
teach this course and it gains momentum and
popularity, you might formalize a program of
bringing
in guests. I also wonder, in a related thought,
that
with so many performers in the class, maybe someday
you can have a class concert, perhaps in
conjunction
with an appearance by a professional recording
artist.
I’m wondering about the idea of your class being
the
basis for an academic center on the history of the
blues. For example, maybe you could get a grant to
facilitate bringing in guests, then you could
videotape them talking or performing and archive
your
results. I also think that it might be useful and
fun
to make copies of all your student papers this
quarter
and archive those; at a certain point you might
have a
pretty valuable little collection. (I’m reminded of
a
course at Sonoma State on Censored News where the
class actually puts out a book each year on
censored
stories). I’d be willing to help out in advising or
developing this proposal. I know some people who
might
be able to help, both in the music business and the
philanthropic realm. I also wonder for example:
John
Lee Hooker lived in Redwood City: maybe if Foothill
had a project dedicated to the blues that we might
be
able to solicit the donation of some of his
archival
papers. (I do business with the office of his agent
and could inquire about such a likelihood).

The blues are a great subject. What inspired you to
teach this class is a valid urge. I wonder what the
upside could be as you continue your work. (And I
wonder what role I might play).

Sincerely,

 

Mark Weiss
student, Music 7E Winter ’02
Owner, Earthwise Productions and Management
Palo Alto
(650) 949-xxxx
PO Box 60786
Palo Alto, CA 94306

 

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Death Cab touch of gray on late show solstice

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Are used to think it the worst band name in the world given the incident where a crazed pro per carry it Prrecariot Assaulted a passenger on her way home from the bubble lounge in San Francisco although they do have ethical stance and do good work and at least one of them stays in Big Sur and channels Carol work in their manager is still I believe a Mench if he still there manager Jordan of the former dreadlocks

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Central New Jersey w. Mid-East Palo Alto

7ADF9243-7801-48C0-8240-FD6F766EA0DCCouple years ago I read that former assistant city manager and Kaliningrad Steve Emslie EMSLIE and going to work with or for Peter pao to manage 800 apartments Near University Avenue 101 and what we used to call whiskey Gulch I think it’s called wormwood Oakwood Oakmont were Mont but not Fremont

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Fixing ‘Night Channels’ video woman w. Richard Diebenkorn lithograph fixing repaired by Portola Valley expert with Chinese name

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I only heard of this band foxing which is a printers term for flaws in the paper which can be fixed because Terry and I after visiting her mother in the nursing home when into the city first to check out a leaf but a man but instead dumplings in lower patrol hill but as I walked by the worlds formally greatest club the bottom of the hill and met Diane the DJ I mean Bern Bartender formally of the kitchen staff I took the schedule and new none of the 25 bills for June but foxing is coming in July or August and will definitely have to hit that based on just the introBartender formally of the kitchen staff I took the schedule and new none of the 25 bills for June but foxing is coming in July or August and will definitely have to hit that based on just the intro of this video

detail from 1965, but foxing free since 2016

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GOOOOOOOOOOL!

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I’ve been watching just the right amount of soccer I get on the tread master at the gym and watch and pedal until halftime or final I tape but don’t watch all the matches I watch a little bit every day of her several messages sometimes in a pub also collecting these crazy stickers and I heard from my walking friend memo who seems very happy here is a picture in the background is something my wife made that we gifted him in 2011

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Gilhooly growlix remix

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Private collection

b/w 7 dogs by Fritz Scholder, which reminds me that when we first moved to eat became the 650

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Andar:

wayne thiebaud license “art plate “ from ca  arts council and DMV.

These are available 1993 but only appealing to me as of five minutes ago, writing about Gilhooly and Scholder.

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Pecker v Pecker

I couldn’t make this “up”.

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Free show by Antibalas to celebrate the liberation of White Bean Soup

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The Giants win the pennant well the Giants win the game 65 crooked crooked number in the sixth inning save by an unknown guy I’m writing my blog

when I say “free@ I mean improvised but the tickets are actually $599.  They are literally “has beans”. Near the stadium post game.

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so the joke is that the beans are white but the soup as you can plainly see is read. Like brown sugar kitchen the beignets have white sugar but the founder is brown or brown sugar. Or, I once managed The Orange Peels who are better if you think of it as a verb. Same thing with Counting Crows: are the crows counting us or are we counting them. Or if Josh means “fib” and you pronounce it “writer” or “rider”. Marsh McCall Rest In Peace. Next: men dressed as women dressed as men.

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Harvey got Milk? w. Tamika chock full

Yes, to answer my previous question, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada (north of U.S., north of us) did morph the “got milk” campaign created by Goodby Silverstein and Partners or Goodby Berlin and Silverstein circa 1990 with Harvey Milk the openly gay politician from San Francisco who was murdered by a former supervisor there, circa 1977.

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Which reminds me that I thought about picketing Starbucks here in Palo Alto and pretty far from Rittenhouse Square which is near Penn not Stanford and I did know that area back in 2005-2006 when I dated a woman at 18th and Arch the old AT&T building before they erected the giant Comcast thingy, and I was going to reference, apropos of friends of mine concerned about reports that the Jewish Anti Defamation League (ADL) of B’Nai Brith was disinvited to help train Starbuckers on anti-bias training due to pressure from the ultra-left Blcak Lvies Mttaer, with a hand-made sign: TAMIKA IS CHOCK FULL.

I was going for the effect that the person allegedly who put the kabosh on the Jewish-Black nexus (which afterall goes back to my Rabbi Sidney Axelrad marching with MLK in Selma) Tamika something, and the brand of coffee not as big a chain but well known in New England maybe strategically partnered with Dunkin’ Donuts “chock full of nuts” who I think also enlisted black baseaball player and before the Red Sox Pumpsie Green of Alameda, CA but Jackie Robinson as pitchman or scene-stealer. But someone also pointed out that the term “chock” — which I admit I have yet to gloss in my trusty Webster’s Ninth (as in, I don’t trust subsequent Websters such as 10, 11 or X) what “chock” means but I am perty darn sure it don’t mean “brown”. But I am calling out her as “whack”. I would leave out, in my comp, the “nuts”. I could lose the “is” try: tamika chock full. it sort of works.

Also, oddly, or its about time, or as TSE would say “hurry up please its time”, I heard from Jeff Goodby my former favorite ad guy and started a thread about “iota” “yad” and “jot” I claim are all one. But not alone. (As Michael Franti knows).

Also I literally spoke for 9 minutes to a reporter for local rag about the contentioius recall effort here for Judge and former stanford lacrosse attack Aaron Persky (who I don’t know from Adam, although when I met Adam Levine at Stanford shopping center and Microsoft store hard opening and Maroon 5 concert and fuck I am fucking the fuck out of all my rules about not plugging fucking fuck corporate brands, I thought he was Marky Mark but not yet hamburger helper Walburg and I literally search-injured “mark wahlburg” “tiger tattoo” and got Zippo not the lighter nor the Phil Kline piece), AL of the Rotting Pile of Organic Put it in the Green Bin -OST — I say, as Foghorn Leghorn and my own guru James Melville Cox of the strategic semi-Kershaw stutter or flutter but not strutter, I spoke for 9 minutes into her cellphone taping devicicle — for cold lampin’, pen-wieldin’ character potential but legal since Thiel took down Gawker ass-ass-n-ate-her’s — nine minutes about why I rushed back to Palo Alto from who knows where and who cares Steve Entwhistle of Stanford by Way of Utah but Not Rocky Mountain Joe Walsh Laurel Canyon varietal to vote like Cordell and Burns NO RECALL and my salad days schlepping books with perty pictures for Richie Silverstein and Jeff Goodby and a comp I once gave Jeff, one of a series or seriously 50 or more, or 20  at least mock self-promotionals, based on “Aaron Burr” and “the bullet” a Johny Pesky baseball card and I wanted to call this or that “Those Persky Bullets”. The thing passed but not here in PA.

This too shall pass. Or as Duffy Daughtery of the Bubba Smith Spartans would say: Run. Return. Or, or then die.

My IM is true.

I found the Youtube of the Goodby ad and I will try to add the screen freeze of launched my thousand slips (the bullet) but I also want to find the cite of my claim that Jay Leno had a joke about “pesky bullets”. Even the doorman of RBC three blocks from Goodby and very near a cool install of Arneson influenced busts of famous Friscans (the place that also has murals of Hawaii ports of call) new “aaron burr” by name, and way before Broadway hit of related concept.

THEBULLET.pngI gave the comp to Jeff — and in context, he had accepted and put on temporary display or installation, next to his actual Clios and Cannes Gold Lions my fake dingi at least twice before — re Goose Gossage not Howard Gossage and his dog food client and put on Andy’s name “BowWow” and Rich as “Saliva-stain” — and he looked at it and didn’t get it and I explained it, about as succinct or not as this and he goes “Oh, I didn’t think you had actual reasons for these things” meaning were they all just pure unconscious in the Jungian sense, I think, or so have for the last 29 years.

No. No reason. Pure chaos theory. And the Liberal Arts.

and 1: this goes below but in terms of “disco” it is good to know or Goodby that the founder of Studio 54 Ian Schrager is also the man who after paying his debt to society then bought Gramercy Park Hotel my favorite, upgraded it, sold it and went PUBLIC. And if you search my surname and the type of ceramics made by people in New Mexico you may surmise or mere surmise sir why I think the outgoing director of our best regional museum may, the way the senator from Oregon apparently reads me on basketball, see all this, and meet me. What’s that movie about meeting on Empire State Building, now the Fay Wray but the sad one about ships that pass in the night? Brooke Trout Almendine Shields. Dan Any Mountain. Poor Amy Krouse. There’s a little bit of Maria in every song I wrote but probably not the same Maria that worked at 921 Front Street although it is the same Pam or Pammie Laws of Seven Day Diary fame. Weird.

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Blandino poppies remix

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Alex Blandino the Palo Altan and former Stanford baseball star, was also a photojournalist in training and we traded shots, at the Farmer’s Market, in 2015

 

this is lifted from a private correspondence, with Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Stanford historian and bike sherpa Bo Crane — if by private we mean that the press won’t print it out of context.

wait a minute — you saw me speak about The Graduate, last night? (When I said “Elaine” I meant to say “lame” dyac)
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Artist MOHAMMED SLIM SOUMAH, a native of the West African nation of Guinea. Soumah’s work was chosen from a selection of proposals from eight local artists.
today is Mohammad Soumah from Liberia I think who did the “poppies” mural at Country Sun on Cali Ave, for the Palo alto art commission I think in 2006 or so. I think that if the Post is requiring people to submit by email (ie they rejected my handwritten hand-delivered answer “Addison Garage, HP Garage” a few weeks ago, apparently for that reason — did not follow directions — then they should at least require people to get the name right. 
A nice lady from there, Melanie I think De La Cruz (perhaps) explained all this. Before I would deal with Alo Mano.
I was going to write about this today in my blog but instead wrote about “oceans 8″the movie and soccer. (I was going to do “Mohammed Soumeh w. Mohammed Salah” but instead I have Mindy Kaling and Max Hollein — long digression).
I mis-attributed to Kathy Aoki a mural by someone else, at Art Center once.
Last week I took a selfie at Patrick Daugherty installation at Art Center and then heard someone gagging on smoke and realized a guy and his bike were either toking up or hitting a crack pipe, hidden in the tree.
I married an Art Commissioner –and we met at Bruce Beasley’s studio — so this stuff matters to me.
Also, just yesterday, I ran into the former commissioner now paid staff elise DeMarzo and she intorduced me to Peter Wegner I sort of recognized name and thought to ask “are you…a public…artist?” and in fact he is the man behind the installation at Stanford GSB the mechaincal array of thousands of colorful cards that create patterns and an effect. (I think he has a second piece using words, on same site). Apparently he will get a perecent for art grant to do art for new or planned public safety building in PA.
Myself I stil think that the corner of page Mill and El Camino which is zoned “public facility” should be a prison for low security white collar criminals, and or current members of city council, and or public safety (cops and fire) and or teachers and or nurses, union nurses, like CRONA, and maybe one token artist (but not the guy in the Daughtery I mention above.
Appropriately, on Sunday at our street music festival I did test drive a bike that creates power for a musician or his amp. It was part of Cello Joe’s show, Joey Chang, and invented by a guy in Berkeley named Paul Freedman whose father Dan Freedman is or was an MIT and SLAC scientist who invented “super-gravity”.
I’m on a roll. Still going nowhere. But generating power.
mbw
thanks again for the custom ride last week. there should be a literary LAH ride. I actually ran into, literally for first time in 15 or so years, Barry Eisler of MP, I mentioned, who created the John Rain spy novel series and staged a murder, like I said, in his first novel, by knocking a guy off his bike at Old Page Mill and breaking his neck, making it look like driver error.
I’m not making this up.
it’s 2004
i’m forwarding this, if you don’t mind.
also,they should not call it “mystery photo” that’s a fairly lazy name. It’s more like Art Eye for the Straight Guy or somethingI tried to pay them, in 2014, to use a shot of me and my former Gunn High Oracle colleague Eric Hager, the manager for many years Palo Alto Sport and Toy next to the Greg Brown’s aunt with Hose mural during the Council campaign — Greg Brown endorsed me, shortly before his death, and his widow Julie affirmed it — Peter Drekmeir insisted I get that cleared — which reminds me that Greg Brown briefly tried to help me help Mohamed Soumeh and his Bagel installation about Izzy’s Bagels on Cali which was condemned but we tried (tepidly, or too much so) to get Liz Kniss to grandfather it as public art rather than condemn it but izzy didn’t want the heat (ironic for a baker). The bagel is in his EPA store, or on it, near it. Liz Kniss, I happened to stand in line next to, she and her hub, Dick, at Palo Alto Square the other night waiting for RBG movie (and next to us was former arts commissioner Larissa Usich) and I told her or them that I had just visited Joey Piziali the artist and former Paly football star and that he said Liz owns several of his works so I told her she indisputably has an eye for art (if greg brown thought to go to her, but didn’t say why — I assumed the Kniss’ own a Brown or something.)
But, yeah, apropos of the bad news about a company in Chicago trying to buy President Apartments and evict 40 Palo Altans inclludng former Mayor Sid Esinosa (who I texted a council member is now “where have you gone, Sid Espinosio?”) and would turn it into a hotel called “The Graduate” I presume because their millenial potential clients do not know the movie, I did say we should mine that movie for ways to mock them and thwart their initiative, and i did lean into the mike, look at our mayor and say, as a public record, ‘are you trying to seduce me, mme?” And my wife was there.
Mo sumah also did the Antonios Mural. Mo Salah meanwhile scored a goal in a 3-1 loss to Russia.
running this again, i.e. I hit replay:
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Sabrina of Old Pro expertly brushes bangs from her eyes, just as Mo Salah of Egypt scores a replay goal

 

 

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