PA Child Care Scandal: could it happen here?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by markweiss86

Posted by XXXXXXXX, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Mar 8, 2012 at 1:42 am
XXXXXX is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online

Thank You for all the good comments and support everyone.

I am mxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx i just want to say that this article makes me look like a criminal and i am not even close to one.

But i want to speak the truth hidden behind this article and i am not accusing of Ms. Sue Dremann of hiding it because she just wrote what she was told i am assuming.

The truth is that before the fight i was doing the right thing. I was asking for help from the teacher and he did help by calling the main office once. around 15 minutes pass by and no one shows up and so he calls a couple more times. And so the teacher and I wait for the campus supervisor to come and help me. And more than 35 minutes pass and still no one shows up. I know the teacher got connected to the main office because i heard him talking to them. so the end of the period arrives and i go out side with the teacher. i tell him i am very upset and he says that he is too. So at the time i was waiting for some one to help me i was printing out an essay and thats where the stapler comes in. But what the article didnt say is that i was being pushed and had been thrown a backpack at my chest and face by the main other student. So i felt frightened and my first reaction was swings with what i had in my hand and it happened to be a stapler. I am sorry for my actions and i am very sorry for the other kid getting hurt.

Ok but that was only the fight i was really disappointed with Gunn Staff

throughout 45-50 minutes of asking for help no one came to help me and the teacher. Now i am thinking what about if it was a life and death situation would they respond??

But thats only one of the problems. the second problem i have is that when i was in the office i over heard assit. princ, the dean, and front desk secretary blaming the teacher for not grabbing the phone and for not having an urgent voice and that why didnt he use the panic button every class has. In my head i am like wow how can you blame this on him?? When he was doing his best in class because he cant lay a hand on a student. I didnt say anything about what they were talking about. then when it was me and assit. princ i asked her why didnt you guys send another person. And she gave me an excuse that her little radio thing wasnt working that she can only speak through it but not hear anything. And that was a big shock to me. As well with the Campus supervisor i asked him where were you i really needed you he told me i couldnt hear anything from the radio.

So in a way thanks to the Gunn Staff My family Mom, Sister, Dad, Even my Baby Brother saw me get arrested for something that could have been avoided by at least one out of all higher authority personnel that could have came and help me. Now ihave to go through all the reqiurements of a $25000 bail that if i dont make one court date i willhave to pay all $25000 and do week ends and anger classes on top of that i have work and 9 classes to graduate high school and try to pursue college.

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(my gut reaction is that this is a crock and that it should not be reported by name in the media nor should the young man / boy be in the system over this.

That two or more people wrote in in his defense makes me think I am right. I am tempted — because I volunteered briefly at Shromila Gupta’s fifth grade class at Barron overlapping with this kids time there — to call around and try to get traction.

I think PAPD has a history of profiling kids by class, by their neighborhood especially Venture –and ironically the Weekly had a section on Ventura last week. (And I tend to defend PAPD unions).

The title references something I saw in Michael Moore “Capitalism: a Love Story” about Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where they first privatized the juvie hall then let corrupt judges game the system to the tune of a million dollars or more in bribes before being caught. Not to mention the thousands of kids locked up beyond reason.

I was gonna jokingly write that Palo Alto should grab the post office and turn it into a juvie hall for money. People would not know I was joking.

I hope there are some quality defense lawyers out there who can help this from getting out of hand. (no pun intended — did he throw the stapler or strike with it?)

Sadly but way off topic, I saw there was a recent CCS wrestling champion by the same name who died suddenly. thank you search-injuns.

off to read and argue “tortilla curtain”

(this has been kinda bugging me for a week, and i was gonna let it pass but then my Archers of Loaf “Greatest” video posted above gave way to “throwing things” by superchunk and I could not resist:

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Elizabeth Warren: A Flinty Kind of Woman

Posted on March 13, 2012 by markweiss86

Or: E Minor Threat: Massachusetts, Iowa, Missouri, Cali — let’s take the whole country back, ladies!

Hi. My name is Elizabeth Warren. You don’t know about me without you have read Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mr. Mark Twain. No I mean, perhaps you have heard about me account I was nominated for a federal position but the extreme right and Wall Street blocked that, because I told them that Tom Sawyer and me found the six thousand dollars the robbers had hid in the cave. No, I am running for U.S Senate in Massachusetts on a for-the-people, by-the-people platform, up against the hunky dude recommended by the criminally-misnamed Tea Party.

You can also find me in a cameo appearance in Michael Moore “Capitalism: A Love Story” DVD which some people recently have found in the public library out in Palo Alto, California. Too far away to vote for me but thank you for your long distance support and kind thoughts and maybe some of my ideas – mostly truthful, hardly any “stretchers”, the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction – will be helpful in restoring democracy in Palo Alto, even though those same right wing plutonomists have done the right cruel truck of switching up your election years to be in the shadow of the cave of the national elections.

By the way, although also far from Washington, Palo Alto can do us all a favor with a resolution opposing Citizens United, the recent Supreme Court ruling which seems to be giving corporations more rights than actual people. I hope Mayor Yiaway Yeh, a Kennedy School grad here in my actual home the commonwealth of Massachusetts, will have the courage and wisdom to make his voice heard on this important issue.

Meanwhile have a listen to something only barely related but still inspirational, “Flinty Kind of Woman” by my friend Dar Williams who is from upstate New York and Wesleyan but my understanding is has ties and heartstrings in Palo Alto, and Plastic Alto as the case were, and of course she is huge as I am in Western Mass and Holyoke, Northhampton and them:

(note: I am substituting Dar Williams “Iowa” sung by a lovely but complete unknown for “Flinty Kind of Woman” by Dar herself, sirensofstorms, and do not mean to imply that Dar supports Elizabeth or Elizabeth supports me, even, but I do think people like the woman in the video have the power to speak out, in their own voice, or with their foremothers and forefather’s words, and help change America for the better, ay-yi-yipee-yipee-yi-yi-ay, as Dar says. And I actually have board tapes of both “Iowa” and “Flinty” from Palo Alto Cubberley 1995 which I will someday add to the great digital aether.)

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I got high on music the gateway drug

Posted on March 13, 2012 by markweiss86

I keep bouncing back and forth between my day job covering music and my waking nightmare trying to prevent Palo Alto from being overrun by this group of middle aged multimillionaires competing with each other to out do each other and put up the manliest phallic tower to their specialness, at Bryant and Uni, Lytton and Alma (“the Gateway”), Forest and Bryant, BUT NOT 456 UNI, Bryant and Lytton. 27 Uni (“the other Gateway”).

What about just getting high the old fashioned way, on life, on music? Here I dedicate a performance by my close personal friends and Chi-town soulmates Jason JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound doing a humble version of one of my favs “I Got High” in honor of the former Cogswell Plaza which is being, with vote by Recs commission, annexed to the building opening up across the way: they are tearing out half the grass and putting in benches — oops, there goes Brown Bag series, forever, buh-bye! — but the whole thing is really a vagrancy exercise to appease the builders and wash away certain people while they sell or rent out the units. And what happened to the trees on Bryant side? I watched the presentation on video City archives of architect saying “we are saving your trees!” then heard from a planner staff dude that they changed their mind and clear cut those bitches rather than having to slow down or be careful or be good neighbors. Lorax and Elinor Cogswell are rolling in their graves:

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the may pole kind

Posted on March 13, 2012 by markweiss86

the maple kind video was posted in may, 2011 about 11 months ago but i just saw it yesterday and showed it to Terry tonight and learned to imitate the dog; ninety-nine million views but still growing, four comments of 86,000 total comments in last hour alone. 

we had sausage in our pasta red sauce tonight and i asked terry if it was the maple kind and she had no clue.

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Frank Gehry Jazz Bakery

Posted on March 13, 2012 by markweiss86

It is news to me — great news, in fact – -that Frank Gehry is designing a new home for the non profit jazz venue The Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles. This was announced about a month ago but I am out of the loop.

I also read that Jeff Gauthier of Cryptogramophone Records is their artistic director, working with Ruth Price. Andy Gilbert the great Bay Area writer was also once on team Ruth.

I went there in 2000 to check out another show with Rachel Z, Allison Miller and Miriam Sullivan, and continue to read about it at least if I haven’t been back there much.

But gives me hope that something good could happen in Palo Alto, at 456 University or somewhere nearby. Someone suggested to me just this week that maybe Arrillaga will tap Gehry to design his complex at 27 University, top of the tangent squared.

Speaking of complexes, story in LA Times said Sydney Pollack who made the movie about Gehry and his shrink, would take Gehry to jazz shows there. I like talking about this movie and the part about all these frustrated architects going to the same shrink and saying “Can you fix all my problems so I can be as good as Frank Gehry?”

For me Frank Gehry is tied in with the fact that my first job out of college was an intern for Chiat Day SF and Jay Chiat was an early supporter of Gehry and I visited not long after that the old Chiat Day which had Gehry furniture and conference room shaped like a fish. I have not actually seen the new Gehry designed Chiat building, with the Oldenburg in front.

writing about music is like dancing about architecture the maple kind

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SOJA reggae on Leno

Posted on March 13, 2012 by markweiss86

I caught a jazz act named Robert Glasper on national tv — I was guessing it was in inside joke about leap year — but now a reggae act, SOJA, on way to Bonnaroo June 7, managed by Red Light booked by Paradigm Duffy McSwiggin, from northern virginia with a dude named Hemphill:

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Jenny Scheinman loves Drew Carey!!

Posted on March 12, 2012 by markweiss86

I got sucked into this whole thread apparently by wacky Drew Carey faking his own artistic death with help from National Enquirer, Robbie Fulks and The Palo Alto Daily Compost (“the poop, the whole poop, and nothing but the poop”), but lo and behold Jenny Scheinman (who toured with Robbie, plays with Frisell and most indictingly let me stay at her Brooklyn uber-hipster hideout back in 2001) has a new cd out!.

It’s called “Mischief and Mayhem” my kind of title and I know nothing else about it — it was reviewed already in LA Times blog and Village Voice — but I would stake my professional reputation on it to tell anybody who likes jazz folk or pretty women (and milfs) to buy two copies.

I would only use the term “milf” to cover for all the bad things Robbie Fulks said in a song years ago that I blogged about earlier today.

I still hear Tom Harbeck or see his red pen on a column I wrote for high school newspaper back in 1980 “what the hell is a Titan” and he asked “Does that add to your style?”

Back on topic: Jenny, whose sister Kate Scheinman was briefly my classmate but I met her nearly 20 years later via the Scott Amendola band (Amendola, Sickafoos and Scheinman – -they should have signed an interband agreement to work exclusively as ASS, ala MMW, as in they would be kickin’).

I saw her about a year ago and got a very professional hug at Stanford Lively Arts or Stanford Jazz Workshop (as if they were synoymous — hardly — better check that) but she had actual friend and relatives in the house so I knew my place.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/album-review-jenny-scheinmans-mischief-mayhem.html

One of my weirder recent years Artist Management sensations was driving back to Chicago Martyr’s to see Robbie Fulks Rob Gjerso and Jenny Scheinman and nearly falling asleep at the wheel, from Springfield, rather than taking the shorter trip onwards to St. Louis where I was guestlisted at Chris Isaak show, and had tickets via my cousin to see the Cards baseball. I guess I had the smallest hope of getting involved with either RF or JS professionally and that trumped all the splendors of Gateway City.

Hey, JP Cutler – the guitarist and former Six Degrees in house publicist — if your search-injun settings find you this, send me a comp copy of this, don’t I rate?

Edit to add, and personal to “PD”: dude, if you are big enough to manage total awesomeness, aren’t we beyond reviewing your own client’s work on Amazon? I mean, I do that for my recently-shed former clients (CB, JAE, JW, SB) but not for about three years now and I am a total hick:

 

more edit to add, after digressions into Marika Hughes and others:
Benjamin Lozovsky in Voice (the indispensible document of culture not the bad Nirvana covering reality show) has lengthy review and bio of JS and reveals MAZEL TOV she is preggers again!
hopefully this shows up as a button and you can click to buy not one but two copies because she is EXPECTING you to two.
note: I updated this with a video of Jenny and Jim Black in NYC although I anthologized this under “chicago”.
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Robbie Fulks yeah

Posted on March 12, 2012 by markweiss86

The local real estate rag in their celebrity digest mentions a crack up by Drew Carey and the fact purported that he social media-engaged with an “offensive song” by one of my heroes Robbie Fulks. That prompted me to finally upload from dumbass phone to public internet (here I am at Foothill College, at their admissions office — I study this quarter, “The Literature of Poverty and Inequality, with Dr. Jordana Finnegan” — my photo of Robbie Fulks shot at a semi-private event he did at Ladera Country Club in Portola Valley — I have it dated July 29, 2011.

Robbie did me a solid by letting my client Dao Strom open for him at a radio show in Springfield, Illinois that was back in 2009, last time I was on the road at all.

He also, and I don’t mean to brag, signed by cd something like “To Mark Weiss a fuckin’ awesome manager” not sure if he was being sarcastic or just liked Dao. He was traveling at the time with a very pregnant string player by name of Jenny Scheinman who years earlier gave two stellar clinics here, at Castilleja and and at Ohlone Elementary. Jenny attended Palo Alto schools for exactly year — I recall her sister being in my class that year at Gunn. A couple times, fucking awesome manager that I am, I hinted to Jenny that I could rock her world in that department but she held out until now she shares manager with David Bowie.

The local rag — which sounds like the title of something I was taught to dance to, back at Mount Mousilake — says Carey is fond of a little dittie called “Fuck This Town” (although they wrote it up as “F___ this Town).

Earlier in Plastic Alto I had merely cut and pasted something Robbie wrote in his Own Damn Blog, about REM, and called it a “guest submission” but I owned up to that state of affairs to RF in July and he didn’t seem to mind.

My title here also references the fact I was psyched to steal a flyer from a kiosk on Cali Ave for a ((folkyeah)0 show upcoming. The promoter is a based in Big Sur but is making waves up and down the coast; this was for a show in Oakland at New Parish that, according to Rich Corny features the same sitar player that sat in with him at my Earthwise 15th Anniversary show at Bottom of the Hill — boy, a lot of 2009 news here.

Also, and now I am way of course, I ran into a guy from my 1974 Los Altos Hllls Little League team the Dodgers, Charlie Crakeler, who recalled me as being new in town that year from Saratoga. We had not spoken in 37 years. We met at Peets.

don’t get me wrong, i love los altos hills, palo alto portola valley, saratoga; robbie’s rant is on Nashville:

edit to add, later that night: I put this or tried to on Robbie’s own blog, but it goes better here: later that day I requested RF – cued by their playing a Pine Valley Cosmonauts death penalty track — to KFJC Sally Goodin and she responded about a half hour later — as I waited in my car and had to reinsert into my NEW Chevy Cruze keys — with Robbie Fulks song about she likes all kinds of music except country.  Robbie has a more thorough account of his Drew Carey lovechild therein. Also: this led to Jenny Scheinman pregnant and new cd out on her own label with Nels Cline, Jim Black and Todd Sickafoos. Sick!

Bill Friskics-Warren covered the matter at the time for No Depression.

edit to add, March 16: I left a voice mail for Robbie Fulks hoping to do some original research but so far no response.

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review fragment of laura veirs old demo: girl with dragon tattoo

Posted on March 10, 2012 by markweiss86
with thanks to or sorry to ever kipp:
Lisbeth Salander I mean
Ever picking up a loose thread is that the girl with the dragon tattoo is Noomi Rapace or Karen Orzolek yet it is Laura Veirs who sent me a demo of “Tiger Tattoos” that I am just now reviewing and looking forward to her upcoming 2012 show in SF.
 
On this track Laura sings (plural – more than one part) and plays at least four instruments: guitar, bass guitar, banjo and mbir – thumb piano for the non-Setswana spearkers. Yes, Tucker Martine produced the demo and played drums on five tracks. It says “Made by Tucker Martine and Laura Veirs at Flora Ave. Studios” which presumably is a producer credit. Rob Syrett was jonesing for a clarinet part when I played him “Tiger Tattoos” today in my dented but I would have had to zip ahead to track 9 to, yes, hear Amy Denio on “alto saxaphone and clarinet” – sic. Oh shit, I am just noticing that it lists Bill Frisell on “Tiger Tattoos”, on National Guitar – is that the loud metal acoustic type? – and  electric guitar on two other tracks. I still have to catch myself sometimes calling a National guitar a “steel guitar” which would be a horse of a whole nuther timbre. The demo she sent me has 10 tracks and I don’t recall really listening to it at the time but today I notice that tracks 2 thru at least 8 have hisses and scratch noise that don’t sound quite right and track 8 doesn’t seem to want to be heard at all; it seems to skip back to 7. Laura notes that these are rough mixes; it sounds more like a poltergeist or a ghost in the machine.
 
Mark- here are my two best records. Keep in mind the new one has rough (underlined) mixes! (bang) Hope to hear from you again re. putting together a show or two. Laura.
 
That’s on a teeny sized green post it note and there’s a second one that I guess I had moved to the verso that says “more info inside jacket”.
 
I had noticed Laura’s name on a website of a venue in town – in this case at that time I presume Seattle – because I was doing a Danny Barnes show and she was appearing somewhere supporting Danny. The Danny Barnes trio show featured Amy Denio and a couple others – not the Bad Livers and certainly not and probably before the Willies. It was kind of an Americana showcase that also featured my clients The Blue Eyed Devils – featuring Chris Cotton who eventually got signed to Yellow Dog – and Jerry Hannan who went on to if not fame than at least a good story as a writer for Eddie Vedder – Sean Penn was a longtime supporter of Jerry – you used to see Sean and Woody Harrelson gaping and awing at Jerry at that little club up in Marin. I remember sitting side stage on a bar stool so that I could less obviously watch Jerry and his audience simultaneously. Anyhow I guess I called Laura and sort of explained myself or in this case set myself up to make promises I could not deliver.
 
For five or so years I had been four-walling shows into the Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto , a community space that sat 300, and sometimes free shows just for kicks (or licks) at Stanford’s CoHo – the student union. For instance: Dar Williams, John Doe and Jonathan Richman – ok, plus Bill Frisell a couple times – at the Cub and Matt Nathanson, Tim and Greg from the Motherhips and once (“Once”) not Glen Hansford but Freedy Johnston at the CoHo. (Actually Matt opened for John Doe at the Cub…) But the Cub became harder and harder to work with – for instance they almost tried to deport Femi Kuti and his wife and they locked Danilo Perez and I – he was the cultural ambassador from Panama – out of the box office; with the cash; they locked us out of the box office and I had to pay Danilo out of pocket – I was supposed to, on orders from his manager not give him cash, to write a check for his bonus, but the check book was locked in the office – some kind of juvenile throwing his weight around by the new sheriff techie. So the Danny Barnes show – this is about Laura Veirs – was at the old Edge or Keystone nightclub –and even there they almost wanted to switch the show, based on slow advance sales, to the green room rather than the main stage – there is a sad pattern here – and when I talked to Laura for the first time I had just agreed, or so I thought, to produce a three times a week series at a jazz club, from Memorial Day in May thru Labor Day, like 50 shows or so, in San Jose. I was calling it Din Din Din and booking it creatively – jazzy things but not jazz jazz straight jazz per se. You can picture that based on the way I tell this story. I never go straight. My straight lines are all Euclidean not Cartesian, or worse. Poinescare and all that.
 
I never got around to offering Laura a show I had been fired before that. The venue apparently wanted nothing but girl singers with a backing doing standards. The series started with Josh Roseman – who got a big write-up in the San Jose Mercury but soon I was hearing back from the musicians that they were being mistreated and hassled and people told me that they didn’t want to play. I had to call Leni Stern and tell her not to play. A sax player, with a record deal, told me the club called him and asked him to bring a vocalist. Ralph Carney, who has probably played everywhere from Carnegie Hall to a NASA windtunnel, got through his gig but told me the thing was a bad trip, man. So it is probably a good thing that I didn’t try to book Laura Veirs there. (That she ended up on Nonesuch probably proves my point that she was jazz enough; jazzy enough for Bill Frisell, Eyvind Kang and Amy Denio at least). I was just a talent buyer.
 
Maybe two years later, 2005 or 2006, I was in Austin for SXSW and I caught the last couple songs of Laura’s showcase. It was right on Sixth Street, right in the window. People like me were watching through the opened window, her back to us, from the street. The room was packed. I went up to her as she was packing up her gear and effects and told her who I was and she may or may not have recalled it, or she remembered vaguely that I had maybe let her down. That’s the only time I have seen her – maybe I tried to book her or checked her avails over the years although I don’t do shows even that regularly anymore. But I have noted and clipped various reviews over the years and watched a video or two and maybe bought a cd and watched her ascent or development –certainly noticed getting signed to Nonesuch and I think that set was reviewed I saw in Time Magazine, I think I recall. I met Tucker Martine at SXSW at his panel in 2009.
 
So I was psyched and motivated to find this old demo in my storage space. What a great song, the one that plays. I don’t know who the speaker is – a girl? A boy? – or who the subject is – I don’t generally take lyrics that seriously but the sound, the quality, the chops, undeniable. I mean I want to take credit yeah I dug this, starting in 2002, but kinda dropped the ball in not “working with” her any further. And writing you and writing this is not really working (or as Mac MacCaughan might have said, I’m working I’m just not working for you). I almost asked Robert Syrett, he has done album covers for Matmos, for Matador – to draw a dragon character to fit the song – or someone with shocking pink socks – to send as a fan gesture to Laura, we had just come from hanging his show, 11 pieces, at a little café in SF, in South Park, at Caffe Centro. We actually met two guys from a little label nearby, Om Records, doing a photo shoot for some collateral for Mark Farina and Miguel Migs. This is either the worlds worst preview for an art show or a pretty lame fan letter. I can edit to add the actual details of Laura Veirs upcoming local show; I think it said Feb. 25, 2012 at Café DuNord in San Francisco. Maybe by then Robert Syrett can be tricked or cajoled into drawing his version of a tiger tattoo. There’s also a great show here in Palo Alto – this could be a lame and confusing preview or review of several things – at Smith-Andersen Gallery in Palo Alto featuring work most relevantly of Kara Maria tattoo animals.
 
If  Noomi Rapace were there in 2002 she would have avenged the dissed musicians and put the lame promoter (lamer than me) in his place. Actually the American remake looks pretty cool.
edit to add: I guess I saw the trailer for the film with remake of Led Zep and Karen O.
Tiger Tattoo, Dragon Tattoo, plus we have Akira Tana at Santa Clara University De Saiset Museum for opening party of Smith Andersen tattoo art show “Indelibly Yours” already actually open and reviewed in Metro. Here is someone recently posted music to Youtube for the actual song I am starting with, a chestnut:
this actually ended up as track 7 on a 2003 release, first of seven full-lengths so far. on my copy it was track one and the only thing that played without pops and glitches.

edit to ad, years later, 2020, during the covid-19 sheltering in place:

also, i am just learning that the term “chestnut” for a song is more pejorative than what I mean. It’s from a play where a guy tells a joke over and over, about a tree, but he forgets the type of tree and the audience his friend corrects him “chestnut”. Also, I wonder if I am conflating Laura Veirs and Jolie Holland – I had some Jolie/Danny riffs. And maybe I am confusing Tucker Martine with Bob Boilen of NPR. I think Mary Halvorson stole Laura’s act a bit.

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The King is Still Dead

Posted on March 10, 2012 by markweiss86

The Decemberists “The King is Dead” has been out for more than a year but I am just now posting my review. It is more like an outline of a review. These are all dated 2/17/11.

1. down by the river, down by the old main drag. (i meant “water”)

2. sounds like Driver 8 by REM and this one goes out to the one i love.

3. Peter Buck plays mandolin on track 1 Don’t Cry but “bass” or baritone guitar elec guitar on Down By the Water

4. David Wagner of the Chron says the Decemberists are an REM cover band i.e. derivative or implying too much in debt to, homage to, fealty to, worship.

5. It could be a shot across the bow (I actually drew a ship)

6. He could be f—ing Peter Buck in the — not blowing him.

7. Buck played on the cd, but Colin Meloy wrote all the music.

8. down WITH the river down WITH  the old main DRAG.

He is usurping. Demolishing his idols, intergenerationally.

As old as Shakespeare this theme.

Revolution.

9. REM – southeast

DECS – northwest

or Portland v. Atlanta (I mean Athens GA)

Athens Inside Out

Portland In or Out

10. Notice the trees, on backdrop, in poster, on cd cover

11. Kill Rock Stars

the Capitol Label

is really tiny

12. Kevin French Big Shot touring>Paradigm

also White Stripes (David Kaplan) EZ Action>TAG

13. Capitol

Modest Mouse

Up Records

14. Red Light Charlottesville, VA + Ron Lafite (ex-label guy?)

Jason Colton – Stanford SCON Phish Dionysian

Los Lobos, Dave Mathews, Corey Harris

my list goes to 70.

57. Loves to read

http://www.amazon.com/King-Dead-Decemberists/dp/B0049OSQ18

edit to add, March 17, 2012: there i go waited too long to review the cd and now they have a new one out, a live one:

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