i’ve been talking about this for a while I also think Albert Aylor ghost should be a national anthem who is up for writing the lyrics something about slaves down in the middle passage :
Tevita Moimoi scored 17 touchdowns for Sacred Heart of Atherton, CA and here in the 650 but has yet to tally for The Big Green.
His sister Mele was rocking a white cap with a tiny D but ny trained eye and Emersonian transcendentalist eyeball scoped it out, here at Coupa
probably gave her more than an earful about Buddy and his weigh-in, The Bartlett Cup and Jason Miller — the way the Weissian mind makes gain by steady gain and likewise snakewise here in Plasty.
How many TDs did Sergio Beltran ring up or Ringo up since they are playing ”Dont let me down” in Saturdays Valpo Bowl, for Menlo?
How many special teams tackles so far for T?
edit to add for sures
1) I had this a month ago:
there is a Sacred Heart all-metro former player Tevita Moimoi a Tongan whose family has rugby roots – Dave Kiefer once wrote of for the Almanac. 2) Mele Moimoi went to M-A as did Troy Franklin Oregon Duck and Jalen Moss future Fresno State Titan. Mele and Tevita have a brother who played with Ben Burr-Kiven a Sacred Heart CCS championship.
BLUF: Lynn Schwarz nee Wilkens of Bottom of The Hill in San Francisco, where I had my Earthwise 10th and 15th anniversary shows, wrote back to say that she believes Anthony her former co-worker is doing well, 10 years since his medical emergency.
Last autumn, KALX DJ Anthony Bonet, aka Sex 14Teens, suffered a massive aneurysm, followed by approximately eight strokes. He won’t walk again, and, being uninsured, his significant other is now wading through such foul waters as Medi-Cal paperwork and housing issues. If you’d like to help funnel coin to the cause of moving expenses, assisted technology, transportation devices, etc., consider attending the Benefit for Anthony Bonet Friday night at Bottom of the Hill, where he was a booking assistant. The lineup is full-on stellar Bay Area twang, with Red Meat, Hammerdown Turpentine, and Jeffrey Luck Lucas and the Sorrows. $8 and up, 10 p.m., 21 and over. 415-621-4455 or ASingleStep.org/AnthonyBonet.htm (Stefanie Kalem, East Bay Express)
Anthony Bonet was totally on one day at a music panel, I think SFO1. I put out a newsletter, precursor to Plastic Alto, that lauded him. Because I am working on an event at Bottom of The Hill, I sent out a couple feelers about him. The above from East Bay Express summarizes what I know or knew. The late Mark O’Brien I never knew. But I was Jessica Yu’s editor her junior year at Gunn High (of Palo Alto) The Oracle and arranged a screening of her Academy Award winning short doc “Breathing Lessons” that raised $50K for Gunn arts new building after a fire. Gold circle ticketing plus matching grant that Leon Kaplan of COPA got from the Packard Foundation.
More on BOTH later. Anthony if you can hear me, say hi.
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The Amazing Gaye Adegbalola nee Todd, former VA teacher of the Year,uppity blues woman and Lions With Wings / Vizztone recording artist
My actual to do list, on cards:
Paul Oscher “Bet on The Blues” re Monk (review for Plastic Alto, to come);
2. Giorgio Moroder Italian electronic music guru, and Blondie and Curve and Donna Summer (review in part of Sylvie Simmons on Blondie Debbie Harry vs John Chowning);
3. Lady Blackbird, produced by Chris Seefried, possible SFJazz play, maybe in Palo Alto, overlapping with Noise Pop window;
4. Laura Chavez, my former client, catching up with, possible Palo Alto play;
5. New Guild Theatre, Menlo Park, 949 El Camino, Drew Dunlevie president Peninsula Arts Guild, article in Almanac by Kate Bradshaw (my fellow Dartmouthian) 11/5/21 with onsales December 1 i.e. three weeks out but schedule including STRFKR no clue 1/18 opening night; Son Volt, Molly Tuttle (who played The Mitch in November, 2019 — 1/29 the night I have Greaseland All Stars and or Caroline Davis residency at the Mitch); Charlie Hunter — who played my Cubberley Sessions five times with five different lineups and more than anyone else broke it down the value of a listening room, as distinct from the club Dunlevie and them are building; Robert Glasper; The Blasters. They have 14 shows announced. I meanwhile have three onsales this month plus another 10 or so planned for December, January, February and March — I tend not to work more than 90 days out, especially now with still a fair amount of white noise and chaos. The Guild even if they find 10 shows a month is not really competition except on certain days — I would not normally want to miss a Molly Tuttle or a Charlie Hunter show – which in effect means I will NOT book a 2/5/22 show, and maybe will change my time of 1/29 Caroline Davis to catch Molly; in this case its an experiment doing a fly-in and three-show residency for a rather unknown jazz musician — not as well known as Glasper or Hunter, clearly. And precedent was I moved Dayna Stephens to a matinee on August 18, 2019 who could forget that date when the Rolling Stones moved their date to compete with my deal.
I wish them luck. I think live music at the club level is deep enough that the Peninsula could support both 30 shows a year at The Mitch and 10 shows a month at The Guild. I still think especially having finally made it to (La Doña, La Santa Cecilia) The UC Theatre — David Mayeri’s x-BGP same business model more or less as Dunlevie) that leadership here should talk Chop Keenan into letting someone take over The Varsity 456 University. Also, Marc Geiger a Paly grad and former head of world wide booking for William Morris Endeavor has $300m of other people’s money he is investing in about 50 venues the nearest to here is Monterey The Golden Gate – he thinks Live Nation (The Fillmore), AEG Goldenvoice (The Warfield) and APE (The Independent SF — ironic name) will enforce 90 mile radius clauses that wood doom efforts like The Guild Dunlevie.
I wish them well, but I knew they would not, per their hype, get Taylor Swift or Willie Nelson at their opening. Or stay tuned.
Who is STRFKER? Who is Sarah Shook?
6. Rumor is that Tuck and Patti will be playing both The Mitch and The Guild this winter. We shall see who gets them first. Tuck by the way was on the guest list when Charlie Hunter played The Cub in 1995. And played Twilight for the City of Palo Alto a couple years back. I met Michael Hedges widow at The Varsity about two years ago, Mindy. Doing as I do, looking around, shaking her head. Shake tush, not head, peoples.
7. I’m also a candidate for Palo Alto Park and Rec commission on a music in the parks, First Amendment platform if that impacts any of this beyond the bully pulpit.
8. Leonard Cohen, November 12; at The Mitch, the Mitchell Park Community Center El Palo Alto room, tickets on sale now at EventBrite;
The great Diunna Greenleaf graces The Mitch on November 18
9. Greaseland All Stars, Sunday Jan. 30, 2022; featuring Kid Andersen and Linda Leuschner;
10. Diunna Greenleaf, November 18, 2021; the People’s Queen of the Blues, from Houston but recording at Greaseland in San Jose, for Little Village Music Foundation;
11. Barbara Manning SF Seals, The Corner Laughers; Clean Girl and the or her Dirty Dishes, November 20, doing 30-year performance of “This Perfect Green Blanket”; eventBrite;
12. Belly of the Beast film, Cynthia Chandler attorney advocate, something about women prisoners; see also “The Mars Room” novel by Rachel Kushner an ally of Chandler, she says; Terry and I saw this film and met Chandler at UNAFF.
13. Bolero Figueroa from the 562 I met at BOTH, former SFAI studnet, yes stud, uses the or a net, to hold his hair, unless that’s only on Halloweenie. Like when we met recently;
…The wind is kicking up here at Ramona, a Pixies song, and a pizza parlor turned sports bar, Raiders are on, when are the 49ers? and Coupa and the Team Time I tried for first time with
Oliver from Stanford plays Harp;
…and Nola TOO LOUD their sound system — hello, Greg St. Claire, can you hear me?
14. Charles Rumback – Chicago musician – it just might be that Guild with $50m investment in bricks and mortar and some impetus to program and not become a disco will push me to change my business plan more to things like having a Chicago presence or road work or PM or my label; I mean I like working my ass off to gross $5,000 per show and 30 shows per year and whatever effort that entails as compared to being a $120B guy like the other Mark who I met one night when the mural was installed;
15. Chicago 2022 9512 not sure what this means but I will print it; Palstic Alto is a series of public viewable rough drafts and dreamsongs ala John Berryman; I was born in Chicago at 95th and Bennett, I think that means;
which reminds me
16. Al Young; our state poet laureate, who died earlier this year and people are remembering him and honoring his memory in various ways; I’d like to produce an event that furthers that;
17. The Weekly and Almanac are a hotter mess considered side by side – -why not combine? — but I note now that aforementioned wind blows my hard copy that Heather Zimmerman has a story on EPA Center of the Arts 1950 Bay Road — talk about tale of two cities. I am trying to donate 3 shows there, outdoors, amphitheatre, about $20k in-kind, thru Regina Wallace Jones and or Nadine Rambeau. And are the two Wallace sources in HZ’s story the children of the mayor? I.e comparing the $30m Menlo Guild which I think is a ground lease via Mr. Crittendon, and the EPA Center which was from a grant by the Goldman Foundation plus some sort of $500K programming or operating grant from the Hewletts, I believe; as compared to founders of Yahoo giving back — I use Yahoo from my mail at earwopa@yahoo.com;
18. Clay Carson MLK; possiby tabling at Diunna Greenleaf on November 18. She wants that; and eighteen means life in Hebrew;
19. Cochiti Bang Bang, Mateo Romero;
20. Delbert Anderson Don Cherry “I Still Got It” ibid; I read just now that Delbert and his DDAT group won a grant from South Arts to visit five indigenous groups and play them jazz. Yo, go, Delbert!
cf Mali Obomsawin;
21.Enorchestra, Doug Hilsinger, Gary Floyd’s Hard Again; The Hall Flowers; my former client; not sure he is that anxious to play Palo Alto; Enorchestra not eager, I could say;
cd Victor Krummenaker ex CVB, A Great Laugh played the Cub;
22. Cooley Center in EPA nice little room would like to use; was satellite at Jasmina Bojic’s great UNAFF film festival; especially with local climate activists – Earthwise is a spin-off of Bay Area Action Acterra;
23. Tuck and Patti, tba;
24. Esther Berndt, my Gunn classmate, getting a PHD in education and a pretty good sax player in her day; cf Art Pepper, Frank Morgan;
25. Gaye Adegbalola, former Saffire Uppity Blues Women founder or cofounder, recorded a song suite for Lions With Wings, “Tell Mamala” on Vizztone Records, possible Bay Area tour or residency; I met by cold calling her after noticing a section about her in Bruce Iglauer’s memoir;
26. The Hop/Coast Dartmouth Taylor Ho Bynum, various deeds and dreams; cf Messier modernclassical; Mali Obosmsawin;
not be be confused even in Plasty to Classical Revolution Charith which appears Friday here as a trio for Leonard Cohen tribute and allegedly includes a Palo Altan;
27. Jeff Parker has appeared with Dave Douglas and twice with Scott Amendola for Earthwise at The Lyt, The Mitch and Art Center; I’d love to have him lead…love to love you baby…LA, VA or Chicago roux. I think Jeff Parker is co-leading a group or project booked into the new Guild Theatre;
Both. One, cats are busy. Two, there’s no money [laughs]. I actually feel kind of guilty about having these musicians come in and perform, and then I’ll move things around, and make it into something that I approve, you know? It’s really hard for me to make music where I’m writing everything and choosing everything that everyone’s playing, and giving people specific directions. But I kind of confronted it head-on to prove to myself that I could do it, because I had never done it before. I used to not even really believe in having a “solo career.” I make music with my friends.
Hi, Jeff
28. Johnny A, returning for his two-year migration to The Mitch, this time possibly 2/11/22 — ie. between Charlie Hunter and Robert Glasper at The Guild Dunlevie — doing a Van Halen tribute referncing my Gunn and Terman and Fremont Hills classmate and friend the late Mark Leland – we used to play air guitars on tennis racquets to Van Halen I in 1978 as delinquents, drinking vodka purloined this was before Tito or when Tito was just a dictator. There might be some blues dudes from SF opening, I saw in North Beach last week, retired school teacher. Or maybe he is January 11, I should get this straight;
29. Jules Indelicato is a sound person at BOTH and went to SF Conservatory and I hope to do something with her for Lions With Wings; also, gave birth in indirect way to the Lisa Fay Beatty “Save Me Yeah” event coming together for 11/28/21 in SF;
30. Kassi Valazza – -came and went, unless Wayne Horvitz bites; one of these days;
31. Little Village Foundation with Jimmy Pugh and Airlene Espiritu – -is also putting out the Diunna Greenleaf session that I claim is the shot heard around the world or will be;
Good to hear from Marc Geiger Paly ’80 and former WME honcho who was Tommy Jordan’s manager for Sound Castle or something back in 1980; Marc and Greg Kurstin were sitting around Napa wondering about Tommy and that led Marc to hit me up here in Plasty;
Chris Seefried, not to be confused with Chris Fry Bread, was in a band with my cousin Craig Ruda called Godschild (and also Joe 90) but is producing music for Trombone Shorty and many more, and I caught up to him by phone recently which might yield results although it is still true that time doesn’t know when it’s time for us all to go or know;
32. MC Lars — possible show at the Mitch on 3/11. Possible Van Halen commission like with Johnny A. Mark Leland my late friend also attended RLS in Carmel when young Lars was in diapers. Lars also has a song about math, that I’d like to license for Lions With Wings, which has two songs about math;
33. Megan Keely, of Portola Valley, Bert Keely’s girl, coming soon.
34. Marcus Shelby– Terry and I drove thru or near Healdsburg just yesterday, also Duncan’s Mill, Sebastopol, Russian River, Forestville, Les Claypool’s extraordinary slurp lounge open til six catch you next time hey smiley — has a deposit on his books for a April, 2020 show and is sort of ghosting me and I keep meaning to clear off my desk and write up the 10 or so ideas I’ve suggested as make good. I saw him with Gregory Porter at Frost, which by the way IS NOT IN PALO ALTO. But could be, if they let us put on a tax or surcharge, for Twilight Series music in the parks IN PALO ALTO. Frost is in Stanford, CA. Dunlevie and the New Guild Alliance are invited by the way to cross the creek and do shows here; more the merrier, dancing to same revolution; and I do or will do a few shows at Cafe Zoe, as I have;
35. Nancy Wright possible residency, in SF or here; we were discussing “don’t advertise your man” which I am sort of violating here. It is not clear whether blogging, like masturbation, increases the likelihood of said fantasy or lets the wind out of your sail, so to speak.
Rupa Marya, Casti grad but has never played Palo Alto; that might change in 2022, signs portend; and its #36 on my todo list or index cards with color Sharpie hues, which is double life to Jews like me;
I heard a woman mention Sandy Ostrow selling out her paintings at Dolby Chadwick perhaps and would love to get a poster art from her someday and she has a lovely daughter who sings;
Nancy Wright played at Lytton Plaza part of the now famous Together Again Palo Alto with help from Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Tom Dubois on Election Day and I left the show between sets to go vote, at Cubberley, in the basketball room, weird nightmare of references;
37. Oliver Harp; Come as You Are; Smells Like Teen Spirit; your choice;
38. candidate for Palo Alto Parks commission; my 10th or 11th such effort; bully pulpit if not actual direct action or becoming leadership;
39. Reggie Austin, a piano player from Berkeley area I met at UNAFF;
40. Reuvenation, is losing its lease but might have a show — its a neat room and I am all about bringing music to Uni Ave if I don’t actually have a corporate division;
41. Scott Amendola, continuing his Earthwise residency and therefore surpassing Charlie Hunter in the leaderboards: December 15, 2021 with Amendola Vs Blades at The Mitch, onsale Tuesday, 11/9; January 23, 2022 with Ben Goldberg and the great Todd Sickafoos (“Hadestown”) on bass: Plays Monk; includes #42;
I thought of something else but it went away…
43. Sharon Benitez and her sister of Los Panadores who I met at the weirdly run Palo Alto World Music Day or Month 2021, doing a cover of Cake, “Mexico” but original arrangment that sounds like someone who has heard or played Mexican music or what I call folklorico — cf La Marisol of La Santa Cecilia band, hope to get her or them here, too.
44. Shelly Doty, who played the Cub solo with Pele Juju filling in for Ben Barnes Rilke Strings who struck or were struck and also played a showcase or series I did on Bascom in the 408 Cafe T, hope to bring her back or do some studio work with; see also LVMF;
45. Taylor Goss, LSU/CCRMA, and maybe Chowning;
46. Tommy Jordan, who ever you are or will be; maybe remounted Geggy Tah with Greg Brown ex-Cake or Greg Camp of Smashmouth;
47. UnAFF satelitte events or joint venture in 2022 with Earthwise; Jasmina I met at a Train show in 1999; although maybe I scotched the deal so to speak by pointing out that the Swiss tv tabloid pablum show was like the blood libel in that it seems to blame the Jews for some other complicated outcome or situation; or as I said, aloud, in between hissing and boing: “but for the Jews my mistress and I were so happy”;
Loved the Wes Anderson joint about the fictional French New Yorker, my first movie in 19 months;
48. Something in north north CA like Humboldt or Arcata and maybe just learning the difference between Humboldt and Arcata and indigenous and justice and MC Lars and Andre Cramblitt and I met Eleanor Kraft whose daughter the attorney Kathleen Bryson went to Gunn, played Volleyball and badminton;
49. Steve Zukowsky, Gunn ’80 possible Van Halen tribute;
50.Some guy with unusual name friend of Jacob Savage plays guitar, I saw play in street, maybe for ibid; This falls under a project that is both personal growth opportunity turned into a music project, which is what Earthwise 1994-2021 is, regarding in this case the late Mark Leland;
51. Will Bernard; live or in studio;
I’m here all week. Try the fish.
Good luck to The Guild.
Good luck to Gunn football in CCS. (Note: I got the word later than morning or early afternoon that Gunn Titans, 8-2 despite a three-way tie for El Camino Division league championship with Los Altos and Cupertinno, were left out of the CCS football draw;
Go, Niners. (they lost to Cardinals, even playing withou Kyler Murray their star);
Chuck Essegian went to Stanford and has a rare distinction of playing in both a Rose Bowl and a World Series. Whereas Joc Pederson played football with Davante Adams at Paly and wore pearls in the World Series. How many guys have won two consecutive WS rings, for two different franchises like Joc? Also, I met Champ for the first time a few weeks ago, in front of the Old Pro. Maybe Amy Liddicoat introduced me.
bw Giants homeruns, 2021:
Brandon Belt, 29
Mike Yastrezemski, 25
Brandon Crawford, 24
Buster Posey, 18
Wilmer Flores, 18
Lamonte Wade, 18
Darin Ruf, 16
Evan Longoria, 16 (in 81 games)
Kris Bryant 7 (plus 18 with Cubs)
Note: Carl Yastrezemski had 19 homers in 1961, good for tie for 21st in his league, but finished his career with 452. His nephew or cousin Mike has 56 now while Joc has a total of 148 now plus two rings. I hear that Palo Altan Phil Hellmuth got another bracelet at World Series of Poker, is 15th or so. All time greatest result.
In 1970 Don Cherry taught at Dartmouth, and in 1995 he died. Ten years later, in 2005 — though thats now 16 years ago- I interviewed about a dozen of his former students there, plus was given access to a file compiled by Jon Appleton, a music teacher there who claimed responsibility for the residency. Either in my article for the alumni magazine or a longer manuscript I self-published here at Plastic Alto, I mentioned that Don apparently borrowed a flute from the college’s ethnographic collection, but there is no record of his having returned it. There’s a note where he apologies for taking the flute with him to Europe, saying “this flute needs to be heard”.
Delbert Anderson heard that story and wrote a song about it, “I Still Got It”. It’s a funky party number and only loosely references the case. It name-checks Thelonius Monk not Don or Ornette. But it seems that the first world brothers or sisters find it pretty funny, if brother Don was ghosting the Ivy League school (i.e the nations 9th oldest, that started to “civilize the pagans” and has a $8.5B endowment).
There’s actually a whole new suite of music that re-constitutes Don Cherry emphasizing his Chocktaw heritage rather than his Black side. It features Delbert, who I met online at Folk Alliance in February, and Mali Obomsawin, an indigenous woman from Vermont, who is a Dartmouth alumna.
Delbert will be in SF Monday, maybe sitting it with Snot Nose Rez Kids at Bottom of the Hill, maybe at some hoot or open night. They are driving from Gallup, NM to Kern County for a hit then onward to Frisco just as tourists, and a few meetings. (There was a Sac show that showed little sack, as we used to say, in Hanover, when we were the balls).
Delbert Anderson group is in residence at Sonoma State the following week. And he is invited at least virtually to be part of FONT, festival of new trumpet. There is a rumor that producer Chris Seefried who worked with Trombone Shorty wants to help Delbert reach a wider audience. My Don Cherry mentors are Peter Apfelbaum and Steve Bernstein, plus Steve Herzfeld and Fred Haas. Taylor Ho Bynum says he assigns my essay to his students. I may have seen Don just once at The Up and Down Club compilation cd release party, by Prawn Song, well before I knew I was going to be a concert promoter and certainly before I took an interest, via Charlie Hunter, also on Prawn Song, in jazz. In a completely unrelated development, I am doing an Earthwise residency with Caroline Davis (sax) at The Mitch, January 27, 28, 29, plus doing shows with Amendola-Goldberg-Sickafoose (Plays Monk), and Amendola Vs Blades. I did 10 jazz shows this summer, or so.
I will report further on Delbert and Don.
This music reminds me of Boots Riley, Purple Pam, The Coup and “Sorry to Bother You”.
It sort of reminds me that the last assignment I had in advertising was from Young & Rubican or Foote Cone and Belding to come in for $200 and write ads for Chevron, “now with 25 percent more Techroline, it turns your engine into a washing machine” and I told them to go fuck themselves — US had invaded Iraq and people my age were in the streets outside my window yelling “NO BLOOD FOR OIL! – -and instead I took a foxy Black lady named Gabrielle Brown ’85 to Stinson Beach, then gave up my apartment, moved home to my parents’ house and a few months later became this, which I’ve stuck with 27 years. I noticed a sign at the pump “25th Anniversary of Techron”. (Fact-checking my own memoir I learn that a couple years after that came the claymation cars in their ads, to introduce the same product or concept – cleans your engine — and I was just talking about my old friend the dj on KFOG Renee Richardson who voiced one of those little cars – -don’t blame her. I knew her when she had a pierced tongue, was Renee Rotten on Live 105 and Hibernia Beach late nights — good gal).
*I call the Delbert Anderson track source for this screed “I Still Got It” although the file is labeled “Taos Flute (rough mix)”.
FIRST I’LL TAKE HAMBURG THEN I’LL TAKE BERLIN; or, I’m Your Gent
Two great shows, for all you Germans and your superfast touring sedans and the highway: Anouska Shankar in Hamburg, Dave Douglas in Berlin. Auto-something. Precision auto, if I pass you just to slow down. Anoushka on the Autobhan. The agent Todd Walker said yesterday he was off to see Anoushka, I asked him to check her, his client, for a tattoo on her lower back, lumbar 3-6 kind of thing, that I noticed when she was at Stanford a few years back – -I was with Hans Wendl, who is from Munich and ECM. In 2001, with her dad.
Dave Douglas in Ghent tonite but Berlin later — I’m so confused…
Dave is doing ding dong three shows in honor of The Alter. Lamb something. Pretty famous piece of wood. Though he is brassy.
The Weisses I suspect are not really Weisses. We checked the Levi’s back to 1750 or so. On my mom’s side, and I spoke to Craig who worked with Chris who works with Anouska – the nidus of this yarn — and repeated that the Baker’s are actually either Soukoenigs or Sudeniks.
Big world, one love. Plenty skronky. Auf widerson. Tjat’s all I gat. Gatsby. To be or not to be. I’m just a teenage dirt bag, Andrew. In German the Iron maidens are literally maidens and literally have metal uppers. Steel Pole bath tube, bambi nonymous
Tomeka Reid, Dave Douglas in Germany today
This is from Berkeley Planet, December, 2001 — twenty years ago today — courtesy of something called the internet search foonkshun: Jupiter Dec. 6: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 7: AVI Bortnick Group; Dec. 8: Harvey Wainapel Quartet; Dec. 12: Mushroom; Dec. 13: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 14: Broun Fellini’s; Dec. 15: Norah Jones and Jim Campilongo; Dec. 19: Spectraphonic; Dec. 20: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 21: Crater; Dec. 22: Post Junk Trio; Dec. 27: Joshi Marshal Project; All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless noted. 2181 Shattuck Ave., 843-7625, http://www.jupiterbeer.com. I was one of only 10 people at that show. I heard about it from Hans Wendl, who was persons 1 and 2 of the 10. Avi Bortnick was from Berkeley before New York and played with John Scofield but also produces and triggers samples via guitar; Harvey Wainapel I saw recently, February, 2020, Mardi Gras it was a Tuesday, right before the lockdown with Beth, Ben and Sheldon clearly netting; Mushroom is Pat Thomas and sometimes Ralph Carney and once Caroleen Beatty; my timeline for Norah is that I saw her at Yoshi’s with Charlie Hunter, was told by Hans that she was Ravi’s daughter but not to repeat that, for 20 years and only then to wait until WordPress was invented; her album came out; the Jupiter show, no one there; Liberty Ellman somewhere in there said that Blue Note was hoping for 20,000 units not “diamond platinum” as of February, 2005, ten million; John Ellis my client for about 13 months stradling my 40th birthday which I also spent with Patricia Barber and Joan Bender, so to speak, dated or married Pavani — slightly post-term in my parallax view – who was friends with Norah so they, for instance, saw SNL as her guests; and although we are discussing a Black singer from England influenced by Nina Simone the agent Todd Walker who covers the waterfront and apparently 2 or more continents mentioned that we had to have our phone meeting around noon because he is off to Germany to see Anoushka. And then in the actual meeting said that the tattoo discussion was “water under the bridge” but I brought it around == the card that is so hard and wild – -is that Leonard Cohen – -just some Joseph looking for a manager — to point out the nice tats on said singer. Stranger.
I guess I should take this opportunit to get the least est fluency about the alter the lamb ghent jan van somthing. I think I saw it in Michael Kimmelman book on art that I used to name check so much. Terry, Terry my Terry, Terry TMW Terry my wife, Terry Acebo Davis MFA said she made some prints referencing Ghent – Terry who had a mega-residency in Belgium. Check back.
Leonard Cohen thing TBA
Kudos and huzza to Carla Kihlsteadt and her brood in Cape Cod; to Bambi Marianne in Petaluma thanks to Mia in Sf and Miranda from the deli — Roy’s –who I guessed might know Marianne based on her….t…a..t…t…oos.
We are absoFUCKINlutely going to think about drink about Lisa Fay Beatty at Bottom of the Hill, Sunday November 28 i.e. a couple days after thanksgiving, thanking our lucky stars and that we knew her.
As compared to Barbara Manning doing 30 year show for “This Perfect Green Blanket” at The Mitch five days before Thanksgiving and 8 days before the Lisa Fay fete. November 2 0 at The Mitch. Probably cap the attendence at 10o peeps but who are we kidding and yes Green Day, Weezer and FallOut Boy grossed $4m per show at Oracle Park and Dodger Stadium.
Saw Chris Strausser at Colts-Niners. Shouted and he wavied back. The old navy bravey wavey. Georgia and Wallis.
Shows are piling up, like moss on a pine at Sea Ranch: Diunna Greenleaf, November 18; Bhi Bhiman, Syvlie Simmons, Aleta Hayes and Charith Classical Revolution, November 12; Delbert Anderson quartet somewhere in the Bay Area on November 8, four days hence. Scott Amendola with Wil Blades in December at The Mitch, his debut there. Amendola Goldberg Sickafoos Plays Monk at The Mitch in January; Caroline Davis three show residency around the 28th my birthday; Greaseland All Stars featuring Kid Andersen and his wife Laura Leuschner – another thing I need to wrap my tongue around or my brain – the spelling, how to say it – for purely professional and journalistic reasons — tongue in the sense of idiolect; gotta fix the odd Anouska Anoushka, too; MC Lars and a single about Hamlet, David Foster Wallace, Wheatus, Infinite Jest….creeps at this petty pace. So long Marianne gotta goo. Said the spider too its prey.
he tried in his way to be free, which reminds that I just read in “The End Of The Golden Gate” Peter Coyote recapping the striving for authenticity that formed and folded Diggers, Sf Mime Troupe and too few other movements, maybe Earthwise can try harder to be like that although I was just starting to think its great to try not to try. Bird on a wire:
YOU TOOK OFF IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT BUT BEFORE YOU DID GOT YOUR HAIR COMBED RIGHT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH KNOWS THE SCORE AND THEY’RE KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR LET EM KNOCK SOME MORE THEY’RE SAYING YOU NEED A LITTLE PROTECTION BUT FOLLOWING THE LEADER GONNA TURN YOU OFF THE RELIGION IT’S COMING DOWN THE HARDEST CUT WORLD WARS IN YOUR MIND LONG DAY INTO NIGHT THE HARDEST CUT WE LIVE ON A KNIFE HERE IT COME NOW HERE IT COME NOW HERE IT IS THE HARDEST CUT I TOOK OFF IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT BUT BEFORE I DID GOT MY AFFAIRS IN ORDER AND MY BOOTS ON THE HALLELUJAH CHOIR NEEDS THE SCORE AND THEY’RE KNOCKING AT MY DOOR LET EM KNOCK SOME MORE THEY’LL SAY I NEED A LITTLE DIRECTION BUT FOLLOWING THE LEADER GONNA TURN ME OFF THE RELIGION IT’S COMING DOWN THE HARDEST CUT WORLD WARS IN MY MIND LONG DAY INTO NIGHT THE HARDEST CUT WE LIVE ON A KNIFE HERE IT COME NOW HERE IT COME NOW HERE IT IS THE HARDEST CUT IT’S COMING DOWN THE HARDEST CUT WORLD WARS IN MY MIND LONG DAY INTO NIGHT THE HARDEST CUT WHO’S TAKING THE KNIFE HERE IT COME NOW HERE IT COME NOW HERE IT IS THE HARDEST CUT
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WINNER isacontractorwithPluribusInternationalCorporationassignedtoa U.S.GovernmentAgencyfacilityinGeorgia. Shehasbeenemployedatthefacilitysinceonor aboutFebruary13,2017,andhasheldaTopSecretclearanceduringthattime. Assetforthin furtherdetailbelow,onoraboutMay9,2017,WINNER printedandimproperlyremoved classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information and was dated on or about May 5, 2017 (the “intelligence reporting”) from an Intelligence Community Agency (the “U.S. Government Agency”) and unlawfully retained it. Approximately a few days later, WINNER then unlawfully transmitted the intelligence reportingtoan onlinenews outlet(the”News Outlet”).
OnJuneI,2017,theFBIwasnotifiedbytheU.S.GovernmentAgencythatthe U.S.GovernmentAgency had beencontactedbytheNews Outleton May 30,2017,regardingan upcomingstory. TheNewsOutletinformedtheU.S.GovernmentAgencythatitwasin possession of what it believed to be a classified document authored by the U.S. Government Agency. TheNewsOutletprovidedtheU.S.GovernmentAgencywithacopyofthisdocument. Subsequent analysis by the U.S. Government Agency confirmed thatthe document in the News Outlet’spossessionistheintelligencereporting. Theintelligencereportingisclassifiedatthe Top Secret level, indicating that its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably result in exceptionallygravedamagetothenationalsecurity,andismarkedassuch. TheU.S. Government Agency has since confirmed that the reporting contains information that was AffidavitinsupportofarrestofREALITYLEIGH WINNER Case 1:17-mj-00024-BKE Document 5-1 Filed 06/05/17 Page 5 of 6 classifiedatthatlevelatthetimethatthereportingwas publishedon oraboutMay 5,2017,and thatsuchinformationcurrentlyremainsclassifiedatthatlevel.
TheU.S.GovernmentAgencyexaminedthedocumentsharedbytheNewsOutlet and determined the pages of the intelligence reporting appeared to be folded and/or creased, suggestingtheyhad been printedand hand-carriedoutofasecuredspace.
TheU.S.GovernmentAgencyconductedaninternalaudittodeterminewho accessed the intelligence reporting since its publication. The U.S. Government Agency determinedthatsixindividualsprintedthisreporting. WINNER wasoneofthesesixindividuals. A furtherauditofthesixindividuals’deskcomputersrevealedthatWINNER hade-mailcontact withtheNewsOutlet. Theauditdidnotrevealthatanyoftheotherindividualshade-mail contactwiththeNewsOutlet.
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