Elsa Sorensen VS Paul Sorensen

Posted on October 2, 2021 by markweiss86

Elsa Sorensen was a former Miss Denmark and appeared clothed in advertisements, I learn. I’m always learning. Recently, about Denmark.

 

Paul Sorensen is in the St. Francis Hall of Fame and was on the Playboy All America team as the lone scholar — he was number one in his class at Dartmouth and starred in football.

Dartmouth under Ed Shanahan and Ted Leland returned the award, $5,000:

A $5,000 scholarship awarded by Playboy magazine in the name of a Dartmouth football player has been returned by the Ivy League school.

Senior Paul Sorenson (sic) of Cupertino, Calif., had been named a member of Playboy’s preseason all-America team. He had been nominated by Dartmouth’s sports information office for the Anson Mount scholar-athlete award.https://18fa2e1533980fc41cd0d21f3ecafde1.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html s

However, Dartmouth’s dean, Edward Shanahan, its athletic director, Ted Leland, and other school officials decided to return the check. They offered no explanation, other than to say the decision was based on “institutional reasons.”

Playboy sports editor Gary Cole said that based on a letter he received from Leland, he believes the “women’s movement on campus” influenced the decision.

Pretty sure its “sen” not “son”…and in “sense” not masculine child.

Paul Sorensen is 1988 number 54 bottom left but also near 4.0 for Dartmouth

 

Note: further research or close reading reveals that Elsa Sorensen is also known as Dane Arden;

The Dartmouth team leader in total tackles in 1987 (120) and 1988 (124), linebacker Paul Sorensen ranks 13th in school history in career tackles (260). He was a part of the Big Green defensive unit that didn’t allow a single passing yard or completion in a 49-7 win vs. Penn in 1987. The two-time First Team Academic All-American was named the 1988 Academic All-American of the Year. Boasting a perfect 4.0 GPA in computer science, Sorensen was awarded six academic citations and the Phi Beta Kappa prize for highest academic standing. A member of the Advisory Committee to the Dean, he spent three summers in college as an intern for Apple. Sorensen earned his master’s and Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara while working as a research assistant and is currently a senior software manager at Cambridge Systematics, a provider of management and planning consulting services and information systems to the public and private transportation industries. He also serves as the associate director of the Transportation, Space and Technology Program at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. Sorenson also holds a master’s in urban planning from UCLA.

and1: Dartmouth beat Penn 31-7 at Franklin Field on a rare Friday night lights-0ut. QB Nick Howard ran for 100 yards. Buddy’s boys are 3-0 while the Quakers are staggered at 1-2. Thanks Gunn alumni dad (his kids went there, he went to Cubberley) Bret Baird for the update — I wish someone had mentioned this earlier in the day. Especially since I spoke to Peter Roby’s office earlier that day. His secretary is new in town and played lacrosse at Elmira and is from Vermont. Apropos of a Stanford alum I met whose son is worth recruiting – -at least get straight the o’s or e’s in his name. I think his name was Monroe Trout a Harvard basketballer class of 1985 and the Wall Street Journal or NY Times finance pages claiming that that the president of the College David T. McLaughlin a football player in 1953-1954 personally recruited Trout from his upper west side prep school, failingly. The current hoops coach is also a David McLaughlin, presuably not related. The Dartmouth QB Howard is born in Utah, raised in Green Bay and Stevens Point, WI. Government mod with econ. There is a receiver from Newman of New Orleans, my roommate’s old school — he was president of the rugby club and bragged about which D1 bound player broke his ankle in a collision; the Mannings went there years later; 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. 

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Portrait of Danilo Perez by Mike Rogers

Posted on October 2, 2021 by markweiss86
There’s a few of my jazz music event photos: Herbie Hancock, Rhoda Scott, Lou Donaldson, Nick Payton, Jackie McClean, Gerald Wilson big band, Nancy Wilson mixed in with other photo genres.
Ed–thanks man. Nicholas Payton played with John Ellis on an album recorded in New Orleans that I helped John get put out on Joel Dorn’s Hyena Records. I’d love to run a little gallery of your shots here in Plastic Alto...
Danilo Perez is a special act for me because in Fall, 2000, 21 years ago, his Motherland quartet played in my Cubberley Series, with Donny McCaslin, Adam Cruz, Luciana Souza, Essiet Essiet. The band all went to a movie together the night before. Danilo and Luciana and I went to KSCM to talk to Chris Cortez on air. Danilo did an amazing clinic for 8th graders at a Redwood City charter school, via Orlene Chartain of Music for Minors; and when Chris Cuevas and Jerry Hannan and I went to Chicago for a road show, I caught the same combo, plus Robin Tomchin their manager, at Segal’s Jazz Showcase. 

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the lovely Orlene Chartain:
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The Palo Palooza III

Posted on October 1, 2021 by markweiss86

Earthwise Productions welcomes

The Palo Palooza III

art by K Kain

Phillip Greenlief

Motoko Honda

La Doña

Vetiver

David James’ ‘Mission Rebel No. 1’

Steve Poltz

Dayna Stephens Quartet

Inspector Gadje Septet

Mads Tolling Quartet

Beth Custer Will Bernard Duo

Mitch Woods Rocket 88s w Nancy Wright

Plays Monk w Ben Goldberg & Scott Amendola

Eden Edell

The Sticklerphonics

Beaumann Edwards’ Equator

Josh Milgrom Trio

Amendola Vs Blades Vs Parker Vs Skerik

Hawktail

Paul, Britanny, 2020

Tommy Jordan’s Service Human

Savage BusKing f Anna Konstantopolous

Taylor Goss

A Very Special Guest

Philip Greenlief David Boyce Duo

Axon Orkestra

Mary Gauthier

Jaimee Harris

Sylvie Simmons

Barbara Manning and SF Seals

The Corner Laughers

Clean Girl and The Dirty Dishes

A Leonard Cohen Tribute

At: Mitchell Park Bowl, Mitchell Park El Palo Alto Room, Lytton Plaza,

& California Avenue July 31, 2021 thru November 20, 2021

Special thanks, Together Again Palo Alto, Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, City of Palo Alto Community Services, Gunn Oracle, Audio Pro Group, Rejuvenation, EventBrite, The Black Index, High Road Touring, Karla Kane.

Help wanted: street team or interns send query to earwopa@yahoo.com or Earthwise Productions PO Box 60786 Palo Alto CA 94306 (650) 305-0701

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Earthwise Posters set and checklist (1993-2001)

(Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto is a concert and artist management company founded by Mark Weiss that produced more than 200 shows in Palo Alto most notably a run of 150 events at the Cubberley Community Center in the late 1990s. Beyond the posters and flyers, the events were marketed with mailings, email, commercial radio, college radio, and ads in Palo Alto Weekly, Bay Guardian and San Jose Metro) 

This is a set of 59 posters. 

  1. Durham / The Basics, March 18, 1995, Cubberley Theatre (Tina Dussault)11 x 17
  2. Eskimo / Oxbow / David Brian / Rob Craig of Number Nine / Mono Pause / Curbside (benefit for Making Contact), September 16, 1995, Cubberley 4 1/2 x 11
  3. Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell, June 21, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 5 1/2 x 17
  4. Kristin Hersh, April 16, 1998, Cubberley( Donna Sharee) 10 x 16
  5. A Great Laugh / 22 Brides / Number Nine /Alison Faith Levy, November 10, 1995, Cubberley 11 x 17
  6. Broun Fellinis, November 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium, 11 x 17
  7. Pele Juju /Pamela Martin Band / Rilke String Quartet, October 28, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  8. SF Seals featuring Barbara Manning /Stephen Yerkey Trio, May 5, 1995, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  9. Tin Hat Trio, May 18, 2001, Museum of American Heritage, 11 x 17
  10. Dar Williams / David Brian / Charlie Hunter Quartet / Seven Day Diary / Huge /Two Lane Blacktop, November 25, 1995, December 14, 1995, January 13, 1996 Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  11. The New Morty Show featuring Connie Champagne & Vice Grip / Billy Nayer / Billie Eyeball October 6, 1995, Cubberley (Sally Lieber) 11 x 17
  12. Rainforest Awareness Project 1993 Bay Area Tour (including 10/28/93 Peninsula Peace Center Palo Alto)(Donna Sharee) 9 1/2 x 16
  13. Bimbetta, March 12, 1995, Cubberley (Tina Dussault) 10 x 17
  14. Pansy Division / J Church / The Peechees / The Electrocutes, January 31, 1997, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  15. Greyboy Allstars, September 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  16. The Palo Alto Soundcheck (various artists — calling for entries, 1995 fall/winter series,  (Pierre-Paul Pariseau) 13 x 19
  17. Archers of Loaf / Frightwig, March 10, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  18. Calobo / Sweet Virginia / Laura Kemp Band / Shelley Doty, May 16, 1997 Cubberley Auditorium (“The Big Room”) (Michelle Nelson) 11 x 17
  19. Pinetop Perkins / Bob Margolin / Rusty Zinn / Wendy Waller Duo, February 11, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  20. Jimmy Dale Gilmore, May 11, 2000, Spangenberg Auditorium (Andrew Hardy?), 11 x 17
  21. Engine 88 / Spoon / Van Gogh’s Daughter / I.B.O.P.A / Van Gogh’s Daughter / The Keeners / Peel / The Babysitters Club March 1, 1997 & March 7, 1997, Cubberley 11 x 17
  22. Archers of Loaf, November 8, 1998, Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  23. Mest / Luckie Strike / Wunder Years July 13, 2000, Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  24. Alvin Youngblood Hart Band / Slaid Cleaves, June 9, 2000, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  25. Femi Kuti,  August 2, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  26. Superchunk / Creeper Lagoon / Dr. Frank / Ralph Carney’s Partial Parrot September 11, 1999 Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  27. Frank Black / Victor Krummenacher December 8, 2000, Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  28. Danilo Perez Motherland Project / Kitty Margolis / Beth Custer’s Dona Luz 30 Besos / Austin Willacy / Rachel Z / The KGB / Big City Rock / Eleventeen / Box Set Duo / Richard Shindell / Jerry Hannan / Taylor Eigsti / Mermen / Stanley Jordan (“Situation Fall ’00” series /The  Cubberley Sessions) October 16, 2000 thru January 12, 2001 11 x17
  29. Mother Hips, City Hall Plaza August 12, 2001 11 x 17
  30. Stroke 9 / Mumblin’ Jim / Bozac / Imperial Teen / Anna Waronker, July 24, 1998 & July 31, 1998, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  31. Stanley Jordan, January 12, 2001, Cubberley (Adrienne Drayton) 11 x 17
  32. Mother Hips / Etienne De Rocher / Oliver Lake / Broun Fellinis / Train / Far Too Jones / The Billy Nayer Show / Beth Lisick January 16, 1999 thru February 5, 1999 Cubberley 11 x 17
  33. Stone Fox / Lyme / Groovie Ghoulies / Blink-182 / Soda / 98 Mute April 13, 1997 & April 20, 1009, Cubberley Auditorium (Bruce Meyers) 8 1/2 x 14
  34. Bill Frisell, November 7, 1999 Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 11
  35. Warm Weather Series / The Toasters / Spring Heeled Jack / Monkey / MU330 / Janitors Against Apartheid / Slapstick / The Queers / The Hi-Fives / The Mr. T Experience / The Groovie Ghoulies / Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell / The Clarke Nova / Marginal Prophets / Groovie Ghoulies / Martin Sexton / Stephanie Mechura / Rebecca Riots / Idiot Flesh / Oxbow / Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto / Medeski Martin & Wood / The Basics May 24, 1996 thru August 1, 1996 (9 dates) Cubberley & Cubberley Auditorium (Michelle Nelson) 11 x 17
  36. Box Set / Stroke 9 March 20, 1999 Cubbeley 6 x 11 1/2
  37. Jello Biafra May 8, 1999 Cubberley 6 x 11 1/2
  38. The Olivia Tremor Control / The Music Tapes April 24, 1999 6 x 11 1/2
  39. New Orleans Klezmer Allstars / Stephen Yerkey / Royal Fingerbowl March 26, 1997, Cubberley (Michelle Nelson) 8 1/2 x 14
  40. Vinyl / Steve & Eric Cohen, “Thursday” (circa September, 1998), Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
  41. Bill Frisell, October 4, 1998 Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
  42. Cake / New EZ Devils / The Negro Problem September 2, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium  (Lane Wurster / Mac MacCaughan), 11 x 17
  43. Tarnation / Virginia Dare / The Buckets / Stonefox / Spit Muffins / Slip April 1, 1995 & April 22, 1995 Cubberley, 11 x 17
  44. Slow Gherkin / IBOPA / Marginal Prophets May 2, 1997, Cubberley (Keith Knight) 11 x 17
  45. M.I.R.V. / Bimbo Toolshed / Ripple / Amanda Krugliak / KZSU’s Glenn Smith, September 1, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  46. Pansy Division / Crumb / Odd Numbers / Trunk Federation September 4, 1998, Cubberley (Jon Hess) 11 x 17
  47. Broun Fellinis / New Orleans Klezmer Allstars March 29, 1996, Cubberley 11 x 17
  48. Charlie Hunter Quartet / Will Bernard Quartet / Broun Fellinis / Anibade / Galactic / Stephen Kent, Eda Maxym & Friends / Toledo / Action Plus / Mingus Amungus / Dave Ellis Quartet, March 28, 1998 thru April 25, 1998 (five dates jazz series) (Michelle Nelson/Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  49. The John Doe Thing / onelinedrawing / Matt Nathanson, September 10, 2000, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  50. Penelope Houston / Bonfire Madigan / Umami / Billie Eyeball / Noelle Hampton / Allette Brooks, December 4, 1999, Cubberley 11 x 17
  51. The Basics / Squeeze The Dog,  August 10, 1996, Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
  52. Freedy Johnston / Matt Nathanson / Sparkler / the girl and I / Stefanie Gleit / Nick Thompson/ The Birdwatchers April 7, 1998 thru May 12, 1997 (six shows) Stanford Coffee House “CoHo” 8 1/2 x 14
  53. The Mermen / Pothole, March 20, 1998, Cubberley, (Lynn Grant) 11 x 17
  54. Cheryl Wheeler / Rebecca Riots / Allettte Brooks June 26, 1998 Cubberley (Callie Withers) 11 x 17
  55. Box Set / Vivendo De Pao / Shelley Doty, October 2, 1999, Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
  56. Richard Shindell July 11 (circa 1998) Johnson Park (Charles Goldman) 8 1/2 x 14
  57. Three Day Stubble / Heavy Into Jeff / Susan James / Huge / Cottonhead / Sally Ann / KZSU’s Glenn Smith / Rufus the Bobcat /( “the Palo Palooza”) July 3, 1995 11 x 17
  58. “The Palo Alto Soundcheck” “series starts September 20, 1996”, Cubberley (John Yates / Harvey Bennett Stafford) 18 x 24
  59. Asylum Street Spankers June 2, 1999, Cubberley, (Colby Printing) 14 x 22 

format is: Performer/Date/Venue/Artist designer or art directer where appropriate/size. compiled 2016 by Mark Weiss, earwopa@yahoo.com

also:

Oxbow silkscreen by Frank Kozik, 1995 available thru Frank Kozik

Idiot Flesh / Oxbow silkscreen by Christine Shields, 1996 — few remain

Third Eye Blind – Heavy Into Jeff 1995 flyer few remain

Fifteen handbill ca. 1996 few remain

Ragady Anne handbills, redeemed for dollar-off, few remain

Earthwise 2009 at Bottom of the Hill by Robert Syrett (chronological and geographic outlier)

1993 Earth day mini Pow Wow at Addison School by Jeannell Steiner

1993 Rainforest Awareness Project by Donna Sharee

#35 is scarce — Warm Weather Series (otherwise all of above numbers is available in 40 sets of 58 or so?? I am researching making this available as sets only to collectors and collections, up to 40 sets — the remaining overruns were destroyed by MBW in 2016. There are 59 lots of 40, destined to be 40 sets of 59.

There are bands and artists that appear on this list but did not appear at the concert; there are bands that appeared at these concerts that are not listed above. (There are also concerts that had no poster)

Should I reformat this list by date? by size? Alphabetical by first headliner? 

There are also ticket designs and some scarce handbills (Femi Kuti – Steve Lacy)

Private collection of signed posters (signed by the performers)

Collection of correspondence, contracts, publicity still provided by record labels, et cetera— nine boxes ie. 30 yards or so. There’s about 40 hours of audio tapes, of varying production value, mostly on analog tape not digital. 

Michele Nelson (sic) also known as Michele Turner??

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Partial score: Gunn 42

Posted on October 1, 2021 by markweiss86

Half game vs Saratoga Coach Miller and Big Red

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Your girlfriend is the best (still)

Posted on October 1, 2021 by markweiss86
Keith Knight played twice in my music series as Marginal Prophets. He is on tv now as Hulu. He also did a poster for me. Go, Keith!

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Eazy easel tree

Posted on October 1, 2021 by markweiss86
  1. Eazy E tee or sweatshirt bought at Nordstrom — I don’t listen to N-words With Attitude, NWA nor did I really see or listen to either the movie or the documentary about them, but I couldn’t resist buying at Nordstro a gray garment “straight off the streets of compton” or Palo Alto or Stanford, but sales tax remit Palo Altans, though the university has a $30B billion endowment and another $18B worth of leases at their industrial park, which is now mostly video games not military industrial complex although some they say these devices are all part of a war, on class, or will be comandeered when the time comes, to keep us in line and separate the thinkers from the dutiful zombies. Feel me?
  2. Ezel — Gwen of Letter Perfect sold me a deck of flashcards with info on the history of the language, the mother tongue as it were. And it was. So “Ezel” is a horse and from that we get easel. I will cross check this with both my Webster’s, Ninth and Eleventh.
  3. Tree. As in Stanford unofficial mascot. And not the Cardinal color nor the Cardinals bird – -not even in Indian summer; it was 59 degrees farenheit when i got up and then in the high 70s and Mike from St. Mikes told me not to say that phrase. But what replaces it?
  4. Tree — I bought a white cap at Stanford driving range gift show and “Fran” I think said apologetically “I’m going to have to charge you $50 for this cap?!” and I said “Stanford has a $30b endowment with a “B” and another $18B in leases, that’s why I moved here” which is a lie – when I moved here in 1974 the endowment was in the millions not billiions. But I meant I think its good if caps are $50 that means I can charge more for my goods and services.
  5. Like my free concert coming up in about 31 hours at Lytton Plaza with Hawktail, Taylor Goss, Tommy Jordan’s Service Human, A Very Special and Surprise Guest, Jacob Savage and a Mexican-Greek American singer who can really bring it, like Janis even when doing Norah named Anna; maybe another special guest doing Frank Turner “reasons for being an idiot”

 

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Blue and black curves

Posted on September 30, 2021 by markweiss86
By Altoon Sultan b. 1948 Chris Sharpe Gallery ZLA

By Jenna Chanel b. 1998 circa
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Breakfast with Xgau (or his avatar)

Posted on September 29, 2021 by markweiss86

a book every politically sentient person should read — robert christgau, dartmouth alumnus on second avenue

ok,I can only read about 1/10th of Xgau book review before concluding I should definitely buy this book, I should definitely read this book and likely I will never read such book. Just a few pages or enough to tell everybody to do as I do — like its the new Octavia Butler or something. Speaking of “molten lava” I bought or the wife and I rather from an artist in his hillside bat cave studio near a very dry reservoir near what used to be Santa Clara Valley before all the groundwater pollution, pavement, relocated football franchises and traffic a 60,000 x scale hummingbeard skull with a beak that is somewhat flexible — looking — trompe lolol and all that — laugh out loud or lap or lick and suck, in a manly Dartmouth mid-1980s way — beak attached by a pin of steel to a piece of basphalt or basalt  – I did take Rocks for Jocks with Reynolds but never got to see him fire his sidearm like the guys in Phi Delt did or claimed to..it’s about 400 lbs and its Frankenstein is a former small college high jump champ in 1966 — your age — from Albion college of Jackson MI not Antioch College of Ohio but he did compete against them and he had a nepwhen with a similar tell tale Germanic hiding as a Brit name — he literally called his granpa a “Nazi” — Middlebrook, David Middlebrook, a retired San Jose State professor of art — nephew rather who is also from Jackson MI — their father worked for Goodyear and David did too, as a teen, in between high jump and other flights of fancy and fuck or fight or go west young man — Middlebrook who pitched for Stanford just about 16 miles away then 8 decisions in the bigs but never saw him play — what that says or doesn’t say and I should not say about those siblings – -though I do say chutzpah nick little Jew scribe that I are or am or arse or worse. Weiss.And in Palo Alto we have, actually and sadly in a building that once housed artists or hosted them like Frank Lobdell and Nathan Oliveira and then a high end faucet store –like the ones in WI — I think Middlebrook says he has a piece in WI and Madison and knew about the niggerhead rock brouhahah excuse the expression  but now has Institiute for The Future and I thought worse than the waste of retail or the lone duchebag cranking away on his box – not unlike me right here right now but I’m in a public plaza, near a place that sells $7 yogurt parfaits and $4 drip coffee — and I also joked to her, covering my embarassment that I had to ask — that I bought a cap from the Stanford golf driving range clubhouse from a retired white guy (wasp) named Fran a hat that is white on white with embossed lettering TREE that is referencing a 3rd generation stanford nickname and trope “fear the tree” the mascot is a tree, our mascot is a tree — palo alto — though apocryphal in that in 1769 — same year as Samsom Occum and two cups of rum or what not — when the Spanish got lost looking for Monterey by land not sea, Portola and 40 men and 40 mules – interestingly and not many know this they taught the men to walk on all fours and the mules to raise on their hind legs – -they called it Missionary position — a lot of the men would have to walk backwards, on all fours, or crawl backwards, crabwise — they got lost and marked a big tree “el palo alto” but telltalingly the tree that undred years later Stanford the rich white guy bought at the corner of his spread, near the crick was a double tree, two trunks so that would have been “Dos Palos” or “Palos Altos” — Stanford claimed his tree — which we still have and we water it with a doo-hickey — or half of it, the second twin, like Aaron Presley not Elvis or whatnot, fell in the crick like 1900 or so– in the era of Swede Oberlander or Harry Hillman training for the Olympics but not golding yet — his 13th Regiment ROTC track club in the Brooklyn armory won half of the US teams medals, he and Lawson Robertson  later of Penn and 1936 Olympics, coaching and dissing Marty from Syracuse the Jew; I am saying that likely the big tree noted by Portola and them was cut down a few years later, like 1770 or 1771 and used to ford the crick, near Middlefield not El Camino (and not, of course, Middlebrook of the lava basalt, from Moses Lake, he says)And this is where we came in, my mother used to say, like the movies. You come as you are, watch a bit, and leave when you get to the point in the next showing.In I think of shit what is his name Peter Saccio’s class not shakespeare just rudiments of the tongue or written language there was something in Czech for some reason a fancy term for “the story” versus “how the story is told” — like “slgsljkdfket” versus “shdlaidfl di slgsljkdfket” or something — experiemnts in form. Or where I’m from as some say, sex or sez Xgau…

It shall be seen whether in the future when the humans leave and hummngbirds grow to 60,000 times their size whether this fetish will attract birds of a feather or “iron sharpens iron” in the sense of attraction and polarizing or will they be afreard of such.

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Softly Loosely Earthwise VS Palo Palooza III

Posted on September 28, 2021 by markweiss86

Hawktail including Jordan Brittany Dominick Paul will play at Lytton Plaza Saturday but may also be Brittany Paul Jordan Dominick stay tuned as they will

I am debating whether to give a special name to my event Saturday which features Hawktail.

I am thinking of calling the event Softly Loosely Earthwise which references the name of my company Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto but also Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, a much larger and more famous entity that produces, in most years, a big free concert at Golden Gate Park. In fact, Hawktail was booked into that event and only scheduled Palo Alto when the Covid crisis forced postponement of the event. Actually, HSB says the event goes on, on the internet.

Hawktail is a band with four members, based in Nashville and featuring Brittany Haas who locals have known for many years, as a fiddle player. Andy my sound guy claims she has a sister and maybe an Irish twin who also plays bluegrass, he’s worked with. My sense is that they reached out to Ray Sliter who runs a house concert series in Barron Park – -although the concerts are in a special building behind a house that is more like a concert hall. Hawktail perhaps played that series before they were famous and now want a guarantee which Ray is not in a position to offer. Or, he did a show with AJ Aisha Lee and Sullivan Tuttle and Blue Summit recently – I attended – and those people are friends with Hawktail and somehow that led to them calling me. Thru their agent. Or her assitant. From the former Monterey Peninsula Agency. Then the former Paradigm agency. Now Wasserman Group.

This may or may not be helpful but fits nicely loosely and earthwise this space

I’ve been Earthwise since about 1994 – -its a pun on my name. I literally just this a.m. sent a text to mayor Tom — not Major Tom —Tom Dubois. Saying that earthwise means moves like the earth in the way hands on a clock move clockwise or a crab moves crabwise. It means that I am small and adapted to my niche – -see E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. Tom was on KQED Forum not with Michael Krasny but with Alix Madrigal sometimes called Alexis. Or maybe “Alixis”. I know Michael Krasny slightly since he taught a class at Stanford recently but don’t know Alix Madrigal but always somehow that she was a woman. (I think my freshman girlfriend Charlotte from Dartmouth whose dad was a college professor in Hartford, CT had a baby daughter named Alix — also my roommate Brian Gaul had a kid sister named Alexis. I think Alexis has kids now too, mazel too. There’s a guy named Alexis Harte not from Hartford but went to Yale I think — but not with Meklit Hadero, whose hubby is named Marco like me and will be playing soon enough again in Palo Alto I think. Maybe the following week, at Lytton with Axion Orkestra or something – he played as Inspector Gadje on Cali Ave recently part of this run. Actually Jacob of Savage Band – I’m getting to, working up to, getting to ramp speed — says he knows Morgan of Gadje, the reeds player. But I digress).

This is a painted football by Richard Anuszkiewicz at Dartmouth and only marks the fact that Stanford plays Oregon Saturday sort of before Softly Loosely Earthwise and sort of competing with Savage Band

I might call my show with Hawktail at 7 pm. Saturday at Lytton Plaza as in about 96 hours “The Palo Palooza III’ because its the third time I’ve done an event that I called Palo Palooza in reference to Lollapalooza, which is in Chicago but used to be a tour. The first Palo Palooza was indoors at Cubberley and had Three Day Stubble and several other bands, in 1995. The second one was in 1996 and had Skankin’ Pickle unadvertised and several other bands, outdoors at Cubberley amphitheatre, very near where I voted recently. So I seem to be pretty surely adding a 2 p.m show with local musicians Savage Band featuring Jacob Savage and someone named Anna on vocals — they are the ones who played tonight at Ramona and University and pulled power from a white school bus. And then at 5, that is to say two hours before the Hawktail show, Tommy Jordan of Paly class of 1981 has a project called Service Human that will perform. I have no idea what they sound like other than they will march in and march out and set for a bit and play. Tom has played with people like David Byrne, Greg Kurstin, Jack Johnson and Tom Ze. He says this show is dedicated to his friend Chihsuan Yang, a violin player who was seriously injured in Los Angeles this month in a car accident.

Service Human wears vests that call to mind, especially if you read this post, the vests worn by some dogs. Tommy likes dogs, he put one on the cover of his cd. He also wrote a song that was leased to Mercedes Benz, whatever that says about the universe. Tom Jordan is actually Italian. The family name was Giordano, he told me once. His father also named Tom Jordan lived on Churchill near the Lawn Bowling facility and was once my adviser when I ran for City Council. He also mentored Tom Dubois our current mayor.

Mr Jordan said “Find a parade like in ‘The Tao of Pooh‘ and jump in front of it”.

So to repeat Earthwise is producing a free event four days from now with three bands and about 12 or 13 musicans including Hawktail group at 7 (bluegrass) and Tommy Jordan Service Human (miscellanous music that is fun and includes at least some drums and horns, and they will march in and march out, and have a sick friend) and Savage Band (covers of songs like Stevie Wonder “Signed Sealed And Delivered” and and Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why” but with trumpet solos and a vocalist who can really bring it named Anna who is either Mexican or Greek or both) and I may also be referring to the whole farragut as Palo Palooza III or Softly Loosely Earthwise.

Hawktail is also Brittany Paul Jordan and Dominick but does not like to be called the BPJD Music Syndicate. Nor will they be taking batting practice for jurisprudence.

Jacob and Anna tonite at around 9
  • vintage shot of tommy jordan playing trumpet and bass same time






    If you are still reading this it may interest you to know that the catalog for the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College says the football above is “liquidex” on leather which implies beyond a brand name a genre of acrylic paint whereas the wikipedia entry notes that they sell pigment; so the object is a pigmented pigskin, so to squeak or squawk like a hawk. 
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Short seller bets a billion against Live Nation, worlds biggest concert company

Posted on September 28, 2021 by markweiss86
This asshole is named Plotkin and he invested $1B in Live Nation stock, which values the company at about $20B; however most of the blog-o-sphere calls him a short seller; and he worked for Steve Cohen – -not Eugene Robinson’s former house mate. For comparison sake, see below:
LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 07: Brittney Parks performs as Sudan Archives live on stage during the second day of the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival at Camden Dingwalls, on March 07, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

This is Brittany Parks pka Sudan Archive. photo by Getty images, obviously. Fair use. One of the last shows I saw before the Covid shutdown was Sudan Archive at Noise Pop at Swedish American Hall, I really dug it. I tried to book her the next night but they decided to add an Oakland show, not Palo Alto, fair enough. I have my own photos from that night. I did not meet Brittany — I didn’t want to spoil the purity of all her fans being young woman, many of color – and not old white guy in the biz. I did meet the support act from Montreal – hey, maybe she can play my Leonard Cohen tribute, just announced for 11/12/21 five years past his death. I mean the Montreal act, not Sudan Archives.

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