I am wrirting from Coupa Cafe Pao Alto my normal hang and 40 feet from me is a stranger who says he is Mike Sly yet too busy to finish this off, had to jump on a zoom. His computer says NEVER FORGET TONY SLY.
When I heard Molly Tuttle do “Olympia” I was psyched. She is from Palo Alto, her dad Jack Tuttle teaches fiddle; She is the best guitarist in bluegrass, twice in a row. That the song lyric mentions “Lars” even better. Four-oh-eight in the house!
She was The Hazel Dickens Scholarship at Berkeley for shits sake!
I played Mike (Sly) — the Santa Cruz Skate goofy monster on his cap was a tell — 58 seconds on my handheld, fighting against “Two of Us” Just the two of us we can make it iff we try on the house system. I have enough “made” here that I might have asked them to cut the house music, more bass in our monitor.
Anyhow, I think Molly Tuttle should could or would, though she is in Nashville now and has Ken Levitan as pm — big time — she already had WME as her agents — go one further and show her South Bay flag or 408 –its near 650 — pride by doing a whole EP of NUFAN in honor of the dearly departed Tony Sly.
I may or may not have already run this by Mike Park, Asian Man.
These are strange times. I say there is “white noise” I hope I don’t get cancelled for using the phrase “white noise’ — noise cancelling white noise. Chaos. In our entire civilizaiton.
By the way, irony: I startd EArhtwise in 1994 as a reaction against media. Which it 1994 menat TV. Televisin drug of a natoin. Now its even worse. I don’t use social media. This is a blog, sure, its wrodpres. but I dont use (I wont event use their names. no use).
Anyhow, call me. Or write me at earwopa@yahoo.com. 650 305 07 01.
Mr Sly said his brother is from Los Altos, even better, I was thinking Sunnyvale. I remember meeting Gus Spanos at a print shop, Alphagraphics, I was actually there fro a few weeks slack mother fucker until the boss man fired me for alleged workers comp fraud — longer story. Not true. Or not on purmpose. Gus and a partner not Greg St. Claire something waspy like that — I get the two guys mixed up. Eaton? They bought the old Murphy Street Theatre and had plans to make a club. They also bought the old MV theatre, where Neil Young recorded once. Not sure whcih building it even is. I remmeber the Gaslight, inCampbell and Gilroy. I think I saw Papa Roach there. I like to call The Edge Keystone Palo Alto to sound more OG. Jerry Garcia played there 67 times. I saw the dead like 10 times, not sure if that makes you disinclined to work with me on this. I ate cookies spiked with hashish made by the future Obama Administration National Security staff and ambassador, at my first dead show, The Greek, 1982. He was a frosh at Stanford — he’s a professor there now – and he was dating my homegirl. I was her wingman. I took a hippie chick butnot a nose ring girl – this was Reagan era, fell me? – -named Jenny Baumann. I was stoned or weirded out and either slept thru half the show or tried to hide behind my own eyelids. Wake up and find out that you are the what? I thought ‘dead-head” meant the world was so bad that better off being a zombie.
I was not cool enough to see DK’s although I was cool enough as the editor of the Homestead Epitaph Nick Ferrantinos I mean to approve Steve Cohen and David Carnoy’s interview with Jello. 1982. Ok, years later, in the Cubberley sessions Jello came and spoke, my show, my house. My dime. Weoversold the house but then got approval to put 50 chairs on stage, the old high school Cubberley had or has a proscenium stage and pit. Room for orchestra and Jello in the round Mmmm. As Bill Cosby might say. Or is he pudding us on?
AFI played the Cub for 412 people, 300 seated and 100 in the throw and 12 suspended in mid air between stage and first row. No one was crushed. Stupidy I had Eugene Robinson of Oxbow on security protecting the band but for him it was like training for the Hammer Throw at the Moscow Olympics. (Great veiled or masked or unmasked Michael MCFaul reference, that.).
Anyhow, sorry for your loss.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
Sunnyvale Music Club, baby!
Mark Weiss
dba Earthwise – just yesterday I wore a t-shirt DK “Erase Racism” i bought at Nordstrom for two zuzim feel me?
Jerry Jemmott who played with Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and here KIng Curtis, comes to Bottom of The Hill on Sunday November 28 courtesy of Earthwise
The Music of Leonard Cohen featuring (1)Sylvie Simmons, (2)Bhi Bhiman, (3)Charith PremawardhanaClassical Revolution, (4) Aleta Hayes; Mitchell Park Community Center, Friday, November 12, 2021.
Diunna Greenleaf(5); Mitchell Park Community Center, Thursday, November 18, 2021.
Barbara Manning SF Seals(6) perform 30th anniversary “Perfect Green Blanket”, (7)The Corner Laughers, (8) Clean Girl and The Dirty Dishes, Mitchell Park Community Center, Saturday, November 20, 2020.
Lisa Fay Beatty’s ‘Save Me, Yeah’ featuring (9)Jerry Jemmott Trio; Bottom of The Hill San Francisco. (Proceeds partially benefit Bread And Roses) Sunday, November 28, 2021 early show
Amendola VS Blades(10) , Wednesday, December 15, 2021, Mitchell Park Community Center
Johnny A(11), Mitchell Park Community Center, Mitchell Park Community Center, Friday, January 14, 2022.
Caroline Davis Quartet (12) residency; Mitchell Park Community Center, Thursday, January 27, Friday, January 28, Saturday, January 29, 2022.
Greaseland All Stars (13) featuring Laura Leuschner, Kid Andersen; Mitchell Park Community Center, Sunday, January 30, 2022
Plays Monk (14)featuring Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Mitchell Park Community Center, Sunday, January 23, 2022
POMO MOFO YO:
Spoke to Caroline Davis for seven minutes this morning, thus delaying her workout; unclear the exact schedule for Thursday, Friday, Saturday in January in that someone else is in the room that weekend day; probably 7:30 Thursday, 8:30 Friday, maybe 9 p.m. Saturday. (Sunday the 30th a year older –I’m finishing 57, starting 58 year on 3 rock from sun — I have Kid and Laura – -new years resolution is to learn to spell “Leuschner” — Greaseland blues jam). She is bringing a piano player; there is a grand piano. MH says we should have bought the American not the Chinese version of Japanese piano — both pianos at the art center are better. I noted that the European lady who does classical shows, on the very day she bumped our Tom Harrell show – which became a piano show ironically Luis Perdomo — rents a Steinway.
Earthwise nine fairly firm bookings to close 2021, open 2022; nine bookings, 11 shows, 14 acts queued up for 29th year of countervailing culture initiative in the 650 how about Nine fairly firm bookings to close 2021 for Earthwise; 11 show, 14 acts queued, to ring in 29th year as 650 promoter. There’s a pun onfirma meaning land in Spanish.
3. Promoter/Manager/blogger/activist either way slightly relieved that the brouhaha with the provocatuer fake tory did not make the local rag. Bottom line: if someone tries to introduce themselves to you and you refuse to reply in kind, you, sir, are in the wrong wrong wrong. As I said, my name and address is a public record, so you can tell me if you have a problem with me. Steven Carter said Democracy starts with one person says “good morning” and the second person says “good morning” back. Danilo Perez, for a group of Redwood City charter middle schoolers got 20 kids to jam by starting with two of them. Say ‘hello’ — “Hello?” — say ‘hello’ back. “Hello”. The only quibble was when the rapper didn’t know he could say anything and instead said “will the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up”
BLUF: I didn’t get to read this into the record even after two hours of the meeting because my wife, a former commissioner texted me to say she expected me to dinner, and because I got ito an altercation with someone in council chambers who tried to get me arrested or kicked out, went to new clerk Lesley sic Milton,who I had just met, and I also spoke on another item, about interviews for commissioner, which Tom D wanted to curtail. As did Eric F and Alison one L Cormack. And Pat Burt my former nemesis saved the day. And then Rebecca Eisenberg called in an lauded my efforts.
But the fat guy, balding, in a coat and tie and spoke with a fake English accent shushed me for talking to DH and BM and AE; and I told him he should go back to England and %^&* King George’s tiny shriveled Habsburg *&^%. Actually I made a hang loose Hawaii shaka bra sign and said “Dartmouth 1769 America’s ninth oldest college”; and then a lady a row behind him dove in head first so to speak and said “where’s your mask?!” and i said “the county I check it every day says we are at 75 new cases per million which if you do the math means we could fill this place with fat bastards like this guy every day for sic years and never see an infection” but I pulled up my mask and it came out “argh argh rug arch arch bleh”.
Ah, Democracy. Just like I pictured it.
I had just said in rambling previous draft of this that there is still white noise. Funny in advance if The Post – which is run by noted anti-Semite and similarly fat bastard Dave Price — goes with “Weiss Goes Nuts On Nice Old Country Gent” or better “Weiss Nuts on British Visiting Dignitary” rather than trying to explain the two hours of housing drivel or the lack of a business tax.
If he nutted on my &*() I’d say “I’m glad that he came”? That’s not plagiarism peoples its literary allusion.
It’s also true that in 2009 a guy with a fake German accent baited me and I called the cops, during a candidates debate. Chief Dennis Burns later told me that he suspected it was the same white supremacist who was disrupting Palo Alto Players events.
I actually told the guy that my identify and address were public records if he wanted to say something to me, but that by his accent I could tell he didn’t know tic about tac. Democ_. Davante. Da bag of nuts in my pants. I asked his name at the start of the second round and he refused to answer which is a tell, of scoundrels. He said “young man” and I said “how old do you think I am mother f*****!?’
San Jose gets twice as much revenue from business tax than from TOT. They get $70 m per year in business tax. We get zero. It’s possible that we would get more than that, despite the population differences, as we have Tesla, Amazon and the like.
Palo Alto Networks whose founder built a monster home very near mayor Filseth downtown north Poe and Bryant is a $50 B Billion company that has a national TV campaign with the NFL, we should license the use of our name, could be worth a millon dollars per year to We The People. That’s 50 words, and above is another, previously published bit, 50 words.
Met a man from Datatherom, on Emerson, above Macs and Bells, and their revenue I find is about $800K.
Hippo I found, at Lytton and Waverley, the new building, near the old Grooveland records, is worth a billion, a unicorn.
Rather than combining this with all the mom and pops and registry just tax billion dollar entities.
note: i toned this down a wee bit using grawlix in deference to the nice woman I featured later in the day.
Palo Alto City Council is meeting in front of a live audience of Americans who still believe in Democracy (minus unknown chamlobbyists and landlords here to stare down me and some neighbors). I count eight people in the hosue, of whom I can name two. Some are staff. There are four staff in the meeting, Ed Shikada, City Clerk Lesley Milton who I just met, Dani King her assistant, and someone I cannot see, likely Molly Stump their attorney. (Our attorney – help me out, Rebecca E!)
In the house are a quorum of Eric Filseth, Pat Burt, Tom Dubois, Greer Stone and Alison Cormack. I saw Lydia Kou or Kuo appear via magic box.
I plan to speak at the next possible opportunity, which is #`13, my high school hoops number for the league champion 1981 Titans. This is loosely speaking about the business tax, or the longstanding filibuster and embargo of such. I am cribbing something I posted here in Plasty back in February, which I likely sent in to the public record. Plus something I also likely sent in to the proverbial message in a bottle Covid-shutdown era Democracy.
I also like to say that many parts of our culture and civilization are subject to white noise and chaos. And that’s a huge factor, well beyond historic 20th century norms as described by Heisenberg or Doppler. That is, the universe is expanding, and largely unknowable. Yet, speak friend and enter.
Just don’t say “N-word” or n*****. Not even rhetorically, my:
Newk
San Jose gets twice as much revenue from business tax than from TOT. They get $70 m per year in business tax. We get zero. It’s possible that we would get more than that, despite the population differences, as we have Tesla, Amazon and the like.
(I like the way, Mr Bones, he goes to “BOLD” right after he references the struggle of Black people and Black Lives Matter, even ironically and confusingly)
Meta issue, and meta verse or phrase in that I am talking about my blog but I marked “words” and “platos republic” as distinct from Hasbor “Play Doh” or that Japanese modern dance Bu Toh or platos fuertes which are strong and not small plates, and I noticed the Greek dude “Tennis” or something, looking at the site here on Bryant that was briefly a Turkish cafe run by the greatest soccer dissident of all time (yet not martyred like the Colombian dude) Hakan Sukor I think – he literally wrote “Hakan Sukor” or his actual name and “fastest goal” on a piece of news print for me to Google – -and I have retired the term “search Injuns” — I heard from Mateo Romero briefly today and a local paper had something about a law designed to fine Colorado high schools $40,000 each if they call each other Redskins or Savages. Which a Native Group is apparently fighting against. And “filthy lucre” my code for “money” whereas Platos Republic or Plato’s indicating possesive is my code for tag or category of Democracy.
The second little bit, which might be at 7:30 if this is 6:46 on a Monday – and I missing Najee Harris of Vallejo, CA and the Steelers to do this, this sitting shiva for Democracy or witness or witless useful idiot getting just enough of a whif of freedom to not (censor censor censor – -see also Reality Winner and Davey Havok) and I’m just vamping to avoid listening to Action Item 12 Public Hearing which reminds me of the line I think by Raymond Chandler the guy who wrote not Dashiell Hammet Sam Spade but the other Bogus part, Philip Marlowe, looking for a clue –his line about how many lies in one line. One, it is not Action its babble, two its not really public is mediated. Not sure what language this is supposed to be. And the picture is out of synch by the words I hear. I think they are literally running Filseth’s voice thru a processor to disguise him or not make it obvious that he is here in person with we the people, all 10 of us, 3 known, 7 unknown or lobbyists or staff, and not Tanaka or Kuo hiding in their little hatches. Reminds me of Das Racist the multi-kulti hip hop group from Wesleyan — I’m at the pizza hut, I’m at the taco bell or Panda Fast Food, I’m at the combination Taco Bell Panda and Pizza Hut, but not at 250 Hamilton. Hutch or hatch. Year of the Rabbit. Iam. Iambic pentameter. Because I could not stop for Death Death kindly stopped for me. No, On a midnight dreary– MC Lars, I knew him. Finite Jest. I’m in the “In” Crowd, I know where the In Crowd surges the stage and kills 8 people.
Speaking of which, I am toting Len Siegal book “Disturbing The War” specifically to quote 404 CA Penal code about the riots he was accused of starting which I say applies to the ruckus at Dr. Cody’s house, that PA PD said they would prefer not to disberse or intervene, the futility of it all. A cop literally said to me that he would not tell 20 people who had agreed in advance to meet in front of a doctory’s house with pots and pans and megaphones at 9:30 one night — or several nights because he was quite certain that they would stop by 10. But it’s 9:30 now, why don’t you try?
And this piece, not strung with pearls but pretty good for someone who has not given them the business for 18 months:
Palo Alto Networks whose founder built a monster home very near mayor Filseth downtown north Poe and Bryant is a $50 B Billion company that has a national TV campaign with the NFL, we should license the use of our name, could be worth a millon dollars per year to We The People. That’s 50 words, and above is another, previously published bit, 50 words.
Plus: (practicing with an ally) Datatheorom on Emerson, $800K in revenue.
Hippo is a Unicorn — is on Lytton. In a new building near the former record store.
And at 7:04 if you can somehow seem me at home, I flipped my mask down because I want more air.
Santa Clara is at 75 new cases per million, which is 1 in 13,000 citizens. Which means if this room were totally full we could do this every night for 7 year mask on or mask off without seeing an infected person.
Also: on friday I have a concert at Mitchell Park center with Bhi Bhiman, Sylvie Simmons, Charith of Classical Revolution, maybe Aleta Hayes. About 12 songs, all by Leonard Cohen. Then Diunna Greenleaf blues on 11/18 Thursday then Saturday the 20th all at The Mitch — MY FIRST SHOWS IN 18 MONTHS — Barbara Manning
at 7:07 I put my mask back after 3 minutes of breathing free
SF Seals, The Corner Laughers, Clean Girl and The Dirty Dishes.
I have Amendola VS Blades indoor at The Mitch on December 15 then Scott Ben Todd Monk on Jan. 23. Then Caroline Davis a sax player from NYC three night residency around the 28th; then Sunday that weekend, also my birthday – I’m Aquarius sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio rising, two thirds overlap with Remi Wolf– whose name references both Rome and Candlestick Park. They tried to charge me $150 secondary market via AEG/AXS Bryan Perez to see her show that same week at Regency SF, I almost bit but was too lazy to get up and find my wallet the computer laptop had not saved my numbers.
Also, at Bottom of The Hill JUST ANNOUNCED an event in SF by Earthwise called “Lisa Fay Beatty’s ‘Save Me, Yeah'” that honors a former colleague who died 10 years ago this month in a motorcycle accident. Not sure the exact format, other than drinks on me, or first round, if you read this, hear my voice or knew her.
Making progress on my Van Halen Mark Leland Tribute.
I have about 40 projects buzzing their way to forms of flight or communication or dance or stinging. As I said below or above. Although I name checked Anthony Bonet not Bourdain. And Mark O’Brien.
I am going to take out the offensive confusing word. That references race; today I bought and gifted to Jamie and Alix a list of coyote myths gathered by Barry Lopez. They live on Addison.
I have a new neighbor I call Flutie, like Don Cherry. Kudos to Delbert Anderson appearing in Sonoma next week.
edit to add or backed with bw — and i heard the words density and its a miracle i am still conscious after 70 minutes fo this “density” contemplates redvelipement of teh site zones whichare lower rn 40 at redvelopmetn tbut that a policy problem for the councli whatever zoning would taht be extended to all other zones privacy inerests I cannot recall his name Leight? Lay? Late? I remember that Rebecca called him a “pissboy” for the builders but he takes in about $200,000 per year. I met “Vin” who is working with Ms. Milton and did work directly for cash, and Kash rather– a good guy, my neighbor, also near the former rez of Palo Alto Networks Monster Home builder guy — and Mazah or something who worked for SM Sheriff.
here is something nixe from NU Times new ideas for flags:
i think if you click it sort of has the designer in some cases
Lait Jonathan Lait and not a lot of coffee in his latte, just All American milky goodness
Ok i’m gonna really listen closely –passed my copy of Len’s red book to Dr. Horowitz who thumbed thru it for a few minutes. Mr Moss Bob refused to borrow it from me as it was inscribed.
Also, I riffed a bit I guess on KZSU with Vince Larkin who remembered the name of my dog and its college football reference during the closed session but I missed my chance to speak open forum or whatever, which I called “open mic”.
I was here earlier with Duffy and had no vax card so alert staff refused me to pass, like Gandalf and the Balrog. the Mines of Minas Tirith. No speak no friend no enter, and now 80 minutes of blather.
Without really using my translater devices but with the help of 100 of such meetings under my belt and 500 topics and having spoken for the record about 200 times I would say they are ent-mooting how much profit to give billionaire and multi-millonaire super-delegates especially the tricky fumble-rooskie or Sweet Georgia Brown Globetrotter warmups of guys who own or owned Fry’s which went from 14 to 60 acres upzoning oila. moolah. I heard Pat Burt say “affordable housing” which is local voodoo mojo hocus pocus for giving money to the rich and not taxing like in the next item, lucky landlocked like Kazakhistan thirteen. Len had a bit from like 1970 about whether Democracy really works here or is everything done just for Stanford –$35 B endowment pays not taxes plus $18b in landleases at Stanford Industrial Parks which went from war stuff to video games which I guess is still a war in that they are using that to enslave us all and build the matrix or metaverse.
And when I am interviewed some time in next 90 days and maybe before I finish my year 57 like Heinz variety here we’ll see if I get asked how serious I was when I sent a letter to the leadership about not shooting us, for gathering at Cogswell Plaza to make music, without a permit and not turning on the power, that three of us were Black. I think the person who brings it up loses. God bless the families of those killed or crushed in Houston. Hello, Hueston we’ve got a problem. Lay. Winning. Reality winner. Total immortal, yet a prisoner. Mere surmise, sir.
and 1: 90 minutes in I think of the famous farting scene of “Blazing Saddles” yet I am not laughing.
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.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 