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I don’t know if I violate copyright by freeze framing or capturing these human type faces in the times story about AI — Havent’ read the small print.
Reminds me of Philik K Dick or movies thereof.
Reminds me of writing a poem about 25 years ago about 3D printing Derek Wolcott the poet.
Something else flashed thru me head — oh, yeah, Howard Finster gives or gave funny names to his arch angels or what not specificially in his Coke bottle dimension art pieces.
couple other random thoughts:
the ad agency i once pined for, the CEO fount has a deep fake of him dancing and they used the same tech to have a doritos commercial with good dancing. Clearview.
Rockwood Music Hall of Manhattan is promoting a set of ticketed livestream concerts, with Molly Tuttle and Vienna Teng. What caught my eye here in Plasty is that they are both Peninsula slash South Bay artists. Molly is from Palo Alto while Viena aka Cynthia Shih is from Saratoga and Stanford. I measured 14 miles googlemaps from Ohlone Elementary School, where Maureen Roddy Tuttle still taught as of fall, 2019 to Saratoga High. I’ll go with an even 3,000 miles from here to Manhattan.
More people will notice that the illustration in the virtual flyer has a depiction of Molly without her wig . She is becoming more audacious or more comfortable with not concealing her alopecia.
To the geographic point of my headline the advertisement says that Molly will be covering artist from her Bay Area home region. Certainly there will be some Grateful Dead she does walking on the Moon on her new record of covers. She also does rancid song that takes place on to coast but named chicks Lars Fredrickson who is from the South Bay whether she realizes that or not. For a minute there I was fantasizing or fan boy ing that Molly would do a tribute to no use for a name which is from Sunnyvale California.
I have a very strained geographic argument that the Rolling Stones she’s like a rainbow has a Palo Alto nexus but I will spare you here.
Molly Tuttle represents us well;
Her November 2019 show here selling out my new series at Mitchell Park community Center was a highlight of my 26 years is EarthWise productions. It is still an honor to talk her up among people who are not following the story. She is well situated: she has a good indie label compass Records; she is booked by William Morris and in the time I’ve worked with her she traded up to a Uber manager Levitan who works with Lyle Lovett and many others.
besides hoping to do another show someday if I can impact her trajectory and/or use her story to show them the waters here in occupied Santa Clara Valley I would argue that she could buy a house here and need not move to Nashville just for cheaper rent .
fact the neighborhood around Gryphon stringed instruments is being targeted by developers will be interesting to try to start a musicians village for profit but with a cause in her name or with her followers.
More people will notice that the illustration in the virtual flyer has a depiction of Molly without her wig . She is becoming more audacious or more comfortable with not concealing her alopecia.
To the geographic point of my headline the advertisement says that Molly will be covering artist from her Bay Area home region. Certainly there will be some Grateful Dead she does walking on the Moon on her new record of covers. She also does rancid song that takes place on to coast but named chicks Lars Fredrickson who is from the South Bay whether she realizes that or not. For a minute there I was fantasizing or fan boy ing that Molly would do a tribute to no use for a name which is from Sunnyvale California.
I have a very strained geographic argument that the Rolling Stones she’s like a rainbow has a Palo Alto nexus but I will spare you here.
Molly Tuttle represents us well; Her November 2019 show here selling out my new series at Mitchell Park community Center was a highlight of my 26 years is EarthWise productions. It is still an honor to talk her up among people who are not following the story. She is well situated: she has a good indie label compass Records; she is booked by William Morris and in the time I’ve worked with her she traded up to a Uber manager Levitan who works with Lyle Lovett and many others.
besides hoping to do another show someday if I can impact her trajectory and/or use her story to show them the waters here in occupied Santa Clara Valley I would argue that she could buy a house here and need not move to Nashville just for cheaper rent .
fact the neighborhood around Gryphon stringed instruments is being targeted by developers will be interesting to try to start a musicians village for profit but with a cause in her name or with her followers.
June: 41 posts July: 42 posts August: 45 posts September: 33 posts October: 28 posts November: 15 posts But I am making sticky something I posted in June, a photo of Beth Custer and I, at her Clarinet Thing concert here in February, and the recording of such.
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My blog has somehow been clicked on thousands of times in India recently, plus in 100 other countries. I don’t think they are reading the posts, just clicking on it.
Regarding her memoir “Same River Twice” published by Skyhorse Press and distributed by Simon and Schuster. Pam is from Palo Alto, graduated from San Jose State and makes Seattle her home base. Actual title is
The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel.
The interview commenced via text, was cut-and-pasted to email then Sweded by smartphone to blog.
Meanwhile Terry started reading on Kindle but also received via Amazon a hard copy of the actual book. Or two copies, the same book, twice.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:12 PM mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> wrote:
1) Does the medicine I’m taking release this second self? (DeLillo, 2020 p.50)?
I don’t know the sources, plus, I’m not medicated.
2) How might a female in the Oval Office impact the way we think about the female form? Is it truly “oval”?
By “the female form” do you mean the female body? Or something else? Honestly, history shows us that women are also capable of fascism, so I would be more specific with this question. Would Elizabeth Warren have changed the way women are perceived for the better? I think so. Would Mother Pence? Absolutely not.
3) Marshall McLuhan said you cannot step in the same river (once).
Did Marshall McLuhan live in a dry state?
4) How does being an artist (BFA or MFA) inform either your travels or your writing per se?
Art teaches you how to observe and create. Increasingly, I’m not sure it matters what the medium of output is, as long as you are creating. A curiosity about art means I seek out art by others when I travel and take the time to observe it, but hey, I like museums and live music.
5) Terry bought your book and reads parts of it allowed/aloud. As someone who was a bachelor until age 53, I feel reading is the same as marriage; or spouse reading is the same is me buying it, unless I had an inscribed copy.
What’s the question here?
6) Four: do you remember The Varsity Theatre in Palo Alto as a place for movies, music, food, drink or coffee? Did you see The Dead Kennedy’s there?
I do remember this, and no I did not see the Dead Kennedys. I did see Rocky Horror there.
7) Three: which Skyhorse title — out of thousands — troubles you more : Allen, his recent funny memoir; or Belzer, “Dead Wrong” denounced by Southern Poverty Law Center?
Can “both” be the answer here? Because…both.
8) Do you know David Shields i.e. “Reality Hunger”— in terms of domestic violence is a woman more likely to come out so to speak about her herstory in ways she does not confide in her friends or embellish in that, a) memory itself is a type of composition and, b) who would know the difference?! That’s one question.
At the back of the book is a note about memory and its flaws. I didn’t know this about domestic violence, but I didn’t write the book to be an academic work about that topic, nor did I research the topic to inform my work.
9) Have you heard Myra Melford, band of same name? (That’s my last question — until I read more of the book and think of three or nine more)
There’s a reason there are multiple works with this title. It’s ancient, and not surprising it resonates with different people for different work.
Can I interview you for my blog? Plastic Alto. Apropos of “Same River Twice”? Mark Weiss and Terry Acebo Davis
You mean more than this Q&A? 😉
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Outro: by Myra:
(note: Pam Mandel is also a musician — maybe she can jam with Myra Melford in a piano-uke duo someday)
edit to add: Anything processed by memory is fiction.
I would not say Pat Burt “championed a business tax” in that during his sixteen years in leadership Palo Alto failed to enact a business tax and now had budget cuts, having let off the hook a trillion dollars worth of market cap companies like Google, Facebook, Tesla headquartered here, as a favor to landlords. Rebecca Eisenberg a complete outsider and failed candidate for planning commission arguably is the one that got business tax on the agenda during campaign as current council, again, put it off.
This election means either business as usual — rule by landlords and “downtown interests” — and a false dichotomy between “the Residentialists” and “Build Baby Build” — or something encouraging by a strong showing of also rans like Eisenberg, Lee, Templeton and Malone.
I doubt though I voted for him that Greer Stone can stay independent from that force given that he is mentored by Burt and Karen Holman, the only person who served with Burt in his first term but continues to support him.
Incumbents Tanaka and Kou though from different pseudo-camps both took the arguably racist dog whistle stance of excluding outsiders from Foothills Park — council voted 5-2 with their dissent to settle a lawsuit from NAACP and ACLU that claimed the park rules had disparate effects on Blacks.
I would think Palo Altans are already discussing a Burt recall on these and other grounds. He’s polarizing as much as popular.
Marcy is a Stanford grad and a major donor to the Crocker Museum of Sacramento; not to be confused with Marcy Freedman of San Francisco and San Diego who is a writer it would be cool if Friedman with an “I” painted Freedman with an “E” while listening to Liza with a Z not S.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 