For the past several years, I’ve been posting my detailed notes here about the annual meetings of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. I’m not sure why I started to do this, but it’s become yet another thing for me to obsess about. I sit alone in an airport every year, before heading home […]
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This History of the Monkey Power Trio… “1995: The First Hour”
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged 131 Union Street, 1993, 1995, 502 Catherine Street, 7" records, Al Zaretskie, Andy Claydon, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Baby Eyes, band names, basements, Blind Pig, Brett Kavanaugh, Brooklyn, Bulb Records, Carroll Gardens, Cornelius Gomez, Couch, Crimewave USA, Dan Richardson, Daniel Hughes, Daniel Johnston, David Simon, Dead Dog’s Eyeball, Demolition Doll Rods, DIY, documentation, ethnomusicology, found photographs, Gene Pool, Geraldo Rivera, Greg Hughes, Hawaii Five-0, historic archeology, History of Zines, Honcho, Houston Street, Hydra, Jaycox Coal, Jehovah's Witness, Jehovah’s Shit List, K. McCarty, Kim’s Video, Kling Kling Bang Bang Pop, Mark's art ideas, Mark's mind, Matt Krizowsky, Monkey Power Trio, Nancy Whiskey, New Jersey, New York, Newton High School, nipples, NYU, OCD, October Throughout History, OJ Simpson, Olde English, oral history, Pete Larson, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Rob Taliercio, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Tejaratchi, Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh, squid ink, Sunday Bulb Sunday, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Monarchs, The Restroom Poets, The Theme from the Film: Daddy What Was Monkey Power, Watchtower, You Like-a the Cheese?, Zurich 8 Comments
How to Build and Race a Losing Shopping Cart
One week each year, in August, before the college students return, and while all of the cops are up north at their summer cottages, it’s safe for the punks to return to Ann Arbor. It’s called Punk Week, and it culminates with a big clandestine shopping cart race through downtown. Not wanting to bum any […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture Also tagged aerodynamics, Annamarie O'Brien, bending space and time, cake, cardboard, collective losers, coming in last, concentrated Salvia, fashion outlaws, flashlights for eyes, Ford Escort, Hipsilanti, Ian Fulcher, Jen Scroggins, Jessica French, K-Mart, Kat Scott, loosers, Patrick Elkins, Punk Week, racing, shopping cart races, shopping carts, shopping carts made to look like sharks, slow wheeled sharks, spray paint, Stefan Krstovic, theft, when punks compete, wizards 9 Comments