By Mark | November 24, 2018
The weekend of October 20 marked the 24th meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. Without much in the way of any […]
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By Mark | October 8, 2018
Back when I used to have the radio show, I would occasionally get messages from a listener in Colorado. For the purposes of this post, we’ll call him Jeff… Well, Jeff, in one of our conversations, let it be known that he’d not only spent a good part of the ‘70s in Ypsilanti, but that […]
Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 16mm, 1972, 1976, 8mm, adult films, Alibi Bar, amyl nitrate, Art 1 and 2, Bill Clinton, Bimbo’s, blue collar, chronic masturbation, College Pharmacy, commissions, customer service, deep throat, Doc Johnson, Eruption, escort services, factories, General Tom Thumb, glory holes, Green Room, Hungry Charlie’s, independent retail, John Holmes, Kroger, Larry’s Tropical Fish, Martha Washington Theater, masturbation, Michigan Avenue, Michigan Avenue Bookstore, mopping, oral history, peep shows, porn, prostitution, quarters, Reuben Sturman, Ron Braverman, semen, sex toys, Spaghetti Bender, Swedish Erotica, The Deuce, The Saturday Six Pack, The Velvet Touch |
By Mark | September 30, 2018
Linette and Clementine drove to Cleveland on Friday to see the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, leaving Arlo and me home alone to eat banana splits while watching Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Before settling in the for the night, though, he and I headed out for pizza. […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbott and Costello, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Arlo, banana splits, Bigalora, Charles Laughton, Cleveland Museum of Art, human hands, Infinity Mirrors, Island of Dr. Moreau, Island of Lost Souls, light fixture, rhinoceros, rinos, Totally Quotable Arlo, vivisection, Yayoi Kusama |
By Mark | August 20, 2018
I forgot to mention it, but The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, the most recent record by my one-day-a-year pseudo band, the Monkey Power Trio, debuted on the college charts a few weeks ago, which I think might be a first for us. [While we’ve always gotten played quite a bit by the likes of WFMU […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged Atlanta, Bad Monkey X, Canada, Christian Wolfcock, college radio, Feed Your Hunger, Hillary Clinton, Jep Clayton, kayaks, origin story, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, radio charts, The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, Toronto, WCBN, WFMU |
[above: The author’s son is impressed into service.] My one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio, has a new record out. It’s a 10″ called The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, and it was recorded over two sessions – our 20th day as band, which was spent in the godawful exurbs of Atlanta in 2014, and our […]
