By Mark | January 16, 2018
The weekend of October 21st marked the 23rd 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. On the spur of the moment, we’d […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1919, 1972, acid reflux, Air B&B, American Visionary Arts Museum, Atomic Books, Baltimore, Billie Holiday, bursitis, Charm City, Charm City Holiday, Chesapeake Yeti, chicken-fucking, college athletics, college sports, crab cakes, crime, Crimewave USA, Dan Richardson, Danny Mills, Dave Miller, electrical wire, Federal Hill, Fells Point, Friendly’s, geographic midpoint, Geographic Midpoint Calculator, Glenn Danzig, Gooney Bird, granuloma, gymnastics, Hippy Hollow Road, John Waters, Johnny Eck, Larry Nassar, litany of ailments, Lyft, Mark's big ideas, Mark's health, MASS MoCA, Matt Krizowsky, Meow Wolf, Michigan State University, Mike Bell, Misfits, Monkey Power Trio, Nugent, OCD, painted screens, Paul Laffoley, penises, Pink Flamingos, podcasts, Potosi, prosthetics, racism, Reverend Albert Wagner, ride-sharing, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sante Fe, Scott Huffines, sex abuse, slavery, Stanley Wright, Tarzan Escapes, Ted Gordon, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, The Wire, wax museums, Wisconsin, zines |
As usual, Emi Slade killed it at this year’s Shadow Art Fair. She calls this one Captain Beefheart. I don’t know how well he did sales-wise, but it looked like our friend Marty “the lighthearted sadist” Flint was having fun introducing young and old alike to the world of bondage. Bearded local librarian Ben Miller […]
Posted in Shadow Art Fair | Also tagged Andy Claydon, beards, Ben Miller, Captain Beefheart, Corner brewery, Cre Fuller, Crimespree, Cthulhu, Dreamland Theater, Emi Slade, exposed sex organs, fax, five-headed shadow creature, fortune telling, Heidelberg Project Mobile Photo Video Booth, hermaphrodite, Jason Voss, Jessica Sheeran, Jim Cherewick, John Zeichman, loaves of bread that look like Mark Maynard, MFRN, Micah Loyd, Midwest Feminist Revolutionary Network, Naia Venturi, pain, puppets, sex organs, stuffed animals, Thom Elliott, Tim Furstnau, Tyree Guyton, Vinnie Massimino’s Fax Party |
One of my favorite artists, Daniel Johnston, is going to be playing at Ann Arbor’s Blind Pig on Sunday, August 16. If you’ve never had the pleasure of seeing him perform, I’d highly recommend it. Here, by way of introduction, is a video of him performing the song Living Life not too long ago in […]
Every once in a while, something wonderful happens that brings us together as a nation. A hot, blonde teacher beds a burnout eighth-grader in front of his buddies. A bug-eyed bride-to-be lies about being abducted in order to escape her impending wedding to some poor schlub. Or, a certifiably insane narcissist convinces a shady fertility […]
Posted in Crimewave USA, entrepreneurism, Observations, Other, Pop Culture, Special Projects | Also tagged auction, Baltimore, blowjobs, Brooklyn, Ebay, handjobs, hipster grifter, I heart beards, indie cred, inner city anarchist women's collective, Kari Farrell, liars, lying about cancer, mouth, pickup line, Salt Lake City, sanctuary, The House Bunny, Vice, Williamsburg |
I wanted to be relatively quick with my follow-up to the first post, if for no other reason than to prove to myself that I could. I still haven’t told anyone outside of this house that I was setting out to keep a weblog, so there certainly aren’t any friends or readers out there bugging […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged Andy Griffith, Athens, Athens GA: Inside/Out, baby shower, David Lynch, Girls Gone Wild, Linette, Lou Costello, Monkey Power Trio, Mulholland Drive, panties, Pylon, Russian exchange student, sex, Skakel, The Prisoner, underwear, Walter |
