For the past several years, I’ve been posting my detailed notes here about the annual meetings of my incredibly magical one-day-a-year 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 invariably find myself sitting alone in an airport […]
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The Oral History of the Monkey Power Trio… “1996: The Sound of No Hands Clapping”
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio Also tagged 1996, A Bird in an Egg, Anne Shapiro, Atlanta, auditory archeology, Ben Is Dead, black teeth, Butt Science, City Pages, Creative Tattoo, Crimewave USA, Dan Richardson, Darby Romeo, David Simon, dental alginate, Ennio Morricone, Evil Is Bad, Fun City Tattoo, Good Will Win, Grey Grey Go Away, harmonica, I'll Win Your Heart, Jaycox Coal, Jen Larson, Jim Henson, Kill Zinesters, latex, Lower East Side, Matt Krizowsky, Mike Bell, Monkey Power Trio, Nancy Whiskey, National Wholesaler’s, New York, oral history, Pearl Paints, plaster cast, practical jokes, prank calls, probationary period, public sex, Ricki Lake Show, Rudy’s, Scott Baio, sculpture, Sergio Leone, severed hand, Snappy Urethra, spaghetti westerns, St. Mark’s Place, strippers, studio space, stuffed animals, Suzanne Fauser, Tasty Fish, tattoos, The Late Bloomers, The Sound of No Hands Clapping, Tommy Boy, Too True, Village Voice, We Are Smart, Wire 3 Comments
Introducing “Stupor”… the book
Two of my best friends are releasing books this week, and, in spite of the all-consuming jealousy that’s overtaken me, I’ve decided to help them promote their works here. The first book that I’d like to tell you about is by my blog-hijacking friend Steve Hughes, the publisher of the often recalled zine Stupor. Here’s […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Dreamland Tonight, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized Also tagged A Hole for Brains and Candy, animal cruelty, animal torture, Art X, bed shitting, Book Beat, creative writing, Dances with Wolves, DIA, disappointment, do it yourself, dumb luck, flopping dicks, free beer, friends who do cooler stuff that I do, friends with books, Hamtramck, I'm a Spy, infidelity, jealousy, Jeff Kay, Jeff Kelly, Kresge Foundation, Kresge literary arts fellowship, Leopold's Books, Linette, Lynn Crawford, Mark's favorite authors, Microcosm, MOCAD, pant shitting, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Printed Matter, Public Pool, Quimby's, references to Mark's fat ass, self-publishing, Simply Separate People Two, Steve Hughes, Stupor, Temp Slave, Thomson Shore, West Virginia Surf Report, zine friends, zines 4 Comments