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This History of the Monkey Power Trio… “1995: The First Hour”

By Mark | March 27, 2019

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 […]

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, August, 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, 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

Talking breeders and their larvae with Minus9, driving Björk around Detroit with author Steve Hughes, putting mousetraps outside of Ann Arbor’s fairy doors, and open heart surgery in a Hamtramck bar… on episode 19 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | June 17, 2015

Ok, I’m finally getting around to listening to episode 19 of The Saturday Six Pack. I’m not sure why I put it off so long. It’s actually a pretty good show… If you’d like to join me, you can either download the podcast by way of iTunes or stream it on Soundcloud. Or, if you […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Andy Claydon, Björk, breeders, Build Records, Colin Moorhouse, fairies, fairy doors, Good Tyme Writers Buffet, guerrilla theater, Hamtramck, Jack White, juice boxes, local theater, Marisa Dluge, Matthew Barney, Minus9, misanthropy, Normal Park, Pete Larson, punk rock, Regal Beagle, Steve Hughes, Steve Marton, Stupor, The Monarchs, The Nightman Cometh, Three's Company, Too Many Cooks, tourists | 5 Comments

Stupor show opening at Hamtramck’s Design 99

By Mark | March 4, 2009

Before there was reality television, there was something better. It was called Stupor. And, it still is. Stupor, now about 15 years old, continues to be, a wonderful little, toilet-tank-sized zine filled with the stories of real, or at least somewhat real, American men and women. It’s curated and published by my dear friend Steve […]