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The Oral History of the Monkey Power Trio… “1996: The Sound of No Hands Clapping”

By Mark | February 12, 2020

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 […]

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, drunkenness, Ennio Morricone, Evil Is Bad, Fun City Tattoo, Good Will Win, Grey Grey Go Away, harmonica, I'll Win Your Heart, 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

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, Greg Hughes, Hawaii Five-0, historic archeology, History of Zines, Honcho, Houston Street, Hydra, 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

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