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, drunkenness, 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, 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
68 hours in Manzanita…. The Monkey Power Trio’s 24th day as a band
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 […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized Also tagged 1995, aging, alimony, ankles, appendix, bonfires, cancer, Carroll Gardens, Cheez-Its, Cleveland, contemplating the end, crumhorn, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, Death, divorce, drinking, fire, fleas, fog, Hasil Adkins, Hazel, ironing board, Jeff Kay, jellyfish, Jody Bleyle, laughing, Low Sack, Manzanita, Matt Krizowsky, mayonnaise, McMenamins, meteor shower, napping, naps, Newton High School, nicknames, Oregon, Oregon Historical Society, Pacific Ocean, Pantless, Pantless Dan, Pear Hawthorn, Pete Holmes, Portland, pranks, recording, recreational marijuana, Reno, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, scallops, Scrabble, Señor Wences, Skull Island, The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, The Sand Flea, timber, trumpet, wills 15 Comments
75 hours in Baltimore…. celebrating the Monkey Power Trio’s 23rd day as a band
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, 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, 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 14 Comments