By Mark | October 24, 2016
There’s nothing like coming home late from the airport, exhausted from a day of travel after a grueling out-of-state recording session with friends, and finding a three foot tall stuffed rat dressed like a rabbit laying on the ground in front of your house. I don’t know if I would have been so freaked out, […]
By Mark | October 24, 2016
This past weekend marked the 22nd 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 decided to […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, aging, barbecue, Black Mirror, Brooklyn, bulldoze the suburbs, Carrol Gardens, celebrity sighting, Cherokee, collaboration, community watch, conservatives, creative process, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, dead birds, depressing stuff, Donald Trump, exurban, Forsyth County, Foxy, fringe suburbs, Georgia, golf carts, Hillary Clinton, Jim Cherewick, Kellie, Left Behind, Linette Lao, litany of ailments, Mark Maynard, marriage, Matt Krizowsky, McMansions, Mike Bell, neighborhood watch, old friends, Pelican Cove, Phil Hendrie, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, psychic abilities, Pussy Grabber, Queen Latifah, racism, suburbs, Summing, The First Hour, tradition, Trail of Tears, weddings |
I don’t want to suggest that my kids have never heard me laugh. They have. In fact, I laugh quite often, in my own little way. I shake my head and chuckle. I occasionally allow a guffaw to escape. I don’t think that my son and daughter have ever had the occasion to hear me […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio | Also tagged Arlo, Charles Maynard, Clementine, Cleveland, crying, Dan Richardson, Fred, Jeff Kay, laughing, laughter, Ma Florian, Mark Maynard Archives, Newton High School |
You would think that since we, the five members of the Monkey Power Trio, only get together one day a year to write and record music, that we’d have a lot of free time on our hands to do other band work, like sending out records and the like. The truth, however, is that, after […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged Clementine, college radio, Death, dogs, dying, Freeda, KDVS, KFJC, Left Behind, pet euthanasia |
By Mark | January 31, 2016
I’ve made a couple of comments over the past few days about last week’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack having been bad. In truth, it wasn’t all that bad. I’m re-listening to it now, while folding clothes… which, by the way, is the best way to enjoy the Saturday Six Pack… and there’s actually […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew Epstein, Ann Landers, anxiety, ASMR, bad interviews, Beezy's, chewing, Curt Guyette, Elbow Room, Flint, investigative reporting, Jean Henry, Kate de Fuccio, lead, Matt Jones, Matt Krizowsky, Meatloaf, Mexican food, Mezcal, Patti Smith, Pete Townshend, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, public health, Ski Troop Attack, swap meet, swastika, the sad state of journalism, water, whispering |
