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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, 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, Tommy Boy, Too True, Village Voice, We Are Smart, Wire | 3 Comments

Honoring the Monkey Power Trio

By Mark | July 13, 2016

I’m not sure what the impetus is behind this, whether it’s mental illness or narcotics, but someone has been “honoring” my one-day-a-year band, The Monkey Power Trio, by creating disturbing little videos. Here are two of the seven videos various members of the band have received to date. The first features features our 1996 song […]

Posted in Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized | Also tagged Flying Through Glass, Planet of the Apes, Planet of the Apes is Real, The Handsome Family, True Detective, We Are Smart | 4 Comments

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