By Mark | October 9, 2013
If you’re near a radio, computer or phone, Patrick Elkins and I are about to go live on the world’s best radio station to talk about Legfest… Join us at WCBN. update: While I didn’t get any audio of our interview, which I think went really well, I did get a few short videos from […]
I’m spending this evening on the doorstep of Patrick Elkins, practicing for tomorrow night’s reading at Arbor Brewing as part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. I don’t want to give too much away, but, as it’s currently planned, it’ll involve at least one little bit of historic reenactment in which I’m to channel a […]
By Mark | November 13, 2011
I’m trying to tell myself that it’s good that he’s still trying new things, but, Jesus Christ, this is so much worse than anything that I could have imagined. I mean, holding concerts for dogs is one thing – at least I could kind of justify that as performance art – but I’m finding it […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged All Things Must Pass, fallen heros, George Harrison, Jay Z, Justin Bieber, Laurie Anderson, Metallica, music for dogs, Orson Welles, performance art, White Light White Heat |
By Mark | September 25, 2011
I wasn’t going to post anything here about the recent news that R.E.M. was breaking up, until, at the gym this morning, I heard two network morning show talking heads going back and forth about how they’d only started appreciating the band in recent years. I suppose they could have meant that they were really […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 394 Oconee Street, Andrew Fassel, Athens, Athens GA: Inside/Out, before the internet, bootlegs, CBGB, Country Pie, David Letterman, Degrassi Jr High, fandom, historic archeology, Howard Finster, Losing My Religion, Michael Lachowski, Michael Stipe, Murmur, music scenes, Newton, perfect circle, R.E.M., Radio Free Europe, Ramones, self-taught art, St. Marys Episcopal Church, Vanessa Briscoe Hay |
It would have been better with Moe Tucker, but you get my point.
