Mission Mission

This post was published last week by Lola over at Disenchanted Princess, but there was some kind of malfunction with the video. Now it’s up and running. Cute puppies!

Link to video.

Jeff from SFstandup hips us to a new Wednesday night option:

Just thought you’d like to know, there’s a new stand-up comedy night right in the heart of the Mission at the Delirium on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30. The two guys running it, Joey Divine and Joe Gorman, have only done it 3 times so far, so it’s still ramping up. But on April 30th, they’re having structure gonflable their most ambitious show, “Kevin’s vs. Joe’s” featuring upper-level local comics who have performed at the Punchline and all over the Bay Area.

Link to further deets at SFstandup, including video.

Link to coverage at SFstandup’s San Francisco Comedy Blog.

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I’d seen tiny stencils of this hybrid tank/gas pump on curbs in the Lower Haight a couple years back or so, but now it’s back parcours obstacle gonflable in full effect: giant-size posters in the Mission. Note the blood droplet dripping from the spout. If anybody has any info on the artist, drop us a line.

Complete Mission Mission graffiti/street art archive here.

Jess over at my specialty is living: mk II had a good time at Mission Open Studios over the weekend. She lucked upon some discounted works by an artist she admires:

Ever since the last open studios weekend I’ve been thinking about these awesome bird paintings by a woman named Summer Lee, and as luck would have it, she had a few of her older bird paintings in a super-clearance pile. WOO!

Link.

Mission Mission reader Travin M. recommends An Intimate Evening of Devilish Aural Delights…

an event at community music center by some mission artists, and local band, the floating corpses and m. lamar. they be cool and it’ll be a good show. cheap sliding scale at that.

Update: Okay this is over now, but skooter livecommented the following via BlackBerry:

this is an incredible show!

Just this morning I saw Matt Mullenweg at the Web 2.0 Expo talking about recent exponential growth at WordPress, and then look, just this morning Mission Mission makes it onto WordPress.com’s Blogs of the Day Top Posts for the first time. Exponential growth all around! Good work, Becca.

Original post: Construction Camp on V-Street

My 15-year-old cousin’s band is playing an instore at Amoeba Berkeley on Saturday at 2pm. They were recently spotlighted in an East Bay Express feature by Nate Seltenrich called Sounds Like Teen Spirit:

For Please Quiet Ourselves, it all started back in elementary school, when Jojo, classmate Haran Stern, and some other friends had what Jojo calls “a weird idea to start a band.” Then in eighth grade, he wrote and recorded a song tente gonflable named “Color Chart” for a school project. A simple, short pop ditty about colors (What about orange makes it so damn special?), it inspired him to found Please Quiet Ourselves as a vehicle for similar material, and appropriately kicks off the band’s first CD.

Jojo assures me that PQO will cover a Breeders song in honor of the Breeders playing the Amoeba stage a few days after them.

Link to article.

Link to PQO website.

Link to PQO on MySpace.

We’re assured that this is a good cause. Expensive, but good.

Link. (Thanks, Morgan)

No more boring old barstools at Beauty Bar; they’ve just introduced a barfull of killer foot-pumped beauty-parlor-style lounge chairs. The entire bar is lined with these beauties, so there’s no reason not to go to this place anymore.

(Complete Mission Mission Beauty Bar coverage here.)

What the motherfuck is this, seriously? Please tell us, for real.

(Complete Mission Mission Zeitgeist coverage here.)