Mission Mission

The powers that be at Pirate Cat Radio‘s Baghdad By The Bay program have decided to offer a $3 discount to Mission Mission readers attending their local band showcase tonight at Red Devil Lounge.

Just show up, identify yourself as a reader of Mission Mission, and your admittance will cost $7 instead of $10. See here for details (including audio and video) on all the bands involved.

Thanks, Rick!

Please enjoy this special video flyer for the Passionistas show at Bottom of the Hill tonight, opening for the great Ariel Pink.

I’ve been trying to write a thing about The Limousines and their song “Very Busy People” for daaays, but just haven’t been able to get it together.

See, last week I came across a syntheticpubes post featuring the song and the following commentary: “oh hey I found the Tumblr anthem.” (Link.) The song talks about playing video games, eating candy, drinking, making mix tapes, Photoshopping pictures of yourself, watching pixelated porn, watching Donnie Darko over and over, and downloading a lot of illegal music. And then the epic chorus goes:

We are… Very Busy People!!

Anyway, every time I sit down and try to put two sentences together on this thing, I end up over on Twitter, or on my blog, or buried in Google Reader, or watching Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Hulu, or catching up on emails I should’ve responded to weeks ago, or I download the entire Hot Chip catalog and have myself a little listening party (during which I couldn’t possibly try to write – must concentrate on the music, and read tweets). Or, I get up to play ping pong or foosball, or tinker with my bike, or eat a meatloaf sandwich or a bag of 4505 Meats Chicharrones, or a pack of Haribo Goldbären, or a wedge of goat gouda. And after any of those activities, I’ve got to go wash my hands, and on my way back from that maybe I make a phone call or get thirsty.

I’m a very busy person.

And the Limousines are too, but I managed to get them on the phone the other day. They met online a while back and started making music together way before the met in real life. But they finally got together, and they started playing shows and building up a fan base. And though they’re still into reading Perez Hilton, and though they acknowledge the power of Twitter to somehow maybe bolster the creative process (John Mayer’s bowel movement tweets notwithstanding), they managed to ignore their Xbox and focus for long enough to write and record what just may prove to be their generation’s “My Generation.” Or at the very least, the Tumblr anthem.

They promise 2009 will be their year, and though my judgment here is colored by my own very busy lifestyle, I see zero reason why it shouldn’t be.

The Limousines open for Har Mar Superstar tonight at Rickshaw Stop, 7pm. The show is all ages and admission is $12.

Mark Roquet writes:

Lessons in Adventureneering is a monthly variety show at Dog Eared Books that features music, comedy, educational lectures (sometimes real and sometimes fake) and live science demonstrations.

Past events have included live World War I reenactments, championship yo-yo-ing, fake food products, and a volcano. It is always free and always on the first Wednesday of the month.

The upcoming show on Wednesday March 4 at 7:30 features two bands, the twangy Fancy Dan Band and the Mission’s own The Yellow Dress, and a lecture on advanced robotics detection. Should be a good time.

Thanks, Mark!

Related:

Championship Yo-yo-ing in Clarion Alley

This video by Azeem is killer. It features a version of Mission Street rendered in a kind of animated collage. Azeem strolls up and down, past a Count Chocula tag, Heather Fong, Pancho Villa and Giant Value, before finishing up with an epic climax atop the New Mission Theater marquee. And you can watch it in HD. (Thanks, Laura and Jessica!)

Says Carlos Reyes, “[L]ook at the ripper at [P]opeye’s right now….killin.” Link.

Looks like we all enjoyed this scene last night. Stay tuned for pics of the scene at 22nd and Mission tonight (even better).

Agile Mobile Hostile screens at 7pm tonight at ATA as part of the Noise Pop Film Festival.

Previously:

The Black Godfather

Last week, two members of  My First Earthquake (perhaps you recall their holiday viral video hit Fa La Freezing) appeared on Pirate Cat Radio in part to promote their show tonight at the Knockout.

They’re in the midst of recording an album over a period of five days in the Oakland Hills with producer Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev, so drummer Andre assured us, on air, that their set tonight will be “extra special tight.”

Bandleader Rebecca added, “We’re gonna know the songs’ soul and shit.”

Then they mentioned that they’re accepting suggestions for the forthcoming album’s title. I submit “Extra Special Tight” or “Soul & Shit.”

Photo by rockbecca.

Previously:

I Need A Hot Cup of Cocoa Even Though I’m A Jew

All I know is, their name is Boyz IV Men, this graphic is funny, and they do a song called “Gold Plated Gold.” Plus, I like the idea of shows taking place in the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. Show starts at 8:30pm tonight, and is free. Link.

Carlos Reyes is one of our favorite bloggers and photographers, and look at this, he’s also in a band (Commissure) and he’s great at making concert flyers. Link.