Mission Mission

Story time:  My mom is visiting the city this weekend for a teacher’s workshop, and I was racking my brain trying to come up with the perfect Saturday activity we could do that would best embody the spirit of San Francisco, when it suddenly dawned on me…

BICYCLE MUSIC FESTIVAL!  Where else can you find the perfect combination of bicycles, music (being powered and transported by bicycles!), food, and some of the raddest folks in town?  And to top it all off, the meandering route, which begins in Golden Gate Park, winds its way through the city until ending up in a ridiculous, fun-filled afterparty at 22nd and Bartlett (the same spot where the Mission Community Market takes place every Thursday).

Good thing I have an extra bike for mom!  It’s probably going to be even bigger than when the 2010 one temporarily took over Oak Street:

B. Hamilton headlines opens this year’s Phono del Sol party at Potrero del Sol. (Ticket giveaway to come!)

It’s a fun summer jam, too. Watch:

[via The Bay Bridged]

Like for real: it’s an *actual* musical chairs party. What?

The concept is no different than the childhood game of yore (and the most popular game in prison!). Round & round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows! It’s terror on 4 legs — but it ain’t a dog!

What? Anyway: great DJs, fun new concept, cold drinks, etc. RSVP and invite your friends!

But you have to enter the ticket lottery.

Happy birthday, Ty!

[From a Vine by Lindsey]

“The best show of all time” might be hyperbole, since Thee Oh Sees get better and better every time I see them, but at the time it was definitely the best show of all time, the KUSF benefit they played mere days before the Eagle was shuttered forever. (One good samaritan posted a video of the show in its entirety and it is a GOOD video.)

Anyway, they reopened the Eagle, and tonight, in a few short hours, Thee Oh Sees return. I’m gonna go line up *right now*.

P.S. Petey and Ginger, the documentary about Petey from Thee Oh Sees, which was real good fun, screens again next Thursday at the Roxie. With a great short about Brute Force called Brute Force. Not sure if Petey will be on hand (or as awesomely wasted) for the second screening, but one can hope.

You know how you go to see Daft Punk at the Greek Theater and you’re way up on the hill and all you see is a couple of robot heads nodding atop a big pyramid? Or you see Justice at Treasure Island and you’re way out in the crowd and all you see is a couple of French dudes rocking out atop a little podium?

At Haçeteria, you get to see — up close and personal, in an intimate setting right here in the Mission — up-and-coming electronic talent making music on real-live hardware right before your eyes. Tonight you’ll see Leech from LA, turning knobs and pushing buttons and making you dance. Plus there’s guest DJ Myles (of Gonna Find Boyfriends Today fame), and all the great resident Haç DJs spinning the classics. Oh and lots of fog and lasers.

RSVP and invite your friends!

It only happens four times a year, but when the night is right and you can taste the evil in the air, you know it’s time to drink a bunch of whiskey and dance away to the Smiths and the Misfits, over and over again.  Check it out here.

And if a 10-ton truck…

When my parents lived in the Mission back in the 1970s, they liked to go dancing at a place called Dance Your Ass Off. They’d tell me about this as a kid and I’d be all Disco? Seriously? And what kind of a name is that? Now that I’m an adult, I, rightly, wish there were a straight-up ’70s-style disco with a dumb name around here somewhere.

Tonight, our good pal Cosmic Amanda, of the popular Mutiny Radio program Radioculars and the popular American Tripps disco spinoff I Like Love, is fulfilling my dreams, kind of, by taking the DJ reins at Asiento (just a block off the New 20th Street Corridor). She promises hours of disco and hours of fun. And she’ll be all decked out, like a proper Studio 54 regular. I think the party might be called “Dance Turnoffs,” which is awesomely dumb, but the Facebook invite isn’t totally clear.

RSVP and invite your friends!