Mission Mission

Tumblr in its infinite wisdom has hired Sexpigeon‘s Tag Savage (and a few others) to cover the Republican and Democratic conventions! Like for real!

Here’s but a preview:

Ha! Me too! (And let me just point out that for years I’ve been saying Sexpigeon is the future of news.)

Follow the action here.

Artist Lawrence LaBianca fabricates these beauties in his studio right here in the Mission, and he’s got a Kickstarter campaign up and running (it’s met its goal, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still pledge and get in on the perks):

I discovered that a sound projected through a horn can create a sound environment. One can use the phone and have an intimate experience with sound while not overpowering the surrounding area. Imagine sitting at ones desk and wanting to listen to some music, while someone else within earshot is not disturbed.

Last, The idea of plugged in and unplugged at the same time is of interest to me. Plugged into technology with the iPhone. With a nod to the past and the beauty of pure form and visible function as in the Victrola. A perfect marriage of craft and technology.

Read on.

The SF Energy Co-op thinks maybe so, and they’re raising money to get the project started:

Our cooperative needs to get a pilot project putting solar on our neighborhood center up and running so we can raise membership around it and show other neighborhoods how they can get together on profitable solar projects too.

Maybe the Mission will be next? Read on.

He’d had words with an apparently belligerent fan, and their conflict escalated song after song until finally Nobunny got up on a monitor and whipped it out, apparently indicating that he was about to pee on the person if the person didn’t leave. I thought he was just miming the action, but the internet is speculating otherwise.

Anyway it was a great show otherwise. One highlight was the very angry, 50-second hit “Assholes.” (It was great both times they played it.)

[Photo by Hood Rat Stuff]

In an Indybay post titled “San Francisco Yuppies Attacked In Solidarity With Pacific Northwest Grand Jury Resisters,” somebody called FI takes responsibility for the event:

In the early morning of August 22 in San Francisco’s Mission District, we joyfully attacked all presence of gentrification and yuppie windows we could find. These malicious acts were done in solidarity with those in the Pacific Northwest resiting Grand Jury’s. New and old condos, cafes, BMW’s, Porsches, Mercedes, antique stores, fine restaurants, modern furniture stores, among many others, had their windows permanently etched with (A), DIE, Die Yuppie Scum, Fuck Off Yuppies, Yuppies Out!, and a variety of other obscenities.

To our companions currently facing or who do face Grand Jury’s in the future: SAY NOTHING! You have waves of invisibles behind you ready to coalesce from the woodwork and attack at the ready.

Read on for more.

Also, debate rages on in the comments section of our original post.

(Thanks, Nicky.)

I guess I never unsubscribed from the Craigslist “oblivians” search I set up when I was trying to get tickets to their sold-out appearance at Budget Rock a couple years back. This popped up today:

Oblivions Concert Poster – s/n by Alan Forbes – $40 (oakland piedmont / montclair)

Awesome poster for a show by the Oblivians in San Francisco – 1997 for the Kilowatt’s Last Live Show – playing with Vectors and Infections. Signed and numbered by the great artist Alan Forbes (#489/500) The poster is in VG cond., but was stuck on the wall so has small tears in the back corners. The front looks great, only has a few tiny marks and minor edgewear in some spots. measures 23 x 17.25

Trippy that 1997 was 15 years ago, right? And that Kilowatt used to do shows? And that awesome garage rock was happening here well before Thee Oh Sees and Ty? Anyway here comes an Oblivians history lesson…

Here’s their big hit:

And here’s something they might’ve played that night, a gospel-style song from the gospel-style album they released that year:

That ended up being their final studio album. I guess 1997 was a good year to stop doing things you’d been doing for a while.

P.S. Here’s another poster for the same show:

(via Frank Kozik)

UPDATE: Oops, this post is erroneous. Our pal Allison informs us that “Coachwhips played Kilowatt during Noise Pop in 2004.” So I guess never say never, doy.

I wonder if we’ll run into Woody at St. Francis later.

[via Mark Bober]

I liked the artisan haircuts for all gag better.

[via Joe Huerta]

Wait for it……….

Ha! Thanks, bathroom at Dalva!

The first thing this blog ever did that got citywide attention (meaning the big corporate blogs linked to us and begat a rise in readership that’s continued every day since) was post some videos of an anti-war march downtown in March of 2008.

One of them needed some music, so I slapped some LCD Soundsystem on there (a rarity called “Big Ideas”) and the rest is history. Please enjoy this blast from the past:

Sorry for the horrendous video quality; it was 2008! (I think it was shot using a landline telephone?)

Most importantly, the LCD Soundsystem concert film Shut Up and Play the Hits is playing this weekend at the Roxie and THERE WILL BE DANCING IN THE AISLES — and we’re giving away free tickets!