Mission Mission

The Bold Italic today takes a look at everybody’s favorite Tallahassee import, volleybonk:

Volleybonk is a combination of volleyball, tennis, kickball, and, well, Fight Club.

We rotate service games similar to volleyball, except there’s no maximum or minimum number of players (they’ve had as few as two and as many as 36).

The goal, like tennis, is to hit winners or force errors, except unlike tennis, our team can volley among ourselves as many times as we want after the first bounce in order to get the ball across, as long as the same person doesn’t hit it twice in a row. We can strike the ball with any part of our bodies, so kicking, punching, heading, kneeing, or clotheslining are all on the table. Oh, and we don’t keep score.

Read on.

There’s this weird slide at the Franklin Square playground. It’s got no sides, so you have to stay on it by gripping it with your thighs, as demonstrated above. It’s pretty fun.

[via Ruby in the Dust]

“You know what attracted me to you? Her tits.”

Say what? (Good one, Omer!)

[via Eavesdropping]

Shine On is next big thing! It’s a new indie pop night at Public Works on first and third Wednesdays, featuring some beloved local DJs hipping us to a very special era in rock history. DJ Jamie Jams fills us in:

We’re going for a late 80s, early 90s, UK indie vibe, drawing heavily from Smiths influenced jangly guitar pop (Smiths, Wedding Present, Stone Roses, early Primal Scream) but also more underground cuts from Sarah Records, Creation Records, Slumberland Records, Rough Trade Records and Factory Records.

The idea is to use that as a reference point and mix in all the classic garage, girl groups, punk and post punk stuff that influenced the C86 movement, with the 90s, 2000s, and current bands that draw from that sound. There’s also going to be a baggy/dream pop/shoegaze element as we follow the late 80s musical progression.

If we stick around long enough, we might even drift a bit into acid house territory, but I think its going to take a few nights before we start dabbling in that more than a little bit.

Here are some pertinent details on tonight’s inaugural edition:

Matinee film screening, 9pm-11pm. This month’s film: Upside Down: The Story of Creation Records.

$5, Free with RSVP before 11pm. $3 Olympia cans and cocktail specials all night. $2 shots before 11pm.

RSVP and invite your friends here.

After the jump, a handful of relevant tracks, in YouTube video form, hand-selected by Jamie Jams himself. Thanks, Jamie!

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Treasure Island Music Festival is a two-day party in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. It rules every time. This year’s is coming up October 15th and 16th:

Saturday:
Empire of the Sun
Cut Copy
Death From Above 1979
Chromeo
Dizzee Rascal
Flying Lotus
Buraka Som Sistema
Battles
The Naked & Famous
YACHT
Shabazz Palaces
Aloe Blacc
Geographer

Sunday:
Death Cab For Cutie
Explosions in the Sky
Beach House
The Hold Steady
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Friendly Fires
St. Vincent
The Head and The Heart
Wild Beasts
Warpaint
The Antlers
Thee Oh Sees
Weekend

I mean, it’d be worth the price of admission for Thee Oh Sees alone. But if you want, you can enter to win a pair of free two-day general admission tickets by posting a picture of yourself making your best “I want to go to Treasure Island” face on our Facebook wall or to our Tumblr submit form. One winner will be chosen based on merit. Contest closes at noon on October 12, 2011.

Or just skip all that and buy tickets here.

Get ‘em while they’re hott! Available now at Pushbike.

[via Pushbike on Facebook]

Here in the Mission we saw the scene from afar, but it looked a bit gnarlier up close, as you can see — and it displaced a bunch of nice people. Thankfully, a bunch of other nice people have set up a benefit tonight at Peacock Lounge:

$10 at the door. Music, food, beverages all donated to support the Relief Fund for our neighbors.

FEATURING…

- Food by Memphis Minnie’s, Wing Wings, Chilli Cha Cha, Rotee, Rosamunde, and more

- Beer courtesy of Mad Dog in the Fog, cocktails from the Peacock Lounge bar

- Three Twins Ice Cream, back doing what they do best — scooping the cold stuff

- A raffle of amazing prizes, slated to include:

• Gift certificates to Animal House, Blackbird, Idle Hand Tattoo, Merch, Three Twins, and Uva Enoteca, as well as acupuncture treatments and massages from Thriving Life Wellness

• A pack of clothes and accessories from D-Structure

• A gift bag of chocolates from Nosh This

• Bags of fabulous cleaning products from SF-based Method

• A longboard and vintage-style cooler from our friends at Pabst Blue Ribbon

• An expertly-curated selection of books from Booksmith

• Top-shelf beverages from Danny Coyle’s

• A gift certificate and invitation to a soft-opening party for upcoming Lower Haight restaurant Maven

• And more!

That’s TONIGHT, October 4th, 7pm-10pm at the Peacock Lounge. Bring lots of friends (and cash), and we’ll handle the rest.

Most importantly, it’s at the PEACOCK LOUNGE. How often do you get a chance to party inside that mysterious place? RSVP and invite your friends here.

[Photo by Devon Chulick / SFist]

An urgent request, via our Tumblr ask box:

So, how about it, readers and friends? Where’s some chocolate mousse?

P.S. Follow Mission Mission on Tumblr if you want in on a lot of obtuse behind-the-scenes posts and stuff.

Lesson learned. From now on I’m keeping my bike under my pillow while I sleep.

This bike belongs to SFist summer intern Andrew Dalton! Bummer! I think he lives above the Popeye’s on Divisadero, so keep your eyes peeled if you’re up thataways this afternoon? (Or if you’re anywhere, really?)

Seems like everybody takes a picture of the slime time van every time they see it, but does everybody know about its epic theme song by Portland rockers Mean Jeans? Well, everybody should. Here it is:

[Photo by The Minutes]