Mission Mission

In case you haven’t already seen Jonathan Richman a million times at the Make-Out Room like the rest of us (he does multi-night residencies there on a pretty regular basis), Night Fog Reader has assembled a multi-part review of the most recent residency, which took place last week.

Explains reader Cole W.:

It was getting pretty hot and sweaty at the Knockout’s Booty Basement this last Saturday night.

I guess so. I thought I was damp after Oldies Night, but I guess Booty B. is a whole ‘nother story.

Sorry about this, but some of the phrases uttered in this video — shot outside a bar ’round closing time on Saturday night — are just too cute not to share.

UPDATE: By popular demand, a transcript:

Boy: Yeah
Girl: You’re a fuckin’ asshole
Boy: Exactly
Girl: And a hipster would never fuckin’ talk that way
Boy: Hipsters do talk that way
Girl: They don’t
Boy: Hipsters are — have you read anything about us?
Girl: They don’t
Boy: We are fucking assholes
Girl: Oh, ’cause you’re so fuckin’ cool, right?
Boy: Exactly
Girl: You’re an asss
Boy: You are an ass
Girl: I’m not!

Girl: –as a cool kid
Boy: Cool kids are bad too
Girl: You’re a fuckin’ ass
Boy: Don’t limit your boyfriend
Girl: Tonight–
Boy: Sugar
Girl: I hope you put your head on the bed and–
Boy: Say something really nasty now
Girl: I’m not going to–
Boy: Try to
Girl: –because I’m a good person
Boy: Try, tryyy!
Girl: I’m not going to
Boy: Try. Feel the darkness coursing through you
Girl: I think you’re a bitch

Girl: You know what? None of this is angering me whatsoever
Boy: You know what? I’m totally zen, so that makes two of us, and we should totally shake on it and fuckin’ do Bikram.
Girl: Bikram?
Boy: Yeah, we don’t do that. I was just leading you on

They totally banged I bet.

[Photo by Chris T.]

Our pals at Noise Pop recently launched a new regular feature on their website called Town Crier where they get their pals to write guest posts about the local music scene or music in general. This week, they were lucky enough to get yours truly to investigate the local emo scene (which, as we all know, centers around Diary AKA “Emo Night” at Pop’s, which is celebrating its second anniversary this Saturday night). Here’s how it starts:

I never got into emo. Friends in high school were into it, but I just didn’t get it. Years went by, and you stopped hearing about it so much. I thought maybe emo was a thing of the past—and then one night a couple years back somebody invited me to something called “Emo Night at Pop’s.” I liked Pop’s pretty well, so I went, and it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. It was a roomful of kids drinking cheap beer (seemed pretty familiar up to this point I guess) and shouting along to every single word in every single song the DJ played. With such joy on their faces, every one of them. I drank some beer and nodded my head, but I couldn’t shout along. I felt so left out.

Read on for the rest of my emotional story, plus Q&A’s with Diary co-founder Patric Fallon and a real live San Francisco emo kid, and some epic emo videos!

RSVP and invite your friends here.

This is going to be a blast. Music, food, fun. Decent weather. People actually making the trek over to Potrero del Sol for once. (Now, the question still remains: When the hell will somebody bring a decent concert lineup to Dolores? Right?? But I don’t want to be a Negative Nattles; Phono del Sol will certainly suffice for now. It’s gonna be a blast!)

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Tiny Telephone is a world-renowned recording studio located right here in the Mission, right around the corner from Potrero del Sol. Last week, I stopped by and caught Moe Meguro screwing around between takes. I sure love Weezer.

Moe Meguro’s Kickstarter campaign still needs $90 more btw — and it ends in 11 hours!

Well this dude kind of looks like a square, but apparently he’s not, because he’s about to get nasty at Oldies Night tonight at the Knockout. He is mayoral hopeful John Avalos and he’s been invited to guest DJ at tonight’s party. The Examiner, our local newspaper of record, delivers some choice copy on the matter:

Avalos is making a special guest apperance [sick!] at a popular Mission party dubbed Oldies Night and rumor has it the District 11 supervisor will be playing some choice dance jams for the masses.

Described as a “rad nasty dance party,” Oldies Night is regularly attended by the 21- to 35-year-old sect, of the hipster variety. [link]

Rad nasty! The only problem is that Avalos’ headshot, while handsome, isn’t quite as handsome as the usual Oldies Night posters.

RSVP and invite your friends here.