Mission Mission

Anyone want to start a gang?

Meet me on 22nd just below Folsom.

Unsilent Night is an original composition by Phil Kline, written specifically to be heard outdoors in December in the form of a “public performance art piece,” aka flash mob parade.

Here’s how it works:

1. Download the MP3. There are four different tracks, and one will be chosen for you at random. Load the MP3 onto a boombox or other sound-amplifying device.
2. If you can’t do Step 1, arrive early and get a CD or cassette.
3. Meet at Dolores Park on the evening of Saturday, December 17. At 7:30pm, everyone presses play!
4. Parade through the city on a predetermined route while the music plays, creating a “unique mobile sound sculpture.”

And then head to American Tripps after!

Remember that hipster-taco-riding-a-bike-in-the-Mission shirt we loved so much a few years back? That was Headline Shirts, and tonight they’re having a big sale. Roxzann from Headline fills us in:

We’re having a Holiday Sample Sale, there will be cheap tees but more importantly drinks, snacks, and sweet beets spun by our sales manager (we make a great team). I will also be in a baboon suit running around and having a gas! Fun right?

Our pals over at Positive Destruction (whose top 15 albums of 2011 we mentioned last week) have put together another exciting lineup of local and traveling acts:

Beyond psyched to announce that Positive Destruction is once again teaming up with Thee Parkside to host our second showcase on the evening of Thursday, December 15th.

Following up on the success of our inaugural event, the lineup features the creator of one of the best album of 2011 to date (Blasted Canyons), electro-dystopians Hot Victory (from Portland), POW! (it’s their EP release party) and the most recent signing to the Castleface label, The Mallard. DJ Jackie Sugarlumps of Web of Sound/Drop Out! will be spinning records all night.

RSVP and invite your friends! Advance tickets available here.

There’s the guy. And here he is caught on video:

Mission Local reports:

San Francisco Police Commander Michael Biel announced to hundreds of community members on Wednesday that the City is offering a $25,000 reward in the investigation of two “brutal” sexual assaults that happened on 24th Street. The first assault occurred on Nov. 18, the second on Dec. 8.

“The attacks keep getting worse,” Biel told reporters. “We have someone who is very dangerous to the community.” The police department is working with the FBI on the investigation, he said.

Read on.

Pixel artist David Cole explains:

History recognizes two great eras of brotherhood: war-time sailoring and ’80s-era video arcade hooliganary. With this temporary tattoo pack, you can finally avoid wasting time celebrating these two things in separate contexts.

Yes! Buy them here. More pics and explanation here.

Now that’s what I call GETTING UP.

[Photo by Coffee Weed Skateboards] [via Man Freckles]

Took me a minute to place it, since it doesn’t say “Argus Lounge” or anything, but then I placed it and I was like “OHHHHHH YEAHHH.”

Not pictured: Leather Tongue Video signage, Annie’s Social Club signage, Mission Records signage.

Make the most of the city’s sparse offering of bike racks. (That was a hint, San Francisco.) Four bikes on one bike rack, one bicycle centipede. Just make sure you’re all friends first.

It’s one thing to walk around in this city without shoes, but it’s quite another thing altogether to actually ride a bike without wearing anything on your feet. The craziest part of this situation was that it was 9pm as we were deboarding the train.

I asked the woman in question, “Do you always ride around without shoes?” She replied in the affirmative and added with a smile, “It really doesn’t feel that bad!” I considered this for a moment before countering, “But isn’t it cold?”

“Yes,” she admitted while casting her glance downward. “It is cold.”