Mission Mission

Jojo Brandel of Please Quiet Ourselves fame (you might remember him and them from one of the best locally produced music videos of 2010) returns this week with a brand-new project. It’s a band called Moe Meguro (Moe is pronounced the Japanese way as they’re named after Japanese Olympic curler Moe Meguro), and they just finished recording their debut album at the Mission’s own Tiny Telephone.

Here’s the startling video for the first single, “Goya Health and Wellness”:

If you like that, maybe you’ll like contributing to the band’s Kickstarter campaign. $10 gets you a digital download of the album, $25 gets you a vinyl LP and a digital download, and for $100 the band will write a song about you (or take you on a date). There are a few other options too. They’re almost to their goal (at which point they’ll be able to press the records and distribute them or whatever), but every little bit helps, and the thing closes in just a couple days.

Listen up you jive turkeys, did you see 2009 blaxploitation revival film Black Dynamite? No? Well get a load of this:

Yeah, way better than that crappy Shaft remake starring Samuel L. Jackson.

As amazing as the vintage Super 8 video production style of the movie was, it would have fallen short without the original soundtrack provided by genius Adrian Younge. This guy wrote, recorded, edited, and performed all the instruments on the epic Curtis Mayfield/Isaac Hayes-inspired score. I hear he’s also a law professor. Here’s a sample, the Black Dynamite theme:

Adrian’s group, the Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra will be performing their last ever show at the Bottom of the Hill this Saturday, so you’d better make it out if you’re a fan. They will be playing hits from the soundtrack like “Jimmy’s Dead” and other originals.  A soul group I play in, Lord Loves a Working Man, will be opening along with rockin rhythm and grit band  the Struts.

Show starts at 9pm, costs 10 bucks (advance tix). The details are on facebook, can you dig it?

[via Pen Pop]

In case you were still confused on the subject, our pal Hilary put together this handy little guide to help redress the headdress situation. Check out the history lesson full of salient points here.

Prom pictures from last Friday’s summer soul bash at the Verdi Club are up on Facebook. I think you have to “like” Dusty Stax Presents in order to view the whole album (but that’s good because then you’ll be more likely to be made aware of future events such as this).

In any case, there are a handful of highlights after the jump, and a summer soul classic to listen to while you ogle them:

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My goodness, look at the size of that thing! San Jalisco really knows how to quench a girl’s thirst, I guess.

[via Awww Damn]

What gives? Christine, who snapped the above snap, wants to know.

UPDATE: I guess it was just spillover from the BART protest after all. Nothing to see here.

But they have to go around as a pair. If they split up, neither look is as hot.

[via Almighty Corntard]

The Fog Bender waxes poetic:

they tore down the playground at Dolores park and i’m bummed about it.

this was the place i went to countless birthday parties in my youth.

the place i would take countless dates to drink and chat on the wooden structure under the stars.

the place i would count hundreds of football sized rats running from the bushes to the big wooden boat that sat beached in the sand.

this was the place i would run off to after getting too fucked up to hang out at the bar.

i would swing on the swing set by myself and sometimes meet other people doing the same thing.

Read on for the dramatic conclusion.

[Photo by Norman Rockwell]

A woman was having a conniption into a cellphone on 22nd Street a little bit ago. Shrieking:

If she’s under stress FUCK the birthday party! FUCK the birthday party! She’s not fifteen! Or eleven! If she’s under stress, FUCK THE BIRTHDAY PARTY!

Bummer!

[Photo by Klara Kim]