Mission Mission

Fudgekat asks, “Have you ever seen Tapatio packets?”

I have not, but I would like to see some. Soon. Spilling their guts onto a food item I’m about to consume. Where can I make this happen? (Besides some place in Los Angeles, which is where Fudgekat spotted hers.)

Janebook is a good place to see great lo-fi square-shaped pictures of the neighborhood, like the above and like the below.

Previously:

Fake Polaroids Even Better Than the Real Thing?

Says Eater SF of Farina’s new venture.

Photographer Matt Baume says he detects a hint of skepticism in this “pious” PSA.  Link.

P.S. My sister was just telling me about watching some movie on TV in which censors had changed every instance of a character saying “Jesus Christ” to “cheese and rice.” Cheese and rice! I’ve started using it.

P.P.S. I’m listening to the new Johnny Cash album right now, and it’s pret-ty good. (He’s talking about Heaven and Jesus and virtues and stuff.)

The latest entry in Mission Mission’s Introduce Yourself section comes from Jason and concludes:

Oh, and if your new to the neighborhood and you drive an SUV I have stopped popping your tires and keying your paint job long ago. In fact, welcome.

Link. Kudos, Jason!

“It’s the orange that makes it,” says OMG the Mish of this piece of art currently for sale at Gestalt. Link.

Whoa. Street art is starting to read like tweets. … 2010!!

Photo by KayVee.INC.

Dolores Park View has the full skinny on on a recently announced public meeting being held to inform the community about steps being taken to minimize fallout from the impending renovation of Dolores Park. Here’s some of it:

Quickly moving up on their outreach timeline, the Parks Department in collaboration with Supervisor Bevan Dufty’s office will host the first official public meeting on the upcoming Dolores Park renovation project. Titled  “Shining Light on 2008 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond Projects: Mission Dolores Park”, the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 3, 6-8 pm at the Dolores Park Church, 455 Dolores St.

Read the rest. See you there.

Photo by J is for Jetsetter.

This video is going to catapult someone to stardom.

That someone will probably be Myles Cooper, whose exploits we’ve been following for a while now. Most recently, Myles did some time as a Boy George impersonator. Before that, he was Myles the Free Barber. And we won’t soon forget his performances in such viral video classics as Gay Bath Fail and How Myles Got Dumped.

Today we just might be looking at the pinnacle of Myles’ myriad achievements thus far. Gonna Find Boyfriends Today is a joyous new video for a joyous new song. Director Skye Thorstenson is due a fair share of the credit too, but Myles is the man. And Mission Mission is proud to say it got the scoop straight from the horse’s mouth late last night:

Allan: Your new video is NUTS. Where’d you get the director?

Myles: I met Skye at a gay pot luck.

And how did you all come up with this CRAZY video?

Skye came up with most of the imagery and built all the puppets and animations. There were a few things I really wanted like a Precious Moments boys choir, a Latin drummer and the scene with my shirt being ripped off like the Right Said Fred video “I’m Too Sexy.”  Skye was happy to create all of that and a lot more from his imagination.

Couldn’t have done it without the song though. ‘Sup with it?

The song came to me in August when I was staying at an apartment in Washington Heights, the neighborhood in Manhattan. I was staying with my friend who is a hard-working singer. It is where a lot of people who work in theater live, so you can hear people practicing trombones, flutes or whatever. It’s pretty inspiring and totally not punk rock. I take Ambien to sleep, and one night I dangerously and unknowing stayed awake and somehow made a YouTube video of me singing this song. I woke up in the morning with no recollection of making the video. I erased the video and started to work out the instrumentation when I got back to San Francisco. It took a long time to program, and a long time to make the video, but I feel it was all worth it.

No doubt! When’s your album drop!?

Yes, I am working on an album. But first I want to release a few songs as singles. Optimally the “Gonna Find Boyfriends Today” single is gonna have the radio edit, an extended mix and a Spanish version on 12″ vinyl.

How will you perform this jam live? And who is in your band?

I perform this song live now, and the setup of the live show is always evolving. I am creating a huge family band called Myles Cooper USA. Right now my friend Ryan Froemming plays keyboard while my bestie Alexis Blair Penney sings backups. I sing and do live drum machine stuff on my Atari Mega ST 2 music computer. The computer is over 20 years old so it’s a trip to see on stage. People go crazy. We mix in a few backing tracks in at random moments as we don’t have enough people in the band yet.

NOTE: Looks like Myles Cooper USA is playing TONIGHT at El Rio! Lucky us!

Everything Is Everything just published a photo series called Food and Drink in the Mission and it alllll looks good.

(Vegans, I put “Skinless Beef Feet” right there in the title just for you. You can’t call foul.)