Mission Mission

You may have heard that Diary, everyone’s favorite emo night, is moving to Saturday nights. The first one is tonight: 9 PM at Pop’s. Don’t miss out, Emo karaoke is the perfect opportunity to show off that you can still sing along with every word in Cop by Alkaline Trio!

If you’re confused by emo, the Diary guys put together a great mix for SF Weekly. Personally, I’m hoping to hear Embrace, Mineral, and Knapsack tonight.

P.S. You guys remember the Emo Game, right? (Disclaimer: I don’t support what I remember to be the rampant, messed up use of rape in the storyline. I’m in it for the pixel drawings and 7-inches.)

If you want to tell your friends what you’re doing this Saturday night, just make the above hand motion and say, “FOG AND LASER.” And then shoot a laser out your sleeve.

Here’s the deal:

Our running joke for the ‘FOG’ in Fog & Laser is that it stands for “Free of Genre” and we plan to hold ourselves true to this mantra. As a kitchen sink/anything goes/party jam kind of night, one might hear anything from 60s soul to 80s crowd pleasers. Anything from 90s guilty pleasures to the best electro cuts from 2005. A large emphasis will be placed on emerging indie and electronic music but that’s not to say we’ll hold ourselves back from playing a great forgotten punk tune here or a Smiths b-side there.

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Did we mention fog machines and lasers?!! Of course this is one of the reasons it was so easy for us to name the event… but we do plan to up the fun even further with special guests, laser backdrop photo portraits, and great drink specials.

LASER BACKDROP PHOTO PORTRAITS. Rickshaw Stop, this Saturday, only $7. RSVP and invite your friends here.

[Hand modeling by Dennis Kernohan] [Disco epaulet by Tag Savage]

Full press release after the jump:

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Find this gem at the Big Gay Warehouse, around the corner from the best jukebox in the city.

Even better, look who it is up in the corner:

The CNN stuff is an interesting addition. But I think Alleged looks better bigger and on its own.

Sharp.

I think you get these at Encantada on Valencia. Sharp.

[Photo by The Tens]

Epic.

[Photo by Brooke Candy]

It’s at Silver Crest. It’s all Whitney Houston and Patti LaBelle and Billy Ocean. Lots of Billy Ocean. Plus, there’s the Miami Vice theme (parts I and II) and some Miami Sound Machine, and a bunch of songs just labeled “Greek song.”

The best part might be the satisfying click noise the buttons make when you select your song. Or that it’s three selections for 25¢. Or that it uses real records and the needle is covered in 40 years worth of lint. What a sound.

Plus, donuts and whiskey and pool. I think this one wins.

Now let’s listen to some Billy Ocean:

There’s this blog called Deano Got Drunk which purports to depict this dog Deano posing on the streets with all the alcoholic beverages he consumes. It’s funny.

Today, Deano got drunk on Four Loko.

Melinda has the scoop:

Simple as that! Duly noted.

From the Macaframa website:

The event is finally upon us. Please come out to support a good cause and race and drink with your friends. There will be great prizes for the racers, as well as for our raffle, and cheap drink specials from Fernet and PBR! A portion of the proceeds will go to the SF Bike Messengers Association’s Broken Bones Fund

The race will be fixed only and will be an alleycat format. The event will have a DJ set and live performance by Nick Waterhouse and the Tarots, who have been blowing UP lately!

I know first hand how expensive it to be hit by a car while biking, and these guys take that risk and pay the price everyday doing their jobs.  So why not enjoy some PBR and take in a good show to help them out?  And if you’re feeling adventurous, jump in the race too!  If I had a fixie, I would totally be all over it — anyone got a lender bike?

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