Mission Mission

When Ramblas Tapas closed, I figured my days of devouring fancy churros dipped in molten chocolate on (or near) Valencia Street were over. Not so! I’ve just been informed that Regalito does the same thing, and that they do it well. I shall soon see for myself.

(Thanks, KCM!)

[Photo by Regalito]

If you like letters of the alphabet, you’re going to love the new show at Gallery Hijinks:

The Letter Collector is curated with the intention to exhibit both emerging and established artists in one massive group show based on the common love of type and script. Stemming from immensely different backgrounds, each artist creates their unique translation of a letter in the alphabet. The viewer will experience an assortment of letters expressed through a range of mediums: drawing, painting, photography, neon, wood, relief sculpture, and mixed media.

Letter party! Can’t wait!

Note that the above promo was made by Joe Lumbroso, the man behind that epic TCB Courier commercial.

Starts at 6, ends around 9. Don’t miss it out. RSVP and invite your friends here.

Also, our buddy Shae reminds us that Thursday is free-hot-dog day at the Uptown starting in an hour or so. So, let’s all go pound hot dogs for a couple hours and then head upstairs to Kitsch.

But, it’s kind of not even that disturbing. Is it a good sign that I feel that way?

Watch for yourself:

(Thanks, Amanda!)

Previously:

The Hives’ Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist offers terror rhetoric as stage banter

The horror.

[Photo by The Minutes]

Hope you’re okay!

[Photo by Hampshire House]

At every single red light!  Yellow jacket guy is obviously impressed.  Seems like a good way to capitalize on those lost seconds at the intersection.  Such as this one, for instance, by the railroad tracks (ha).  I mean, what else are you going to do with that time?

This trailer is so good, I know it’s hard to imagine the movie itself living up to it. And, really, the picture quality on this little YouTube box is in many ways preferable to the fuzzy, not-bright-enough projection at the Roxie. BUT, I saw this movie there last night and had a wonderful time.

So if you’re like me and you like oddly paced movies with very little dialogue and a pretty bare-boned story, check it out. At the very least, you’ll have a good time arguing about it with your buddy that hated it over drinks after.

Our buddy Tony Pierce down in LA (who gave us some choice advice when we here in the Mission were dealing with our own American Apparel-related crisis) is grappling with conflicting feelings about the controversial clothing manufacturer:

whenever i see one of their billboards or ads i think what happens when i have little daughters and they see that ad and their friends see that ad and they say daddy can we go to american apparel and buy some of those clothes, those girls look so pretty.

what am i supposed to say to those little angels?

i cant say “you dont see mommy dressing like that do you?” cuz mommy better have some of that tucked away. so now im a hypocrite. in front of my sweethearts.

im so doomed.

Poor Tony! Read on.

I don’t usually care for reading about other people’s dreams, but Sexpigeon just had a doozie. Somehow he ended up on a horrific future version of Conan’s show:

There is a lot of cussing. Later, Justin Long leads everyone in a game where we each pretend to be a different member of Rocky & Bullwinkle. He describes situations and we use our iPhones to conjure up objects that our characters might use in this situation. We project them holographically. This is a skill unto itself: often the objects appear slightly melted when projected by a novice. Justin Long is quite good at projecting and is eventually showing us parlor tricks one can do with an iPhone hologram projector.

Read on if you want more mind blown. Be sure you get to the part about the wrap party. The horror!

[Photo by Bryan Haggerty]