Mission Mission

This is a new video for a song by Holy Fuck, whose set yesterday (I’m told) was one of the highlights of the Treasure Island Music Festival. My buddy Jake says they brought the energy like no one else. (I missed it because I stayed in bed when I saw it was raining.) Watch this thing already:

[via Maya]

This PSA Hulu keeps showing me says Asians and Pacific Islanders in San Francisco are afraid to talk about HIV or even acknowledge that it’s a thing, and are therefore more at risk than other groups! Bummer! Is this true?

Nice subliminal ad for the Dolores Park Single-Family Cathedral though.

Before breaking into a spirited rendition of Piazza, New York Catcher, Stuart inquired about our pennant-racing boys in black (and orange):

I don’t know how the game ended up today.  Oh?  It wasn’t good, eh?  Not to worry, we’re bringing it back home 1-1.  That’s how you want it to be, really.

Those Phillies don’t stand a chance.

Where will you be on Tuesday at 4:20?

What the Mission Mission commenters say

SFist weighs in as well

Previously:

Go Giants!

Dugout Prank

This joke is a few months late I think, but it’s okay because Necessary Conversation is so charming! Watch this week’s broadcast here.

Bummer! Luckily some nice girls at a hat booth at the festival gave him the handsome new one pictured here.

He says he realized one second too late that he’d left it on his seat, so he pleaded with the driver to let him back on, but the driver did not relent! Drove off with Stu’s headwear! Super bummer!

Soooooo, did anybody happen to FIND STUART MURDOCH’S HAT on a J train today?? Score!

And what do you suppose he was doing on the J anyway? Perhaps doing prep work for his upcoming gig at Dolores Park?

Photo by Clare821.

I mean, if this was Berlin, I’d be all about it, but this is not Berlin.

Anyway:

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Figuring the electro night of the TI Music Festival would be the most appropriate time ever to wear such an awesome hat, Allan was disappointed that no one commented on his Swomp Thang lid’s awesomeness the whole time we were there.  Then, while waiting in the hour-long line for the shuttle at the end of the show, he finally got an “I love your hat!” from a random fellow line-waiter.

As he was mentioning to the rest of us how nice it was that the hat had finally received its deserved accolades, a completely different person shuffled past in the contra-lateral line and exclaimed, “I love your hat!”  Cosmic occurrence or past-due acknowledgment?  I can’t decide.

Want a Womp Hat of your own?  You can find them here.

[Photo L-R:  1st Row Me, Natalie, Elisa, Allan;  2nd Row Mischievous Ne'er-do-wells]

Previously:

MM Commenters’ Stories of the Treasure Island Bands

Swomp Thang

“My advice to you, San Francisco? Join a band,” he says, “It’s a lot of fun.”

!!! ruled, btw. Love watching those moves.

[Photo by A. Sarkarati]

Mark Denton (aka swampzoid) used Google Earth to capture this image of the Hub (that circular on-ramp on S. Van Ness by 14th Street that leads to the 101).  I’ve always wondered what kind of seedy stuff goes on in the middle of that thing.

For maximum enjoyment on this abysmally rainy Sunday, we recommend a pairing with Sunny Day Real Estate:

From a recent profile detailing the origins of Belle and Sebastian:

On the day he had to return home, Murdoch remembers, the seminal D.C. post-punk band Fugazi played a show in Dolores Park. He’s still sad about not being able to go. But it was then, health improved, guitar skills in tow, first songs already written and performed, that Murdoch vowed to return to San Francisco with his own band.

“I always wanted to play in Dolores Park,” he says, still wistful after nearly two decades. “I hope that Treasure Island will have a similar vibe.”

Oh, cool. Wait. Treasure Island has a fine vibe, but it’s no Dolores Park. CAN WE GET A BELLE AND SEBASTIAN SHOW IN DOLORES PARK PLEASE??

P.S. Wait. FUGZAI PLAYED A SHOW IN DOLORES PARK!?

According to this picture by photographer Chris Belew, and this VH1.com article, they played there in 2000, with Sleater-Kinney, but that would’ve been well after Murdoch started Belle and Sebastian. So, FUGAZI HAS PLAYED MULTIPLE SHOWS IN DOLORES PARK??

CAN WE PLEASE GET SOME COOL BANDS PLAYING SHOWS IN DOLORES PARK AGAIN PLEASE???!?