Mission Mission

Last Wednesday at Michael Abraham Jazz Session, this Kora player showed up! Anyone know him? Check out this video of him doing his thing in glorious iPhonevision:

It sounds like there are angels in that gourd. The Kora is probably my favorite African harp/lute instrument that is fashioned out of a calabash. What’s yours?

Mike Abraham is also probably one of the baddest guitarists I’ve ever seen in any style. You never know who will pop in at his jam. Head over to Amnesia tomorrow at 10pm to check it out. I’ve got my fingers crossed that a jazz hand-farter will show up.

[Photo by nileshd]

It’s that time of the year again when the masses of SF guerrilla cinema seekers pile on the layers and huddle around their thermos of Blue Bottle and Jameson, jockeying for the best blanket spot from which to watch free classic flicks.

Hoping to capture the magic of last year’s (or was it two years ago?) season opener featuring classic underdog Daniel Larusso overcoming the meanness of those bad boys from Cobra Kai, Dolores Park Movie Night is starting off the season with another timeless 80′s hit about a kid you want to root for.  I’ll give you a hint:

[Delorean concept art from Slashfilm]

It’s only natural that we witness Marty McFly showing both Biff and the Space Time Continuum who’s boss. Throw in a healthy dose of “Great Scott!” and you’ve got yourself a fantastic plan for a cheap date.

Also, these nights are put on DIY style by people who care about good movies.  Be a dear and kick them down a few bucks so they can keep this awesome tradition alive.  So far, we’ve seen Annie Hall, Pretty in Pink, and the Breakfast Club, all of which were excellent.  Any hope for a Repo Man screening this year?

UPDATE!!! Commenter MrEricSir clued us in to the fact that Film Night in the Park (pictured above) is a corporately sponsored event while DOLORES PARK MOVIE NIGHT is the DIY fest I meant to refer to.  Wow, I’m all mixed up now!

Some friend of The Tens (not pictured) says Anchor Steam tastes like earwax.

At first I was like NO WAY, but then I was like MAYBE, and finally I was like SO WHAT, A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE THE TASTE OF EARWAX.

Is it true? Anchor Steam sure tastes like somethin’ or other. What is it exactly if not earwax?

Photo by Orin Zebest.

Previously:

Anchor Steam in Berlin

OMG the Mish stumbled onto this scene on Sunday.

Are you disturbed? I’m kind of disturbed, although, even though I’m a vegetarian, I’ll try anything once. I’d try some lion.

I mean, at least it’s not smorked.

Previously:

Special Tiolet Flushing Instructions

Whenever he gets too drunk to maintain his Valencia serenade, Mission troubadour Omer retreats to the mural wall across the street from my house, right next to the mockingbird car alarm tree.  Instrument skills extinguished for the night due to inebriated motor reflexes, he nonetheless continues the show and resorts to borderline racism and half-baked paranoia, even if there is no audience.  While it was too dark to really see what was going on, I’m sure you’ll recognize the voice.

Full disclosure:  If you choose NOT to listen to these rants of his, you will probably end up smarter for it.  I, on the other hand, do not have much of a choice!

Omer extols us to study the Constitution, and he wonders where Obama is from:

Omer rallies against gentrification and apologizes for the sorry state in which his hero Jimmy Carter left our country:

Previously:

Omer’s Favorite Breakfast Cereals

Omer, Bard of Valencia

No Love for Omer?

Clooney’s today made Hidden Host‘s new Worst Places to Take a First Date list. (Kudos, Clooney’s!)

Of the several locations on the list, Clooney’s is the only one in the Mission, which leads us to believe there might’ve been some glaring omissions. Aren’t there worse places in the neighborhood to take a first date than this place?

Photo by generik11.

Previously:

Clooney’s: The Next Hot Bar in the Mission by Kevin Montgomery

Clooney’s: The Next Medjool by Kevin Montgomery

Shark Toof has been spotted around these parts a bit. This weekend brought a sighting in L.A.

Cameo by our old frenemy, NeckFace.

Ardent commenter and Ski Free expert MrEricSir captured this crew planting some trees on the recently renovated sidewalk of Valencia between 16th and 17th St.  While this definitely looks better than:

. . . Am I the only one who’s worried about where to lock up my bicycle now that all those parking meters are gone?

UPDATE!!! I am an idiot and the parking meters were reinstalled last week!  Leave it to the City to maximize parking revenue efficiency!

And this black asphalt will allegedly contain the new Días de los Muertos bike-racks!  Rad!  Nice surface area!

Unbeknownst to us, our partnership with VidSF is still going strong, and today it resulted in some coverage of the Bring Your Own Big Wheel party that Andrew mentioned earlier. Watch our very own Sunny Angulo’s report here.

SFist has a video too, here.

(Thanks, Sunny!)

Previously:

Fight Club

And will now just be kind of sad.

RIP Al Ross, founder of Doggie Diner.