Mission Mission

Positive Destruction, the local music blog devoted to writing even more Oh Sees posts than I do, just put together a year-end best-of list:

The Bay Area absolutely smashed it in 2011, with some of our favorite artists releasing amazing albums, EPs and cassettes that we’ve been listening to endlessly this year. It was incredibly difficult to cull the past 12 months to our favorite 15 releases, but we did it anyway.

Thee Oh Sees’ “Carrion Crawler/The Dream” double-EP (pictured above) gets the #1 spot, which is fair, but I gotta say I think I like the Mikal Cronin record even better, so definitely buy it for the garage rocker on your shopping list. Read on for lots and lots of locally made gift ideas.

Stop by Wire and Nail on Treat Avenue near 18th to have a look for yourself.

Comfortable, affordable and sexy. Sexpigeon is our favorite in the world, and these shirts he made will never go out of style. And so many color schemes to choose from:

Peruse the whole “line” now.

Bike Basket Pies Pie Priestess Natalie Galatzer invites one and all:

Join me at Pot + Pantry to help celebrate the release of my pie recipe booklet. The party is BYOPie – it’d be fantastic to celebrate the launch of the booklet with pies from friends and fans alike.

Bike Basket Pies: How to Make Handheld Pies for Bicycle Delivery booklet launch party
what: BYO Pie! Champagne provided, Booklets for sale.
when: Tuesday, November 29th, 6:30 to 8
where: Pot + Pantry, 593 Guerrero (at 18th)

Yum! RSVP and invite your friends!

(And if you can’t make it tonight, order the book online here.)

Ryan is a local artist who happens to love printing up killer shirts with trippy imagery or weird messages. There are tons to choose from, and they’re all great. Today only, you can get a deep discount if you buy two.

Jihaari is one of our favorite local artists (and karaoke singers). He’s got some custom decks up for sale right now, and for just $30 apiece. Purchase (or get in touch with him to see more pics or find out more details) here.

David Cole is one of the geniuses that redesigned our blog for us earlier this year. Now he’s moved on to bigger and better things, namely the creation of custom Lego sets with custom-procured Lego pieces and hand-drawn instruction booklets.

I am excited to officially launch my shop with the release of the deer LEGO kit. I’ve tried building it with real pieces now, and I need to make a couple structural changes, but it will look the same. Also, I’m hand drawing the graphics for the instruction manual, which should be fun and painstaking.

Read on for the full story and pics of the instruction booklets, or just buy the kit here. Orders must be in by December 5th if you want it in time for Christmas. (David’s shop also has a kickass homemade crossword puzzle for sale.)