Mission Mission

Hold onto your hats, Twin Peaks nuts! Get a load of this:

The Music Of Twin Peaks & Beyond performed by The Red Room Orchestra, which includes:

• Marc Capelle
• Tom Ayres (Persephone’s Bees)
• DJ Angel Baby (Shannon Shaw of Shannon & The Clams)
• Karina Denike (NOFX, Dancehall Crashers )
• Allyson Baker (Dirty Ghosts)
• Mark Etizel
• Toby Dammit (Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Swans, Residents)
• Tom Griesser
• Todd Roper (Cake)
• Sami Perez (The She’s)
• Karla Milosevich (The Helen Lundy Trio)
• Danielle Salomon
• DJ Blue Rose (Meg Low)
• & more TBA

It’s a superstar lineup of some of the best in the Bay Area and beyond, all centered around the show that many of us hold near and dear to our hearts.

The night also includes a Twin Peaks Costume Party and Audrey Dance Contest (DJ’d by Shannon from the Clams), and anyone in a Twin Peaks costume will be given an entry discount.

RSVP and invite your friends here, and get advance tickets here.

BONUS GAME: One of these “related posts” is actually related to the TV show! Find it!!!

Here’s the view from the park back in 2008 (from a post where I was sort of complaining about how that lone high rise was blocking our view of the bridge’s westernmost tower):

You can see the Bay Bridge!

Also in 2008, some bloggers at Curbed SF made an prediction about how the SF skyline would evolve:

Now, basically a decade later, they’re pretty much dead right. Here’s the view today:

No bridge.

[Top photo by Moncrief Speaks]

2001.

[via Spike]

[Photo and headline by Alia]

Local artist Steve MacDonald aka Ramblin Worker says:

#sanfrancisco is getting so crazy! I look out my window & I really thought it was the #deathstar

[Link]

Almost as good as Market Street in the 1950s, covered in neon!

[via Found Photos]

BONUS: Cliff House long before that, looking very different…

[via Nika]

SF Weekly this week published an in-depth look back at the life and times of the departed local artist:

It’s 1993, and 19-year-old Aaron Curry is trapped on an overpass towering above a crime-ridden Hayes Valley, long before the Central Freeway came down and it became the uber-chic hamlet it is today. Curry, better known as Bay Area graffiti writer ORFN, had been spotted mid-tag on the two-story-high roadway, and cops are approaching him in both directions.

He thinks fast and jumps — not to his death, but to a nearby wooden telephone pole. He grabs hold with his jacket-clad arms and bare hands, and wobbles down to safety.

 Read on for the whole story.

R.I.P.

[Top photo by SF_Scum; bottom photo by FajitaGate]

[via Found Photos]

Here’s what I got:

Freaky!

(As is their enamel pin selection.)

Beautiful heirloom tomatoes, plus Fritos and bacon! A truly great salad.