Mission Mission

And we won’t get to see these amazing flyers or dance to the best soul grooves in town anymore!  Or so he threatens.

Best not to risk it.  See ya there!

He also tells the story about the first time he ever met Jay:

I first met Jay when he was 17 years old. He booked us a gig at Barristers, the line up was The Spaceshits, Deadly Snakes and Reatards. When we showed up in Memphis it looked like a ghost town. Skid Marks (drummer of the spaceshits) has always  been a magnet for scum bags and immediately befriended a one armed man who had just come out of prison. They disappeared in search for some weed.

When Jay showed up he told me that he had just gotten engaged to be married. He also apologized about the lack of people at the show in advance, the reason was simple… “everyone hates us in this town.”  There were 4 people in the audience that night, Greg Oblivian and the dudes from Impala. But the show went on and it was great fun. Later that night everyone went to Greg’s house to hang and listen to records and Carson Binks (Legend of San Fran), Skid Marks and I decided to go for a Memphis adventure with Jay.

We drove around crazy ghettos in search of drugs. All we wanted was a little weed, none of us wanted any of the countless crack offers not even Jay. We parked at a gas station for some cigarettes and when we were getting back into the car i remember all these crack heads coming out of nowhere asking me for a smoke. They were crawling towards us like true zombies and even continued to follow the car in slow motion as we drove away. It really felt like George A. Romero was somewhere around the corner. Jay spoke of these crackheads with a sense of pride which was followed by pure hatred. He was really into showing us the nitty gritty of his city.

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It’s too early in the morning for my mental faculties to discern whether or not this is a joke, but according to the seller:

The rent is too high. You’re too educated to ignore that you’re part of the problem, but you’re not about to move. Find compromise in this high fashion accessory.

Send orders/hatemail to rentraiser@gmail.com.

Charlie HD wasn’t falling for this clever trap on Cesar Chavez, but if I really really really needed to catch a cab in a hurry, I might just dance with the devil.

Of course, I’d probably also have to put in some extra Jesus bounce house time as penance just to be safe…

Adobe Books is almost all settled in their new cozy location at 24th Street, and they want to invite you over to check out their new home!

Come to our first ever event in our new location! Our Marketplace event is this Saturday May 18th. Join us as we invite local artists and merchants to sell out of the brand new Adobe books. Browse the wares of your talented Bay Area comrades like Ryan De La Hoz and Amos Goldbaum, and enjoy music by DJs Melissa Funk, Tylawave & Andy Pabstalaniec, as well as food & drinks by Rainbow Grocery and Speakeasy Ales and Lagers. All bar proceeds and 10% of sales from the marketplace will be donated to help open the new Adobe Books.

See the whole list of participants after the jump, and check out the FB event page here.

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Joe and Jill have been fixtures of the Mission art community for a while now, but sadly they are packing their bags and moving away to NYC. Of course, that means that now you can have all their stuff!

There’s art stuff, photography stuff, bike stuff, music stuff, clothing stuff, and all sorts of other stuff. Stop by and check it all out today at 2309 Bryant!

I just wish that they would actually stop at stop signs…

So I could at least get some non-blurry pics.  To make matters worse, the poor lady across the street dropped her avocados when she was startled by the thunderous roar of the woefully inefficient but sufficiently masculine engines.

Ah, fuck it, I’m not gonna lie.  I’ve wanted one myself ever since this.

Would you still spot lots of dots and all types of stripes? Well, you’ll have to find out for yourself tomorrow night!

It’s a runway show envisioning Andy Warhol’s girls living in 2013 mission district. DJ and drinks. Clothing by Stone Pony, hair and makeup by the staff of Ginger Rubio.

All you have to do is come up with your favorite New Order song in the comments.  Winners will be judged on merit.

Full details for the show here.

Not all seem to be as happy about it as you might expect.  The Priceonomics Blog took an in-depth look, asking some local tattoo parlors about the increasingly-popular phenomenon:

Despite the rebel associations of tattoos, artists recognize that what they do “changes people” and they exercise that responsibility wisely. Every tattoo artist we met described talking with teenagers who came in asking for tattoos on their face, hands, or other visible areas. Tattoos aren’t as taboo as they once were, but even with adults, artists recommend that people don’t get tattoos in visible places unless they’re established, retired, or in a more welcoming industry.

Why give up the possibility for profit? “Because it’s the right thing to do,” Paul Stoll, owner of Body Manipulations in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood told us. “You don’t want to go home knowing that you changed an 18 year old’s life for the worse. Tattoos should be empowering. They should change people for the better. They shouldn’t be a mask.” Paul asked for a face tattoo when he was young. The artist told him that he’d do it if Paul still wanted it in a year. He never got it.

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