Mission Mission

The shirts are really rad, who can blame the guy?

Listen to the Ferocious Few here.

Photo by Carl Says.

Previously:

Ferocious Few Rock Treasure Island Harder Than Some of the Headliners

One of a kind, for sale now at Artillery on Mission Street.

That’s right, Converse is letting you customize your All Stars now. Which means I can finally get some traditional maroon low-tops in a half size. Or you can celebrate the Giants or whatever. Or create an homage to your favorite pair of late-’80s Visions:

It’s real vintage, handmade-looking, felty. Small though, so you’ve gotta have a pretty small head.

For sale now at Afterlife on Valencia.

Oh, and there’s only one.

Photo by Zoë Banks.

Previously:

Stuart Murdoch Says, “Go Giants!”

“Go Giants!” in the Parking Lot

“Go Giants!” on BART

Obama Says, “Go Giants!”

Think they’re related to these jammers?

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.

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

“I’m used to there being a partially nude man next to me on stage,” Murphy says, referring to drummer Pat Mahoney’s penchant for short shorts. Last night on Treasure Island, where it was cold as grim death, Mahoney wore jeans, to the chagrin of short-shorts fans the island over.

Nonetheless, LCD Soundsystem destroyed. (They opened with the album opener and closed with the album closer!)

When I was in 4th grade, it was simply impossible to imagine a haircut more cool than a mohawk or a flat-top. Luckily, Mary’s Beauty Salon on 18th and Mission offers both of them.

Or maybe this is a reference to the 1988 Japan-only Famicom side-scrolling 2d platform title: “Flaptop and Mohaw”, which Super Mario Brothers 3 was pretty much based on (they just changed the sprites). Seriously, look it up.