Mission Mission

I mean all you need to know about Battlehooch is that their name is Battlehooch, am I right? And as far as B. Hamilton, their frontman is Ryan Christopher Parks AKA Ron Kristophone AKA one of the most foul-mouthed (and foul-souled) Mission Mission commenters ever.

RSVP and invite your friends!

Rock Bar’s bar manager Brion just emailed us some good news:

Rock Bar hosts one lane of bowling! 25 CENTS a game. No hourly rates apply. Enjoy a classic cocktail for under 10 bucks & grab a bucket of chicken across the street & make a night of it!

Sold!

[via Wam Bam Ashleyanne]

Reader Lillian F. came upon the aftermath and recorded the following video of a helpful citizen explaining what had happened:

[Photos by the Fog Bender]

I’m afraid that in the wake of Monday night’s riot shitstorm, a lot of you might’ve missed out on this great piece our Nick Pal wrote about the new Hickey reissue:

Hickey was a band from the Mission in the 90’s that was the primary inspiration for the whole Mission punk scene of the late 90’s and early 00’s. I pretty much missed them entirely – I was still getting into music and probably at a Suicide Machines show at Slim’s around the time they were playing their last show. I did get ahold of their album at some point as well as a burned copy of Various States of Disrepair that I ripped from the KALX library on my first generation iBook. At some point I saw Matty Luv and possibly another member of Hickey play at Mission Records in an acoustic band called Me, You, and the Boys. All I distinctly remember was the closing refrain of the best song they played, “I’m higher than youuuuu are, I’m higher than youuuuu are.” Sadly, Matty Luv died a year or two later.

Read on for details on the reissue, including lots of pics. And read the comments too for the story of how Hickey famously pwned the Voodoo Glow Skulls.

So says Eater SF, who also recently published this tiny picture of the restaurant’s progress. Read on.

Someone please make a single-serving web site for the status of the Valencia Street Swing.

I snapped this picture because the bound guy is wearing a kickass Deee-Lite shirt, but the sketch, “Beatbox Exorcism,” turned out to be even better than the Deee-Lite shirt. It’s a familiar exorcism story, but instead of shrieking and seizing, the possessed guy beatboxes uncontrollably — and this guy really kills it.

These guys Mission CTRL are part of the Piano Fight family of local sketch comedians, and I saw their new show “The $7 Billion IPO” last Thursday and had a lovely time, and I suggest you check it out tonight. Tonight! Last chance I think!

This troupe really excels at timeless, character-based stuff like the beatboxer, and a sketch where a group of guys are playing poker with a minotaur, but as the title suggests, there’s a bit of topical — and regional — humor in there as well. (There’s a pretty good grenade gag in one sketch, but it was kind of unnerving since I saw the show the same day we had a grenade scare about a block and a half from the theater.)

Anyway, it was all pretty good. The show takes place at Stage Werx, on Valencia near 16th. Admission is $20, which I know is steep, and I know there’s plenty of great comedy on Hulu and Netflix that costs you next to nothing — but there’s nothing like seeing it live.

There you have it, San Francisco’s staunchest supporter of the Second Amendment.