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SUNDAY: David Bowie Worship Band to Put on a Blasphemous Sparkly Spectacle

These guys have been stenciling the Mission in anticipation of their big show, and now they're ready to grace Public Works with a giant, beautifully cultish celebration of all things Bowie:

Experience David Bowie's love this Sunday, 2/26 at Public Works featuring a special service from the Mission's own Bowie worship band The First Church of the Sacred Silversexual.  After a year in the making based out of a garage on Florida and 25th, we're ready to share with our neighborhood a musical, theatrical, sparkly spectacle of a show that tap dances the line between religion and revelry, beatitude and blasphemy, rock show, and revival.

And here's what they they sound like covering Ziggy Stardust:

If that's not enough to get you in the door, they're promising $3 “Stardust shooters” (??? !!!) until 10pm and $3 beers all night.

Tickets are only $5 if you get 'em early, so head over to Eventbrite and slap down your credit card.

Because San Jose Rap is Cool

Antwon brings you a new video for his song Helicopter, produced by Walsh. You nerds can watch the bullitt clips but for the people who actually like rap this shit is dope and you should check out dude's bandcamp

Force of Habit Records to Become a Restaurant

Details on what is to come are still a bit sketchy, but according to SFist, 20th Street's Force of Habit Records (which hasn't been seen open by this blogger in quite some time) is set to formerly close up shop and become some sort of restaurant/cafe joint called “20 Spot”:

Another small, independent record shop bites the dust. Force of Habit, the little punk shop at 3565 20th Street (at Lexington) appears to be on its way to closing as SFist finds that a new restaurant/café wants to move in called 20 Spot. Force of Habit owner “Braindead” Dave Devereaux died last July at the age of 41 of unexplained causes. At the time, his family said they hoped to sell the shop and the online record business to someone who would keep it open, and a Save Force of Habit campaign launched to aid the effort. But it seems that was not meant to be.

Read on.

[Photo by Robert B. Livingston]

Guest Commentary: WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH JACK'S KARAOKE CHARGING A COVER CHARGE?

Guys and gals of The Mission, WHAT the FUCK is going on with karaoke in the hood?

It seems like it was just last year that you could be chilling with some lady you found on Craigslist, pop into Jack's for a few personal pitchers of brew and screech out some 80s love duet when the mood struck. It was fucking MAGICAL.

But now… now!… it seems that every Thursday night when I want to howl at Jack's grimy ceiling, they are CONVENIENTLY hosting some “fundraiser” to cure cancer or whatever. And there are people there too! Who are these people? Are they 94110 thru-and-thru, or are they scumbag yuppies who read bandwagon blogs and can afford to just GIVEAWAY four bucks to battered women?

It's borderline entrapment, I tell ya.

I don't buy this whole “donation” thing either. I've seen that Mission Mission asshole (who's NOT from SAN FRANCISCO) walk in all slow-motion like, giving the bouncer an assertive “I know you” slap while gliding past for free. Suspect!

Last night I had that uncontrollable urge to belt out some Talking Heads. So, yeah, I rolled the dice. But when the bouncer told me it was a four dollar donation to the homeless to get in, I spat in his face, threw an uneaten sandwich in the trash, and went to POPS and peed all over the floor.

I was NOT born in a city like San Francisco to pay a cover to drink Busch across the street from a place where frumpy old people go to die. There has GOT to be another way.

(Photo (c) Chris Brennan)

Eskimos to Make Slumgullion out of 47 Van Ness

I can't comment too much on the musical aspects of this show (other than I once watched Battlehooch put on a set on the corner of 16th and Valencia and it was quite enjoyable), and you have to be at least six-years-old to attend (sorry, Mission Mission commenters), but this depiction of a flock of Eskimos tearing apart a 47 Van Ness is probably the most important work of art you've seen so far this year.

And should you be interested in the show itself, The Bay Bridged has a short preview of what one can expect and a line on how to score some free tickets.

Who Pays $1200 To See Kreayshawn on New Year's Eve?

Teenagers. Teenagers pay the big bucks to see their idol peer Kreayshawn imitate someone who can rap on New Years Eve. Saturday night's show at the Regency was all ages and from the looks of it, was a complete fucking disaster.

An informant has confirmed that this show was indeed a hot mess, complete with 14 year old girls puking up mommy's home cooking, pissing in the sink and puking in trash cans while their chaperones looked on indifferently. Another adult attendee said he was legitimately worried about slipping and falling due to the amount of bodily substances on the floor. Of course when you're that age and out for an unsupervised new years eve, you and your bff girlfriends can't help but have like THE ABSOLUTE TOTALLY BEST NIGHT EVER!!!!

One Tumblr diarist gave an especially glowing review:

BEST. NIGHT. OF. MY. LIFE. I cannot thank Kreayshawn enough for everything she has done for me and all of her other fans. She is truly such an amazing person. Actually meeting her and getting the opportunity to talk to her was incredible! She is so down to earth and genuine. Please don’t ever tell me she isn’t a good person. She is so great to her fans! … Seeing all of the people out in the crowd there for her and V-Nasty was insane! I’m so proud of the two of them and how far they have come. It’s only the beginning. 2012 is their year! WHITE GIRL MOB IS TAKING OVER!

Looks like the miscreant zygotes of the Bay Area had the best New Years Eve ever. Here's hoping they all made it back to Walnut Creek safe, sound, and before curfew.

And finally for your listening pleasure/to make your brains melt and seep out of your ears, please enjoy this mashup of 'Gucci Gucci' and Lou Bega's 'Mambo #5!”

KoЯn Cover Band Performs Live in Dolores Park

What went down today in Dolores Park sounds like a fantastically gross amalgamation of that awful afternoon I had in the Upper Haight last summer (which, if you haven't read yet, I plead you to, as it's a vital cautionary tale about the horrors that live at the top of hills), which can only mean the drum circles will be stepping up their game this spring.  Coupled with the fact those park renovations are supposed to start sometime this year, 2012 is looking pretty grim for Dolores Park.

(Also: just the other day I was rolling along Mission when I came across two dusty downers with dusty white skin and pee-soaked dreadlocks sitting at the corner of 19th (they had dusty dogs too).  As they drawled on about “spare change” and “having cigarettes” and addressing me as “Yo,” I couldn't help but notice one of them was wearing Adidas track pants.)

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