Single Of The Week: “Mr Monster” by Miranda and The Beat

This might be the scariest Halloween ever… COVID means we can’t get together and party. We really REALLY can’t do an apple bob. (Seriously folks, DO NOT BOB FOR APPLES! I mean, ever. It’s gross. But it’s pretty much a death warrant this year) Also, we are only a handful of days away from an election where, no matter what the results, there will be a contingent of people that believe the results mean that America will cease to exist as we know it. So, in lieu of a series song, our single of the week is a campy, garage-soul rave up from Miranda and The Beat called “Mr Monster.” We’ve got soulful vocals, campy horror-movie imagery, and a driving farfisa that will make your solo Halloween dance party still kick nicely. 

“Mr Monster” can be streamed in all the usual places, and you can dig deeper into their catalog on Bandcamp. Also, DON’T FORGOT TO VOTE!!!!!!!!

Outside Lands Diary, Sunday, August 12th, 2012: Jack in the Woods

My baby was stolen. Like the Lindbergh baby in the night* my beautiful 15 year old silver Honda CRV was removed from her place on the streets by some unnamed hooligan. We had many memories, me and that car. I learned to drive with her, I took up her up and down the coast of California, and I’m pretty sure I lost my virginity in that car (sorry Mom and Dad! Teenagers ya know?) (Also lets just gloss over the “pretty sure” portion of that sentence). So when I discovered on Sunday she was gone, it was with great sadness that I started my last day of Outside Lands. And then! If that wasn’t enough I was forced to take the N all the way from the Mission to Golden Gate Park! Yuck! (No seriously, yuck, I was so close to people that I almost lost my Muni virginity. Ya know what I’m saying!? Ok.) Silver beauty, it goes without saying, I miss you desperately.

I wandered around the park grumpy, glaring at every faux Ray-Ban, neon wearing fiend. “You don’t know my pain, neon wearing fiend!” I was secretly yelling. I was nobody’s friend.

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