We received many an email about if we would be dong anything for people outside the New York area in regards to our recent Warehouse Sale. Well now you have an answer…

ALL FALL ‘07 MERCHANDISE IS 50-70% OFF!

We took inventory after the sale and whatever was left (not much) is now online at a deep discount while it lasts for all of our fans not in New York! Just head over to our Online Store and shop, shop away!

You’ll also notice that our store is now stocked with Holiday product, the New Store Exclusives & a special re-print of our Goblin T-shirts!

Holiday product, New Store Exclusives, Goblin & Denim are all excluded from the sale.

We wish you all a Happy New Year, thank you for making 2007 so amazing for us and hope your 2008 will be as awesome!

In keeping the tradition of doing everything last minute. I offer MY top 10 list of 2007. My top 10 eBay purchases of 2007! I actually haven’t done that much buying this year but I used to be an eBay animal, a Powerseller even! But I have kind of slowed down these days.

I was going to post the actual photos from the eBay listings whenever I could, but I didn’t save all the photos, and some of the auctions have expired from the eBay database, so oh well. I did however tirle them ALL as they were listed on eBay. These are in order of when I bought them this year rather than my favorites. Enjoy my dorkdom!

10. AFRICAN MOVIE ART POSTER HAND PAINTED CANVAS GHANA
This is one of the most favorite things I own. It is a hand painted African Movie poster of Army of Darkness. In different parts of Africa, they have these traveling cinemas that show American movies. Most of them are horror, action, sci-fi… basically movies they don’t really need to be translated to be understood. Local painters hand paint posters for the films on rice bags for the traveling shows.

9. Beastman Masters of the Universe Ben Cooper costume
We did an art show out in Toronto earlier this year that was Masters of the Universe themed. We did the window display and part of that display had child mannequins in these vintage vinyl costumes that we already had a bunch of. We however did not have a Beastman, who was one my most favorite of the He-Man villains because I’m obssessed with Bigfoot, The Skunk Ape, and other hairy beasts. But unfortunately this costume never arrived in time and we weren’t able to even use it the show! But we paid a pretty penny for it and it now makes a lovely decoration for our office. Check out our Gallery for pictures from the show!

8. KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE Chiodo POSTER
When I first heard the title of this movie as a kid I seriously thought it was a joke. I mean it is, kind of… know what I mean? I always loved the artwork for the movie poster, and this one is in Spanish, double the radness, I guess. On a side note, If you rent this flick, listen to the Director Commentary! Some of the best on any DVD.

7. RUDE RALPH / 1986 / AXLON / VINTAGE
I actually already had one of these guys, but I couldnt remember his name. So when I finally found out his name and saw him on eBay, I bought another one. He’s basically a giant Madball, but wasn’t produced by Amtoy. When you pull Rude Ralph’s eye out of it’s socket he makes burps and fart noises. If forced to explain who is/was a genius I would probably describe the guy (or gal) who created Rude Ralph.

6. 1986 AmToy Head Popping Mad Balls Oculus Orbus Figure
One of the Madballs action figures. His eye (head) pops off! Oculus Orbus, now you know!

5. RARE boglin Slobster the Lobster Pet monsters 80’s toy
I didn’t remember this Boglin until I saw him on an old advertisement. This Boglin is a lobster creature, how fucking sick is that!?

4. 1980′ MADBALLS “BRONCUDO” RARE ARGENTINE VARIANT BAGGED
When I saw this guy on eBay, I freaked! Argentina gave us some truly amazing bootlegs of many popular 80s toys. I’m really glad they bootlegged Madballs as well. I bought this from a guy who I also bought a ton of Argentinian A-Team (or Brigada A as they are known in Argentina) stuff from.

3. Vintage German Devil Satan Nodder Bobble Head Germany
This was purchased as a result of my bi-monthly eBay search of “vintage devil.”

2. Vintage BeBe’s Kids Ghetto T Shirt 80’s Hip Hop Mishka
Man, this auction really fucking pissed me off. I had won this on eBay and was stoked. But the next day the seller emails me and says someone in the UK offered him $150 (I paid $40) for it and he had decided to sell it to him instead. What an asshole! Sigh…

1. 1986 Amtoy My Pet Monster w/ Original Handcuffs
On our last trip to Japan, Mikhail and I saw one of these guys in a vintage toy store. We both had him as kids, but this is NOW and we needed one NOW! My Pet Monster… I know you know whats up!

So this Doombox and the post for it was one of the things lost in our move! So here it goes again…

Mike Dextro & I were good friends when we were both fresh immigrant toddlers in Brooklyn. I even rememeber giving Mike a sweet Ultra Magnus for his 5th birthday! But Mike and his family moved away and I hadn’t heard or seen from him in over two decades until I ran into randomly at a friend’s loft party in Williamsburg.

In that time since i saw him again Mike’s been busy DJing and throwing parties in NYC. Check for Mike’s weekly Pornography Party on Wednesdays at Piano’s, Along with his remixes for the Junkies, his mashup team up with Olé called Diesel & Raw and his own banging track Bulletproof.

No order, No control!
Grind your teeth, let’s go!

-SKREAM, “oskilatah” (skreamizm vol. 4)
-BLAQSTARR, “Gon Break It Down” (The King of Roq)
-BENGA and COKI, “Night” (Tempa30)
-RUSKO, “Cockney thug” (Babylon: Volume One)
-DEXPLICIT, “Lollipop Bass” (The Niche & Bump EP)
-DIZZEE RASCAL, “Sirens” (Maths & English)
-DJ MEHDI, “Signatune, Thomas Bangalter rmx” (Lucky Girl EP)
-DUBCHILD, “Bumbaclart Riddim” (ARMY007)
-DROP THE LIME, “Pump up NY”
-GROOVE ARMADA feat. STUSH, “Get Down, Calvin Harris rmx”
-GUI BORATTO, “Terminal” (Chromophobia)
-HIJACK, “Hijackin, Herve fuck fuck mix” (On The Brink Of Hype)
-STARKEY, “Corner Store feat. Xploder” (Corner Store EP)
-PASSIONS, “Get Hype”
-POMOMOFO, “Back At The Club, Boy 8 Bit rmx”
-PROXY, “Ready 2 Watching”
-DIDDY feat. CHRISTINA AGUILERA, “Tell Me, Switch rmx”
-TEENAGE BAD GIRL, “Vacuum” (Cocote)
-TREVOR LOVEYS & SINDEN, “Organ Grinder”
-ZZT, “Lower States Of Consciousness”
-M.I.A. “XR2″ (Kala)
-T2, “Filth” (The Monster Dubz EP)

Make sure you follow these artists and get all their tracks.
Hold tight! Brooklyn dance mosh crew!

but the site was down. Oh well… Check this out!

Fall Out Boy.

Tool - Prison Sex

Alice in Chains - Bleed the Freak (Live)

Soundgarden - Hands All Over

Mudhoney - Blinding Sun

The Jesus Lizard - Puss

Big Black - L Dopa

The U-Men - Dig It a Hole

So I was going to bitch and complain about the sad state of affairs in New York City and how everything is wack and nothing has any flavor and blah blah blah. Then I said to my jaded self, “self, things are way better here in New York than in 95% of the world, so curb those negative vibes, embrace that inner-hippie and tell the people of the internet what’s really good, not really bad.”

So with this newfound optimism I present my Top 9 things That Totally Ripped in 2007…

9.PorkChop
Jon Nicholson aka PorkChop aka Private Sector for years has quietly been making some of the most off-kilter psychedelic house music in these parts, holed up in his Brooklyn studio under the JMZ tweaking synths, jamming drum machines through effects units and recording that shit straight to tape, dude is producing some of the most rugged jams around. Further solidifying his legendary cult status, this year Jon did a three day non-stop improvisational music performance recording the entire 72 hours to cassette at the Grace Space. Aside from being a member of the Black Label Bike Club, PorkChop can be found DJing various venues around the 5 boroughs and doing time in avant-noise outfit Excepter. To say this guy inspires me is an understatement. Keep an eye out for some vinyl releases from Jon in early 2008.

8. Malvoeaux
aka Steve Summers aka Death Commando aka Rhythm Based Lovers aka Teen Laquifa aka Twin Roots. These are all the alias’ of one Jason Letkiewicz. Formerly of the Washington D.C. area and just recently a San Francisco transplant, Jason is destined for something big in the near future. In this past year during any given week I could count on an email coming from Jason containing new tracks from any of his numerous projects. An analogue outboard machine freak, equipped with an 808, 909, 707, Roland Juno-106 and various other pieces of machinery, Jason has, in my opinion, mastered numerous electronic music genres in tasteful and effective fashion. From 86′ jack-house, to electronic disco, to John Carpenter-esque soundtrack music there have been no boundaries for his creative output. Check out his tracks and see for yourself at CONFUSED HOUSE And if you download his tracks and play them out on your Serato, make sure you give credit where credit is due or drop the man a line and let him know you’re digging the jams. Again another major source of inspiration for me this year.

7. Eric Copeland’s (of Black Dice) first solo record, Hermaphrodite
I’ve been jamming this hard since I got a copy this past summer, but it wasn’t until the past weekend when I hit the peace pipe and jumped on the train back from Philly that this album got deep inside my head. I know that it takes a certain mind state to feel the effects of the Dice and their related projects, but I couldn’t help but feel as I closed my eyes that there were hundreds of tiny bugs crawling all over my face. HIGHLY recommended.

6. The visuals on Danny Perez
Here is a man who never leaves his home with the exception to walk his dog Boris and it shows. Deep beneath the clouded bongwater and the four walls of his editing room lies an individual intensely committed to creating a body of work that will be remembered for years to come, though hardly digestible by the masses. You may have seen his work this year flashing behind the stages of such acts as Panda Bear and Black Dice whilst giving tripping sixteen year-olds epileptic seizures. 2008 will see the completion of the full length Animal Collective “don’t eat the brown acid” movie entirely written, directed and edited by Perez. A beyond killer bro for sure.

5. Pissed Jeans
A punk band that’s not afraid to be a punk band. They get up on stage, plug in, and play for 25 minutes straight, unplug their gear and leave the stage. No bullshit, no antics, no claims to be this or that, just unrelenting heaviness in the vein of My War era Black Flag with a tad of the Germs thrown in for good measure. Sure you hear a lot of people compare new bands to such mega-outfits of yore, but Pissed Jeans truly lives up to these standards in today’s mundane world of rock n’ roll music.

4. Claudio Rispoli aka DJ Moz-Art
Thanks to the magic of ye ol’ internet, I came across this really mind-blowing Claudio Rispoli aka DJ Moz-Art mix from 1979 and have rocked it non-stop since last winter. Rispoli was one of the residents at the Baia degli Angeli in Italy alongside Daniele Baldelli who were among the pioneers of the Cosmic/Afro funky sound. The song selection and mixing on this tape is so on point for the time, gets me amped every time I play it. Features tracks by Ron Wright, ORS, Joe Gibbs and the Jam Band, and Queen Samantha among others.

3. The Music of Marcuss Mixx
Unearthed by some dude named Thomos, the music of Chicago House boozebag/screwball Marcuss Mixx has risen from the dead and hopefully to a dancefloor near you. A total tweaker who worked with legendary Chicago House DJ Ron Hardy towards the end of his career, Mixx has produced some seriously left field tracks, with only more to come. Should I leave my blow-up doll because she doesn’t like House music? I don’t have the answer to that Marcuss, but check out Let’s Pet Puppies to find out more.

2. Not Living on a Couch Anymore
I was living on random couches for almost two years. I now have an apartment again, and for that I am thankful.

1. Ziti, the dish
What do you all know about Ziti? What about a tray of Ziti? Or even Marie down the block who is rumored to make a terrible tray of Ziti. Ziti has been my cornerstone meal for years, it never lets me down, it’s cheap and if you know the right spots you will be treated lovely by this dish. Now don’t just walk into one of those broke-dick Rays Pizza’s and try to get some Ziti, because you will be very disappointed. I would suggest hitting Lalocanda at 432 Graham Ave. in Williamsburg as they know how to do things right. And if you don’t know about Ziti by now, well I really can’t tell you much more. All Hail Ziti!

This is Mr. Malta signing off for 2007… adios!

Here is a more in depth look at the first 3 (of many) custom colored NHL new era fitted we will be designing for Cap City. First up is a take on the NJ Devils. I decided to marry my favorite team with my favorite color palate of purples, sea foam and black. Why is a team from Jersey my favorite when I grew up in Brooklyn? Well for one they were one of the first NHL teams to go heavy on bringing over Russian talent in the 80s, which as Russian kid caught my attention and heart. But besides that, the Devils are run exactly how I think all sport teams should be… team first and built up upon smart drafting and their own farm system of talent! Couple that with the fact that Cap City is in Jersey and I just think the devils logo is one of sports best logos of all time and it was a no brainer!

This one will probably bring me more ire from NY sports fans as the Canucks are who battled the Rangers for the cup in ‘94. Pavel Bure, the Russian Rocket is my favorite player of all time (along with Alexander Mogliny). He was an unstoppable goal scoring machine and one of the fastest players ever to lace up his skates.  The Canucks have since switched logos to an orca like C in the past few years, but I’ve always loved their old skate logo from the 80s and 90s. I used various tones of green with a pink accent to pay tribute my favorite player. I just had a thing for green while designing this cap.

The Minnesota Northstars (now the Dallas Stars) were a team whose logo, uniform and color scheme I admired much more than the team. It was simple, impactful, sleek yet classic. A great example of less is more when it comes to sports logo design. I really just wanted to take their classic N and marry it to a very unconventional hockey color scheme… orange! I think the results came out quite nicely.

Like we mentioned on our frontpage these are the first of many custom colors we’ll be doing for Cap City. There will only be 30 produced of each and they will ONLY be available at Cap City, with a handful making it down to our Pop-Up Shop.

Cap City
5806 Bergenline Ave.
West New York, NJ

The Mishka Pop-Up Shop
218 Bedford Avenue (entrance on N. 5 th)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Open daily from noon to 8 PM.
L Train to Bedford Ave.

We all liked to get ’spaced out’ once in a while, get a lil’ ‘cosmic’ - see ’stars’ or what not. So this is a top 10 list of my astronomy photos of 2007 while ’space traveling’ YA HEARD!

10. A Comet Bursting Forth

Apparently comets are very hard for the naked eye to see. I say this is probably what Belushi and Farley saw before they took a permanent dirt nap. Pretty innit?

9. Black Hole on Mars

If I was a rapper and battling someone on Freestyle Friday on 106 & Park or some shit, I would carry a picture of this and claim that my guns could blow a hole as massive as this black hole on Mars. Science Thugzzz

8. A Giant Red Star Named Mira

I dunno if this shit is giant or red even, but I do think that ‘mira’ means come over here in spanish or something? Raekwon says it in ‘Ice Cream’

7. The Lover’s Embrace of ARP 87

Reminds me of British people saying, “The Lover’s Embrace of HARP 87″ I picture popping a few valiums to feel like how this looks.

6. Lightning at Weikerscheim Observatory

Doesn’t this look like one of those motivational posters you got as a kid at the book fair or something?

5. A Meeting of the Moons

You know it’s a gangsta party when Jupiter’s moons meet up like the after-party is just gettin’ started. There be some dusty mirror’s, solar system groupies, ice sparklin’ from light years away, COSMIC BALLIN’

4. Dark Matter Makes an Appearance

2 words, CHUCK ANDERSON

3. Chaos in Vela

This image shows the devastation wrought when a star explodes. The Vela Supernova Remnant formed when a massive star 800 light years away blew up 11,000 years ago. That’s some ‘Holy Shit’ action, son. Believe that.

2. Stereo Eclipse

When I was in highschool, the older kids would tell us how if you did more than three grams of shrooms, you would go to ‘the gate’- and how going there would change your life forever. I picture this before entering the gate, the eye of psychedelia saying, “You fucking think you are so awesome don’t you? Real proud that you got to the gate, you braindead fuck up”

1. The Beautiful Face of IC 342

This picture is pretty rad, but really, the real number 1 for ALL of my lists for 2007 would be this:

Hello, so we’re back and running. You may have noticed the lack of posts this past week and a slew of glitches here and on our site. The reason for those was that we chose to update to new servers this past week. With so much focus already on the Warehouse Sale and Christmas coming up, we felt that this would be the best time for some scheduled downtime.

Unfortunately, we lost about 2 days of posts during the move, some really awesome ones by Prolly (which perhaps he’ll re-post), photos from the 10 Deep Christmas party, info on the new Doombox and I forget what else! We also lost a few photo sets from our gallery. Our online shop is also experiencing a few glitches which shall be resolved soon along with International and domestic shipping rates.

Stand by as we try and bring back those missing posts and a host of new ones over the next couple of days!

We are having a HUGE warehouse sale this Friday, Saturday & Sunday! We are clearing out all old gear, new gear, samples (Fall, Holiday, SPRING!), and anything else that might be lurking around. Prices are craze! $10 T-shirts! $20 Hoodies! $20 New Eras! 50% off Jackets, Bags, Samples, etc!

Make sure you get there early since all the good stuff is gonna go quick! The Warehouse Sale is located, at our warehouse, duh!

MISHKA WAREHOUSE
350 Broadway (Storefront)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
J/M/Z to Marcy, G to Broadway, or L to Lorimer.

Friday, December 21st from 12-8pm
Saturday, December 22nd from 11am-8pm
Sunday, December 23rd from 11am-8pm
CASH ONLY!

The Pop-Up Shop on Bedford will still be open from 12-8pm and chock-full-o-Holiday Goods, Exclusive Tees, and all the other Mishka goodies that the kids will love!

I myself have been trying to cop Guitar Hero III for my wii (Nearly impossible might I add) So imagine being some lucky kid that is about to get the most awesomest gift any teenage boy this day and age can get this year-until your unsuspecting dad catches you getting high with your pals! Zoinks, gift go bye-bye! Read about it HERE. What a fucking bummer dude :(

I don’t know Prolly… little too much Ghost With the Most for my taste.

Will Batman have to say Joker 3 times to get him to go away?

I’m going to have to disagree with My Pal the Crook on this one. Dark Knight looks fucking brutally awesome.

So I usually just send links to Mike Jones whenever I find these. Rather than wasting his precious time, I’ll just post them on the Bloglin….

I’ve kind neglected doing this for oh like the past 6 Fridays, but cut me some slack, Ive been traveling! So I’m gonna get back to it even though it’s Saturday.

Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria

The Faint - Agenda Suicide

The Melvins - Lizzy

Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen

Testament - Over the Wall

Here is a sneak peek of a few styles you can find at the Pop Up Shop this weekend!

Vomitgorium by MCA of Evil Design

Electric Wizard by MCA of Evil Design

Get Adicted

You’ll also find our recent Monkey Bizz collab along with a few other exclusive goodies that you’ll have to come by to see!

The Mishka Pop-Up Shop
218 Bedford Avenue (entrance on N. 5 th)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Open daily from noon to 8 PM.
L Train to Bedford Ave.