To Do: Your Weekend Of Tasting The Pleasure

Friday
· Music round-up: Avril Levigne at the Greek (we know there are closet AL fans lurking around here, don't be ashamed); Shelby Lynne at Avalon; and just to add to the scattershot nature of this group, Institute at the Roxy, featuring Gavin "Mr. Gwen Stefani" Rossdale (we're all about the "nicknames" today, aren't we?). We loved him as a pretty demon in Constantine.
· Found magazine, that fascinating compednium of other people's lost notes, gets a filthier edge as Dirty Found. Get your fill of stumbled-upon raunch at the Steve Allen Theater.
Saturday
· Generously bearded comedy wildman Zach Galifianakis is throwing a book party at Largo, which we're told means he will sign any book you bring along. We've also been led to believe that Fiona Apple might be performing, but don't hold us to anything after the first sentence in this item.
· What does 2005 Los Angeles Tofu Festival need to kick it into overdrive? That's right: TOFUZILLA, perhaps the least terrifying of all the giant monsters that once ran roughshod over Tokyo.
Sunday
· The Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center will be just like ComicCon, but without the three hour drive to San Diego and comparatively devoid of asskissing Hollywood types trying to kowtow to tastemaking nerds.
· Get drunk while watching Miranda July's critically acclaimed Me and You and Everyone We Know, courtesy of your pals at the ArcLight. Great idea...now if there were only some way to replicate this experience at home...
