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· Thursday night music round-up: Josh Ritter plays with The Sumbarines at the El Rey, Emma Burgess is at the Hotel Cafe, and Bob Seger, to whom Tom Cruise slid into our hearts in nothing but an Oxford, some briefs, and his Wayfarers, plays the Forum.
· Experimental film and video junkie alert! Pioneer of the medium Joan Jonas speaks tonight at the Hammer Museum. Is her stuff on YouTube? Yes, it is. What about Brakhage, Anger, and Mekas? Yep, yep, and yep. There just may be something to this YouTube thing, after all!
· Doubleheader at Skylight Books: Chris Abani reads from The Virgin of Flames, and T Cooper, formerly of drag king boy band The Backdoor Boys, reads from Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes.