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· This American Life puts on a live performance of the NPR radio staple at Royce Hall, with Sarah Vowell, Dan Savage, Ira Glass, and special guests. Glass promises to discuss what it's like trying to adapt his radio show into a Showtime series, which we imagine entails many frustrating conversations involving the host explaining why every slice-of-life piece can't involve some hot lesbians getting it on.
· Music round-up: The Sword at the Troubadour; Low vs. Diamond at Spaceland; Gosling and Gliss at Safari Sam's.
· Steven Parr's "Psychoactive Cinema" exhibition at Un Urban Coffee House screens material from 1932-1967 such as "offbeat home movies, allergy test films, ethnographic oddities and adult film outtakes." Yup, there's a little vintage porn there at the end to take the edge off the weird stuff.