Planet, Didion, Madre

· Music round-up: Gliss at Spaceland (free, as per usual on Monday nights); Phantom Planet at the Roxy; Bodies of Water and Western States Motel at the Echo (also free).
· Joan Didion will be at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to alternately depress and uplift you in discussing the acclaimed The Year of Magical Thinking; meanwhile, Fight Club's Chuck Palahniuk will sign Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey at Vroman's in Pasadena.
· The Exorcist and The French Connection director William Friedkin screens John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre at the Skirball.
