Your Weekend Of Tournament Shredding

Friday
· Music round-up: Dinosaur Jr. are at the Troubadour, The Shys play the Echo, and Lavender Diamond and Dntel play a free show at Amoeba Records.
· W.C. Fields's The Old Fashioned Way screens at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, with a pre-screening discussion moderated by Hollywood's cherished film nerd, Leonard Maltin.
Saturday
· The Sacred Fools Theater hosts our kind of a contest: a Guitar Hero II tournament—your chance to show the world what you and Lars Ümlaüt are made of.
· To round out your adolescent male fantasies, the Hot Chicks of Horror! event at Dark Delicacies book store should do the trick. Featuring Barbara Nedeljakova from Hostel and Frankenhooker's Jennifer Delora.
Sunday
· Modest Mouse play the Greek Theater Gibson Amphitheater, The Chapin Sisters are at the Mint, and The Sweet Hurt play the Hotel Café.
· A screening of Tim Buckley: My Fleeting House, about the too-brief life of the 1960s musician and father of...sigh...Jeff Buckley. At Molly Malone's.
