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1. Go see the Comedians of Comedy at the El Rey featuring Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Maria Bamford. The last time we saw Oswalt do stand-up, we laughed so hard we almost vomited. Is there any better endorsement that that?
2. Get your Elton John on at the Scissor Sisters show at Avalon. Or, at the very least, get your "that sounds a lot like Elton John before he started doing Disney soundtracks, but in a good way" on.
3. If it's feeling like a quieter kind of night, how about a paranoid political thriller that was recently remade into an inferior movie? The Manchurian Candidate (the original, don't despair) plays at the ArcLight.