To Do: Aireoke, Indie, Franzen
· Have you exhausted all of the ironic possibilities of embarrassing yourself along to the music of others? Then Aireoke (tonight at Three of Clubs), the next logical (or is it absurd?) step in personal humilation, is for you.
· Hump Day concert call, in which we do our best to abuse the word "indie": Scandinavian indie-crooner Sondre Lerche at the Troubadour, San Diegan indie darlings Pinback at Avalon, and indie songsmith Rufus Wainwright does an in-store at Borders in Westwood.[Ed.note—Oops, that was last night! Intern flogged.] Indie-licious!
· Jonathan Franzen, the man who famously flipped off Oprah and her bestseller-guaranteeing book club (and later admitted to regretting it), reads at UCLA Hammer. See him before Hollywood ruins The Corrections adaptation, leaving the broken writer to wander the streets seeking to get shitfaced with the ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald.