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Friday
 · Hey, everybody! It's a John Waters Christmas! With Jonathan Richman! You know you're so there.
· Music round-up: Blood Brothers and Trail of Dead at the Henry Fonda; The Fray at the Troubadour; Mark Eitzel at Spaceland.
Saturday
 · Future Defamer trophy wife Amy Sedaris (we're showing up with our Kazakh bride-sack, don't try to stop us) is at Dutton's in Beverly Hills to sign her latest book, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence.
· More music: The Sounds and Shiny Toy Guns at the Wiltern; The Dears at the El Rey; Sea Wolf at the Troubadour; Jonathan Richman at Safari Sam's.
· In a basement in Chinatown located in the alley behind the seafood restaurant: Thought Bunker! Fight with words! Nudity! It already sounds pretty good, but a better explanation is here.
· Brendon Small, Ron Lynch, and Craig Anton host the Tomorrow Show at the Steve Allen Theater, a variety show on [insert name of violently mind-altering substance here].
Sunday
 · Lavender Diamond, the Tyde, and Winter Flowers play Smiths and Morrissey covers all night at the Echo. We suppose we are now compelled to say something like "get your Moz on."
· The Nutcracker, a ballet we have not only heard of but have actually seen (OK, it was a class trip in the third grade, but still), is at the Wilshire Theater.