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· The year-ending RES screening at the Egyptian will show the winners of the magazine's Audience and Jury prizes, new videos for Bright Eyes and Royksopp, and Michel Gondry's new stuff for the White Stripes. Once your mind has been sufficiently blown, there's an afterparty.
· Music round-up: Har Mar Superstar and Peaches (who's scheduled to DJ, but will be doing a "surprise set," according to a little birdie) strip down to their underwear to the delight of the assembled hipsters at El Cid—for hurricane relief! The Shore at the Silverlake Lounge; Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra at The Echo.
· Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball chats with poet, essayist and Michigan funeral director Thomas Lynch, a conversation that will probably at first seem morbid but ultimately will be an affirmation of life.