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Friday
 · Friday night music situation: Producer to Kayne/Fiona/all-around music genius Jon Brion at Largo; the Helio Sequence at Spaceland; Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave) at Tangier.
· The Birth of the American Cartoon: Pioneers of Animation exhibit at LACMA's Bing Theatre will make you wistful for the days that cartoons didn't involve Pokemon or Dragonballs or what-have-you.
Saturday
 · Duuuuude! Guitar Center Drum-Off! [at the Wiltern]
· Rock & Roe, a benefit to support the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, brings the Tenacious D thunder and comedy from Greg Proops, Louis CK and Laura Kightlinger to the Henry Fonda Theater.
· Don’t bother bringing your Lord of the Rings memorabilia to the Track 16 Gallery, where Viggo Mortensen will sign books for the exhibit he did with Georg Gudni, The Nature of Landscape and Independent Perception.
Sunday
 · We still feel residual guilt at abandoning Infinite Jest about 400 pages in, so: David Foster Wallace will read at the Hammer Museum on Sunday.
· Cinespace hosts the Sunday Filmmakers Rendezvous, a networking party that differs from any other night at a bar in Hollywood in that organizers are officially sanctioning all schmoozing activities.