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8 Days a Week

Oct. 5-12, 2005

LOOK UP INTO the sky: See that bright yellow, circular-looking thing? It's called the sun, and it's something you haven't seen in months because you've been too busy speeding down Market Street inhaling your venti macchiato, texting on your Treo 650, and crooning to the latest Maroon 5 single. Instead of tearing up the streets like a juiced-up Andretti, why not enjoy this foreign concept of "being outdoors" and hop on a bicycle? That's what this year's fifth annual Bicycle Film Festival is all about: celebrating the feel of the road on two wheels, the cool breeze blowing against your face, and exercising your right to occupy the entire lane (see CA Vehicle Code section 21202). The party extends over three days, starting on Wed/5 with an opening-night bash at the Independent featuring music by local favorites Gang Gang Dance, Tussle, the Mall, and Extraordinary Forest. On Thurs/6, the Red Ink Gallery opens "Checkpoint," a multimedia exhibition showcasing the talents of more than 30 cycleholic artists. And finally, Fri/7 and Sat/8 give moviegoers the opportunity to view more than 30 diverse cycling-related films at SF's historic Victoria Theatre. With themes including Critical Mass (Still We Ride), the history of BMX (Joe Kid on a Stingray), and the art of the brakeless bomb (M.A.S.H.), even the stodgiest of roadies will ride home happy. Wed/5-Sat/8, various times and venues, SF. $8 per program; complimentary valet bicycle parking will be provided. www.bicyclefilmfestival.com. (Justin Yu)

Oct. 5, Wednesday

Army of God Even if you don't accept Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior, you can certainly appreciate four Christian dudes dressed as 15th-century knights playing garage rock and singing about how great God is, right? The Knights of the New Crusade are here to pillage your city and preach the divine doctrine of the Lord to the willing masses – actually, they plan on ramming it down your throat, whether you want it or not. Their last album, aptly named My God Is Alive! Sorry about Yours! (Gabriel's Trumpet Records), featured gothic favorites such as "Whore of Babylon," "My Way Is the Highway," and "E(cstacy) Is for Evil." Apparently, the Knights skipped the "Passive Recruitment" sermon and jumped straight to "Proactive Condemnation of God's Filthy Transgressors." The medieval vigilantes are touring in support of their latest gospel release, Knight Beat: A Challenge to the Cowards of Christendom (Gabriel's Trumpet Records). 400 Blows and Three Weeks Clean complete the lineup but will not be wearing chain mail. 9 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia, SF. $7. (415) 552-7788. (Justin Yu)

Oct. 6, Thursday

Covered under warranty Brooklyn, NY's Parts and Labor is rowdy and intriguing, like a scribbled drawing. While some math rock goes the way of curveball rhythm changes and start-stoppery, PAL keeps it mathy with a little bit of straightforward garage rock, as if to say, "Yes, we came to rock, you came to dance, let's get a stew on." The trio's latest release, Rise, Rise, Rise (Narnack), a split with Tyondai Braxton, showcases energy akin to that of Lightning Bolt but is balanced out melodically with more instrumentation, such as distorted bass, keyboards, and even bagpipes. zZz, from Amsterdam, and the Everlasting Arms also perform. 9:30 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, SF. $7. (Also Fri/7, 9:30 p.m., Lobot Gallery, 1800 Campbell, Oakl. $7. 510-282-2622.) (Sean Patrick Maylone)

Provecho It began as a simple impulse: Tacos + punk rock = good. The first Taco-n-Rol, a free show on a Saturday night, in a nontraditional setting in the heart of the Mission District, and including the Vanishing, La Plebe, and Los Difuntos – bands with widely divergent fan bases – mutated into a microexperiment in the breakdown of economic, social, and cultural divides: Recent immigrants tripped out on the Vanishing's Siouxie-meets-Bauhaus electro goth and sax; girlie boys and dreadlocked, primal-tattooed, white thirtysomethings were dazzled by Chicano punk with horns and Spanish-language garage punk. Taqueria Vallarta sold mad tacos. Everyone was happy. And now we have Taco-n-Rol III, improved by a liquor license and welcoming Boom Boom Kid, the latest project by the original vocalist for Argentina's veteran skate punk band Fun People. Boom Boom Kid is accompanied by Los Gummy Bears, a set of local musicians put together for the tour. Opening acts include Sputterdoll, Outraged, Love Songs, and Watsonville, Calif.'s Chicano punks Los Dryheavers. As has become tradition, DJ Chaos spins dancehall, '80s underground, and more. 8:30 p.m., Taqueria Vallarta, 3033 24th St., SF. $5. (415) 826-8116. (Camille T. Taiara)

Oct. 7, Friday

Colored in Singer-guitarist Mayo Thompson has popped up as a shadowy omnipresence in various places throughout three decades: '60s Texas, early-'80s London, and most recently, Los Angeles art schools. His band, Red Krayola, has consistently challenged notions of what counts as music, whether it's the clamorous pop damage of Parable of Arable Land, contemporaneous with 13th Floor Elevators' dirt psych, or the '90s reemergence of Thompson with the Drag City all-star band, including the likes of David Grubbs. Someone tossed around the word avuncular, and it applies most fittingly to the onetime Pere Ubu member and Raincoats producer, who also runs a gallery in LA. It's this same uncanny serendipity that makes Red Krayola an adept pick to accompany the latest outing by Black Dice, a group that also exists in that nether region between the art world and the rockist sphere. Tonight's show is one for the cross-generational record books, a hands-across-America-type gathering for outer-edge explorers. Blood on the Wall opens. 9 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, SF. $13. (415) 885-0750. (George Chen)

Horn of plenty Few areas have been as devastated by AIDS as Africa, and NextAid is stepping up with a series of benefit concerts and events to help African children left orphaned by the epidemic. Grammy Award-winning flutist Paul Horn and renowned didgeridoo player Steven Kent lend their skills to the cause at Grace Cathedral, taking advantage of that space's unique acoustic properties to perform ambient works. Horn, one of the initial instigators of new age music, has performed in many unusual venues over the years, including the Taj Mahal and Canyon de Chelly, but this will be his first show utilizing Grace's natural seven-second delay. 8 p.m., Grace Cathedral, 1100 California, SF. $30. (415) 749-6310. (Peter Nicholson)

Oct. 8, Saturday

Progressive regression Apparently, Devo are not through being cool. The mutants of electro rock are back for a quick tour around the United States and will once again put on the oversize, yellow hazmat suits, the black shorty-shorts and knee pads, and, of course, those red "energy dome" hats (often accused of being mere flowerpots). If the ticket price gives you pause, think again. Devo put on a bigger spectacle than the Blue Man Group: screening their high-concept videos, dancing in arrow formation, and getting the audience in on the act. But there's also a serious side to Devo, as you might expect from a band that witnessed the National Guard shootings at Kent State in 1970. According to their philosophy of de-evolution, humans are regressing, not progressing. As bassist Gerald Casale said of the group's prophetic theories at a recent show, "We want to apologize for being right." Primal '80s garage band Bow Wow Wow opens. 7:30 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakl. $54-$64. (510) 465-6400. (Deborah Giattina)

Art made here It's time once again for the annual San Francisco Open Studios. That sound you hear is the 700-plus participating local artists opening their doors and the 60,000-plus art-lovers lacing up their walking shoes. This year marks the 30th (count it) year of the event, making it one of the biggest and longest-running art events in the whole country. Every weekend in October features different neighborhoods, starting today with SoMa, Potrero Hill, North Beach, Russian Hill, the Tenderloin, the Financial District, the Bayview, Portola, and the Excelsior. (Like I said: walking shoes.) A full list of artists, events, and detailed maps can be found on the Open Studios Web site, or in this week's Bay Guardian (page 20). Through Oct. 30. Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., various venues, SF. Free. (415) 248-1909, www.sfopenstudios.com. (Lydia Brawner)

Oct. 9, Sunday

Cyclecide In a time when just about any pimply faced kid can download an MP3 off Soulseek, import it into GarageBand, and create their own remix/mash-up/bootleg, the guys in This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb come as a welcome reprieve. Incorporating dueling honky-tonk vocals, foot-tapping romps, and one hell of a harmonica, TBIAPB flawlessly blend indie rock and country folk – two genres that share a firm handshake on the band's latest release, 3 Way for a Tie (Plan-It-X Records). Perhaps the band's most unique feature is that all three members contribute to a style of vocal layering that twists, turns, and changes pitch on a dime – ultimately leaving rock-, folk-, and country-exclusive audiences frantically searching for the shattered pieces of their one-track minds. Defiance Ohio and Bananas also fit the bill. 5 p.m., 924 Gilman, Berk. $6. (510) 525-9926. (Yu)

Untypical girl I get the chills every time I think about Sharon Cheslow, who founded Chalk Circle, Washington, DC's first all-girl "hardcore" band (OK, they sounded more like Joy Division, but that's a good thing), in 1981, kicked down the door to that smelly all-boy clubhouse inhabited by early emo guys like Ian MacKaye, and later helped usher in riot grrrl. Nowadays Cheslow is a multimedia artist and performer. Soon she'll release a compilation of her collaborations with such friends as Gabriel Mindel, of Yellow Swans, and experimental vocalist Eva Inca Ore on her own Decomposition label and the Collective Jyrk label. While in town, she'll be performing solo and duo sets with other "out" music gurus, horn-blower Liz Allbee (Le Flange du Mal), and improv multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter. Her video shorts, one of which came out on the Kill Rock Stars DVD/Video Fanzine No. 3, screen at the Hemlock show. Sun/9, 6 p.m., Mama Buzz Cafe, 2318 Telegraph, Oakl. $5 donation. (510) 465-4073. (Also Tues/11, 9:30 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, SF. $6. 1-415-923-0923). (Giattina)

Oct. 10, Monday

Write stuff San Francisco's annual Litquake Festival presents director Phillip Kaufman discussing his adaptation of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff for the screen with critic and author David Thompson. A screening of the 1983 Academy Award-winning astronauts-in-action flick follows the talk. Litquake events continue with the urban storytelling series Porch Light features local authors – including Joshua Braff, Neeli Cherkovski, Jeff Greenwald, Rachel Howard, Kim Wong Keltner, Keith Knight, Joe Loya, Edie Meidav, Bucky Sinister, and Susan Steinberg – at the Swedish American Hall, telling their stories with no books and no memorization. You can almost smell the sweat. Phillip Kaufman event: 6 p.m., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, 701 Mission, $12. (415) 978-2787, www.ybca.org. Porch Light event: 7 p.m., Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market, SF. $12. (415) 861-5016, www.porchlightsf.com. (Brawner)

Oct. 11, Tuesday

Screaming saviors Can someone please hunt down My Chemical Romance and kick their asses for bastardizing the hell out of hardcore? I mean, seriously, I've had almost all I can take of this Mickey Mouse scream-pop, so when I heard the industrial bells of Bear vs. Shark's new Equal Vision Records release, Terrorhawk, I breathed a sigh of relief – post-hardcore can finally be erased from the growing list of endangered genres. With the help of recent Converge producer Matt Ellard, Terrorhawk marks a new chapter in the band's catalog of work. Accompanied by Marc Paffi's jagged vocals – reminiscent of legends Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker – the band's balance of dissonance and harmony is a light at the end of the infected tunnel, bringing hope that there will soon be a shift back to a time before whiny vampirism ruled the scene. Fear Before the March of Flames, Since by Man, and Fall of Troy also play. 8 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., SF. $10. (415) 621-4455. (Yu)

Visionary at home British artist Derek Jarman is often called a visionary. He was also an outspoken activist, set designer, painter, writer, gardener (yes, a gardener), and director of independent films (way back when that meant a little more), shooting many of his surreally beautiful and wry films on Super 8. He's perhaps now most famous for Blue, his last film work before his death, from AIDS, in 1994. The Pacific Film Archive edifies us with "Studios, Gardens and Portraits," a screening of his home movies from 1970 to 1973, including his first film, Studio Bankside. Tonight's program is introduced by his longtime producer James Mackay. 7:30 p.m., PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berk. $4-$8. (510) 642-1124. (Brawner)

Sweetish metals A hot dog served with a donut as a bun is the sort of combination that's unexpected but makes for a surprisingly delicious treat, just like tonight's bill at the Fillmore. Chicago's triumphant post-rockers Pelican open for Sweden's Opeth. Pelican work within the corner of post -rock that houses the epic, building upon works by Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, but spinning more of their grindcore roots into the mix than those bands. They should make an interesting opener for eclectic, sometimes bluesy, sometimes operatic death metallers Opeth. 8 p.m., Fillmore, 1805 Geary, SF. $20. (Maylone)

Oct. 12, Wednesday

Lies, lies, lies We've all conjured up a Family Circus "Not me" ghost at one time to avoid blame for peccadilloes we've committed – it's just in our nature to want to deny guilt. Sometimes the fabrications are minor; other times, at our weakest moments, they can be whoppers. But what makes us want to fib? Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan, a professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco discusses the biological and social reasons for our inherent skills of deception at 'Emotion, Lies, and Wizardry,' a program that is part of Bazaar Cafe's monthly lecture series "Ask a Scientist." O'Sullivan reveals how lying can sometimes play a role in keeping relationships and finding happiness. Who knows, you might come away from tonight's talk realizing that your worst lie is actually your best-kept secret. 7 p.m., Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California, SF. Free. (415) 751-5376. (Sarah Han)

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8 Days a Week Oct. 5-12, 2005 LOOK UP INTO the sky: See that bright yellow, circular-looking thing? It's called the sun, and it's something you haven't seen in months because you've been too busy speeding down Market Street inhaling your venti macchiato, texting on your Treo 650, and crooning to the latest Maroon 5 single. Instead of tearing up the streets like a juiced-up Andretti, why not enjoy this foreign concept of "being outdoors" and hop on a bicycle? That's what this year's fifth annual Bicycle Film Festival is all about: celebrating the feel of the road on two wheels, the cool breeze blowing against your face, and exercising your right to occupy the entire lane (see CA Vehicle Code section 21202). The party extends over three days, starting on Wed/5 with an opening-night bash at the Independent featuring music by local favorites Gang Gang Dance, Tussle, the Mall, and Extraordinary Forest. On Thurs/6, the Red Ink Gallery opens "Checkpoint," a multimedia exhibition showcasing the talents of more than 30 cycleholic artists. And finally, Fri/7 and Sat/8 give moviegoers the opportunity to view more than 30 diverse cycling-related films at SF's historic Victoria Theatre. With themes including Critical Mass (Still We Ride), the history of BMX (Joe Kid on a Stingray), and the art of the brakeless bomb (M.A.S.H.), even the stodgiest of roadies will ride home happy. Wed/5-Sat/8, various times and venues, SF. $8 per program; complimentary valet bicycle parking will be provided. www.bicyclefilmfestival.com. (Justin Yu) Oct. 5, Wednesday Army of God Even if you don't accept Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior, you can certainly appreciate four Christian dudes dressed as 15th-century knights playing garage rock and singing about how great God is, right? The Knights of the New Crusade are here to pillage your city and preach the divine doctrine of the Lord to the willing masses – actually, they plan on ramming it down your throat, whether you want it or not. Their last album, aptly named My God Is Alive! Sorry about Yours! (Gabriel's Trumpet Records), featured gothic favorites such as "Whore of Babylon," "My Way Is the Highway," and "E(cstacy) Is for Evil." Apparently, the Knights skipped the "Passive Recruitment" sermon and jumped straight to "Proactive Condemnation of God's Filthy Transgressors." The medieval vigilantes are touring in support of their latest gospel release, Knight Beat: A Challenge to the Cowards of Christendom (Gabriel's Trumpet Records). 400 Blows and Three Weeks Clean complete the lineup but will not be wearing chain mail. 9 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia, SF. $7. (415) 552-7788. (Justin Yu) Oct. 6, Thursday Covered under warranty Brooklyn, NY's Parts and Labor is rowdy and intriguing, like a scribbled drawing. While some math rock goes the way of curveball rhythm changes and start-stoppery, PAL keeps it mathy with a little bit of straightforward garage rock, as if to say, "Yes, we came to rock, you came to dance, let's get a stew on." The trio's latest release, Rise, Rise, Rise (Narnack), a split with Tyondai Braxton, showcases energy akin to that of Lightning Bolt but is balanced out melodically with more instrumentation, such as distorted bass, keyboards, and even bagpipes. zZz, from Amsterdam, and the Everlasting Arms also perform. 9:30 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, SF. $7. (Also Fri/7, 9:30 p.m., Lobot Gallery, 1800 Campbell, Oakl. $7. 510-282-2622.) (Sean Patrick Maylone) Provecho It began as a simple impulse: Tacos + punk rock = good. The first Taco-n-Rol, a free show on a Saturday night, in a nontraditional setting in the heart of the Mission District, and including the Vanishing, La Plebe, and Los Difuntos – bands with widely divergent fan bases – mutated into a microexperiment in the breakdown of economic, social, and cultural divides: Recent immigrants tripped out on the Vanishing's Siouxie-meets-Bauhaus electro goth and sax; girlie boys and dreadlocked, primal-tattooed, white thirtysomethings were dazzled by Chicano punk with horns and Spanish-language garage punk. Taqueria Vallarta sold mad tacos. Everyone was happy. And now we have Taco-n-Rol III, improved by a liquor license and welcoming Boom Boom Kid, the latest project by the original vocalist for Argentina's veteran skate punk band Fun People. Boom Boom Kid is accompanied by Los Gummy Bears, a set of local musicians put together for the tour. Opening acts include Sputterdoll, Outraged, Love Songs, and Watsonville, Calif.'s Chicano punks Los Dryheavers. As has become tradition, DJ Chaos spins dancehall, '80s underground, and more. 8:30 p.m., Taqueria Vallarta, 3033 24th St., SF. $5. (415) 826-8116. (Camille T. Taiara) Oct. 7, Friday Colored in Singer-guitarist Mayo Thompson has popped up as a shadowy omnipresence in various places throughout three decades: '60s Texas, early-'80s London, and most recently, Los Angeles art schools. His band, Red Krayola, has consistently challenged notions of what counts as music, whether it's the clamorous pop damage of Parable of Arable Land, contemporaneous with 13th Floor Elevators' dirt psych, or the '90s reemergence of Thompson with the Drag City all-star band, including the likes of David Grubbs. Someone tossed around the word avuncular, and it applies most fittingly to the onetime Pere Ubu member and Raincoats producer, who also runs a gallery in LA. It's this same uncanny serendipity that makes Red Krayola an adept pick to accompany the latest outing by Black Dice, a group that also exists in that nether region between the art world and the rockist sphere. Tonight's show is one for the cross-generational record books, a hands-across-America-type gathering for outer-edge explorers. Blood on the Wall opens. 9 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, SF. $13. (415) 885-0750. (George Chen) Horn of plenty Few areas have been as devastated by AIDS as Africa, and NextAid is stepping up with a series of benefit concerts and events to help African children left orphaned by the epidemic. Grammy Award-winning flutist Paul Horn and renowned didgeridoo player Steven Kent lend their skills to the cause at Grace Cathedral, taking advantage of that space's unique acoustic properties to perform ambient works. Horn, one of the initial instigators of new age music, has performed in many unusual venues over the years, including the Taj Mahal and Canyon de Chelly, but this will be his first show utilizing Grace's natural seven-second delay. 8 p.m., Grace Cathedral, 1100 California, SF. $30. (415) 749-6310. (Peter Nicholson) Oct. 8, Saturday Progressive regression Apparently, Devo are not through being cool. The mutants of electro rock are back for a quick tour around the United States and will once again put on the oversize, yellow hazmat suits, the black shorty-shorts and knee pads, and, of course, those red "energy dome" hats (often accused of being mere flowerpots). If the ticket price gives you pause, think again. Devo put on a bigger spectacle than the Blue Man Group: screening their high-concept videos, dancing in arrow formation, and getting the audience in on the act. But there's also a serious side to Devo, as you might expect from a band that witnessed the National Guard shootings at Kent State in 1970. According to their philosophy of de-evolution, humans are regressing, not progressing. As bassist Gerald Casale said of the group's prophetic theories at a recent show, "We want to apologize for being right." Primal '80s garage band Bow Wow Wow opens. 7:30 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakl. $54-$64. (510) 465-6400. (Deborah Giattina) Art made here It's time once again for the annual San Francisco Open Studios. That sound you hear is the 700-plus participating local artists opening their doors and the 60,000-plus art-lovers lacing up their walking shoes. This year marks the 30th (count it) year of the event, making it one of the biggest and longest-running art events in the whole country. Every weekend in October features different neighborhoods, starting today with SoMa, Potrero Hill, North Beach, Russian Hill, the Tenderloin, the Financial District, the Bayview, Portola, and the Excelsior. (Like I said: walking shoes.) A full list of artists, events, and detailed maps can be found on the Open Studios Web site, or in this week's Bay Guardian (page 20). Through Oct. 30. Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., various venues, SF. Free. (415) 248-1909, www.sfopenstudios.com. (Lydia Brawner) Oct. 9, Sunday Cyclecide In a time when just about any pimply faced kid can download an MP3 off Soulseek, import it into GarageBand, and create their own remix/mash-up/bootleg, the guys in This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb come as a welcome reprieve. Incorporating dueling honky-tonk vocals, foot-tapping romps, and one hell of a harmonica, TBIAPB flawlessly blend indie rock and country folk – two genres that share a firm handshake on the band's latest release, 3 Way for a Tie (Plan-It-X Records). Perhaps the band's most unique feature is that all three members contribute to a style of vocal layering that twists, turns, and changes pitch on a dime – ultimately leaving rock-, folk-, and country-exclusive audiences frantically searching for the shattered pieces of their one-track minds. Defiance Ohio and Bananas also fit the bill. 5 p.m., 924 Gilman, Berk. $6. (510) 525-9926. (Yu) Untypical girl I get the chills every time I think about Sharon Cheslow, who founded Chalk Circle, Washington, DC's first all-girl "hardcore" band (OK, they sounded more like Joy Division, but that's a good thing), in 1981, kicked down the door to that smelly all-boy clubhouse inhabited by early emo guys like Ian MacKaye, and later helped usher in riot grrrl. Nowadays Cheslow is a multimedia artist and performer. Soon she'll release a compilation of her collaborations with such friends as Gabriel Mindel, of Yellow Swans, and experimental vocalist Eva Inca Ore on her own Decomposition label and the Collective Jyrk label. While in town, she'll be performing solo and duo sets with other "out" music gurus, horn-blower Liz Allbee (Le Flange du Mal), and improv multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter. Her video shorts, one of which came out on the Kill Rock Stars DVD/Video Fanzine No. 3, screen at the Hemlock show. Sun/9, 6 p.m., Mama Buzz Cafe, 2318 Telegraph, Oakl. $5 donation. (510) 465-4073. (Also Tues/11, 9:30 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, SF. $6. 1-415-923-0923). (Giattina) Oct. 10, Monday Write stuff San Francisco's annual Litquake Festival presents director Phillip Kaufman discussing his adaptation of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff for the screen with critic and author David Thompson. A screening of the 1983 Academy Award-winning astronauts-in-action flick follows the talk. Litquake events continue with the urban storytelling series Porch Light features local authors – including Joshua Braff, Neeli Cherkovski, Jeff Greenwald, Rachel Howard, Kim Wong Keltner, Keith Knight, Joe Loya, Edie Meidav, Bucky Sinister, and Susan Steinberg – at the Swedish American Hall, telling their stories with no books and no memorization. You can almost smell the sweat. Phillip Kaufman event: 6 p.m., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, 701 Mission, $12. (415) 978-2787, www.ybca.org. Porch Light event: 7 p.m., Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market, SF. $12. (415) 861-5016, www.porchlightsf.com. (Brawner) Oct. 11, Tuesday Screaming saviors Can someone please hunt down My Chemical Romance and kick their asses for bastardizing the hell out of hardcore? I mean, seriously, I've had almost all I can take of this Mickey Mouse scream-pop, so when I heard the industrial bells of Bear vs. Shark's new Equal Vision Records release, Terrorhawk, I breathed a sigh of relief – post-hardcore can finally be erased from the growing list of endangered genres. With the help of recent Converge producer Matt Ellard, Terrorhawk marks a new chapter in the band's catalog of work. Accompanied by Marc Paffi's jagged vocals – reminiscent of legends Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker – the band's balance of dissonance and harmony is a light at the end of the infected tunnel, bringing hope that there will soon be a shift back to a time before whiny vampirism ruled the scene. Fear Before the March of Flames, Since by Man, and Fall of Troy also play. 8 p.m., Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., SF. $10. (415) 621-4455. (Yu) Visionary at home British artist Derek Jarman is often called a visionary. He was also an outspoken activist, set designer, painter, writer, gardener (yes, a gardener), and director of independent films (way back when that meant a little more), shooting many of his surreally beautiful and wry films on Super 8. He's perhaps now most famous for Blue, his last film work before his death, from AIDS, in 1994. The Pacific Film Archive edifies us with "Studios, Gardens and Portraits," a screening of his home movies from 1970 to 1973, including his first film, Studio Bankside. Tonight's program is introduced by his longtime producer James Mackay. 7:30 p.m., PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berk. $4-$8. (510) 642-1124. (Brawner) Sweetish metals A hot dog served with a donut as a bun is the sort of combination that's unexpected but makes for a surprisingly delicious treat, just like tonight's bill at the Fillmore. Chicago's triumphant post-rockers Pelican open for Sweden's Opeth. Pelican work within the corner of post -rock that houses the epic, building upon works by Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, but spinning more of their grindcore roots into the mix than those bands. They should make an interesting opener for eclectic, sometimes bluesy, sometimes operatic death metallers Opeth. 8 p.m., Fillmore, 1805 Geary, SF. $20. (Maylone) Oct. 12, Wednesday Lies, lies, lies We've all conjured up a Family Circus "Not me" ghost at one time to avoid blame for peccadilloes we've committed – it's just in our nature to want to deny guilt. Sometimes the fabrications are minor; other times, at our weakest moments, they can be whoppers. But what makes us want to fib? Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan, a professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco discusses the biological and social reasons for our inherent skills of deception at 'Emotion, Lies, and Wizardry,' a program that is part of Bazaar Cafe's monthly lecture series "Ask a Scientist." O'Sullivan reveals how lying can sometimes play a role in keeping relationships and finding happiness. Who knows, you might come away from tonight's talk realizing that your worst lie is actually your best-kept secret. 7 p.m., Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California, SF. Free. (415) 751-5376. (Sarah Han) The Bay Guardian listings deadline is two weeks prior to our Wednesday publication date. To submit an item for consideration, please include the title of the event, a brief description of the event, date and time, venue name, street address (listing cross streets only isn't sufficient), city, telephone number readers can call for more information, telephone number for media, and admission costs. Send information to Listings, the Bay Guardian Building, 135 Mississippi St., SF, CA 94107; fax to (415) 487-2506; or e-mail (paste press release into e-mail body – no text attachments, please) to listings@sfbg.com. We cannot guarantee the return of photos, but enclosing an SASE helps. Digital photos may be submitted in jpeg format; the image must be at least 240 dpi and four inches by six inches in size. We regret we cannot accept listings over the phone.