Weekend highlights: Benders, barbers and pigeons

Will you take a look at all this blog action about the annual CAAR report? And foreclosures? It’s enough to drive a person to take up a new hobby. Like watching bricks grow.

Don’t feel walled in, folks. There’s plenty going on this weekend to perk you up, starting with the opening of Gran Torino and tonight’s Six Day Bender gig at Gravity Lounge ($8, 10pm). I can also vouch for the codpiece-rocking fury of Thunderlip and will guarantee more lead guitar harmonizing than an Iron Maiden show during the Lip’s gig at Outback Lodge on Saturday ($5, 8pm). And, who knows? Maybe you can nab one of the few tickets left for the final weekend of Sweeney Todd at Live Arts.

If these don’t do it for you, well, you might have to find other ways to amuse yourself. For instance…

Yes, this whole post was a setup to justify watching a Tom Lehrer video. Which might be how I spend my weekend. (Watch more here.) How about you?