• Let's Get Lost (1988): Bruce Weber followed around jazz trumpeter and heroin addict Chet Baker on a year-long excursion, "from the West Coast, to the East Coast, to Europe--including a stop at the Cannes Film Festival--with interviews with Chet, colleagues and friends, including dueling insights from his third wife, a former British show girl, and three children in Oklahoma, and from old flame Ruth Young, a sardonically throaty torch singer." Screens tonight at 7 p.m. and 9:20 at the Castro Theatre; $6-9.
• Circle Jerks: Hermosa Beach-based punk outfit named after a homoerotic act of mutual sexual self-gratification--and formed by Black Flag's original singer, Keith Morris, and future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson--return tonight to show the youngins how it's done. They perform along with Hit Me Back and the Last of the Believers. The ear-splitting sounds start at 8 p.m. at Slim's; $17.
• Mary Lynn Rajskub: read more about tonight's show here.

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Okay, SFist admits that the dating scene is ugly. Really, really ugly. We've never had much luck at hooking up with folks at bars or clubs, though granted the line between consuming enough alcohol to overcome our anxiety and blacking out for us is very, very fine. People are strange and prone to say hateful things that make you feel bad. Better to have your senses dulled as much as possible so that if you do screw up, at least you'll only have to deal with a hangover and not massive emotional collapse. more ›

So it was with surprise and amusement that our new fellow co-worker and cube dweller (well, actually, they haven't set him up with a cube yet, but he has the nicest computer in the office, so we're all jealous anyway) just happens to be a fellow blogger. Toshiba, as he's known in the blogosphere, works with Surfer down in Hermosa Beach to post on the kind of wierd, cool stuff that people come to expect from the innerweb. Originally started as a beer review site, domains were hi-jacked, backend systems were moved, priorites changed and the blog has now become more general interest -- though Toshiba has assured us that a return to beer reviews is in the offing. So check it out. And if you want to hire Toshiba, a.k.a. designer Funky Fong, it's too late. The funk has been hired already. more ›