by Amy Crocker

MUSIC: With Baudelaire-meets-Carl Perkins lyrics, The Aversions are a punk rock band for the thinking set. They also hail from Quebec, so now imagine all those rhymes with a French accent. (Are you hearing the chef sing "Les Poissons" from The Little Mermaid in your head? Sort of like that, but with more screaming.) The Aversions perform with The Nervous Tics and The Complaints tonight at The Knockout.

9:30 // The Knockout (3223 Mission) // Free

LIT: Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows have collected the work of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's in A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke. The book provides excerpts from his poetry and journals for every day of the year. The selections are meant as daily meditations on beauty, God, solitude and the transience of life, but if instead you read poetry to help fall asleep no one will judge. The authors will read selections tonight at Booksmith in the Haight.

7:30 // Booksmith (1644 Haight St.) // Free