Hiatus Picks the Week’s Best Bets

“Eraserhead”
Ken Cinema / Dec. 6 & 7 / Midnight
Is there any better way to kick off your holiday merriment than with David Lynch? There’s more than your usual share of weird in this industrial tomorrowland of foreboding black and white, as Henry Spencer must play daddy to his girlfriend’s mutant baby, unaware of the truths that underlie the tot’s genealogy. “Eraserhead” was our invitation to Lynch’s carnival of confusion manifested in later masterpieces like “Blue Velvet,” and it’s grainy brilliance is clearer then ever in a new 35mm print at two midnight screenings at the renowned Ken Cinema. (CM)

Shonen Knife
The Casbah / Dec. 7 / 8:30 p.m. / $15
Way before the 5678’s became the quintessential cutesy all-girl group after woo-hooing in “Kill Bill”, Japanese exports Shonen Knife fused raw Ramones chord progressions with Hello Kitty in the early ’80s. Tracks like “Lazybone” and “Twist Barbie” charm listeners with schoolgirl rock-and-roll naivete and thickly accented vocals. Ls and Rs aside, the Osaka cult trio flies back to the U.S. to support its new record Fun! Fun! Fun!, making a pit stop at the Casbah this Friday. (CK)

This Week’s On-Campus Events

ucsd wind ensemble
Mandeville Auditorium
Dec. 6, 8 p.m.
FREE

“buried Child”
Galbraith Hall
Dec. 6, 8 p.m.
$4

“Trade”
Price Center Theater
Dec. 6, 6 & 9 p.m.
$3

Unwritten Law, Murs & more
Price Center Plaza
Dec. 7, 8 p.m.
FREE

The Sess, The So So Glos & More
Che Cafe
Dec. 7, 8 p.m.
$5

La Jolla Symphony
Mandeville Auditorium
Dec. 8, 8 p.m.
$15

“good Luck Chuck”
Price Center Theater
Dec. 11, 6 p.m.
FREE

Allegiance, Bitter End & More
Che Cafe
Dec. 15, 7 p.m.
$8

Celtic Christmas
Mandeville Auditorium
Dec. 15, 8 p.m.
$39