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film · "Bamako Chic"'s creator Maureen Gosling, a former Austin resident, is back in town hosting a special fundraising screening of "Blossoms of Fire" - her 16mm documentary film about the people of Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico - at Austin Studios. (7pm, map)

music · 54 Seconds play Lucky Lounge (10pm)

in-store · Billy Joe Shaver at Waterloo Records (5pm)

film · aGLIFF runs through Saturday - check their schedule for the full lineup. At Regal Arbor Cinema at Great Hills.

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forums · The Dionysium is back! Tonight's debate topic: "Resolved: That Austin Should Become an Athens-Style City-State". They'll also be presenting a lecture on "Cross-Cultural Differences in Perception of the Self" as well as a dramatization of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. We should also mention that it's a toga party. ($5, 7:30pm)

film/TV · Admit it: you always got a kick out of the gory intros to HBO's brilliant Six Feet Under. Drafthouse Downtown has compiled all of the drama series' random death scenes and will be screening them tonight. (9:45pm)

music/burlesque · Suicide Girls Burlesque Show with Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re and the Hot As Shits at Emo's. They'll also be doing an in-store at Waterloo Records at 5pm (Thanks, AK!)

reading · Pixies Oral History Reading at Club de Ville (9pm)

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music/dance-party · Holy effin shite - New Order's bassist Peter Hook (also of the even more phenomenal Joy Division, whose driving basslines inspired just about every band we talk about these days) drops by The Parish Room on his 240-Hour Party People tour! Get your tickets now, as this will most assuredly sell out. (Midnight)

music · Minus The Bear, Headphones (members of Pedro the Lion), Criteria and The New Trust (members of Velveteen) at Emo's

film · Iconic horror maestro Charles Band - of the Puppet Master series and much, much more - kicks off his Full Moon Horror Road Show here in Austin. Check him out at the Paramount Theatre, where they'll be showing previously unseen clips and auctioning off tons of creepy puppets and dolls.

dance-partyish · Holy Trinity Night at Karma Lounge.

dance-party · Attayac Sound Team with DJ AM, Ephraim Owens, MC TeeDouble and El John at Oslo.

books · Marrittt Ingman discusses Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers at BookPeople (Free, 7pm)

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music · Yo La Tengo, followed by DJs from End of an Ear, at Emo's (9pm)

music · The Shim Shams, Attic Ted and The Cooties at Room 710

theatre · "End of the World Party", now showing at Arts on Real, features "seven bitchy Manhattan guys vacationing at Fire Island" and stars MTV reality 'star' Dan Renzi. Had we a TV we might comment, but the guy also has a blog. (8pm, Thursday-Saturday, Through October)

books · "Spirited" co-editor Lisa Moore does a reading and booksigning at BookWoman to kick off Fire & Ink's The Road to Revival: A Writer's Festival for GLBT People of African Descent. Events through Saturday. Check out an interview with Moore here. (Free, 7pm)

film · Fantastic Fest - four massive days of science-fiction, horror and fantasy flicks - kicks off tonight!

art · West End Galleries' 1st Thursday Nights (Free, Until 8pm)

benefit · SafePlace Anniversary Party at La Zona Rosa, honoring 2005 Guardian Award winner Patti Halladay. Catering by local restaurants and a set by Asleep at the Wheel. ($40, 6:30pm-9:30pm)

theatre · Ken Webster stars in Eric Bogosian's "Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll" at Hyde Park Theatre. (Thurs-Sat, 8pm)

art · f8 artist reception: Michael Kessler, Sky Patterson, Piercarlo Abate, and Raymond Copley present "Perspectives: Looking Inward, Looking Backward and Looking Beyond" (Free, 6-8pm)

art · Eric Zimmerman, recent UT grad, presents his prints, drawings and constructions that "reflect a hybridization of pre-existing imagery, memories, and utopian fantasy drawn from fragments of pre-existing places, grids, and maps which embody the flux that occurs within our experience of the land." We got as far as pre-existing. At Slugfest Printmaking Workshop & Gallery (Free, 7pm)

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music · Willie Nelson plays Stubb's (also Saturday)

music · The Queers, The Vibrators, The Independents (outside) and Wolf Eyes, Prurient and Rubble (inside) at Emo's

music · CD release show for The Lovely Sparrows, along with Big Blue Marble (of New Orleans) at Beerland

opera · Austin Lyric Opera opens their '05-'06 season with Verdi's Il Trovatore at Bass Concert Hall. Stars Jose Maria Condemi - of late with SF Opera, Cincinnati Opera and Canadian Opera Company. ($15-$109, 7:30pm, Through Monday)

music · The Arm and New Model Army at Elysium

film/lecture · Rabia Clark presents her short film, "The Dervish Project", at Ventana del Sol (Free, 7pm)

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music · Four Tet , Jamie Lidell, and Hot Chip at The Parish Room

in-store · The Weird Weeds and Aformatik on Tact at End of an Ear (Free, 6pm)

film · aGLIFF finishes its run with a full-day's schedule of screenings at Regal Arbor Cinema at Great Hills.

art · Opening reception of Lynn Richardson's "Inter-Glacial Free Trade Agency" exhibit at Women & Their Work. Come explore Richardson's vision of a future where global warming has brought about a new ice age: "post-glacial fashion, food, entertainment and survival gear" - we love post-apocalyptic fantasizing. (Free, 6-8pm)

art · James Surls artist reception and book signing at Flatbed Press (Free, 6-9pm)

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dogs · Dogtoberfest at Ginger Man - live music, food, drinks, silent auction, free spay/neuter clinic courtesy of Emancipet and more. (Noon-8pm)

music · Randy "Biscuit" Turner benefit with: Pong, The Dicks, Punkaroos, PocketFishrmen, Exene Cervenka and Jason Edge, Sexy Finger Champs, Yuppie Pricks, Areola 51, Insect Sex Act, Naugahyde Dream Sequence, The Delinquents, and The Slurpees at Emo's

wine/outdoors · Texas Wine Month continues through October 25th