image via The Mountain Goats

Ellen Forney will be bringing her badassery to the Wild Rose tonight at 8:00. She’s touring in support of her book “I Love Led Zeppelin,” and in person Forney steps it up a notch or twelve with a whole multimedia extravaganza. There will be animation, there will be drinking, and there will be a whole lot of laughing. Located at 1021 Pike.

But then there are robots, in the UW’s Kane Hall. Well, maybe not actual robots, but Cynthia Breazeal, the director of the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab, will be talking about human-robot communication and suchlike. The plan is “to develop robots that engage with us as helpful partners that will ultimately play a valuable, rewarding, and unprecedented role in the everyday lives of ordinary people [upcoming].” Free, starts at 7:00, but get there early–folks like robots.

And then of course The Mountain Goats are playing at Neumos. The last album, “Get Lonely” was about loss, and about wandering, and about figuring out what life is like after someone well-loved has left. The Mountain Goats are weird and dreamy and sad, and you know how I love weird and dreamy. Doors are at 8:00, tickets $15 at the door.

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1. friday agenda : mountain goats, walkmen, electric car
2. thursday agenda : skip the comics, meet the ‘bloggers?
3. The goats are back in town
4. Robots!
5. monday agenda : goats, wolves