Pencil This In

PARTY: Eugene Mirman is taking his book release party to the Bell House tonight, and joining him on stage are Kristen Schaal, John Oliver, Paul F. Thompkins...and Sarah Vowell spinning tunes! Zach Galifianakis says of Mirman's book, The Will To Whatevs: "Reading this book is like having a tiny Eugene riding on your shoulder and whispering his advice in your ear."

7:30 p.m. // The Bell House [149 7th St, Gowanus] // $15

EVENT: WNYC kicks off their New Sounds Live Silent Film Series tonight. The evening will feature a live performance by Gary Lucas, whose "ghostly improvisational solo guitar" will soundtrack three surrealist films: Entr’acte, Ballet Mecanique, and The Cameraman’s Revenge. The series will continue each night through Thursday, and will be taped for a broadcast that will hit the WNYC airwaves this Spring.

7 p.m. // World Financial Center [220 Vesey St] // Free

THEATER: A hit at last year's Frigid Festival, Great Hymn of Thanksgiving / Conversation Storm is comprised of a pair of intricate performance pieces which "blur the boundary between experimental theater and avant-garde music." Around a dinner table, three actor/musicians sing, pray, beat forks, deliver the news in Great Hymn of Thanksgiving, which is described as "a brutal deconstruction of War-on-Terror-speak." In Conversation Storm, three friends with divergent politics argue about the classic "ticking time bomb" scenario. Arron Riccio, a name you can trust, calls the show "an avant-garde musical dinner party unlike anything you've seen before, paired up with an escalating, yet non-linear, conversation... that questions the ethics of torture in one of the most hysterically frightening works of theater this year." — John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Interborough Repertory Theater [154 Christopher Street, #3B] // $15

MUSIC: True Primes and Fake Male Voice (with TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe) will be holding court at Glasslands tonight. The venue looks like it was decorated by the Merry Pranksters going through a Steampunk phase, so even the atmosphere will entertain you!

9 p.m. // Glasslands [289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg] // $tba