Can't Miss It: Tuesday

FUNNY OR DIE!: Canadian comedian Jon Lajoie joins forces with the certifiably crazy (and ergo super fun) Murder Dice and Righteous Trash, a.k.a. Colin Johnson, a.k.a. Nectar's booker, in creating a night of guaranteed off-the-wall hilarity and frenzied upper music to launch you into the week on the right foot. Check out FunnyOrDie.com for a taste of Lajoie before you go, and get to Nectar in plenty of time to buy one of those delicious deep(ish)-crust Greek pizzas.

9 p.m. // Nectar Lounge // $12adv // 21+

A LOVER'S MEMORY OF HOME: Carolyne Wright and Robert McNamara (no, not the president of the World Bank McNamara, calm down, politicos) will be reading love poems at the Elliott Bay Book Company tonight; both writers have spent significant time working on translating Bengali verse into English, McNamara focusing on the poems of Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay and Wright as part of her anthology of women Bengali poets, A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground. If you have a burning desire to hear beautiful words spoken by accomplished poets tonight, this should be right up your alley!

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company // Free

BEFORE THE DAWN HEALS US: Electronic, shoe-gaze-y French group M83 performs at Neumos tonight with School of Seven Bells. You've probably heard of dreamy M83, but who is this other group, out of Brooklyn? Ghostly International: "School of Seven Bells’ music is full of tensions—Curtis’ gentle guitars wrap around jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizers—but the resulting songs are effortlessly cohesive, and insidiously catchy." Grumpy, alien synthesizers are exactly what this rainy Tuesday requires! How could Neumos have known ahead of time?

8 p.m. // Neumos // $13 adv // 21+