Can't Miss It: Thursday

POP ROCK LOVE: Oakland-based rockers The Audrye Sessions bring their yearning vocals and lush guitar licks to Neumo's tonight. Touring in support of their debut album, the band manages a nice mix of luscious post-punk inspired riffs rich in reverb and fuzz, opposite the lead singer's Tom Petty-meets-emo vox. With The Lonely H and In the Empty City.

8 p.m. doors // Neumo's, 925 E. Pike St. // $12, all ages, bar w/ID

LAST CHANCE: Preston Sturges's Depression-era masterpiece Sullivan's Travels is showing one last night tonight at SIFF Cinema. The story of a Hollywood funny man looking to get serious by exploring the secret lives of American hoboes, the film dive bombs longstanding pieties about race, poverty, and the nature of the American dream itself. Everyone has great things to say about this movie, don't miss it on the big screen.

7:30 p.m. // SIFF Cinema, 301 Mercer St. // $10

WHITHER GOES THE WATER: Curtis Ebbsmeyer is an expert in flotsam. That's quite an achievement; who even remember what the hell flotsam is these days? But for Ebbsmeyer, a Seattle-based oceanographer, flotsam is the key to a mysterious but powerful world: that of ocean current. In his new book Flotsametrics and the Floating World, Ebbsmeyer follows the complex routes taken by bits of floating garbage to construct a new view of the patterns of ocean currents, the construction of the marine ecosystem, and the impacts of the oceanic system on the global environment. Not bad for a guy tracking a pair of sneakers drifting down a river, eh?

7:30 p.m. // Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave. // $5