Friday Happenings

Books, Books, So Many Books!

-- Got Books?, an organization that collects books for charities including Walter Reed Army Hospital and Books for Teachers, is opening a Used Book Superstore in Burlington today. The store will feature more than 100,000 books priced at 90% off the original cost. 256 Cambridge Street, Burlington. (KS)

Art Damage

-- The impossibly pretentious New Factographers, "a evolving (sic) network of Boston-based sonic bricoleurs, moving image interventionists, experimental documentarians, urban dramaturges and critical theorists," present Paradosaurus Wreck, some sort of fashion-music-dance thing. The upshot? If you are into local arty weirdness, Davis Square will be where it's at. Featuring music from Providence band Deer Tick and Boston's Andre Obin and fashion design from Stormcloud, Bring Rainbows, Joy Adams, Julia Ramsey, and more. VFW Hall, 371 Summer St., Davis Square, Somerville, 9 p.m. $10.

Film Festivals

-- The Bicycle Film Festival begins screenings today. Catch two series of short films about bikes. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville. Schedule and more information.

Twisted Tunes

-- Dutch avant garde anarcho-punks the Ex have a habit of stopping songs on a dime, incorporating jazz where you'd expect a guitar solo, and generally making explicitly political music sound like a good time, rather than hectoring. Playing tonight with legendary Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya. Middle East Downstairs, 8 p.m. $15.

-- Boston's Ho-Ag have some kind of sonic blender at their disposal that can take rock, Ennio Morricone, Hawaiian guitar, and dub, and turn it into a musical smoothie. Playing with Clawjob, Serious Geniuses, and Bread & Roses. Papercut Zine Library, 45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $5 donation.

Kerry Skemp contributed to this post.