Thursday Happenings

A Round Robin from the Land of Orioles

-- Wham City's mad genius Dan Deacon brings the Baltimore Round Robin to Boston. The event is bizarre. Different bands set up around the edges of the performance space; the audience takes the middle. Each act performs, one after the other, until the show has gone around the room. (Presumably they start again?) Tonight's highlight is Jana Hunter, who can swing a country ballad as easily as she can tack together a noise collage. It's "Eyes Night" (as opposed to "Feet Night," tomorrow), which means that you can look but you cannot dance. Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Ave. (enter on Evans Way), 8 p.m. $8. More information. (RV)

Self-Medication

-- If the Vice Presidential debates have you in a panic (and if you plan to vote Democrat), our old friends Drinking Liberally will help you cope the old fashioned way: boozing. Hong Kong Restaurant, 1238 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8 p.m. Free.

Movies

-- If you, like Bostonist, spent time this year mourning Isaac Hayes, there's no better way to find closure than Truck Turner (1974), Hayes's turn as a drunken bounty hunter who must contend with a city of pimps. Featuring Nichelle Nichols and Yaphet Kotto, Truck Turner is the finest blaxploitation film this side of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Part of the Brattle's "Return to the Grindhouse." Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 10 p.m. $9.50.

Rob Vassegh contributed to this post.