Monday Happenings

Image of BLK JKS from Myspace.

BLK JKS is a band from Johannesburg, but you might not guess it from their music, which has more in common with Japanese psychedelia than it does with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. But, in fact, BLK JKS is the tip of a sprawling South African rock iceberg that could sink even the most stalwart unwary, the unassuming plastic top of a paper shredder that uses rock music instead of gears and shreds minds instead of paper. Performing with the So So Glos and Viva Viva. TT the Bear's Place, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge, 9 p.m. $10.

Movies

The HFA concludes its Early Almodóvar series with Dark Habits (1983), the first in what would be many Almodóvar films about religious orders. The film is a dark comedy that sees a young punk rocker take refuge in a convent after her boyfriend overdoses on drugs. The HFA says that it's "a clear and questioning allegory for the church's changing role in contemporary Spain." Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Which one is the shepherd again? It's time to relive the moronic dorm room conversations you had about the "meaning" of one of Hollywood's most deviously meaningless films. Pulp Fiction (1994) might seem cliched, after the rest of the cinematic 90s was modeled on it, but the comic pacing, the crispy script, and the ridiculous set pieces have allowed the film to retain its bite. Not the best movie for people who give a shit about things. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7 p.m. $9/$6.