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Under Byen with Frida Hyvonen and El Perro del Mar will perform at the MFA's Remis Auditorium tomorrow night, March 2, at 7:30. You can get tickets on the MFA's website.

There is only so long that we’re going to be able to hold out before the entire list of the week’s picks will be outdoor venues. Well, that’ll probably never happen until they dome the roof at Paradise and we can rock under the stars. We are, however, ecstatic about the warmer temperatures and the daylight which stretches until late – it helps us gear up for the night’s show. After a weekend of...

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Bostonist has a love for things that are a little quirky. Michel Gondry is a quirky, and we love him for it. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (which he co-wrote and directed) will be at MIT this evening for a presentation. Bostonist has to admit it wasn’t until the second time that we watched "Eternal…" that we really understood what was going on, or why Frodo was there, but when we understood and we loved it. Professor Fredo Durand will engage Gondry in a discussion about his work. Gondry has done movies, commercials and music videos, and collaborated with all sorts of folks including Massive Attack and Bjork. We’ve been hip on Bjork lately, Bostonist wants to let you know Gondry directed several of her music videos, most of which played on MTV when they actually played videos. Professor Durand is a professor of computer science with a specialty in computer graphics but he looks pretty hip.

What is about this time of year that makes us so mischievous? Is it just the long standing tradition of April fools jokes? Is it the emergence of somewhat decent weather? Or are we Evil? Maybe these aren't the questions MIT has in mind, but they are holding a summit on the topic of evil all day Sunday. They'll be chatting about ethics, politics, Ted Kaczynski, and the Church of Satan. Some Boston-area bloggers don't think it will be evil enough, but we'll find out. Bostonist will be squirming in our seats waiting for the Matthew Barney/Arto Linsay film at 3:20. De Lama Lamina was done for the Carnaval de Salvador last year. Bostonist can best describe it as a parade float accompanied by lots of drummers. We're hoping to catch a glimpse of Bjork's man in person, and ask him what he thinks of the Bjorkestra.

Bostonist just pulled True Love Waits, Christopher O'Riley's renditions of Radiohead’s music for piano out of the CD Changer. The passion of O’Riley’s rock-to-classical piano transcriptions left us singing the lyrics to the song in our head, though the arrangements did seem like they would compliment Tori Amos’ trademark lyrics of archetypal subjects like Mother Earth. What’s next for the cross-genre enthusiast? Bjorkestra.