10:00pm The Jay Leno Show NBC - Comic Adam Carolla.

11:00pm The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Comedy Central - Journalist Maziar Bahari

11:30pm Charlie Rose PBS/KCET - Director Wes Anderson.

11:35pm The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien NBC - Actor William Shatner; actress AnnaLynne McCord (see our video interview with her); the cast of Mary Poppins performs.

12:35am The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson CBS - Actor Michael Sheen.

HOLIDAY FILM
ArcLight Cinemas is screening holiday-themed films (21+) all December long to help you get in the season. Tonight the ArcLight Hollywood hosts Love Actually at 8 pm. (We’re such a sucker for romantic comedies, so we had to list this.)


TALK
In conjunction with the exhibition Blow x Blow at Sci-Arc, Joe Day, principal of deegan day design hosts the “Friends of Friends” discussion tonight at 7:30 pm with filmmaker and painter Sarah Morris and graphic designer Richard Massey. They’ll discuss their current practice and the challenges of new media installation. Tonight at 7:30 pm at the Sci-Arc Gallery. Free.

*Pencil pick of the day

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Darryl Donald: That's right. Almost as long as Chinese democracy.

Klip Calhoun: But it's call a Trainwreck democracy. We didn't want to be associated with Axel. So uh... but it took so long... why did it take so long Darryl?

Darryl Diamond: Because we fired about eight producers.

Klip Calhoun: We did. We went through a lot of producers. A lot of producers have trouble working with us because of our attention to detail I guess. We demand perfection in the studio. A lot of times we finish a track, we say "no" we have to do it over like eight to ten times. Now it's ready and I think it is perfection.

LAist: We hear you are having a big launch party for the record. Where is that going to be?

Darryl Donald: The Roxy! On the fabulous Sunset Strip on December 2nd that's Wednesday. 8pm.

Klip Calhoun: We are bringing rock back to the Roxy. Mmm hmm.

Darryl Donald: Yep.

LAist: What songs will you be playing that night?

Darryl Donald: We will be playing almost the whole album in its entirety, right?

Klip Calhoun: I think so. The album should have been called greatest hits. Quite frankly because it contains every one of our hits.

LAist: How long have you been in LA?

Klip Calhoun: Well...

Darryl Donald: About eight years now.

Klip Calhoun: I think yeah about eight years. I was heavily inebriated when I dropped into Los Angeles, so I am not quite sure the time. Darryl picked me up I was homeless. I was playing guitar in the street. He brought me in and actually saved my life. Thank you Darryl.

Darryl Donald: You're welcome. My pleasure.

Klip Calhoun: (looking at Boy Johnny and Shredman) These two guys we found at The Guitar Institute of technology. We convinced them to drop out because we said, "Hey. It's not about learning. It's about yearning. Yearning for the top."

LAist: What is you favorite thing about Los Angeles?

Darryl Donald: Besides Pink's hot dogs?

Klip Calhoun: I think the traffic. It give me a lot of time to catch up with my books on tape.

Darryl Donald: What are you listening to these days?

Klip Calhoun: Well, right now I am on "2001 A Space Odyssey" the Arthur C. Clark classic.

Darryl Donald: Oh jeez.

Klip Calhoun: But if I am on the 405. I go right to "Moby Dick".

Darryl Donald: Yeah, that's a good one.

Klip Calhoun: I forget who it was written by. Kevin Spacey I think wrote that one.

LAist: Can each of you tell what is you favorite Trainwreck song to play live on stage. Shredman?

Shredman: I think I like my song. John Bartholomew Shredman.

LAist: Darryl?

Darryl Donald: I am going to go with El Mustachio for obvious reasons.

LAist: Can you share a little bar of it?

Darryl Donald: I would if we had a guitar.

Klip Calhoun: I'll sing it. "Let me tell you about a friend I know goes by the name of El Mustachio." (Turns to Darryl.) Does it go something like that?

Darryl: Not even close.

Shredman: I don't know what band that is man.

Klip Calhoun: What band is that?

Darryl: (Singing.) "Let me tell a all you peeps about a friend I know. Ba be be um...be ooh ee oh ee um. He may not be too fast, you know his moves are slow."

LAist: Awesome. Klip which one is your favorite to do live?

Klip Calhoun: I think that is the first time Darryl has ever sang acapela.

Darryl Donald: I think so. I didn't know what it was.

Klip Calhoun: He can't spell it, but he can do it.

Darryl Donald: I thought it was a pasta.

LAist: Awesome. Klip, which is your favorite song to play live?

Klip Calhoun: My favorite song to play live would have to be...I'd say, "Tim Blankenship".

Darryl Diamond: Uh hun. Because it is his song. He sings lead.

Klip Calhoun: We are a very self absorbed, selfish band.

Boy Johnny: I was going to say "Love".

Darryl Donald: The song you sing lead on.

Klip Calhoun: That's Boy Johnny's song.

LAIst: Trainwreck do you have any messages for the people of Los Angeles?

Darryl Donald: Yeah, it's about time to get 'wreckified'. Okay 'cause wreck and roll is coming out and it's going to not only take over Los Angeles like a 2012 movie, but it's going to roll that tidal wave all over the nation as we spread it in our wreckabago. We are going to travel. We are going to go on tour. We are going to take it everywhere. Rancho Cucamonga, we're coming to you. Compton, we're coming to you. Okay. Palmdale, set up here we come.

LAist: Awesome. Thank you so much.

"The Wreckoning" comes out December 1. The CD, shirts and more are available on the band's Etsy page.The Trainwreck record release party is at The Roxy on December 2. Doors open at 8pm. Tickets.

Adam & Eve Pictures' apocalyptic The 8th Day and Wicked Pictures' sci-fi 2040, with 20 and 18 nominations respectively, are arguably the frontrunners for Best Video Feature, against stiff competition that includes Evil Angel's Asian-noir Pure, directed by the late David Aaron Clark, with 13 nominations, Vivid Entertainment Group's Deep Throat remake Throat: A Cautionary Tale, featuring Sasha Grey, with 13 nominations, and Vivid-Alt's docu-drama Pussy a Go Go with 7 nominations. And 2009's Best Video Feature winner, Digital Playground's epic Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, will be honored with Best Selling & Renting Title of the Year.

The addition of Best Parody reflects an explosion in popularity and sales this year, with nominations for 30 Rock: A XXX Parody, Celebrity Apprentass, Crock of Love, Everybody Loves Lucy, The Jeffersons: A XXX Parody, Jon & Kate Fuck Eight, LA Pink, Not Married With Children XXX, Not the Cosbys XXX, Pink's Anatomy, Scrubs: A XXX Parody, Seinfeld: A XXX Parody, The Sex Files: A Dark XXX Parody, This Ain't Star Trek XXX, This Ain't Happy Days XX, and TMSleaze. And Clever Title of the Year always manages to produce groans and guffaws, with the nominees including Barrack's Big Stimulus Package, Boob-E, A Brutha Came in Your Mutha, Cash for Chunkers, Coctomom, It's OK! She's My Step Daughter, It's Big It's Black It's Inside Joanna, Jon & Kate Fuck Eight, Piggies for Porkin', Running a Train on Katie Kayne, Sexual Blacktivity, Twitter My Shitter, War on a Rack, Who's Nailin' Paylin?, and Your Mom Tossed My Salad.

Mainstream crossover artist Sasha Grey, interviewed by Stormy Daniels & Blair Herter for G4, at the 2009 AVN Awards

As for individual performances, 2009 AVN Awards co-hosts Belladonna and Jenna Haze, as well as XRCO Award's Starlet of the Year winner Tori Black, each earned 16 nominations, and are competing against each other for Best All-Girl Couples Sex Scene and Female Performer of the Year. In addition, the aforementioned Sasha Grey, whose popularity this year surged due to her mainstream role in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and who is featured in a Lolita-themed pictorial in the current issue of Playboy, earned 10 nominations, including Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year.

And for Best New Starlet, the adult equivalent of the Grammys' Best New Artist, the nominees include Asa Akira, Britney Amber, Angelina Armani, Kiara Diane, Kagney Linn Karter, London Keyes, Tanner Mayes, Nicole Ray, Emy Reyes, Natalia Rossi, Aryana Starr, Riley Steele, Janie Summers, Brynn Tyler, and Sadie West. Not to be outdone, MILF/Cougar Performer of the Year favors Lisa Ann due to her Sarah Palin impersonation, but her competitors include Julia Ann, Hunter Bryce, Raquel Devine, Diamond Foxxx, Darryl Hanah, Holly Halston, Kylie Ireland, Francesca Lé, Rachel Love, Kelly Madison, Persia Pele, RayVeness, Magdalene St. Michaels, and India Summer.

Tickets for for the AVN Awards are available now, and tickets for the AVN Entertainment Expo are also available.

And on the topic of flash… consider Ace Frehley, former lead guitarist for the band Kiss. Kiss came out just a few years after Cooper, taking his general approach toward the concert-as-spectacle and boiling it down even further, taking away the storytelling aspect but leaving the explosions and the costumes, building up a live show with all the subtlety of a fireworks display. But again, they had to have songs in order for the whole thing to work. Frehley didn’t actually write most of those songs, but the ones he did - “Cold Gin”, “Shock Me” and “Rocket Ride” for starters - were all highlights of the albums they appeared on. Of the four solo albums made by Kiss members in 1978, his was unquestionably the best one, in fact the only one I can imagine listening to for pleasure at this point.

And his unique, fumbling guitar style was essential to the band’s sound; when Kiss replaced him with heavy metal shredder guys in the eighties, the old songs never sounded quite right again. The playing was too precise, too correct. Ace wasn’t formulaic. He didn’t seem like he was smart enough to apply formulas. He just went for it, in the only way he knew how, and it came out sounding different from anybody else. It may not be the most technically great guitar playing ever laid down, but it’s the way you have to play to make it sound like Kiss. In their current formation, seen at the Staples Center last week, Kiss employs a dead ringer that mimics those solos, the laconic vocal stylings, and even the clumsy way he flails around the stage, to the smallest detail. Even when he’s not physically there, they have to acknowledge him as terribly important.

Now touring as a solo act behind his new album Anomaly, he was able to provide a lot of the most thrilling moments from a Kiss show, despite the lack of explosions on stage. There was makeup though; in a hilarious touch. everyone on stage was wearing the infamous Space Ace design, except for Frehley himself. I have to wonder if there’s a kiss-off to Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in that gesture. “OK, now that just anyone can wear that stuff…”

Stripped of all the outsized visuals that usually accompany the songs, the show demonstrated what a canny pop songwriter Frehley always was. The tracks were fun, crafted with garage-rock simplicity, performed with swaggering confidence, and overlaid with taut, melodic solos. Tracks from the new album show that his instincts are still alive and well, and while ripping through the oldies, he still sounds like his old self. His band both looks and sounds a little like Redd Kross, great players with an acrid mix of sweetness and raunch.

Both Kiss and Alice Cooper have been overdue for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for over a decade, though the former was finally tossed a nomination this year. It remains to be seen whether, if finally inducted, Stanley and Simmons will bring their chicken-suit wearing doppelgangers to the proceedings and leave Ace out in the cold. But considering the Hall is voted on by most of the same self-proclaimed “authorities” on rock and roll that brought you Rolling Stone Magazine, they should both know that they’re in good company with their long-held rejection. These were not critics’ bands; they were peoples’ bands, ones that got famous in spite of rock critics, not because of them. Their very existence as successful touring acts in 2009 probably makes those people that wish to consider themselves the arbiters of Acceptable Rock kind of nervous. It’s a sign that they can’t be invalidated, that their place in the music’s history cannot be unwritten, no matter how many institutions are created to exclude them. The Hall of Fame is, after all, just another form of authority. Give it the finger.

Dios, Olin and The Moon, Imaad Wasif, Mini Mansions, Tiny Television @ The Hotel Café
The Happy Hollows, The Pity Party, Twilight Sleep, Traps, Ps @ Spaceland
Mississippi Man, Last American Buffalo, What Laura Says, Slipping Into Darkness @ Silver Lake Lounge
Seasons, Downtown/Union, Jack Wilson, Jr., Regrets and Brunettes @ The Echo
The Growlers @ Origami Vinyl
Batwings Catwings, The Choke, Aristides, Trudgers @ Pehrspace
Franklin Bruno, Wckr Spgt, Phil Yates @ Echo Curio
Pop Noir @ Detroit Bar

Tuesday

West Coast Left Coast w/ Green Umbrella, John Adams and Kronos Quartet; selections from Marshall, Partch and Zappa @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Ten Out of Tennessee w/ Trent Dabbs, k.s. Rhoads, Erin McCarley, Butterfly Boucher, Jeremy Lister, Tyler James, Matthew Perryman Jones, Andy Davis, Katie Herzig @ Troubadour
The Vic Chesnutt Band, Warpaint @ Echoplex
Swords of Fatima, New Rome Quartet, Lightnin Woodcock @ The Echo
Vise Virsa, London To Tokyo, AM VS FM @ Silver Lake Lounge
Bobby Long with Emma Ejwertz, Patrick Park, Gregory Alan Isakov @ The Hotel Café
Furcast, Bear Face @ Bootleg Theater
The Section Quartet @ Largo at the Coronet
Split Lip Rayfield @ The Viper Room

Wednesday

J. Tillman, Pearly Gate Music @ Troubadour
Corinne Bailey Rae, Kenneth Pattengale, Sydney Wayser, Emma Ejwertz @ The Hotel Café
Club NME w/ Useless Keys, Samuel Stewart, Twin Fight, Wrong Way Driver @ Spaceland
Jubilee, Seaspin, Woah Hunx, Little Girls @ Bordello
Trainwreck's record release @ The Roxy
Spaceland on Ice w/ Salt Petal @ Pershing Square
Helen Stellar, KAV, Square on Square, Nightmare Air @ The Echo
Blue Jungle, The Ivy Walls @ King King (6555 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood)
Mo-Odds, The Shakers, High Life Cavalier @ Echo Curio
Gamble House, The February Fifths, The Sounds of Wyoming @ Silver Lake Lounge
The Sonus Quartet @ Bootleg Theatre
Royal Crown Revue @ The Mint

Thursday

West Coast Left Coast w/ Los Angeles Philharmonic, Leonard Slatkin and Kronos Quartet play film composers Jerry Goldsmith, Mason Bates, Franz Waxman and Thomas Newman @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Digable Planets @ Key Club
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Dirt Dress, Spirit Vine, Allah Las @ The Echo
Baroness, Earthless, Iron Age @ Troubadour
Andy Clockwise, Trixie Whitley, Marvelous Toy, Globes on Remote @ Spaceland
Julie Cain, Liz Pappademas and the Level, Cricket and the 2:19 @ Hyperion Tavern
Chris Cornell, Jim Bianco, Austin Hartley Leonard @ The Hotel Café
Dramarama, I Will Never Be the Same @ Pershing Square
See Green, Cue the Moon, Ben de la Cour @ Silver Lake Lounge
Skygreen Leopards, Warm Climate, Rats @ Echo Curio
Balerina Black, Full Frontal, Bestial Mouths, Wreck 'n Slender @ Mr. T's Bowl
Rose’s Pawn Shop, Cosio @ Redwood Bar & Grill
Bobb Long, Jer Coons @ The Mint
The Drips, Bella Novela, Sangre Sangre, Stab City @ Alex's Bar
Charlie Hunter Trio @ Saint Rocke

Friday

Jon Brion @ Largo at the Coronet
The Cranberries, Griffin House @ Club Nokia
West Coast Best Coast w/ The Airborne Toxic Event, The Calder Quartet @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Todd Rundgren @ Orpheum Theatre
Little Dragon @ El Rey Theater
Cold Cave, Abe Vigoda, Former Ghost @ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
Slang Chickens, Nite Jewel, Pocahaunted, Weave!, L'eau Life @ Gallery 1018 (1018 Santa Fe, Los Angeles)
Fink @ Spaceland
The Shys, Castledoor, Black Hollies @ The Echo
Villains, Robot Love, Ben Oprstu, Scorpion Breath, DJDT @ Echoplex
Cinematic Sunrise feat. Craig Owens, Jonny Craig, Mark Rose, Tommy Simms, Sleeping with Sirens @ Troubadour
Marcus Foster with Blue Roses, Randy Coleman, Shane Alexander, Brian Buckley Band, Jim Hanft @ The Hotel Café
Bobb Bruno, Subtle Selves, Los Fantasmas Carmesi, Cardio Pulmonary @ The Smell
Big Whup, Watercolor Paintings, So Many Wizards, Cobra Lillies @ Echo Curio
EFFT, Build, Missincinatti, Common Elder, King Elder @ Pehrspace
Peg Leg Love, The Crystelles, Megalosaurus, Fantastica Bastidas @ L'KEG Gallery
The New Limb, Dead Feather Moon, Megasapien, Good Friday @ Mr. T's Bowl
Charlie Hunter @ The Mint
DJ Craze, AC Slater @ Avalon
Camp Freddy @ The Roxy
Less Than Jake, Fishbone, The Swellers @ House of Blues Sunset
Peter Case @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
NOFX, The Mad Caddies @ Pomona Fox Theater
Los Pinguos, Very Be Careful @ Saint Rocke

Saturday

KIIS FM Jingle Ball w/ Taylor Swift, Keri Hilson, Fabolous, The Ting Tings, 3OH!3, LMFAO, Jay Sean, Jason Derulo @ Nokia Theatre
West Coast Left Coast w/ Los Angeles Philharmonic, Adams and Josefowicz; selections from Paul Dresher, William Kraft, Leonard Rosenman and John Adams @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Tom Morello @ The Actors' Gang
Tom Brosseau @ Largo at the Coronet
Girls, The Morning Benders, Tamaryn @ Troubadour (Sold-Out)
KRS-ONE @ The Roxy
Stellastarr, Transfer @ Spaceland
The 88, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra @ The Echo
Amps for Christ, Avi Buffalo, Foot Foot, Big Death @ Pehrspace
PROTECTME, David Scott Stone, Tearist, Mike Vidal @ The Smell
Rockdrive 2009 w/ Chris Pierce, Angel Taylor, Keaton Simmons, Raining Jane, Joey Ryan, John West, Davey G Project, Kina Grannis, Max Lugavere, Andy Grammer, The Elevaters, Phillip & Bruno, Stop Motion, L Debois @ The Hotel Café
The Lost Patrol, Hans David Rearick, Bumtech, The Pristines, Push To Transmit @ Mr. T's Bowl

Sunday

Brian Wilson, Dave Alvin, The Living Sisters, Harper Simon @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Cold Cave, Nite Jewel @ The Echo
A Benefit for Against The Stream w/ Sharon Temple, Siva Noir, Julie The Band, Puppies and Kitties @ Spaceland
Skyler Stonestreet, Alaskan Summer, Jo Krasevich, Lynhurst @ The Hotel Café
Tamaryn, Pearl Harbor, Mack Winston & the Reflections @ Bootleg Theater
The Finches, Foot Ox, Splinter Cake, Whitman @ The Smell

The four featured members of the film all come from different backgrounds and have varying degrees of connection with MSF, which further complicates the work being done on screen. Tom Krueger, the rural surgeon from America, is faced with the challenges of low-grade surgery in a high-tension environment, including tough decisions (including amputation in one scene) that must be made instantaneously. Meanwhile, Davinder Gill is a young doctor working in the bush practically by himself on his first six month mission with MSF. Here, the lack of supplies and communication matter just as much as the overwhelming needs of the people, and it becomes immediately apparent why so many first-time doctors never return for a second MSF mission. Chris Brasher, meanwhile, is the hardened veteran who has grown weary of what he’s seen and experienced and is out for his final mission, while Chiara Lepora must deal with higher-level MSF issues like closing medical facilities in favor of expanded treatment elsewhere. In terms of scale, this is perhaps more devastating than any individual death in the film, as local medical staff and people in need are all left with a sense of abandonment. At one point, Lepora describes the tough decisions she faces: “when you see a car crash in front of you, you have a responsibility to do something” but the Congo, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Pakistan are all “big car crashes” and MSF is barely even able to apply the brakes. MSF is not here to develop infrastructure within a rebuilding government, it exists only when and where it is needed most urgently. Hence, Living in Emergency.

By allowing filmmakers in for the first time, MSF has given director Mark Hopkins the opportunity to create both a calling card for the work that Doctors Without Borders does, and a cautionary tale about what it means to really help in a world that is teeming with outstretched hands. Beautifully shot and masterfully cut, the only real downside with Living in Emergency is the sound mixing (which lends itself to needing a lot of subtitles). But losing some sound quality while embedded with some of the hardest-working, most selfless doctors in the world in unfathomable areas of need is the smallest price to pay imaginable. You could watch this movie on mute and still be moved by the poverty, perseverance, and pride that exist in the poorest people in the world, and the strength of those who just want to help.

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders will be debuting in theaters early next year. However, a special screening and live theater event will be taking place on December 14th at theaters and screening rooms throughout Los Angeles. Check here for more information.

These moments are rare because the director was not shooting for a portrait of Bryant away from basketball.

Lee told ESPN.com that he got the idea for Kobe Doin' Work after watching Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait, a documentary about French soccer player Zinedine Zidane. In Zidane, filmmakers Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno present a Real Madrid vs. Villarreal CF game on April 23, 2005 purely from the perspective of Zidane shot with 17 cameras.

Armed with 13 more cameras, a mic'd up Kobe and much less ground to cover than Gordon and Parreno, the filmmaker captures the star doing what he does best from multiple vantage points including from the view from Spike's courtside seat. To compliment the rare footage, Kobe provides a voiceover track which he recorded just hours after dropping 61 points on Spike's beloved New York Knicks on February 2, 2009.

Kobe's commentary shifts between very detailed, almost too detailed and quite boring, X's and O's of the game to entertaining anecdotes about members of the Spurs and his own teammates. Thanks to the voiceover, we learn why Kobe wipes his hands on his jersey countless times per game, the simplicity of the "Triangle Offense" and the multiple languages the protagonist speaks on the floor.

The very best moment of Kobe Doin' Work comes when the game reaches half time. The cameras keep rolling inside the locker room as Phil, Kobe and team sit back and watch clips from the broadcast of the game while coach and player, mostly player, dissect the game. In the voiceover Kobe tells us that their love for the attention to details of the game is the reason he and Phil get along so well. If you too love the details of the game of basketball, you'll love watching these two doin' work.

In Zidane, the star player's game ends early after being sent off as the result of a brawl. In Kobe Doin' Work our star's game ends early as well but not because of a fight, the Lakers blew out San Antonio allowing Kobe to get some rest. The fourth quarter breaks away from the format and turns into an enjoyable Q&A session between Spike and Kobe.

The DVD offers two versions of the film, allowing you to watch the uncensored film featuring the four-letter words "The Worldwide Leader" couldn't air. Aside from this "dirty version," the DVD's extra features are weak. If you saw Kobe Doin' Work back in May, there isn't much difference here from the original broadcast except for maybe a few instances of Kobe saying "shit" or "motherfucker" and deleted scenes from the fourth quarter of this one-sided ball game. If you missed this Spike Lee joint the first time around, you might want to throw it in your Netflix queue. It's worth at least one viewing, especially if you're a Kobe fan.

Kobe Doin' Work directed by Spike Lee starring Kobe Bryant is available now on DVD.

Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts Fest
Create, make, congregate and get your arts & crafts on at the Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts Festival today in Long Beach. From 11-5 today wander the booths at Marine Stadium and check out the handmade items for sale by local artists. Admission is free.