So what did you do last Friday eve, dear benighted homies? Let me guess: it was another joyless attempt at something like merriment, with the ingesting of the lite beer and the watching of low-end entertainments. Well, that’s all well and good for you hoi polloi, but DF is—as all well know—a class act all the way, and he prefers pursuits of a more refined order come the week-end.

And what, you are doubtlessly tearing your hair out wondering, is the high-brow divertissement of choice for DF? Well, I’ll let you Joe Six-packs and Sally Housecoats in on the secret just this once, in the limited hope of bringing some modicum of culture to your beer-besotted, clock-punching, watching-reruns-of-Roseanne-without-a-shred-of-irony lives.

To wit, DF spent last Friday at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum (NB, ignoramuses: “history” is the study of the past, and a “museum” is a place where the past is stored upon being extensively taxidermied) for the NHM’s “First Fridays” series. The LA NHM’s FFs are a feast for the enlightened gourmand, a gut-busting smorgasbord of heady lectures, edifying tours of the collection, and live music-related fun-havery. Here are the facts, in all their intellectually sophistimacated glory.

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Herman Dune (David-Ivar Herman Dune and Neman Herman Dune) played two matinee shows at the Natural History Museum on Saturday, much to the delight of gemologists, children, parents of children, music fans, and casual observers. Following the afternoon the duo squeezed in one final west coast date (San Diego) before departing for Europe. Thanks to the benefit of modern technology, we now know that many avid Losanjealous readers live and work in Europe. Catch them at the following locales this April and May:

04/01/2009 Angers, France @ Chabada
04/02/2009 Brest, France @ Vauban
04/03/2009 Rosporden, France @ Etincelle
04/04/2009 Saint Lô, France @ Normandy
04/09/2009 St. Etienne, France @ Le Fil
04/10/2009 Montpellier, France @ Rockstore
04/11/2009 Six Fours, France @ Espace Malraux
04/13/2009 Zurich, Switzerland @ El Lokal, Suisse
04/14/2009 Lausanne, Switzerland @ Docks, Suisse
04/15/2009 Dijon, France @ La Vapeur
04/16/2009 Strasbourg, France @ Laiterie
04/17/2009 Rouen, France @ Le 106
05/30/2009 Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Festival
05/31/2009 Clermont Ferrand, France @ Europavox Festival (Coopérative de Mai)

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