When scholars of the future — otherwise known as “Roombas” — look back at our chaotic and moronic first decade of the 21st Century, they will have nothing but faded printouts of vulgar old web pages for source material. “Why were there so many pictures of Truck Nutz and watermelon gardens around the Executive Mansion?”, the Roombas will ask each other, in robotic voices.

Friday

• George Melies’ silent films, including A Trip to the Moon and The Magic Lantern, with live piano accompaniment. National Gallery. Today and tomorrow at 1PM. [National Gallery]

• DIN Glorious, SKELP, The Opposite Sex. 8:30PM at the Warehouse Next Door. [Warehouse Next Door]
• 1958’s The Goddess was filmed in Ellicott City, Maryland. “Paddy Chayefsky (Marty, Network) reportedly modeled his screenplay, in a cruelly prophetic way, on the life of Marilyn Monroe.” 7PM at LOC’s Mary Pickford Theater. Free. [LOC]

Saturday

• Meeps moves from U Street to Adams Morgan (2104 18th St. NW). Celebrate the move from 12PM- 7PM. Prizes and oversized sunglasses. [WP]

• Peter Paul and Mary have been together since 1961. 8PM at Wolf Trap. $22-$38. [Wolf Trap]
• Shark Day at the National Aquarium. If you didn’t know DC had an aquarium, that’s because it’s in the basement of the Department of Commerce Building on 14th St. [National Aquarium]

Sunday

• Brent Gordon and The Tender Breasts from Albany, New York. 9PM at the Galaxy Hut. $5. [Brent Gordon]

• Last chance to see Judah Friedlander, Toby “I consider myself a nerd” Radloff from American Splendor. 8PM at DC Improv. $15. [DC Improv]

Friday

• Alexander Payne’s Election at the LOC’s Mary Pickford Theater. Free at 7PM. [LOC]
• Peter Galbraith reads from The End of Iraq. Free at 7PM. Politics and Prose. [P&P]
• Depeche Mode Dance Party. $9 at 9:30PM. [Black Cat]

Saturday

• Josh Frank reads from his book, Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. Free at 1PM. [P&P]

• The Rentals. $25 at 10PM. [9:30 Club]
• The Maybellines, Lil’ Hospital, The Specific Heats, The Besties and The Upset at WMUC in College Park. 3130 South Campus Dining Hall. $5 donation at 6PM. [WUMC]

Sunday

• Last day of “A Glorious Burden: The American Presidency,” “Artifacts, snapshots, personal effects and famous quips related to the men who have held the nation’s highest office.” [Smithsonian]

Friday

• Baltimore native DMX at Love, 1350 Okie St. NE. $20. [Ticketmaster]

• 1958’s The Kraft Theatre. All the King’s Men [Parts I & II]. Sidney Lumet directed this adaptation of the novel by Robert Penn Warren. Free at 7PM. LOC’s Mary Pickford Theater. [LOC]

Saturday

• Comedians Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader and Maz Jobrani present their “Axis of Evil Comedy Show.” 7&10PM at the Warner Theatre. $27-$37. [Warner Theatre]

• Black Heart Procession at the Black Cat. 9:30PM. $12. [Black Cat]
• Free Grey Goose until 11PM at Century Club, hosted by former WPGC DJ Big Tigger. Carnegie Library. $25 in advance; Free before 10:30PM for men and before 11PM for women. [WP]
• Of Montreal at The State Theater. $12 at 7PM. [State Theatre]

Sunday

• Yes, yes you hate improv, but you also kind of love it. The Escapists at the Warehouse. $15 at 8PM. [Theater Mania]

• The Good Fight author Peter Beinart at Politics and Prose. “Liberals, he says, can oppose the totalitarianism which stalks the Islamic world today and at the same time fight for freedom from the inside out by becoming more democratic at home.” [P&P]
• Screening of Underground with new musical score for cello and piano. “Subterranean spaces of the London Tube are the setting for a thrilling rush-hour romance…with a chill a minute.” Free at 4:30 p.m. National Gallery. [National Gallery]