Yerba Buena Center for the Arts showcases human rights themed movies throughout the month of March. The second of these films is called Youth Producing Change and it is exactly what it sound– a film made by young people to express their views on human rights.

Love Triangle claims to be “… a club night for people who are poly, open, swingers, or otherwise nonmonogamous, along with their monogamous friends.” Entertainment for the evening includes DJs Tomas Diablo and Femme Mystique, the Black Widows burlesque troop and Phillipe of Edible Love selling chocolate treats. Dress code is goth, fetish, 80’s fashion, cocktail chic, or street clothes. However, you cannot be nude.

The A-List weekly gay cocktail social club raises a glass at Press Club this Wednesday.

On Friday night, I was making small talk with some of the other partiers at Benders Bar and we were asking each other what kind of music we listened to. We both felt like complete idiots saying we listened to “indie.” Go figure… This past weekend, Noise Pop 18 went into overdrive.

Yesterday was Day 3 of Noise Pop, and I think I’ve reached my threshold for crusty indie hipsters. I didn’t realize I was at my upper limits until I growled at a young photographer lady for kneeling on my jacket while trying to snap a pic of one of the bands. “Get off my jacket,” I told her rather tersely. Shocked, she immediately apologized explaining that she mistook it for the stage curtain but then said my response was rather “curt.” She then introduced herself (“Alice”) and tried to make small talk. I was just like, “Get off my fucking jacket, bitch.”

This weekend is going to be all indie rock all the time thanks to Noise Pop 18 which kicked off on Tuesday. Check out my Noise Pop preview post for a list of performances and art-related events. In between bands, you have the opportunity to talk sex and tech and raise money for boobs awareness. Here are a couple of other things to do to keep you busy this weekend.

Let me just start off by apologizing because I’m an old man, and I can’t stay out late on a weeknight. Yeah, yeah, lame… So for last night, I decided to make my way back to Benders Bar for their happy hour because it’s free, I can get home before 9 PM, and still claim I did Noise Pop for the day. Actually, tonight wasn’t such a bad deal because Love Is Chemicals headlined, and for 90’s indie rock nostalgics like me who are still living in the halcyon days of Superchunk and Sub Pop 7″ singles, this was quite a treat.

Okay, y’all, Noise Pop kicked off last night, and I’m gonna be yer San Francisco New Gay correspondent on ground zero. Opening last night was at Benders Bar on 19th Street and South Van Ness. I have to admit that in my extensive barhopping in the Mission, I’ve missed this hipster dive. Last night, it was raining. Care of El Niño, it’s been pouring sheets for the last month, and there I was drenched to the nines outside the door waiting to get in. I wouldn’t have been so eager to get in normally, but I was lured by the promise of a Diesel t-shirt (they are sponsoring Noise Pop this year) and free drinks.

The 18th edition of San Francisco’s Noise Pop festival kicks off on Tuesday. Throughout the week-long festival, look for keynote bands like Yoko Ono (Tuesday, February 23), The Dodos (Thursday, February 25), and the Magnetic Fields (Saturday, February 27, and Monday, March 1). The festival also showcases indie-themed art and film such as a rock photography exhibition at Hotel Biron and screenings of Blood Into Wine, a documentary that follows Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer front man Maynard James Keenan and his mentor Eric Glomski into the world of winemaking in the hostile deserts of Arizona.

I’ve been watching the Olympics all week long. ‘ Cause frankly, they’re ain’t nothin’ gayer than men’s figure skating. Don’t believe me? Check out Aunt Joyce’s recap of the men’s short program. In between watching spandex-on-ice and Lindsey Jacobellis choking at yet another Olympic snowboard cross race, take some time out this weekend to get even more scatterbrained at these fine music-filled events.