Jeez Louise, do I love Buffalo Infringement – it makes Allentown so much more uncomfortable, weird, and unpredictable for a few blessed days every summer. Last year, I performed a lot of shows, averaged almost one a day. I nearly had a mental breakdown between all of the logistics, figuring out how to get which amplifiers where and when, and trying to catch as many zany acts as I could. This year I decided to sit back, be a spectator, and just let this little week of weirdness take me wherever it wanted to. And so far, it's been a great, spectacular, unpredictably weird ride.

Infringement continues today with Day 6. There's a bunch of weird random things to check out, though your best bet is to just pick up a copy of the Infringement Program in Artvoice  and be random about it. The other day, I went out with the intent of seeing Pete Sorkin play acoustic guitar in front of El Buen Amigo; went to lunch at Quaker Bonnet and sat amongst a pack of septuagenarian suburbanite garden-walkers; ended up playing the role of “Blue Ghost” in a real, live action impromptu Pacman game (this is a Thing); sat in the grass in the sun with some old weird hippie called Human Be-In and got Real with a bunch of strangers; then caught some live old-timey folk music and the incredible human beatboxer Scantron while a bunch of human babies hula-hooped and painted;  saw some random old dude breakdanced at a block party on College St; before finishing the night at Nietzsche's.

There's a ton of great random things happening today as well. Personally, I operate under the assumption that anything is possible if you get off any random train at all the random right stops, and Infringement is such a good vehicle for this philosophy. Today, you could check out the beggar-pop stylings of Pete Sorkin (along with The Devil In Love and Tom Beall Schwab) at Filigrees (1PM, corner of Elmwood and Forest), or head to Spot Coffee to see improv street runway at Infringing On Fashion (8PM, Elmwood & Cleveland). You could also check out some dangerous fire-dancing from A Buffalo Pyromance (Day's Park, 9PM) and/or go see sardonic burlesque team The Stripteasers performing “Dyke Tracy” (Nietzsche's, 11PM).

Jeez Louise, there are so many bizarre things going on all week for Infringement – go out and experience some of it! It can only end well. Or maybe bad. Or, well, whatever.