Let's just cut to the chase, here: Charlyne Yi (who you may know from movies like Knocked Up and her own quasi-documentary Paper Heart) will be swinging through town on Saturday. Yi, a resident of the out-of-control great Los Angeles indie comedy scene, is a true original. Bizarre, hilarious, and utterly unique, Charlyne Yi's music finds itself somewhere between performance art, anti-folk and sketch comedy. Though she seems unassuming and shy, she is completely confident in the way that she follows rabbit holes down into insane and unexpected places. Sometimes-like in a video called "Cannot," wherein she makes up one side of her body to be a man and serenades herself-she manages to be surprisingly touching, as well. What she does is basically indescribably, so you'd do best to see it for yourself. 

NORTHERN, W/ HI HO SILVER OH, SUNSHINE AND IRONY, MOTHERMIND, 9 P.M., $5, 414 ½ LEGION WAY, OLYMPIA