''AHH NUTS TA YOU, RAT-FACE! Wait...I mean my chores are done and I'm going upstairs to read now, mother.''

Behold the two faces (one hip, one not, both dreamy) of seminal silent cinema sex symbol Clara Bow, whose 1927 romantic comedy It screens at Clark County Library early next week.

Bow was one of the earliest casualties of something like child star syndrome, though technically an adult by the time the Hollywood machine’s grease was up to her calves. The following is excerpted from Clara Bow: My Life Story, originally published in the magazine Photoplay in 1928. Finally, some long-lost insight as to why perpetually cheery people are so unnerving…

“There is only one thing you can do when you are very young and not a philosopher, if life has frightened you by its cruelty and made you distrust its most glittering promises. You must make living a sort of gay curtain to throw across the abyss into which you have looked and where lie dread memories. I think that wildly gay people are usually hiding from something in themselves. They dare not be quiet, for there is no peace nor serenity in their souls. The best life has taught them is to snatch at every moment of fun and excitement, because they feel sure that fate is going to hit them over the head with a club at the first opportunity. I don’t want to feel that way. But I do. When I have told you about my short life, maybe you will understand why, in spite of its incongruity, I am a madcap, the spirit of the jazz age, the premier flapper, as they call me. No one wanted me to be born in the first place.”

The Black Angels

OK folks, it’s not a very inspiring weekend, so here’s my lone recommendation… short ‘n’ sweet-like.

Blast off with the psychedelic drone of Austin’s The Black Angels Saturday night at the Beauty Bar (517 Fremont St.). For fans of the Velvet Underground (the moniker comes from the influences’ “The Black Angel’s Death Song”), 13th Floor Elevators and The Warlocks.

Beauty Bar’s newly remodeled interior will be dominated by the “Say What? Stunna Shades” party featuring DJs Hyphy Crunk and Score (both of L.A.’s “The Heist”) along with Score, Grimehaus, ABOM, Noel and Va Jay Jay spinning dirty electro, nu-rave and indie-rock. Meanwhile, the Angels will spread their wings outside with L.A.’s The Start, Atlanta’s City Sleepers and locals Hello Astro.

Doors open at 10 p.m.; must be 21; Free admission for the DJs, $10 for the bands; $3 well drinks until 12 a.m. (if you wanna rot your liver!)