BRING ON THE WEEKEND >>>

I put sunglasses on during my drive to work this morning. And you know what? I actually meant it today. Sometimes I put on the old Target brand shades just because my eyes are bloodshot, or I had one too many margaritas at dinner the night before. But today - today was different. Today the sun was out and you could tell it was for real. There's nothing quite like the promise of the weekend kissed by the sun.

Friday is a beautiful thing.

Without further ado, here's this week's Prefunk - complete with the obligatory picture of a dog or cat drinking beer.

Note: I'm getting low on pictures of alcoholic pets. If you've got a good camera phone shot of Spot lapping up Michelob Ultra, send it my way and see your lovable - booze loving - pet immortalized forever here at the Prefunk. It'll be awesome. I promise.

MOTOPONY AND THE PAINKILLERS @ JAZZBONES

Saturday, May 8

Jazzbones has more personalities than Sybil. It's a frat bar, a sushi joint, a DJ spot, the place where Tab Benoit or Tim Reynolds play when they come to town, and a rockaraoke and Jager shot Mecca. It's many things to many people - much of the time just before they vomit Hypnotiq and raw fish all over their sexy jeans.

Saturday night, Jazzbones displays yet another side of itself when the eclectic bar welcomes hipster extraordinaire Daniel Blue and his band Motopony - presumably after making the long scooter trek down from their home in Seattle - for a show with The Painkillers and Shim.

Then, after Motopony dishes out its last Spoon-esque, tortured artist wail, and all the empty Pabst glasses and shed beard hair is cleaned up, DJ Switch will welcome the shiny, popped collar, fake tanned crowd in for a couple hours of low-level T-Town bumping and grinding.

It's going to be a hot night! Or just a diverse one. You make the call..

PREFUNK: The bottom line is you need to come prepared. In a perfect world, you'd be able to wear your DJ dancing clothes under your ironic, hipster clothes - and just peel off the sweat-stained American Apparel v-neck after Motopony wraps up and be ready for the DJ. Unfortunately, hipster jeans will never allow this.

So, spend the moments leading up to Saturday night at Jazzbones preparing a hipster & DJ night duffle bag. Be sure to pack extra socks, your stick of Old Spice Sport, and at least one excuse to use on the first person to ask you, "Who exactly are you trying to be, man?"

LONGHORN SALOON BEER PONG TOURNAMENT

Sunday, May 9

Honestly, don't even bother showing up for the Longhorn Saloon's Sunday Beer Pong Tournament. The Weekly Volcano OWNS beer pong. We were hella good in college - hella good! We're sure we still have it! How can we not? We were two time campus champions - even if we blacked out for both trophy presentations. It doesn't matter! We'll be spending all day Saturday in our garages practicing with ping-pong balls and plastic cups; and on Sunday we'll be at the Longhorn Saloon kicking ass.

Or we'll just stay home, go to Costco with the family, eat Hamburger Helper for dinner and watch a little History Channel. We can't decide.

PREFUNK: Bone up on the specific rules used for beer pong at the Longhorn Saloon. Any experienced beer-ponger will tell you every court - every venue - has its own rules and own special traits. How does the ping-pong ball bounce? Is wind a factor? How full of beer are the cups? Are you allowed to flash your junk at an opposing player, just they shoot, to distract him/her (WSU style)?

These are all things you should know. Study up before heading to the Longhorn on Sunday.

See you next week.