Eight Items or Less: Foreign Born at Mercury Lounge & Clash High-Tops

1. Don't have time for a spring getaway? Take a trip to the West Coast tonight when L.A.'s Foreign Born play California-sun-soaked indie pop at Mercury Lounge tonight. 

2. Conan O'Brien is going on a 30-day "Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour." He promises "a night of music, comedy, hugging and the occasional awkward silence. The tour kicks off April 12 in Eugene, Orgegon. CoCo's in New York June 1 and 2 at Radio City Music Hall.  Get tickets at TeamCoco.

3. BAMcinematek is hosting a two-week tribute to dreamy '50s movie star Montgomery Clift. That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!, features screenings of Clift classics like A Place in the Sun and The Misfits, begins tonight with screenings of The Heriess, staring Olivia de Havilland.

4. Fast Company has put together a neat online gallery of objects made entirely of drinking straws.

5. The New Yorker takes a look at University of Texas' newly acquired David Foster Wallace archive. They have a pdf of a very sweet childhood poem written by Foster about Vikings.

6. The Bushwick Starr and Target ManTheater's Unknown Williams Festival brings you lesser-known Tennessee Williams works besides good old Street Car Named Desire and the other usual suspects. The whole thing kicks off at Bushwick Starr tonight with a performance of Williams' Peaceable Kingdom at 7:30 p.m. for $12.

7. There might be a permanent floating pool coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Curbed]

8. Converse has come out with a line of Clash-inspired shoes. [Daily Swarm]