Complicated Horse Emergency, aka sometimes-local artists Drew Ziegler and Randall Christopher Bailey, have created an elaborate set for their nonsense musical Time Never Stops (Mr. Most Smartest) that looks like a shantytown built by magpies, elves, and perverts. From one end or the other of this hand-painted 270-degree panorama of cobbled-together alley detritus, moronic psychopaths emerge–a dictator made of tin foil, a wiggly brain-eater, vampires who suck blood out of a giant ass–and commit purposeless acts of consumption, vandalism, or time travel. The plot, such as it is, involves a glamorously pointless pageant, but everything’s so disorienting you won’t have a clue what you’re looking at–and Beau Wanzer’s splooshy, demented, possibly evil analog soundtrack, clearly intended to incite a dance riot, won’t help you sort things out at all. Don’t wear clothes you’d be too uptight to ruin–last time these guys did something like this, the crowd ended up covered in whipped cream, gummy worms, and shredded paper, humping and falling all over one another in a celebratory orgy. Brilliant Pebbles, This Is My Condition, Sewn Leather, Tirra Lirra, and Fake Lake open; Erin Weber (formerly of Crack: We Are Rock) and Rotten Milk spin between sets. This show is part of the final weekend of Version>07; see Fairs & Festivals for more. a 8 PM, Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan, 773-837-0145, $10 suggested donation. A
